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| 4/27 |
PHX 5 at ANA 3 |
Won |
F |
| 4/26 |
COL 5 at PHX 4 |
Lost |
SO |
| 4/24 |
SJS 1 at PHX 2 |
Won |
F |
| 4/22 |
PHX 0 at DET 4 |
Lost |
F |
| 4/20 |
PHX 3 at CHI 2 |
Won |
SO |
| 4/18 |
PHX 1 at STL 2 |
Lost |
SO |
| 4/15 |
SJS 4 at PHX 0 |
Lost |
F |
| 4/12 |
PHX 2 at CGY 3 |
Lost |
OT |
| 4/10 |
PHX 3 at EDM 1 |
Won |
F |
| 4/8 |
PHX 0 at VAN 2 |
Lost |
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| Torres suspension angers Sharks (The SportsXchange) |
| San Jose forward Raffi Torres decided not to appeal his suspension for the remaining games in the Western Conference semifinal series against the Los Angeles Kings, but the that doesn't mean the Sharks are happy about the length of his banishment. |
| Posted: 05/17/2013 |
| The Dave Tippett coaching watch for Dallas Stars, Colorado Avalanche (Puck Daddy) |
| There are very few coaches that a team could hire and expect immediate positive results. The late Pat Burns was one of them. Ken Hitchcock is one of them. So is Dave Tippett, which is why his situation is one of the most fascinating of the postseason and/or off-season.
Tippett has made the playoffs in eight of 10 seasons as a head coach in the NHL. His system turned the Phoenix Coyotes into a playoff team in three of four seasons, under inconceivable conditions with the franchise’s ownership mess.
That mess has ridiculously spread into the middle of 2013. Tippett and GM Don Maloney have their contracts up this summer, and the coach struck an ominous tone in his postseason comments:
“The ownership situation has to play out before then. I’d like to stay with this group. But that being said, it just needs some stability.
"There will be a conclusion to it. Whether it’s with the ownership or my situation, there’s going to be a conclusion. There's gonna be some clarity to it one way or the other this year, because if it gets to July 1 and there's no owner, I'm without a contract. I'm gonna coach somewhere next year. I hope it's here. But I'm gonna coach somewhere next year. I hope.”
There are currently two openings in the NHL coaching ranks, both in the Western Conference: The Dallas Stars and the Colorado Avalanche.
Would Tippett leave the Coyotes for one of them?
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| Posted: 05/16/2013 |
| Chicago Blackhawks vs. Detroit Red Wings: Puck Daddy’s NHL 2013 Stanley Cup Playoff Preview (Puck Daddy) |
| The Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings will meet in the Stanley Cup playoffs for the 15th time and this will be the final meeting as conference mates. When the Red Wings move to the Eastern Conference next season once realignment kicks in they'll face the Blackhawks only twice a year going forward, unless the two meet in a Cup Final.
For now, they'll face off for the right to play in the Western Conference Final, a round where their last two playoff series against one another took place - both 4-1 series victories by the Red Wings.
Chicago cruised to the top spot in the West and their second Presidents' Trophy in franchise history, while Detroit stood on the playoff bubble before clinching a place in the postseason on the final day. To get to the second round, the Blackhawks ousted the Minnesota Wild in five games, while the Red Wings went the distance before knocking off the No. 2-seeded Anaheim Ducks.
Are the Red Wings just another step in the Blackhawks' road to a Cup? Can their long-timer division rivals upset the balance of power in the Western Conference? |
| Posted: 05/15/2013 |
| Selke Trophy Finalists: Patrice Bergeron vs. Pavel Datsyuk vs. Jonathan Toews (Puck Daddy) |
| The NHL announced the finalists for the Selke Trophy on Wednesday, as centers Patrice Bergeron of the Boston Bruins, Pavel Datsyuk of the Detroit Red Wings and Jonathan Toews of the Chicago Blackhawks will contend for the award given "to the forward who best excels in the defensive aspects of the game," as voted on by members of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association.
The Selke Trophy is ripe for application of advanced stats, which would then lead to off the radar choice like Boyd Gordon of the Phoenix Coyotes for example. Alas, it still seems like the "Best faceoff guy" and "Most takeaways" award these days.
Also, wingers can't win. Ever. Sorry Marian Hossa.
Who wins the Selke?
