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 [...]
Awakening Puckhead Nation, Zach previews the Eastern Conference final between the Boston Bruins and the Tampa Bay Lightning…
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 [...]
Zach breaks down the stories from Paris-Roubaix, the Malaysian Grand Prix and the Champions League in this week’s edition…
The ice clears around the two warriors, both stripped of gloves and helmets and standing astride their two sharpened blades. Towering above the ice they begin throwing punches at one another, grabbing at the other’s sweater for purchase and leverage. Pushing, pulling, reeling from each beefy fist colliding with septum, with cheekbone, with skull and [...]
So I spent the weekend traveling into the land of the Giants. As Dickens said, “it was the best of times, it was the worst of times”. Hell, I’ve taken trips to Vegas that wound up being less eventful than this weekend. It was my first trip ever to San Francisco, coming three weeks on [...]
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 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 [...]
