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Season Preview Part 3: The good and the bad - Three strengths, three weaknesses
(Editor's Note: over the course of the next week, we'll be previewing the 2011-12 Tampa Bay Lightning season with a series of articles exploring the team) The Tampa Bay Lightning finished up their 2010-11 campaign a lot farther down the road towards the Stanley Cup than most expected. Not so...
Thank You, Boston, For Ending this Season the Right Way
I'm still trying to get my head around all the things that culminated with last night's convincing Boston Bruins victory. I'm still sorely disappointed that we didn't get to see Cam Neely cry, but let's also not forget that, about 10 years ago, Ray Bourque waved a tearful goodbye to the East Coast...
Kevin Prendergrast on Canadian Goaltending
If this were posted on SBN's Edmonton Oilers blog, The Copper and Blue, it'd have the title "quote that may only interest me", but here it is... "Every junior team has a goalie coach. In some cases, midget teams have a goalie coach. All those coaches try to teach a technique. We’re taking...
I'm Saving Hockey: A BTN April 24th Recap
Every year, the playoff season is another opportunity for us to learn valuable lessons we would not have learned otherwise. For instance, 26 of the last 43 playoff seasons have taught us that the Detroit Red Wings will make a marginal goaltender look like Dominik Hasek (not including years in...
Tuesday Morning Fly By: Prepare the Edmonton Jokes
Today's open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news and notes... Peter Laviolette took the blame for Sunday's loss like a good coach would: [BSH] [Frequent Flyers] [Flyer Files] [Philly Sports Daily] Could Nick Boynton be in the lineup tonight? [Philly Sports...
IIHF U20 WJHC/Spengler Cup Day 2 GDT:
Today's games aren't televised, aside from the Spengler Cup, and I'm too late for the first one. Spengler Cup Sparta Prague 3 vs. HC Geneva-Servette 4 Geneva gets rewarded with a win after a hard fought loss yesterday against SKA St. Petersburg. Tomorrow, Prague will take on St. Petersburg and if...
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians: The Goaltender
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians (LOES) is a weekly forum bringing together the top analytical minds in the hockey world to answer a variety of questions that straddle the line between stats analysis and something you might hear floating around section 304. They have agreed to answer...
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians: The Trophies
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians (LOES) is a weekly forum bringing together the top analytical minds in the hockey world to answer a variety of questions that straddle the line between stats analysis and something you might hear floating around section 304. They have agreed to answer...
Mo Money Mo Problems: Big budget SKA St. Petersburg loses home opener
Decided to pay some tribute to Dan Ellis' tweeting career in the title. The free spending SKA St. Petersburg team fell in their home opener to Dinamo Riga, who have earned the title of being my favourite KHL team as I'm a huge fan of Latvian hockey (at SB Nation, we're encouraged to be fans, so...
Dwayne Roloson and that Magical Number
With the season getting closer, there are a lot more people putting out their predictions. For the Islanders the most commonly cited negative is the easiest one to spot. Our beloved curmudgeon in crease, Dwayne Roloson, is turning 41 this season. Common sense in the NHL says that 40-year-old and...
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