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| Posted: 05/15/2013 |
| Dallas Stars fire head coach Glen Gulutzan after two seasons (Puck Daddy) |
| New Dallas Stars general manager Jim Nill is going to start from scratch after taking the reigns from Joe Nieuwendyk last month. After using the past two weeks to begin his preparations for changing the fortunes of the franchise, his first big move is a new voice behind the bench.
On Tuesday, the Stars announced that head coach Glen Gultzan and assistant coach Paul Jerrard have been relieved of their duties.
From the Stars :
"I would like to thank Glen Gulutzan and Paul Jerrard for the work they provided to the Dallas organization over the past four seasons," said Nill. "They are both quality coaches and men, but we have decided to go in a different direction with our coaching staff and we wish them well in their next endeavors."
Curt Fraser, one of Gulutzan's other assistants, and Mike Valley, the team's goaltending coach will be retained.
In two seasons as head coach, Gulutzan posted a 64-57-9 record, with no playoff appearances. The Stars made a last gasp at a playoff run after dealing away Jaromir Jagr, Derek Roy and captain Brenden Morrow, but it was too little, too late.
As for who Nill might turn to to replace Gulutzan, what does Alain Vigneault's future hold? Will the Phoenix Coyotes re-sign Dave Tippett, whose contract expires at the end of June? Are Lindy Ruff or Guy Boucher interested?
Or could it be Fraser? He and Nill know one another from their days with the Detroit Red Wings. Nill will have plenty of options to turn to as he begins forming what he hopes is the return of winning days in Dallas.
Follow Sean Leahy on Twitter at @Sean_Leahy
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| Posted: 05/14/2013 |
| NHL-National Hockey League roundup (Reuters) |
| May 13 (The Sports Xchange) - Former NHL coach Mike Keenan signed a contract to coach in Russia. Keenan, currently an analyst for the MSG Network, announced via Twitter from the Ural Mountains on Monday morning that he will coach Metallurg Magnitogorsk of the KHL. Keenan coached the Philadelphia Flyers, Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, St. Louis Blues, Vancouver Canucks, Boston Bruins, Florida Panthers and Calgary Flames from 1984-2009. He won a Stanley Cup during his one season with the Rangers in 1994. ... |
| Posted: 05/13/2013 |
| Two Game 7s end Round 1; latest Coyotes bid rejected by NHL (Puck Previews) (Puck Daddy) |
| Here are your Puck Previews: Spotlighting the key games in NHL action, news and views as well as general frivolity. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when the games are finished.
Preview : Toronto Maple Leafs at Boston Bruins, 7 p.m. ET. (Series tied 3-3) The Maple Leafs are the 48th team in NHL history to force a Game 7 after falling behind 3-1 in a playoff series. They're also 1-13 in series when they've trailed 3-1, with their last comeback coming in 1942 over the Detroit Red Wings when they were behind 3-0. But you throw out history in Game 7s. Anything can happen. Anyone can step up. So far, it's been James Reimer carrying Toronto to this point, while the Bruins are hoping to finally get contributions from the likes of Tyler Seguin and Brad Marchand to put them in the second round.
Preview : New York Rangers at Washington Capitals, 8 p.m. ET (Series tied 3-3) Another seven-game series between the Capitals and Rangers ends Monday night with the expectation that it will be another tight one. The last five games in this series have been decided by a single goal and the home team has won every game so far. New York has not won any of their five road Game 7s in franchise history, with their last coming in 2009 when Sergei Fedorov scored a late winner for the Capitals.
NOTE : We'll be live chatting during both games tonight, so please join us beginning at 7 p.m. ET. Rumor has it Mayor McBoobs will be there.
Evening Listening
• Here's today's Marek vs. Wyshynski podcast featuring Scott Morrison of Sportsnet. [ MvsW ] |
| Posted: 05/13/2013 |
| Eulogy: Remembering the 2012-13 New York Islanders (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 New York Rangers blogger Scotty Hockey , fondly recalling the New York Islanders. 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 Scotty Hockey
We come here today to mourn the lost on Long Island. Don't worry -- Rick DiPietro was still just joking.
No, we congregate to appreciate the passing of the 2013 New York Islanders.
Oh, it was quite the run -- one that will be remembered for the 15 minutes it takes all of their new fans to put their still-tagged sweaters back in storage.
