Stanley Cups Are for Closers
It’s amazing how quickly the tables can turn within a week of hockey. We hockey writers like to dig our hands into stories that play out on and off the ice. That’s…
2017 NHL Playoffs
Penguins May Be out of Gas
They’ve played over 200 hockey games in the past two seasons, they’re missing one of the world’s best defenseman and they got embarrassed in Game’s 3 & 4 of the Stanley…
Penguins’ Power Play Good for Predators
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ power play so far this Final has been disappointing, to say the least. They have been held to just three shots, none of them goals, on their…
Off the Crossbar: Halitosis May Have Made This a Series Again
As the Nashville Predators and Pittsburgh Penguins scratch and claw for supremacy, they’re bound to develop bad blood for one another. But bad breath? Things got personal following the Preds…
Kit of the Day – Nashville Predators Always Entertaining
Perhaps the greatest sin a sports team can commit is to be boring. Witness this year’s Ottawa Senators, a team stocked with a balanced attack, the world’s best defenseman and…
Penguins Need More From Stars
It may seem like the sky is falling in the Steel City since the Pittsburgh Penguins dropped Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final in ugly fashion, 5-1, against the…
Penguins Have Pekka Rinne’s Number
There are certain teams that some players love facing, and then there are other squads that players would really rather never see again. Sometimes these preferences are created because of…
Predators Shouldn’t Panic
“The series doesn’t start until the home team loses a game.” NBA analysts will spew this age-old adage any time an away team falls down 0-2 in a playoff series.…
Predators Need to Be Perfect
Smashville has to feel duped. For the first two games of the franchise’s first Stanley Cup Final appearance, the Nashville Predators have looked nothing like the team they were a…
Hurricanes Fans Happy for Hainsey
Ron Hainsey is a former Carolina Hurricanes defenseman. For three and a half years he was the anchor on the ‘Canes blue line, often paired with All-Star, Justin Faulk. In…
Hagelin Should Play in Game 2
The Pittsburgh Penguins played their worst game of the 2017 playoffs in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup. Although the Penguins won, they should feel as though they lost and then…
Penguins Should Treat Game 1 as a Loss
In the words of defenseman Justin Schultz, Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final was “weird”. The Pittsburgh Penguins ended the game with abysmal statistics, including a barrel bottom-scraping 12…