Category: "Hockey"

NHL back underway for 2013 season

With the NHL season back underway, the newest talks have been about where the sport will be headed in a few years: expansion. It seems the National Hockey League has its sights set on growing now that it has resolved the recent contract situations. The likeliest destinations seem to be Quebec City and Toronto. In [...]

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NTSF: Initial Thoughts on the Green Sports Alliance Summit

The Green Sports Alliance just concluded their inaugural Summit held over the past three days in Portland… [Zach offers his initial thoughts in this week's NTSF. →]

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Random Replay of the Week: The Last All-Canada Cup Final

In 1989, Montreal and Calgary met in just the 8th all-Canada Stanley Cup final in NHL history… [Zach reviews the final period in this inaugural column. →]

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Picture of the Boston Bruins bar tab after winning the Stanley Cup

Correction on a previous post. This picture is NOT of Mark Cuban’s bar tab (even though judging by the amount one would think so). This is the Boston Bruins bar tab after they won the Stanley Cup. Over $150,000? That’s just nuts. I had to look at that twice to make sure my eyes weren’t [...]

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Parsing the Possibilities for NHL Realignment

Sometimes you just have to get away from it all, unplug completely and give yourself a true break from the world. I came back from a camping trip over the Memorial Day weekend that took me completely out of the loop for three full days. I came back to a plugged-in world where some essential [...]

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Stanley Cup Playoffs – Western Conference Finals Preview

Awakening Puckhead Nation, Zach previews the Western Conference final between the Vancouver Canucks and the San Jose Sharks…

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Stanley Cup Playoffs – Eastern Conference Finals Preview

Awakening Puckhead Nation, Zach previews the Eastern Conference final between the Boston Bruins and the Tampa Bay Lightning…

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Julien Cemented in Bruins-Habs History

For a man who spent his journeyman playing career riding buses across the netherworlds of minor-league hockey — and saw just fourteen NHL games with the Quebec Nordiques during his dozen years putting on the pads and going out to play defense from Halifax to Salt Lake City — rising to the rarefied heights of [...]

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