And perhaps they'll reminisce fondly in the future, a few years down the line, when they sell those blue and orange atrocities at Goodwill stores to Brooklyn hipsters who find them ironic.
"Dude, there was really someone named Okposo!"
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| Posted: 05/13/2013 |
| What We Learned: Pittsburgh Penguins have to get rid of Marc-Andre Fleury (Puck Daddy) |
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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 |
| Red Wings 3, Ducks 2 (The SportsXchange) |
| ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Southern California hockey fans hoping for the first postseason clash between the Anaheim Ducks and the Los Angeles Kings will have to wait. |
| Posted: 05/12/2013 |
| Bruins, Ducks, Kings look to advance; Ilya Kovalchuk roughs up Janne Pesonen (Puck Previews) (Puck Daddy) |
| Here are your Puck Previews: Spotlighting the key games in NHL action, news and views as well as general frivolity. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when the games are finished.
Preview : Toronto Maple Leafs at Boston Bruins, 7 p.m. ET. (Bruins lead series 3-1) Matt Bartkowski is in and Wade Redden is out as the Bruins get their first crack at eliminating the Maple Leafs. History is not on the Leafs' side tonight. Toronto has won just 3 of their last 15 games at TD Garden. Subbing in for the injured Mark Fraser on the Leafs blueline will be John-Michael Liles, who has not played since Game 1.
Preview : New York Rangers at Washington Capitals, 7:30 p.m. ET (Series tied 2-2) One lineup change entering Game 5 tonight: Martin Erat will be scratched with an upper-body injury . Enter rookie Tom Wilson for the Capitals. Rangers defenseman Marc Staal said Friday morning that he will not play tonight, and could possibly be out for the rest of the series as he recovers from an eye injury. Steve Eminger will once again take his place . |
| Posted: 05/10/2013 |
| Corey Crawford’s unsung playoff heroism for Chicago Blackhawks (Puck Daddy) |
| Antti Niemi is a Vezina Trophy candidate for the San Jose Sharks, which is rather remarkable when you consider he’s Antti Niemi.
That’s not a knock on his talent, which is considerable, or his importance to the Sharks, which was enormous. That’s to say that Antti Niemi getting credit for his goaltending prowess is a recent trend, and something we didn’t seen when he backstopped the Chicago Blackhawks to the 2010 Stanley Cup.
There was a perception that the Hawks won despite him. At best, he was an anonymous netminder that was competent but unspectacular for a Blackhawks team whose stars up front and on the blueline overshadow the goalies.
Corey Crawford knows the feeling. |
| Posted: 05/09/2013 |
| Wild-Blackhawks Preview (The Associated Press) |
| CHICAGO (AP) -- It's been three years since the Chicago Blackhawks hoisted the Stanley Cup, and they haven't made it past the opening round in the playoffs since that run. |
| Posted: 05/08/2013 |
| Leafs look for secondary scoring vs. Bruins; Tippett for Avs coach? (Puck Previews) (Puck Daddy) |
| Here are your Puck Previews: Spotlighting the key games in NHL action, news and views as well as general frivolity. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when the games are finished.
Preview: Boston Bruins at Toronto Maple Leafs, 7 p.m. ET (Bruins lead 2-1) The Maple Leafs have been carried in this series by the scoring exploits of their top dogs. James Van Riemsdyk, Phil Kessel and Joffrey Lupul have contributed six of their seven goals through three games. As James Mirtle of the Globe and Mail writes , the secondary scoring has to arrive if they're to get past the Bruins: "Kessel’s rise there has as much to do with a lot of the Leafs depth going silent as his strong play, with van Riemsdyk and Joffrey Lupul the only other forwards managing more than five points in Toronto’s final 12 regular-season games."
Preview: Washington Capitals at New York Rangers, 7:30 p.m. ET. (Caps lead 2-1) According to Ryane Clowe, there's a "good chance" he'll return to the lineup Wednesday night. As important, New York finally broke through on the power play in Game 3 as the Capitals ended up taking six penalties. Special teams have hurt the Rangers so far. Brooks Laich hit the ice for the first time since April 4, but when he'll get back into the lineup is still unknown.
Preview: Los Angeles Kings at St. Louis Blues, 9 p.m. ET (Series tied 2-2) After finding themselves in an 0-2 hole, the Kings took advantage of home ice and won both games at Staples Center to even the series. Entering Game 5, it appears as if Blues head coach Ken Hitchcock will reunite the "CPR" line of Adam Cracknell, Chris Porter and Ryan Reaves.
