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Monday, May 6th, 2013
There will be great excitement at the Air Canada Centre this evening as the Toronto Maple Leafs are heading home for game three of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal Series against the Boston Bruins.
On the weekend the Maple Leafs shocked the hockey world with a convincing 4-2 win over Boston. Former Edmonton Oiler Joffrey Lupul of Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta notched two goals in Toronto’s victory.
However even though the Maple Leafs are the underdogs. I don’t hear many Canadians cheering for them unless they have strong familial connections to southern Ontario, or they took a gamble by loading up with Maple Leafs in their hockey pool.
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Tags: anaheim ducks, boston bruins, Braden Holtby, detroit red wings, joffrey lupul, jonathan quick, los angeles kings, new york rangers, st. louis blues, toronto maple leafs, washington capitals
Posted in NHL |
Thursday, January 24th, 2013
Jarome Iginla (Wikimedia Commons)
One of the more interesting questions Calgary Flames fans are asking to start the 2013 National Hockey League regular season is what the team should do with their captain, Jarome Iginla.
Iginla, is in the final year of his contract where he is making $7 million. Now with the Calgary Flames at two losses and an overtime loss to start the season in an abbreviated form due to the lockout, one needs to ask Flames General Manager Jay Feaster how patient he will be before he either trades his star player or signs him for a few more years at a discount price.
Last season, Iginla led the Flames with 32 goals, 67 points, 251 shots on goal and five game winning goals. So far this season, he leads the team with two assists and 16 shots on goal according to Yahoo! Sports. But one needs to question if he is worth $7 million at the age of 35? Is it a guarantee he will end his career in Calgary or want to play somewhere else to get his name on the Stanley Cup? Also, is he worth $7 million, when other players who also recorded 67 points last year make significantly less. P.A. Parenteau, had 67 points with the New York Islanders last year and signed with the Colorado Avalanche at $4 million a season for the next four years, according to www.nhlnumbers.com and Joffrey Lupul of the Toronto Maple Leafs had 67 points last year and makes $4.25 million in a much bigger hockey market.
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Tags: calgary flames, jarome iginla, jay feaster, joffrey lupul, p.a. parenteau
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2012
Brier Tankard (Wikimedia Commons)
The 2012 Tim Horton’s Brier commences today from Saskatoon. Alberta will be represented this year by Kevin Koe who curled out of the Saville Sports Centre in Edmonton in recent years before making the switch to the Glencoe Curling Club in Calgary for this season.
Koe’s opening game will be seen live tonight at 5:30pm on TSN against British Columbia’s Jim Cotter.
In my opinion there are four teams that will contend for the championship. Koe, the 2010 World Champion, will be joined by Glenn Howard of Ontario, the 2007 World Champion, Brad Gushue of Newfoundland, the 2006 Olympic Winter Games Champion, and Brad Jacobs of Northern Ontario, who finished in third place at the 2010 Tim Horton’s Brier.
The field will not have Winnipeg’s Jeff Stoughton, who won the 2011 World Curling Championship, and defeated Howard 8-6 in last year’s final. Stoughton failed to make the Manitoba Provincial Semi-Final in Dauphin, Manitoba this year.
The first televised game is Manitoba versus Quebec today at 12:30pm with draw times of 7:30am, 12:30pm and 5:30pm tomorrow.
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Tags: 2012 tim horton's brier, boston bruins, brad gushue, brad jacobs, brad richards, buffalo sabres, c;aude giroux, calgary flames, Chicago Blackhawks, dallas stars, detroit red wings, glenn howard, henrik lundqvist, joffrey lupul, kevin koe, marian gaborik, montreal canadiens, new york rangers, phil kessel, Philadelphia Flyers, randy carlyle, ryan callahan, ryan miller, toronto maple leafs, Vancouver Canucks, washington capitals
Posted in Curling, NHL |
Friday, November 4th, 2011
This is an exciting time for Canadian hockey. Right now there is a Canadian team first in the West, the Edmonton Oilers, and a Canadian team first in the East, the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Maple Leafs at 9-3-1, have looked dominant in their last two road games– a 5-3 win over New Jersey and a 4-1 win over Columbus.
Last night in Ohio, the Maple Leafs got a stellar effort from Spruce Grove native Ben Scrivens, who was making his NHL debut. Scrivens, who suited up for the Maple Leafs to give Jonas Gustavsson a night off, made 38 saves on 39 shots.
