| UPCOMING GAMES |
| NO SCHEDULED GAMES |
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LAST 10 GAMES
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| 5/9 |
OTT 6 at MTL 1 |
Lost |
F |
| 5/7 |
MTL 2 at OTT 3 |
Lost |
OT |
| 5/5 |
MTL 1 at OTT 6 |
Lost |
F |
| 5/3 |
OTT 1 at MTL 3 |
Won |
F |
| 5/2 |
OTT 4 at MTL 2 |
Lost |
F |
| 4/27 |
MTL 4 at TOR 1 |
Won |
F |
| 4/25 |
MTL 4 at WPG 2 |
Won |
F |
| 4/23 |
MTL 2 at NJD 3 |
Lost |
F |
| 4/20 |
WSH 5 at MTL 1 |
Lost |
F |
| 4/18 |
TBL 2 at MTL 3 |
Won |
F |
| Won-4 Lost-5 OT-1 |
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| Working Mantha (The Hockey News) |
| On this week's list of players we can't wait to see in the NHL one day, we profile Anthony Mantha of the Val-d'Or Foreurs. |
| Posted: 05/21/2013 |
| Patrick Roy is the next Colorado Avalanche coach, according to his brother: Report (Puck Daddy) |
| The Colorado Avalanche have been a rudderless, sputtering franchise for the last few seasons. To stabilize the team, they reached back into their glory years, elevating Hall of Famer Joe Sakic to Executive VP of Hockey Operations.
It appears the next Avalanche coach might be born out of that same nostalgia.
Patrick Roy, the co-owner/GM/head coach of the Quebec Remparts of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, will be the next coach of the Avalanche, as his brother told Adrian Dater of the Denver Post on Monday.
Via Dater:
"They're discussing the final details of an arrangement. Colorado is going to be very happy. Patrick is looking for a new challenge," said Stephane Roy, the younger brother of his famous sibling.
The Avalanche would not confirm a deal is in place. Patrick Roy could not be reached for comment, and neither could Avalanche vice president of hockey operations Joe Sakic.
Stephane Roy, who played briefly in the NHL, posted on his Facebook page Monday night, "For all my friends I'd like you to know before the official news spreads that my older brother will be the new coach of the Colorado Avalanch(sic)."
Patrick Roy was traded to the Avalanche in 1995 after a contentious split from the Montreal Canadiens. He would win 262 games from 1995-2003, along with two Stanley Cups and a Conn Smythe in 2001.
He was previously offered the head coaching gig for the Avalanche in 2009 , before the team fired Tony Granato and hired Joe Sacco. He turned down the job, citing “family reasons.”
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| Posted: 05/20/2013 |
| NHL Tooth Watch: Cataloging all the lost fangs in the 2013 playoffs (Puck Daddy) |
| The road to the Stanley Cup is fraught with peril, and much of that peril happens in and around the mouth.
Hockey players earned the gap-toothed stereotype fair and square, so it's never all that surprising when a player takes a puck, glove or stick to the mouth and loses a few teeth in the process -- but this postseason has been off the charts. The Montreal Canadiens/Ottawa Senators series alone stole seven teeth from the mouths of four players.
And it didn't end there. Players have been losing teeth all over the place. It's almost too much to keep track of.
But we have to try, friends. We must. And with that in mind, we introduce NHL tooth watch, our running tally of who's losing teeth and how many they're losing.
Total Teeth Lost this postseason: 16
And here are the incidents that got us to where we are: |
| Posted: 05/20/2013 |
| What We Learned: Complaining about NHL officiating? Time to fine these sore losers (Puck Daddy) |
| Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it.
No one is ever going to be totally happy with the ways in which the NHL's referees or officials make their decisions. We can all agree on that.
If there's a game in which neither team is whistled for a penalty, both will likely complain that the refs missed calls on the other. If there's a game in which both teams receive 10 power plays, both will complain that the referees were overly harsh in doling out discipline. No one is ever especially happy with calls that go in between those two extremes, either, because unless you win, you aren't happy. And sometimes, even when you do win, you aren't happy.
