Detroit 2, San Jose 0 When two teams who fail to live up to their organizations and fans expectations in recent years, meet in the playoffs, one team is going to continue being on the outside looking in. The Detroit Red Wings may have shed their title as the Western Conference’s biggest playoff underachievers and […]

James Mirtle of http://mirtle.blogspot.com/ is widely regarded as one of the premier NHL bloggers the web currently has to offer. And he was gracious enough to answer a few questions for me. ~ How old were you when you began writing about the NHL? The first hockey I wrote about was back home in Kamloops, […]

The Detroit Red Wings closed out the San Jose Sharks in fashion as Mikael Samuelsson did away with 2 first period goals, slowly sinking the Sharks to their watery grave in Game 6 of the Western Conference Semi-Finals. They will now advance onto the Western Conference Finals to face the Anaheim Ducks. Starting off the […]

Once again…..it is time for another team to try and force a Game 7….this playoffs it seems the theme is to go 5 or 6…and not so much a 7….Vancouver-Dallas was the only series that went the distance. The Sharks will try and play a 60 minute game tonight because their season depends on it…and […]

Buffalo 5, NY Rangers 4 After a 3-2 game, and three 2-1 games, the New York Rangers were pushed to the brink of elimination by the Buffalo Sabres. Being down 3-2 in the series and playing game 6 in the famed Madison Square Garden, if the Rangers were going down, they were not going quietly […]

No, I do not wish to get into a comparing of talents between two of the most talked about netminders this season. Nor do I wish to go into depth about how their heavy workloads might have had something to do with their second round defeats in these playoffs. What I would like to do […]

Just a simple editor’s note….today’s Game 6 between the Rangers and Sabres will be all on the shoulders of our fine posters at The NHL Arena. Come check out all their exploits on the Rangers-Sabres playoff GDT. I also wanted to thank all of the bloggers and readers that make this page possible…all the posters […]

Ottawa 3, New Jersey 2 Not exactly the present you want on your 35th birthday, if you are a hockey player. Especially if you are one of the greatest goalies to have played the game and was looking to put your name on another Stanley Cup Trophy. Martin Brodeur turns 35 today. Happy Birthday Brody!!Yeah, […]

Raise your Jose Cuervo and Coronas up for a toast as its party, fiesta time…..and chug away as there are two big games today. The matinee is the Wings-Sharks game and the nitecap is the Devils trying to stave off elimination against the Ottawa Senators…and damnit don’t forget the chips and the salsa. Bloggers Paradise […]

Buffalo 2, NY Rangers 1, OT Like lightning striking a nearby tree. Like an arrow, piercing through the cool crisp morning mist, dropping a deer. Sudden. Quick. Deadly. That’s what it must have felt like to the New York Rangers when with only 7.7 seconds remaining in the game, leading 1-0, over the Buffalo Sabres, […]

A pivotal Game 5 between the Sabres and Rangers is the only game in town. The Battle of New York will be in full swing as the Rangers try to steal a road game while the Sabres just try to hold serve. This has been a fairly even series and not a lot of people […]

Tonights game 5 between the Rangers and Sabres has the potential to be one of the best of these playoffs. No two teams have been more evenly matched through the second round. For the Rangers winning tonights game would mean playing for a series victory on home ice and avoiding a game 7 in Buffalo. […]

Anaheim 2, Vancouver 1, 2OT In the age of castles and kingdoms, catapults and knights, one way to overrun a castle was to put it under siege, and bombard it with a continuous barrage of volleys until a wall collapsed. One of hockey’s best netminders must have felt like a stone castle last night. The […]

The site On The Forecheck is a perfect example of just how the NHL blogging world has developed in such a short amount of time. The Forechecker’s use of analytical calculations, as well as a knack to answer the questions you hadn’t thought to ask, raised the eyebrows of the traditional media world and he […]

Gotta see more of this and less of Ottawa’s O to have a shot. Though I will never give up on my team…..I swear the Devils gave up last night against the Sens. When I saw shots on goal were 11-3 Sens midway thru the third, I turned the tv off in disgust…yes Pandolfo scored […]