One of the most prominent storylines right now in the Western Conference Finals between the St. Louis Blues and the San Jose Sharks is the ongoing goalie situation with the Blues. Brian Elliott, the team’s starter and most valuable player throughout the first two rounds, was pulled in favor of Jake Allen in the third […]

The San Jose Sharks played a near perfect game on Tuesday night in Game 2 of their Western Conference Finals series against the St. Louis Blues. They planted four goals on the Blues, allowed them to score none, and dominated special teams, going 2-for-5 on the power play while stymieing St. Louis on all six […]

One of all hockey positions, goalie is the hardest for NHL teams to scout. First of all, 17 or 18 year-old netminders that are just entering their first year of draft eligibility don’t usually get the same amount of playing time on their junior teams that 19 and 20 year-old goalies do. Scouts just don’t […]

Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs couldn’t have gone much better than it did for the Dallas Stars. From start to finish, Dallas outplayed the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night, and it was never really close. The Stars came out fast, focused and aggressive, spurred onwards by a raucous home crowd. They outshot the […]

Suddenly, things just got a lot more real. Narrowly sitting atop the top spot in the NHL’s Central Division with the St. Louis Blues and Chicago Blackhawks nipping at their heels, the Dallas Stars already knew that they had a hard sprint ahead of them over the final few weeks of the regular season. However, […]

On Sunday night the Toronto Maple Leafs eked out a gutsy, hard-fought 1-0 shutout win over the Detroit Red Wings. It was a big win for the Leafs, one that can build confidence and character for a young, inexperienced club. And, even better, the team still remained in 30th place in the NHL in spite […]

It’s not often that a team can find exactly what they’re looking for on the trade market, but that’s precisely what the New York Rangers managed to do on Sunday afternoon. The Rangers acquired arguably the biggest fish in the availability pond ahead of the 2016 trade deadline, center Eric Staal, from the Carolina Hurricanes […]

The 2014-15 season was one of the most frustrating in recent memory for the Dallas Stars, and that’s saying something considering the franchise has missed the playoffs every year but one since 2008. The Stars finished the season 8th in terms of even-strength CorsiFor% (according to the website War-On-Ice), 2nd overall in goals, 7th overall […]

News of a trade broke on Sunday afternoon when it was announced that the Toronto Maple Leafs had sent forward Shawn Matthias to the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for a 4th round draft pick and prospect Colin Smith. While the trade itself, in a vacuum, is somewhat unremarkable (Matthias is a bottom six winger with […]

On December 28th the Montreal Canadiens made a seemingly inconsequential trade, gladly sending away a forward disgraced by his off-ice problems in exchange for a pricey veteran goaltender toiling away in the AHL. Now, that newly added goaltender is offering a faint glimmer of hope that just might save Montreal’s entire season. Ben Scrivens, the […]

One of the most exciting things leading up to the annual NHL Entry Draft is often the back-and-forth debate about which player is going to be selected 1st overall. Sometimes it can be a head-to-head debate, as we saw in 2010 with “Taylor vs. Tyler” and then to a lesser extent in 2015 with Connor […]

Following a disappointing and early exit from the 2016 World Junior Hockey Championship, the process has now begun for Hockey Canada and their nation of fans to dissect just where things went so wrong this year. The defending gold medalists looked anything but throughout the entire tournament, dropping their Boxing Day opener against the United […]

A 2-0 shutout loss to a middle-of-the-pack team. A 2-6-2 record in their last 10 games. And now an injury to one of their two best players, Henrik Sedin. The Vancouvers Canucks are currently in a free fall, with nothing in sight to grab hold of. The Canucks were always going to be a bubble […]

The selection of Jack Campbell in the first round, 11th overall, in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft is still a sore spot, maybe even an open wound, for a lot of Dallas Stars fans. Heading into the draft that year, the Stars were in dire need of a puck-moving, offensively-capable defenseman, both in the short […]

David Rundblad is, by all means, a good hockey player. The Chicago Blackhawks defenseman is comfortable carrying the puck and is more than capable of making a good first pass out of the defensive zone. He’s a decent skater, and at a height of 6’2″ he has enough size to not be overly disadvantaged by […]

Take three of the five highest-scoring players in the NHL. Then, add in a two-time 90-point scorer as well as a four-time 30-goal scorer to the mix. Sounds like the makings of a pretty lethal power play, right? The short answer is an obvious yes. The longer, and more accurate, answer stills ends up at […]

There aren’t a lot of bright spots so far for the 2015-16 Carolina Hurricanes, a team that is currently 14th in the NHL’s Eastern Conference with a record of 7-10-3 and a porous goal differential of -18. Luckily for them, however, the biggest of the bright spots that they do have is standing out so […]

Remember the 2014-15 Tampa Bay Lightning? You know, the team with the explosive offensive firepower that scored at will, overpowering opposing defenses and goalies as they surged all the way to the Stanley Cup Finals? Yeah, them. Where has that team gone this season? After finishing as the highest-scoring team in the NHL last year, […]

The jump from junior hockey leagues straight to the NHL is a very difficult one to make for players, often fraught with adversity and growing pains. The same, too, can be said for coaches, as we are are seeing right now with the Philadelphia Flyers and new head coach Dave Hakstol. Hakstol was hired by […]

All of a sudden the upcoming Dallas Stars training camp just got a whole lot more interesting. News broke on Tuesday afternoon that top Stars prospect Brett Ritchie suffered a wrist injury while training, and is expected to be out 3-4 months after requiring surgery. Dallas Stars RW Brett Ritchie expected to miss 3 to […]