This is not a soccer blog, but it may seem like it, so please hang on and endure the pain. Soccer is the world’s largest sport, watched and played by millions of people worldwide. A very tough game to play, ninety minutes of non-stop, limited substitution, running on a field larger than the standard football […]

Inevitably the time has come. The offseason is officially upon the hockey world. That doesn’t mean The NHL Arena will stop however. In the coming weeks and months…we will have a variety of new endeavors to cover and analyze. One of the first new things….is the construction of the new Behind The NHL Arena Program […]

Anaheim 6, Ottawa 2What started out as three children’s movies for the Disney Corporation has turned into the 2007 Stanley Cup Champions. Gordon Bombay would be so proud with his Flying “V” standing for victory for the Anaheim Ducks, the first west coast team to win the trophy since the NHL took over handing out […]

Thanks to Matt from 2 Minutes For Blogging for these gems. Toss in a few snippets on the Ducks in the playoffs and, folks, you are looking at one guy that has become a major Anaheim fan over the past season. And, no, I’m not switching teams. I have been a Caps’ fan since birth. […]

So tonight could end it all……there may be a celebration, then again, there may not. History is on the Ducks side but stranger things have happened. Game 5 tonight will be played at the Honda Center…and yes the Stanley Cup will be in the building. Some guy who gets to fly with it, brush his […]

Ah the memories…..the feet of snow seems like a long long time ago…well really it was almost a year and a half ago but it still feels fresh. With how hot and dry it has been in California lately….I figure why not have a short interview with the lady that helped start it all. What […]

Anaheim 3, Ottawa 2 The south’s gonna do it again. That’s the old Charlie Daniels Band tune that must be blaring in the Anaheim Ducks’ headquarters after they won Game 4 of this Stanley Cup series 3-2, to take a commanding 3-1 lead. The last two Cup winners have been from the Sun Belt of […]

A goal and then a momentum killer….YIKES!!!! When Daniel Alfredsson hit Scott Niedermayer with the puck in the closing seconds of the second period….all I could think of….was….what the???? The wife and family said the same exact thing…..as if this was out of some bizarre Hitchcock novel where the twist ending wasn’t even an ending. […]

Good morning everyone…on the heels of the Pronger hit and the questionable goal that was or wasn’t depending on your geographical persuasion…Game 4 will be contested tonight…..this short little blurb was to let you know that the Ottawa GDT will be alive and rocking as always. All your hockey fixes can be found at The […]

Alright so I was talking to Drew at End of the Bench. He and Michael are planning a blogger get together at the Draft. For any information you need on the draft please go here. They are planning on having the get together on the afternoon of June 22 somewhere close by the arena. If […]

Not the first time we’ve seen an apparent ‘kicked in goal’ reviewed by the league and then backlash from fans on the final decision. And it will not be the last…. unless…. Does anyone in here enjoy goals that go in off forwards skates? And I don’t mean important goals to tie you up or […]

So I walk into my workout room, where I air out my hockey equipment, and I look at my Chicago Blackhawks sweater (jersey) just laying there on the floor inside out. “How appropriate”, I thought.The season for us was over in March as we had been mathematically eliminated again. I looked at my jersey which […]

Ottawa 5, Anaheim 3Hello!! Wake up!!! You’re home now, it’s time to get out there and make your presence known!! The Ottawa Senators didn’t have their mother to get them up for this Stanley Cup series, but maybe 20,000 rabid, screaming fans could. Or maybe an elbow to the head or a kicked puck might […]

ROAD TRIP!!!! Heading to Ottawa for Game 3 of this best of seven series as the Ducks take their show to Kanata to battle the Senators. Will the Ducks be able to duplicate their success at home and win their first ever road Stanley Cup Finals game or will the Sens be able to stem […]

Well by now….I am sure the parties have arrived in Ottawa. Game 3 will be contested tomorrow night. For Ottawa, this is the must win game of the series…they can’t fall behind 0-3 to the Ducks. The first two games have featured the Ducks checking line as both an offensive and defensive source. Sami Pahlsson […]