Scrivens, who signed with the Maple Leafs on April 28, won the Ken Dryden Award as the top goaltender in the East Coast Athletic Conference while with Cornell University in 2010. He is getting time with the big club because of a head injury to James Reimer.
Offensively, the Maple Leafs have received great production from Phil Kessel, who leads the NHL with 10 goals, 21 points and a +10 to begin the season. The restricted free agent signing of Kessel by Maple Leafs’ General Manager Brian Burke doesn’t look so bad now, even though Tyler Seguin does lead the Boston Bruins in scoring. Another offensive spark plug for the Maple Leafs has been the play of former Edmonton Oiler Joffrey Lupul, who scored a hat trick on Martin Brodeur Wednesday night. Lupul now has 8 goals and 8 assists, and leads the NHL in +/- with Kessel at +10.
This may be a magical hockey season. Do you think we could just see a Toronto-Edmonton Stanley Cup Final? After the first month of the season, there is reason to believe of the possibility.
Tags: ben scrivens, brian burke, Edmonton Oilers, joffrey lupul, jonas gustavsson, ken dryden, phil kessel, toronto maple leafs
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Monday, February 28th, 2011
Ahhhh, the NHL Trade Deadline.
Once a year you grace us with your presence, teasing us with the prospect of blockbuster deals and momentum shifting swaps all in the name of gearing up for the playoffs/next season (depending on how things have gone up to this point, of course).
It’s been kind of a funny lead up to the “big day” this time around with a number of fairly significant moves since early February, but you just never know what will happen! The aim of this feature will be to try and stay updated on the latest trades up to (and beyond) that 1pm deadline and provide a bit of my own insight into each move!
Let’s get right to it (despite several alarms set, I couldn’t actually get up before 10am this year)! (more…)
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Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
In & Out
Just when it looked like Peter Forsberg was ready to make an impact with the struggling Colorado Avalanche, a familiar problem crept up on him.
After skating with the team for a while, Forsberg felt comfortable enough on the ice to sign a one-year deal with the Avs last week. He jumped through the necessary hoops to get back on the ice after a couple of years – and a couple of failed comebacks – away from the NHL and finally made his re-debut against Columbus on Friday.
He played 17:38 and was a minus-two in a 3-1 loss to the Jackets, but looked pretty good by all accounts. A night later, he was a minus-two again in a 5-3 loss to the Predators, racking up another 17:32 of ice time. As good as he might have looked though, ESPN reports he started to feel the foot that has given him so much grief slipping and sliding inside his skate – a problem that has followed him around from team to team and league to league since 2003. (more…)
Tags: alex ovechkin, anaheim ducks, boston bruins, brian burke, colin campbell, colorado avlanche, columbus blue jackets, Edmonton, eric godard, fabian brunnstrom, fedor tyutin, fort saskatchewan, francois beauchemin, garth snow, gary bettman, hockey, joffrey lupul, kris versteeg, lethbridge, marc savard, mario lemieux, matt cooke, matt martin, max talbot, nashville predators, NHL, NY islanders, peter forsberg, Pittsburgh Penguins, toronto maple leafs, trevor gillies, washington capitals, yeg, zenon konopka
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Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
Holy Roli!
Remember the time the Tampa Bay Lightning are tied for top spot in the Eastern Conference?
That time would be now, thanks to a 1-0 overtime win over the Washington Capitals on Tuesday night, a 34-save shutout for newly acquired goalie Dwayne Roloson. The Lightning picked up Roli the Goalie on the weekend for practically nothing from the New York Islanders, sending him from the bottom of the standings to near the top.
I’ve always liked the way the unassuming Roloson carries himself – when he was with the Oilers, the thing that always stuck out for me was his insistence that he still had years of hockey ahead of him despite his age, since he had shared starting duties for a big chunk of his career. Some people didn’t believe him, but here he is at 41 looking like a young buck. (After the jump: All-Star voting, Ovechkin’s new commercial, Kovalchuk’s brutal night and a WJHC final preview!) (more…)
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There will be great excitement at the Air Canada Centre this evening as the Toronto Maple Leafs are heading home for game three of the Eastern Conference Quarterfinal Series against the Boston Bruins.
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