From Abdelkader to Zuccarello – 22 November 2011
Did you work late last night? Did your significant other make you run errands while the game was on? Did your dog chew off your TV cable wires? Have no…
Ilya Bryzgalov
Flyers And Their Hot Streak Head Into Cold Winnipeg For First Time in 15 Years
The Flyers are headed to Winnipeg for the first time in fifteen years with some pretty good momentum they’ve acquired as of late. The Flyers are winners of four of…
Hungry Howie: Jimmy Howard’s Appetite for Excellence
Boasting an 8-4-1 record and a tied-for-league-best 3 shutouts, Jimmy Howard is attracting attention from around the league much like he did during his rookie campaign 2 seasons ago, and…
Rinne Gets His Money, But Did the Predators Doom Themselves?
Jim Neveau, Senior NHL Columnist With the third lowest salary cap commitment in the league, the Nashville Predators are a team that has certainly made a habit of living successfully…
Ilya Bryzgalov’s Confidence Issue
For the Philadelphia Flyers, it had been the same problem every season since the end of the Ron Hextall era over a decade ago – goaltending. The Flyers had a rotating door between the pipes…
Making the Grade: NHL First Midterm Report Card
Jim Neveau, NHL Senior Columnist As we prepare to close the book on the first month of the NHL season, there have been some real surprises this year, and just…
Flyers Win Wild Discipline Lacking Game Over Canucks in Home Opener, 5-4
The Flyers came into tonight’s home opener vs. the Western Conference Champion Vancouver Canucks with 2 straight wins on the road to open the season and a lot of things…
Six New Faces Prove Their Worth In First Weekend Of NHL Action
After one of the wildest offseasons in recent memory, all there was left was to see how well the GMs made out. If the first few days of the season…
Winners and Losers of Week 1 of the NHL Season
Every Sunday I will take a look back at the week that was in the NHL, and pick out some specific winners and losers. Of course if you think I…
10 Thoughts from NHL’s 2011 Opening Night
Jim Neveau, NHL Senior Columnist While it may not have the pageantry of the NFL’s opening Thursday night game, or the tradition of Opening Day in MLB, the start of…
2011-12 NHL Season Preview: THW Conference Picks
Jim Neveau, NHL Correspondent Well kids, the NHL season will finally be upon us tomorrow night. The Boston Bruins will battle the Philadelphia Flyers in their first game as defending…
Nash, Datsyuk, Gaborik to have Career Years in 2011-2012?
With the start of the NHL regular season approaching rapidly, much speculation has been doled out regarding what’s to come in the year ahead. While predicting the future is impossible,…