Thrashers Skip Game, Sabres Finally Win

The Buffalo Sabres snapped a 10-game losing streak last night with a 10-1 victory in Atlanta. Surprisingly, even thought the Thrashers failed to take the ice (I hear the team bus was stuck in traffic somewhere) Buffalo managed to blow the shutout. At least they got the ‘W’ though. Now if only they can find […]

They Should Play Every Hockey Game Outdoors

So it turns out America does like hockey, but only if it played outdoors in a football stadium in a snowstorm.
The Winter Classic between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Buffalo Sabres drew a 2.6 rating and 5 share on NBC on New Year’s Day, the highest TV rating for a regular season game since 1996. In […]

We have a playoff series!

Unlike the Buffalo Sabres and New York Rangers playoff series. The Vancouver Canucks and Anaheim Ducks now have a series.
Last night Buffalo was able to squeak out a win against the Rangers. The Rangers outplayed the Sabres for most of the game but as good teams do the Sabres were able to score […]

Bartender, bring us another round of hockey

For the third year in a row, the Dallas Stars have made an early exit from the playoffs. Vancouver finally ended their epic journey through the quarterfinals by beating the Stars 4-1 on home ice last night, with Trevor Linden getting the game winner on a power play seven minutes into the third period. Poor […]

Now we’re talking playoff hockey

After yesterday’s NHL games you can’t tell me you don’t like hockey.
So me, you, and everyone else were thinking the Islanders were finished, right? They’re playing the top-ranked Sabres, they looked like crap in Game 1, it was just a matter of time. But no, the team from Long Island has proven us all wrong. […]

NHL playoffs - day 2

Some great games last night as the Wings, Sabres, Rangers (yes, Rangers) and Devils all won.
The games that I was able to catch had one trend. The winning team (except the Rangers) were owned like the girl in this basketball dunk video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yy3eUYlUU8

Anyway, to recap

Calgary Flames looked terrible
Buffalo made the Islanders look like, well, Islanders.
Devils […]

Are you smarter then a Monkey?

Maggie the Monkey has officially made her NHL Playoff picks for the first round.   The monkey is an actual monkey that spins a wheel to choose which teams will win their respective match.
Her picks this year are the Detroit Red Wings, Minnesota Wild, Nashville Predators, Buffalo Sabres, New Jersey Devils, Atlanta Thrashers and Pittsburgh Penguins […]

Snarks On Ice: Your NHL Playoff Preview

Oh I know, you hardly took notice that the NHL regular season came to an end yesterday, but there’s no need for you to be ashamed or anything. With NBC’s spotty coverage and Versus being the cable equivalent of a low-powered community-college UHF station, it’s easy to overlook hockey sometimes, even though it is […]

Eastern Conference NHL Predictions

Today is exactly a month (less a day) till the NHL Playoffs. Yesterday I discussed the Western Conference Playoff predictions; today I’ll talk about the teams that will make the Eastern Conference playoffs.
The Eastern Conference is a much tighter race near the bottom of the with basically seven teams going for one spot. […]

Trading deadline busy

Unlike the NBA’s trading deadline the NHL’s trading deadline was busy with a capital B. As usual teams are trading players who are in the last year of a contract. While teams are picking these players up usually for a draft pick, or two, or in Keith Tkachuk’s case umm, lots of […]