It's tough to know what, exactly, brought all this to a head in these playoffs. Alex Ovechkin complaining about a league-wide conspiracy in Game 6 after the end of Game 7; Jonathan Toews stamping his feet when his team got clobbered on home ice by its archrival; Sidney Crosby saying the league needs to institute video review for puck-over-the-glass calls; Jonathan Quick abusing officials because the Kings gave the Sharks a two-man advantage in overtime.
Doesn't it strike anyone as being a bit much?
No one likes to lose in October, let alone in the second round of the playoffs, and you might even say that the refs have made a bit of a spectacle of themselves in the last few games. The best thing a ref can do, the old saying goes, is not be noticeable, and things have admittedly gotten a bit out of hand in some instances.
But nonetheless, can you imagine the eye-rolling or outright mockery in Chicago if Henrik Zetterberg had said the same things Toews did after they got creamed in Game 1? Or the uproar if Ryan Callahan of the lionized New York Rangers had complained about a conspiracy to push the series longer? Or the furor if Joe Thornton had done what Quick did after the Sharks gave up a similar late-game 5-on-3 advantage that allowed the Kings to tie Game 1?
What it boils down to is being a sore loser. |
| Posted: 05/20/2013 |
| NHL’s awesome ‘Playoff Sounds of Round 1′ video is your ‘24/7’ fix (Puck Daddy) |
| Courtesy of Katie Baker , this “Sounds of the Game” video the NHL produced for Round 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs is probably the closest thing we’ll get to an HBO ‘24/7’-esque look at the game this season. (Stupid no good lousy lockout.)
Among the highlights:
• Karl Alzner asking Derek Dorsett where “they found the aquarium to fit” his head.
• Ryan Getzlaf looking up before a faceoff and yelling to Jonathan Ericsson “You’re not scary!”
• Did Pascal Dupuis call for “a [Mike] Bossy up the wall?”
• Bobby Ryan’s subtle “it’s comin’ Jimmy” to Jimmy Howard as he skates by the crease.
• Erik Karlsson, 2012 Norris Trophy winner, giving P.K. Subban his endorsement in the handshake line for the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens.
• And, of course: Daniel Alfredsson leading the cheers in the Sens dressing room.
Good stuff NHL. More of this please. |
| Posted: 05/18/2013 |
| Unsung Hero: Cory Conacher, Ottawa Senators agitator and playoff scorer (Puck Daddy) |
| Cory Conacher has lived two NHL lives this season.
He played 35 games with the Tampa Bay Lightning, scoring 24 points and counted among the Calder Trophy candidates for most of 2013.
But at the trade deadline, he was dealt to the Ottawa Senators in a multi-player deal that had goalie Ben Bishop going back to Tampa. He scored two goals in 12 games, and was no longer in the rookie of the year race.
Yet while the Lightning failed to make the playoff cut, the Senators are a second-round playoff team – and Conacher has been an unsung hero for them. |
| Posted: 05/17/2013 |
| Jack Adams Award: Bruce Boudreau vs. Paul MacLean vs. Joel Quenneville (Puck Daddy) |
| The NHL announced the finalists for the Jack Adams Award on Friday, as Bruce Boudreau of the Anaheim Ducks, Paul MacLean of the Ottawa Senators and Joel Quenneville of the Chicago Blackhawks are up for the trophy presented to the head coach who has "contributed the most to his team's success," as voted on by members of the NHL Broadcasters' Association.
We imagine it warms Mike Babcock’s heart to see Quenneville get a nomination, being that President’s Trophy winners don’t always get the Jack Adams love. Then again, it’s hard to ignore a coach who guides his team to 24 straight games with at least a point to start the season.
It was a bumper crop for great NHL coaching performances this season, which is bad news for Jack Capuano of the New York Islanders, Mike Yeo of the Minnesota Wild, Dan Bylsma of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Babcock and especially Michel Therrien of the Montreal Canadiens.
