We here at Sports Nickel are gearing up for another exciting NHL season that is just around the corner. Play begins on October 7, so be sure to check back here regularly throughout September as the scribes of Puckhead Nation get new team previews up during the month. Let us know what you think of [...]

It’s funny how we can procrastinate sometimes despite having everything laid out in front of us. I started this column back on Saturday, diligently starting the process of building the news and notes of the week as I always do. The skeleton inputted online, I then went about my daily writing and slowly fleshed out [...]

Many critics feel that, with the formation the rebel World Hockey Association and the continuing establishment of western expansion, the creation of more roster spots diluted the overall talent pool of the league. I say BS, simply because the abundance of superstars who clashed in the Stanley Cup playoffs and the blood oath rivalries that [...]

It was a decade dominated by the two Canadian teams. Of the ten Cups awarded, nine were won by either Montreal or Toronto. The lone American team to win one would be the Chicago Blackhawks and unfortunately, being the Hawks loyalist that I am, that would be the last one they’d win until this past [...]

Two entities achieved tremendous prestige in this era: Gordie Howe The Montreal Canadiens I placed them in that order because that summarizes the chronology in which they propelled themselves into the mythology of the NHL. Howe led the Red Wings to 4 Stanley Cup titles in the first 6 years of the decade and personified [...]

… I can remember hearing the news at 2 AM on the morning of July 24th that Probert had signed a contract with the Chicago Blackhawks a few hours earlier on the previous day. As a Hawks loyalist it was pure jubilee. The MAN was going to Chicago and I could actually purchase a jersey [...]