The last of the NHL labour wars
By Colby Cosh - Monday, January 7, 2013 - 0 Comments
The conventional wisdom on the NHL lockout, usually delivered with a sneer, is that Canadian hockey fans will belly-crawl back to the league uncritically now that all the bickering and all the tantrums have ended. Like all conventional wisdom, it is conventional because it is quite a safe bet. I know I’ll crawl with everyone else: I’m capable of intellectually segregating my fondness for the game of hockey from my loathing of the existing institutions of hockey. (It’s not all that difficult! Nor is it shameful!) What’s different about this lockout is that in the meantime I took the bait of regular-season NBA basketball with enthusiasm for the first time ever. Continue…
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NHL Trade Deadline: Predictions from the experts
By Cameron Ainsworth-Vincze - Monday, February 23, 2009 at 1:58 PM - 19 Comments
Sportsnet’s Nick Kypreos, Doug MacLean and Mike Brophy on a few players who could be on the move
With only nine days left before the NHL Trade Deadline, Hockeycentral analysts Nick Kypreos, Doug MacLean and Mike Brophy from Rogers Sportsnet look at a few of the players rumoured to be on the move, and what they are worth. Continue…
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Hockey: are the Pens doomed in '08-09?
By Charlie Gillis - Monday, August 18, 2008 at 2:18 PM - 0 Comments
Latest dispatch from Pittsburgh, where last year’s run to the Stanley Cup final is…
Latest dispatch from Pittsburgh, where last year’s run to the Stanley Cup final is fading into memory: defenceman Ryan Whitney is gone for up to five months after surgery to correct a bone fault in his foot.
This guy is a key to the Pens’ season, working the point on the power play along with Sergei Gonchar and keeping pace with the Pens’ prodigious young forwards. But pundits worried this promising team might fall apart in the off-season, and so far the pessimists have been right. Gone are Ryan Malone, Marian Hossa, Georges Laraque, Gary Roberts, Jarkko Ruutu to trades and free agency. And now Whitney for 15-20 games. Sure, they picked up Miro Satan and Matt Cooke, and of course the Crosby/Malkin one-two punch should never be underestimated. But I’m starting to think the Sid and Co. might be in tough to make the playoffs. Cooke is a role player. Satan has a hole where his heart should be. Continue…
