Tape2Tape: The NHL’s Band of Misfits Andrew Forbes | October 19, 2017 At the start of the season, the first general manager in Vegas Golden Knights’ history – George McPhee – said that his team was going to be competitive in their…
Tape2Tape: Remembering Nassau Coliseum Andrew Forbes | September 19, 2017 Originally published in April 2015. Twelve minutes into the second period, Anders Lee poked the puck past Toronto Maple Leafs goaltender Jonathan Bernier to give his New York Islanders a…
Tape2Tape: Breaking Hockey’s Code Andrew Forbes | September 19, 2017 Originally published May 2015. Some of us might remember the hard-fought postseason series between the Montreal Canadiens and Tampa Bay Lightning back in 2014-15. It was filled with penalty minutes…
Tape2Tape: George McPhee Talks Expansion, Combine Andrew Forbes | June 6, 2017 The NHL’s Combine week is all about getting to know the future of the league. Some of the top prospects expected to go in the upcoming draft meet with teams…
Tape2Tape: NHL Missed With Getzlaf’s 10K Giveaway Andrew Forbes | May 25, 2017 For the first time ever, the Nashville Predators are off to the Stanley Cup Finals – a feat that you’ll surely read about in a number of other articles across…
Mike Wilson – Hockey Collector Extraordinaire Andrew Forbes | May 24, 2017 At 28, my historical knowledge surrounding the game of hockey is still budding. Even having covered the game in different capacities for the past several years, there are instances from…
Tape2Tape: Ovechkin, Lundqvist and Moving On Andrew Forbes | May 16, 2017 At the beginning of the 2016-17 playoffs, two of the game’s best entered the postseason in search of their first ever Stanley Cups. Yes, I know there are many others…
Tape2Tape: Erik Karlsson Deserving of the Legend Tag? Andrew Forbes | May 12, 2017 If you had the Ottawa Senators making the Eastern Conference Finals, congratulations are in order. Now, if you had them making it that far with a Clarke MacArthur who hadn’t…
Tape2Tape Roundtable: The Devils, Kovalchuk and 1st Overall Andrew Forbes | May 4, 2017 Just this week, the New Jersey Devils and their organization had the chance to celebrate something much larger than just a win this season. With just over an eight percent…
Tape2Tape: Nyquist Incident a Test For DoPS Andrew Forbes | February 12, 2017 All it took was Minnesota’s Jared Spurgeon shoving Gustav Nyquist into the boards and the Detroit forward retaliating for the internet to blow up. In particular, Twitter exploded when Nyquist…
Tape2Tape: McDonald, Blake Notable Omissions in NHL 100 Andrew Forbes | January 28, 2017 By now, you’ve likely read two or three – maybe even four – lists of players who were deemed as notable omissions on the NHL’s list of top 100 players…
Tape2Tape: Time to Send Andrew Shaw a Message? Andrew Forbes | January 16, 2017 Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire. Or at least that’s how the saying goes. Andrew Shaw’s first season with the Montreal Canadiens has been smokey at best. From a preseason…