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 […]

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 […]

NBC doing a fine job ignoring hockey

The final weekend of the NHL regular season is upon us, and what a doozie it will be. There are a couple division races still to be decided and two playoff spots are up for grabs.
Montreal and Toronto battle it out tonight for the eighth seed in the East with a one-point margin separating the […]

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. […]