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Elias Pettersson And Brock Boeser Do Their Best Sedin Twins Impression With This Beautiful Goal<em></em>
The Vancouver Canucks took on the Colorado Avalanche on Friday in a thrilling 7-6 overtime victory. Among the 13 goals scored that night, the one that stood out the most came from Brock Boeser in the second period off of a pass by Swedish rookie standout Elias Pettersson that would make Henrik and D...
Predators Coach Peter Laviolette Rewards His Team By Partially Committing To A Furry Look
As a former player himself, Nashville Predators head coach Peter Laviolette knows how tough it can be for a team to go on the road in Western Canada. He used this opportunity to challenge his players: Come away with four points on the two-game road trip. The Preds succeeded by beating the Flames, 5-...
Evgeny Kuznetsov Is A Goddamn Wizard
Considering how long the Stanley Cup celebrations over the summer lasted for the Washington Capitals, it’s a feat in its own right that they’re able to play any hockey at all, let alone win a game or two. Evgeny Kuznetsov in particular has shown that he’s shaken off the championship hangover, leadin...
Are The NHL's Mini-Dynasties Dead?
Until the Capitals broke through to win their first Cup, the Penguins, Blackhawks, and Kings dominated the NHL as the most effective triumvirate since Roman times. Instead of ending with stabbings and civil war, the modern NHL version collapsed for more mundane reasons involving salary caps and agin...
A 2018–19 NHL Season Preview Of Every Team, From Best To Islanders
Hell yeah, hockey is back! After suffering through three months of sports that do not involve ice, and night after night of 90-degree temperatures with no A/C (though that one might just be me), the most beautiful and fun game in the world has returned to save you from five-hour ALDS games and lopsi...
All You Need Is Spite: A Very Emotional NHL Season Preview
Boys and girls and babes, we all learned so much during the 2017–2018 NHL season. For example, I learned that chaos rules the universe, sports predictions are horoscopes but less accurate, and hockey games are won by pure, defiant, you-said-I-couldn’t-do-it spite and very little else....
Islanders Goalie Robin Lehner Writes About His Mental Health Struggles: "I Wanted To Kill Myself"
New York Islanders goalie Robin Lehner wrote a candid essay for The Athletic about his years-long addiction to drugs and alcohol, his thoughts of suicide, his time in rehab, and his eventual bipolar diagnosis. ...
Steve Yzerman Is Leaving Tampa And Hell Yeah Motherfucker He Is Definitely Coming To Detroit
Mission accomplished! Mark it the hell down. Steve Yzerman is finally coming back home to Detroit to save the godforsaken Red Wings. At least, that’s the only logical conclusion one can draw from today’s news:...
So It's Come To This: An Ottawa Senators Blog
It is insane to me that we are only a year removed from the Senators coming within a game of the Stanley Cup Final. It is insane to me that so much has happened between then and now, including this and this but mostly the team’s threats to leave Ottawa and the team’s simmering contract beef with all...
NHL Players Are Annoyed At Noted Shit-Talker Jalen Ramsey For Talking Shit
With the NBA season still over a month away from starting, NHL players needed a new source from which to draw their insecurity....
Looks Like Henrik Zetterberg's NHL Career Is Over
Detroit captain Henrik Zetterberg will turn 38 the week the NHL season starts up, and for the first time in a long time, he will not be in the Red Wings’ lineup. He will not be in the lineup for a long while, and perhaps not ever again. It’ll be a noticeable absence, given that he’s been a mainstay ...
Icy Dead People
Flyers goalie Alex Lyon will apparently wear a mask commemorating goofy M. Night Shyamalan horror flick The Sixth Sense this upcoming season....
Senators Assistant GM Randy Lee Resigns Due To Ongoing Bus Driver Harassment Case
Ottawa Senators assistant GM Randy Lee was suspended back in June following a May arrest in Buffalo for harassing a 19-year-old hotel shuttle driver during the NHL scouting combine. With that case still pending and his time away from the team now approaching the end of its third month, Lee today off...
Man Charged With Impersonating Bruins Owner To Get Out Of Paying For Stuff
Jeremy Jacobs is 78 and owns the NHL’s Boston Bruins. Jeffrey Jacobs is 37 and lives in Connecticut and as far as I know does not own any professional hockey teams. They are not the same person—if you’ll notice, they spell and pronounce their first names differently. It was nearly the perfect crime...
Former NHL Goalie Ray Emery Dies In Drowning Incident On Lake Ontario
Former NHL goalie Ray Emery drowned Sunday morning while swimming at Hamilton Harbour at Lake Ontario, according to multiple reports. Emery reportedly never emerged after diving into the water near a friend’s boat, and a search for a missing swimmer became a recovery operation Sunday afternoon....
The Golden Knights Are Paying Marc-Andre Fleury <i>How Much?</i>
The Vegas Golden Knights announced that they have signed goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury to a very bad contract extension....
Alex Ovechkin Really, Really Loves The Song "My Neck, My Back"
Stanley Cup winner Alex Ovechkin is wringing as much out of the offseason as he can, presumably so he can drink it while shirtless. The Washington Capitals captain took his championship tour to his hometown of Moscow this past weekend. Ovi attended a viewing party for the national team’s World Cup m...