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Tuesdays with Dani: We need to go 19-8-0
According to James Mirtle's playoff projections of the postseason cutoff, the Lightning need to go 19-8-0 to make the playoffs. So, you're saying there's still a possibility? Here are your links for the week:Your Lightning links: Martin St. Louis and head coach Guy Boucher talks with Dave Lozo and...
Habs Alumni team visits Brampton this Wednesday.
For Montreal Canadiens fans in the GTA looking for something to do this week, why not stop by the Powerade Centre in Brampton?This Wednesday, a team of Habs Alumni will be squaring off against the Osler Crusaders in "Hockey Night For Osler." Game time is 7:30pm, with proceeds going towards the...
This Day in Habs History for Nov 3
1940: Dick Irvin coached his first game with the Montreal Canadiens, a 1-1 tie against the Boston Bruins. Irvin replaced Pit Lepine as head coach. 1951: Maurice Richard scored his 300th and 301st career NHL goals in a 3-2 Canadiens loss to the visiting Detroit Red Wings. Richard became the first...
The 1995 New Jersey Devils: Good but Not Great (Until the Playoffs)
In the comments to Friday's post about Neal Broten, I made the following statement: I would disagree that the 1995 Devils were spectacularly deep or all that talented, at least comparison to other teams in that season. They were good, but not great. The problem here is that I didn't provide...
Remembering Stephane Richer as a New Jersey Devil
In writing yesterday's post on the trouble with great players, many former Devils came to mind. I didn't write it with one specific player in mind. It was about general concept of how new players or players on the team inevitably get compared to great players when they're gone - regardless of how...
P.K. Subban and friends tee up to help his adopted hometown
He hadn't even been home from Haiti for 48 hours, and already Montreal Canadiens defenseman P.K. Subban was already on another charity mission. This time he was in the more familiar surroundings outside Belleville ON, for the Medigas Celebrity Classic. Now in it's 24th year, the event, once titled...
Best Week Ever: Panthers' '93 Expansion Draft or '11 UFA/Trade performance?
With all of the action witnessed on Friday (and a tiny bit Saturday as well) combined with several moves made in the days prior, it's darned near impossible not to rank this summer's opening of the NHL free agency period as one of the most pivotal off-ice events in the history of the Florida...
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians: The Greatest Game
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians (LOES) is a weekly forum bringing together the top analytical minds in the hockey world to answer a variety of questions that straddle the line between stats analysis and something you might hear floating around section 304. They have agreed to answer...
The best Tampa Bay Lightning line combinations of the past decade
The Double-Oh decade is drawing to a close (officially on January 1st, 2011) and there have already been a plethora of decade-best and decade-worst posts that have found there way onto the Interweb. Puck Daddy has had multiple best and worst lists the last few weeks, and you can find plenty more...
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