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 […]

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 […]

Xmas in April

With the NHL regular season over the NEW NHL season is about to begin.   This is what MANY Canadians anticipate since the all-star game.   This is when the best games, most emotion and most beer is consumed.
TSN will be covering up to 28 games in the first round of the playoffs!   While the CBC will […]

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 […]

For all you MacGyvers working for the weekend

Sweet Jebus, was this the longest week ever or what? Thank heavens its Friday. (Or thank goodness for you TGIFridays fans.) So you’re probably wondering what to do with your blissed-out, not-at-work selves for two days. Well, the oddsnark Weekend Planner is here to help.
There is a little thing called the NCAA Final Four happening […]

Exactly one month till NHL playoffs

With exactly one month to the NHL playoffs I thought it’d be nice to make a prediction of who will make and will not make the playoffs. Today, I’ll start with the Western Conference mainly because it’s a way easier…
The west has some crazy competition going on and for the past 2 months […]

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 […]