Who takes home the Jack?
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| Posted: 05/17/2013 |
| NHL Stanley Cup Playoff Preview: Round 2 (The Hockey News) |
| The first round did not disappoint thrill-seekers as it was full of overtimes, last-minute comebacks and epic collapses. But while there were a couple of upsets - as there are every first round - the top two seeds in the league and heavy Cup favorites are still alive |
| Posted: 05/13/2013 |
| NHL General Manager of the Year Finalists: Marc Bergevin vs. Bob Murray vs. Ray Shero (Puck Daddy) |
| The NHL announced the finalists for the General Manager of the Year Award, as Marc Bergevin of the Montreal Canadiens, Bob Murray of the Anaheim Ducks and Ray Shero of the Pittsburgh Penguins will battle for the award given to … well, they never really established the criteria for this thing, did they?
Were it not for the Lady Byng and the Mark Messier Leadership Award, this would be the NHL’s dumbest postseason accolade. From the NHL, the skinny on the voting:
Voting for this award was conducted among the 30 Club General Managers and a panel of NHL executives, print and broadcast media. The winner will be announced during the 2013 Stanley Cup Final, with more detail on format to be released at a later date.
“Hold tight everyone, we’ll explain exactly how Bob Murray became a finalist for GM of the year at some point …”
As we’ve griped before, it’s impossible to judge a general manager’s accomplishments based on (a) one season and (b) one regular season, as the winner of the award is established before the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Two of the three GMs nominated built teams that were good enough to lose in Round 1. Pop the champagne.
Third gripe: Why doesn’t this award have a namesake? And why isn’t that namesake Bill Torrey?
Who wins GM of the year? |
| Posted: 05/13/2013 |
| What We Learned: Pittsburgh Penguins have to get rid of Marc-Andre Fleury (Puck Daddy) |
|
Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it.
One of the things people said constantly throughout the Pittsburgh Penguins' six-game series victory over the New York Islanders was that their play was well below the expected level of quality.
In fact, the most common refrain was that this particular brand of awful play -- rife with defensive irresponsibility and baffling lack of execution for a team that was pretty much incredible from start to finish this year -- was probably only good enough to get them past a try-hard pretender like the Islanders.
Against a real team, it was generally agreed, this kind of play would result in them losing the series in short order, probably pretty badly.
But that kind of talk ignores two things. First, we were told repeatedly by just about everyone that if there was any team the Penguins, not exactly fleet-of-foot, didn't want to take on in the playoffs, it was these New York Islanders. And yeah, they had their hands full throughout, but still never really looked to be in all that much trouble; the scores were close, yes, but they still only needed six games to put these guys out of their misery.
Second, and more important, is that — lo and behold — the second they took Marc-Andre Fleury out of the crease, they won both games. That's not to say that Tomas Vokoun really won them either game, because he didn't. He posted a shutout in Game 5 because almost any goaltender in the world (with at least one notable exception) would have, but he was also victimized on occasion by the bad defensive work that didn't help Fleury much either.
But the fact of the matter is that if you have pretensions of winning a Stanley Cup, your goaltender has to at least be league-average. The Penguins, with their galaxy of stars and excellent coach and top-quality GM, have that goal. They do not have that goaltender. People will argue that Fleury is a winner, insofar as he won a Stanley Cup. Four years ago. Since that postseason, when he posted just a .908 save percentage and a not-good 2.61 GAA, his save percentage has crept above .899 precisely zero times. This year, when he gave up 14 goals on 128 shots in four games before Bylsma dead-bolted the door to the doghouse from the outside.
Or at least, he should; there's only so many times an entire team can roll its eyes and think, "Oh no, not again," like a pot of petunias, before it's the only reasonable course of action.
I don't know how much longer we need to suffer through the narrative that Fleury is any good at all before it crumbles to sand and is scattered by the wind. That is, if it hasn't done so already behind save attempts like this and this and most notably this .
