More players packing up for the offseason. The second part in our four part series on the Devils players and their grades. By the way, if I didn’t grade them….just presume they got an incomplete and are undergoing intensive Devils training. And now I turn the floor over to the Professor……. Our next set of […]

It’s the middle of May…the time of year where the ice gets choppy and the weather makes you want to go to the beach. Well we still crave hockey and the Wings and Ducks will try to satisfy that hunger…..and its all here on the hockey roundup. Bloggers Paradise The Battle of California has the […]

Ottawa 4, Buffalo 3, 2OTTo score a goal in the Stanley Cup playoffs is exciting. To score one in double overtime is exhilarating. But, to score one in double overtime that has more hop in it than a draft of good old English stout, well a little luck must be involved.Joe Corvo scored 4:58 into […]

Detroit 2, Anaheim 1 Ugly! Ugly! Ugly!No, not the “style” of goaltender Dominik Hasek, who at times looks like a very large catfish that was just landed and still had a hook in his mouth. The two goals his teammates scored. The Detroit Red Wings beat the Anaheim Ducks in the opener of the Western […]

Game 2 is tonight between the Sabres and Senators. Ironically…the Sens fourth line came up huge in the third period against the Sabres. Oleg Saprykin scored the game winner on Ryan Miller. Saprykin has done this before as a member of the Calgary Flames when he scored the GWG against Tampa in Game 5 of […]

All sports have their championships, their seasonal winners and their trophies. They all have some sort of playoff to determine who the best of the best is. They take the players or drivers who fought all season to be at their finest, put them into position to try for the number one ranking, or division […]

Just another short short version for Game 1….as my predictions have been so bad that I now feel shame. Giguere vs. Hasek….Lidstrom and Chelios vs. Niedermayer and Pronger….so many matchups so little time. Well the folks on the Ducks-Wings GDT have some ideas on who is going to win and catch their thoughts tonight for […]

Ottawa 5, Buffalo 2 A shootout at the HSBC Corral. That’s what it could have been. Had the Buffalo Sabres ignited their offense like it can, it may have become an old fashioned up and down game. Instead it was more like the Ottawa Senators were shooting at targets, and it had a buffalo on […]

The Devils are on vacation like I was. Well sadly for many of us Devils fans, the season ended far too abruptly…but hey we can now play armchair qb and dole out some grades…from the school of Professor Stevens to you…here they are……the grades this season for the Devils….includes playoff grade and reason in parenthesis. […]

Steven Ovadia is the author of PuckUpdate and is one of my personal favorite bloggers out there. ~ Why do you think the majority of members that make up the NHL blogosphere, do what they do? I think a big factor is that before the bloggers, not a lot of people wrote much about the […]

After a couple days off…..this is the short short version of the Hockey Roundup. We wanted to humbly let you know that tonight’s Sabres-Sens Game 1 is being covered on the GDT. For the record, I predict a Sabres win tonight but I could be wrong based on my disasterous second round….and to think the […]

The conference finals are here at last…..the East starts tonight and the West tomorrow night. All four teams undoubtedly deserve to be in this position. My second round predictions were a disaster so I will try and improve here. Here’s what I got. First up……….. #1 Buffalo Sabres vs. #4 Ottawa Senators This one is […]

More Stats and Analysis at www.mikedunshee.com The NHL Conference Finals are set as Buffalo will match up against Ottawa and Detroit will face Anaheim. The close of the season should leave nothing to be desired as these have been the four best teams in the league all year.Buffalo galloped out of the gate to a […]

Once again I wanted to thank everyone in the hockey blogging world for their contributions….as always here at the NHL Arena Program we will continue to search out for the best stuff on a weekly basis and you will see it here. Thanks to PB from One Fan’s Perspective for this week’s BOTW. Coyotes Begin […]

I’ve had enough! I am tired of hearing about low television ratings for the Stanley Cup Playoffs being lower than previous years. I’ve had it up to here, (my hand is brush burning my forehead), with talk of the Nielsen Families just not tuning into the worlds greatest championship.No kidding. What a shock!!It’s been proven […]