Posts Tagged ‘Detroit Red Wings’
Okay, so I know I’ve got a real busy schedule coming up. One that won’t allow me to sit down and write for about a week or so. I think to myself, “Self – Don’t worry about it. The conference semis just finished. There are four very good teams remaining. A week from now, both […]
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The first round is over, and everything went according to plan. Well, if the plan was to have multiple upsets, then it went as predicted. All things considered, it actually did go as I had predicted several weeks ago, give or take a series or two. I told you at that time that the NHL […]
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Forgive me for taking an entire day before writing about this matchup. I had to wait to get back down to earth, since I’ve spent the past 24 hours floating in the clouds. You see I’m in new territory here. The Coyotes moved to the valley of the sun in 1996. Though I have been […]
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Now you know why I decided not to prognosticate beyond the first round of the NHL playoffs. This is the one sport that you can count on upsets throughout the brackets. It’s also the only sport that allows the top seeds to face the bottom seeds in every round, so you really don’t know who […]
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You work hard all season long just so you can gain the home team advantage in the playoffs. It’s huge in football, with the home team winning more times than not. In basketball, it’s rare that a seventh or eighth seed ends up with more than one or two victories before being knocked out of […]
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The chill of the winter has been replaced by the blooms of spring. The birds are singing. The sun is shining. This can only mean one thing. You need to get to the arena – the playoffs are starting! That’s right. After 82 high-paced, rock’ em, sock’ em hockey games, the real season is about […]
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For those of you on the east side of our great country, you may not have heard of Mike Smith, goalie for the Phoenix Coyotes. Okay, maybe you heard of him when he was a member of the Tampa Bay Lightning for parts of four seasons (2007-2008 to 2010-2011). Odds are, what you heard didn’t […]
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I know, I know, officially the playoffs don’t begin until all teams have finished their 82 game season on April 7th. But anyone who has been paying attention knows that several teams have been playing for their playoff lives for several weeks now. Now I must admit, being from the west side of this great […]
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HOCKEY HIT OF THE WEEK — 3-13-12
This week’s HHOTW is from last Tuesday’s game in Philadelphia where the Flyers were hosting the Detroit Red Wings. I must warn you, this is not a pretty hit. Detroit’s Niklas Kronwall takes out (literally) Philly’s Jakub Voracek with a viscious hit that nearly knocks him out cold. Kronwall turns just before impact in order to […]
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HOCKEY HIT OF THE WEEK – 3-6-12
This week, I’ve selected a hit that was a little bit different. This one led to a fight, even though it was a clean hit. The different part about it is that the guy who absorbed the hit, Alex Pietrangelo of the St. Louis Blues, got up and went back to work. The next shift change […]
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A View From the Nose Bleed Seats 