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| Posted: 05/08/2013 |
| What We Learned: Why ‘letting them play’ is nonsense in the NHL (Puck Daddy) |
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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 going to sit here and disagree that wide-open hockey is preferable to the brand displayed by teams trying to grind out wins.
No one likes board play. No one likes a thousand guys standing in the neutral zone during breakouts. No one — as we learned when the Rangers did it last year — likes the focus to be on blocking shots. No one likes obstruction.
For this reason, we are told so very often that the most important things officials can do in the playoffs is "let the boys play."
It's a fun concept. When the whistles are away, teams are allowed to play at 5-on-5 hockey which is obviously the best way to determine which is better. Ideally, all 60 minutes of every playoff game would be played at even strength. But the problem with this insistence on letting guys play is that when you do so, they tend to start committing penalties, and that, in turn, necessitates that, at some point, some of the infractions actually have to be called.
So while it's all well and good to say that for the sanctity of any individual game to be upheld, the referees should certainly not start blowing the whistle and sending guys to the box, the fact of the matter is that it's their jobs to do so. Guys break the rules, guys go to the box.
This, for some reason, doesn't make sense to people at all times.
Take, for example, Brian Strait's penalty on Sidney Crosby in overtime yesterday afternoon, a call which resulted in the Penguins' power play overtime game-winner. That it was called in overtime was somehow this egregious thing, according to Mike Milbury and Jeremy Roenick and a thousand thousand Internet commenters, a decision made by a referee overstepping his bounds.
Had this call — which was the right one because Strait got beat on the inside, took his hand off his stick and pulled Crosby down from behind, easy-ish fall or not — been made in the first period, the number of eyebrows it raised around the hockey universe would have been precisely zero. This is the kind of thing that typically happens when a coach puts a decent enough defenseman like Brian Strait on the ice in a high-leverage situation against a generational talent like Sidney Crosby, after all.
But that it happened in overtime was somehow outrageous.
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| Posted: 05/06/2013 |
Yahoo!Sports
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| GAME STATS |
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GP |
W |
L |
OT |
| HOME |
24 |
14 |
8 |
2 |
| AWAY |
24 |
7 |
10 |
7 |
| TOTAL |
48 |
21 |
18 |
9 |
| MAY STATS |
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GP |
W |
L |
OT |
| HOME |
|
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| AWAY |
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| TOTAL |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| PACIFIC DIVISION |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
PTS |
GF |
GA |
| ANA |
48 |
30 |
12 |
6 |
66 |
140 |
118 |
| LAK |
48 |
27 |
16 |
5 |
59 |
133 |
118 |
| SJS |
48 |
25 |
16 |
7 |
57 |
124 |
116 |
| PHX |
48 |
21 |
18 |
9 |
51 |
125 |
131 |
| DAL |
48 |
22 |
22 |
4 |
48 |
130 |
142 |
| WESTERN CONFERENCE |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
DF |
PTS |
| 1. CHI* |
48 |
36 |
7 |
5 |
53 |
77 |
| 2. ANA* |
48 |
30 |
12 |
6 |
22 |
66 |
| 3. VAN* |
48 |
26 |
15 |
7 |
6 |
59 |
| 4. STL |
48 |
29 |
17 |
2 |
14 |
60 |
| 5. LAK |
48 |
27 |
16 |
5 |
15 |
59 |
| 6. SJS |
48 |
25 |
16 |
7 |
8 |
57 |
| 7. DET |
48 |
24 |
16 |
8 |
9 |
56 |
| 8. MIN |
48 |
26 |
19 |
3 |
-5 |
55 |
| 9. CBJ |
48 |
24 |
17 |
7 |
1 |
55 |
| 10. PHX |
48 |
21 |
18 |
9 |
-6 |
51 |
| 11. DAL |
48 |
22 |
22 |
4 |
-12 |
48 |
| 12. EDM |
48 |
19 |
22 |
7 |
-9 |
45 |
| 13. CGY |
48 |
19 |
25 |
4 |
-32 |
42 |
| 14. NSH |
48 |
16 |
23 |
9 |
-28 |
41 |
| 15. COL |
48 |
16 |
25 |
7 |
-36 |
39 |
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