Happy Tuesday!
This week on 15 Minutes of Fame we get into NHL lockout mode, discuss players heading off to Europe & the big contracts handed down pre-lockout and take a look at a disappointing loss by the Edmonton Eskimos on the weekend.
In the GABBYs: the Baltimore Orioles, Shannon Eastin, JJ Watt, Panama soccer, Napoli and the Denver Broncos. The Punchline this week is the Memphis Grizzlies!
Another week has come and gone in the NHL as we inch closer to the new year, and that means it’s time for another installment of the Goals of the Week!
This time around, we’ve got a pretty tic-tac-toe play, a last-second game winner, some nifty passing from the twins and a couple of Bruins topping the list. Think you know which goals I’m talking about? Let’s see!
5. Brooks Laich
Checking in at number five this week is Washington Capitals forward Brooks Laich, who starts and finishes some nice passing by his club in a win over the NJ Devils.
(AFTER THE JUMP: The rest of the Top Five goals of the week!)
It was quite an end to the NHL season on Wednesday night in Vancouver, riots aside, with the Boston Bruins providing a huge upset at Rogers Arena to capture the 2011 Stanley Cup.
Now, when I say “upset,” it’s not so much that the Bruins beat the Canucks, it’s how they did it. Did anyone honestly predict that Boston, who had scored three times in Vancouver over the first three games there, would come out and put up a four-spot in game seven? I certainly didn’t!
One thing that wasn’t a surprise at all was the awarding of the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP to Bruins goalie Tim Thomas – he earned his second shutout of the final in the deciding game and ends up with a 1.14 goals against average against Vancouver. He was absolutely ridiculous during the playoffs and many people were convinced that he would win MVP honors regardless of the outcome on Wednesday.
Here’s the bad news though: that’s it for the season! We’ve got the NHL awards coming up, the draft a few days later, free agency kicks off a week after that and then we’re into the dog days!
Before we completely close the book on the season that was though, I feel it’s only fitting that we look back at the top 10 goals (as chosen by me) of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs… (more…)
Happy Monday!
Another week has come and gone in the wide world of sports – this week, the boys from “15 Minutes of Fame” are talking about the most memorable moments from the Stanley Cup Final, the latest on the situations in Winnipeg and Glendale, and some other notes from around the NHL. In the GABBYs: MMA debuts, the MLB draft, Tiger Woods, NCAA controversy and more!
It was another day, another serving of controversy in the NHL on Monday night as the Stanley Cup Final between the Vancouver Canucks and the Boston Bruins took another interesting turn.
Game one gave us “The Bite,” in game two it was the guy who probably should have been suspended who scored the overtime winner and game three didn’t disappoint either! The 8-1 Bruins win seemed to have it all – great goaltending (at one end), big hits (including one that should merit a suspension), lots of goals (at the other end) and lots of bad blood.
Let’s start out with the hit that has everyone talking: Vancouver’s Aaron Rome will be speaking with the league on Tuesday after a dirty hit on Boston’s Nathan Horton at the five minute mark of the first period on Monday. Horton took an outlet pass from Zdeno Chara and skated through the neutral zone, dishing the puck to Milan Lucic down the left wing, before being absolutely demolished by Rome in the middle of the ice. (After the Jump: Video of the Rome hit, plus – The Bite Goes On!) (more…)
What a start to the Stanley Cup Final on Wednesday night in Vancouver!
The Canucks opening game win over the visiting Boston Bruins had a little bit of everything – enormous saves at both ends, some big hits, a few nice offensive displays and a lot of nastiness between two clubs that seemed to develop a hate for each other in a hurry. It wasn’t all good though – there was also a bit of controversy that is sure to spill over into today.
The big discussion in hockey circles at the moment revolves around an incident that happened at the end of the first period of game one involving Canucks forward Alex Burrows. He was mixing it up with Boston’s Patrice Bergeron along the boards, with a linesman trying to pry them apart, when Burrows appears to chomp down on the gloved finger of his opponent.
It’s at this point that Bergeron gets heated and even skates over to try and show the referee the bite mark. After the game, Burrows was asked about the incident and said “I think he had his finger in my mouth, but I don’t think I bit him.” (After the jump: VIDEO of the bite, plus ANOTHER dive…why is it happening so much?) (more…)
The 2011 Stanley Cup Final begins tonight at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, signaling the beginning of the end of a long championship drought for one of the two participants.
The Presidents’ Trophy winning Canucks joined the NHL in 1970 and have never won a Cup, despite two other trips to the final. The Boston Bruins have been around much longer and have won five Stanley Cups, but the last one came in 1972 and they’ve come out on the losing end in their last five appearances in the final.
While you’d be silly to think that any of those stats will have any influence on this series, they do highlight the fact that a Stanley Cup will be a long time coming for whichever team ends up victorious.
So, who will it be? (more…)
Kane You Dig It?
It’s been quite an exciting few days for Patrick Kane.
Last Friday, he received a compliment from the President of the United States and on Monday he became the third youngest Chicago Blackhawk to score 100 career goals in a rout of the SJ Sharks at the United Center!
Let’s start with that trip to the White House: As the defending Stanley Cup champions, the Hawks were invited to meet the president on Friday in Washington. Barack Obama, a Chicago native, seemed pretty happy to have some Illinois flavor in DC and cracked some jokes about how it usually takes teams from Chicago a while to win a title (think: Chicago Cubs and their 104-year drought). The best part was yet to come though… (more…)
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