I mean, look, the fact of the matter is that apart from one good playoff run five years ago in which he fell a game short of winning the Stanley Cup for that not-quite-ready Penguins team, he has always been sub-average, and now things are getting markedly worse .
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| Posted: 05/13/2013 |
| Eulogy: Remembering the 2012-13 Montreal Canadiens (Puck Daddy) |
| (Ed. Note: As the Stanley Cup Playoffs continue, we're bound to lose some friends along the journey. We've asked for these losers, gone but not forgotten, to be eulogized by the people who knew the teams best: The bloggers who hated them the most . Here is Graeme Nichols of The 6th Sens, fondly recalling the Montreal Canadiens. Again, this was not written by us. Also: This is a roast and you will be offended by it , so don't take it so seriously.)
By Graeme Nichols, The 6th Sens
Je Me Souviens les 2013 Habitants.. .
Prologue:
Admittedly, it’s a daunting task to torch the Montreal Canadiens; especially when the city is so adept and experienced at doing it themselves. But being approached by Wysh and Puck Daddy gang to follow in the footsteps of predecessors like Down Goes Brown and the guys from Days of Y’Orr and eulogize one of the most storied franchises in the NHL is a privilege.
But with this honour comes great responsibility. The last thing I would ever want to do is write something that provokes Ali G. wannabe, Michel Therrien, to keep talking about respect.
Ah well, here it goes… |
| Posted: 05/11/2013 |
| NHL Mock Draft 1.0 (Rotoworld) |
| Rotoworld enlists the help of McKeen's Hockey and takes its first look at the first round of the 2013 Entry Draft. |
| Posted: 05/10/2013 |
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| GAME STATS |
|
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
| HOME |
27 |
15 |
9 |
3 |
| AWAY |
26 |
15 |
8 |
3 |
| TOTAL |
53 |
30 |
17 |
6 |
| MAY STATS |
|
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
| HOME |
3 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
| AWAY |
2 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
| TOTAL |
5 |
1 |
3 |
1 |
| NORTHEAST DIVISION |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
PTS |
GF |
GA |
| MTL |
48 |
29 |
14 |
5 |
63 |
149 |
126 |
| BOS |
48 |
28 |
14 |
6 |
62 |
131 |
109 |
| TOR |
48 |
26 |
17 |
5 |
57 |
145 |
133 |
| OTT |
48 |
25 |
17 |
6 |
56 |
116 |
104 |
| BUF |
48 |
21 |
21 |
6 |
48 |
125 |
143 |
| EASTERN CONFERENCE |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
DF |
PTS |
| 1. PIT* |
48 |
36 |
12 |
0 |
46 |
72 |
| 2. MTL* |
48 |
29 |
14 |
5 |
23 |
63 |
| 3. WSH* |
48 |
27 |
18 |
3 |
19 |
57 |
| 4. BOS |
48 |
28 |
14 |
6 |
22 |
62 |
| 5. TOR |
48 |
26 |
17 |
5 |
12 |
57 |
| 6. NYR |
48 |
26 |
18 |
4 |
18 |
56 |
| 7. OTT |
48 |
25 |
17 |
6 |
12 |
56 |
| 8. NYI |
48 |
24 |
17 |
7 |
0 |
55 |
| 9. WPG |
48 |
24 |
21 |
3 |
-16 |
51 |
| 10. PHI |
48 |
23 |
22 |
3 |
-8 |
49 |
| 11. BUF |
48 |
21 |
21 |
6 |
-18 |
48 |
| 12. NJD |
48 |
19 |
19 |
10 |
-17 |
48 |
| 13. CAR |
48 |
19 |
25 |
4 |
-32 |
42 |
| 14. TBL |
48 |
18 |
26 |
4 |
-2 |
40 |
| 15. FLA |
48 |
15 |
27 |
6 |
-59 |
36 |
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