There has been no team more dominant over the past two weeks than the Pittsburgh Penguins. The talk all year has been about the Washington Capitals running away with the Eastern Conference. They ran away…
We are set to drop the puck on the final week of the NHL season. If you want to get technical, there will be two makeup games next Monday, including one potentially critical one, but…
The streak is officially in jeopardy. 24 seasons and possibly counting, the Detroit Red Wings’ playoff run is currently the longest in major professional sports. But it is a tenuous situation in 2016, with the hard-charging…
Enough is enough. In fact, it’s been enough for some time now. When the NHL suffered a lockout for the 2004-05 season, it implemented shootouts when it returned. When it almost lost the 2012-13 season,…
It’s almost March, and there is still very little clarity about the beast of the East in the NHL. There is very little suspense regarding the top seed; the Washington Capitals have been in cruise-control…
There was something that did not feel just about the Tampa Bay Lightning going into the postseason as a second seed. It seemed odd that they finished just shy of the Montreal Canadiens in the…
We are down to hockey’s final four, not to be confused with the NCAA’s Frozen Four. A year ago, the New York Rangers and Chicago Blackhawks appeared headed for a Stanley Cup Finals showdown, but…
I rarely ever read ESPN.com. I find them to be rather biased, despite a talented team of writers, bloggers, and reporters. I am a bit of a media simpleton, preferring to stick to a sport’s…
So I went 4-4 in picking the first-round series, erring with the Blues and Canucks after flip-flopping those picks about 20 times. Perhaps no team is more perturbed about their second-round opponent than the Montreal…
Now that we’ve examined the field in the East, it’s time to glance at the West, who like the East produced six teams with 100 or more points, including the only wild card entrant to…