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 […]

Flames being Avalanched

With only 9 games left in the regular season the final couple of playoff spots are being fought tooth and nail.  I posted two article with one month left in the regular season about who would and would NOT make the playoffs.  The Eastern Conference article pointed out that the race was tight.   But that’s […]

New Gretzky - Jon Tavares

Not exactly sure how this flew under my radar but it did.   Johnathan Tavares broke a crazy record last week.  The record was goals scored by a 16 year old in the CHL (Canadian Hockey League) last week.    Tavares was able to score 72 goals as a 16 year old, passing Wayne Gretzky’s old mark […]

NHL players to play at the Olympics

Let me just state that we basically knew that the NHL players would be playing.  Why?   Well, they actually enjoying playing in the Olympics and two the Olympics are in Canada.  Home of hockey. Plus what would the olympics be without some overpaid professional atheletes competing.

For example, what would the 2004 summer olympics be without […]

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 closing in

The NHL trade deadline is tomorrow afternoon, Feb 27th.   Stay tuned to see who the winners and losers are from each and every trade.    Possible people on the trading block are
Todd Bertuzzi - Big power forward with great hands.   But with a back more fragile then my 90 year-old gramma
Bill Guerin - Once considered a […]

An apology to Elishia Cuthbert and her team of lawyers

Dear Ms. Cuthbert and your team of lawyers,
A while back this oddsnark blog published a couple posts meant to be a spoof of your short-lived but entertaining blog on NHL.com. It was totally meant to be amusing and funny and not in any way defaming or maligning of your character. As you requested, we have […]