Footage from the last Maple Leafs win, or so it feels like. Toronto Maple Leafs were due to play their 20th game of the 2012-13 season tonight against the Philadelphia Flyers. But they won’t play for some weird reason, making it all the less likely that you’ll go to the corner store to buy a…
Just a little KHL Update today, but sometimes the best gifts come in small packages!… OK, I think all this early Christmas music is starting to take its toll. Enjoy!
Jeremy Roenick scored 513 goals and 1216 points in 1363 games. In his first 15 seasons he was a point-a-game player scoring 1,124 points in 1,120 games, but then the lockout hit. He’d already played 15 years and it’s likely he was going to slow down, but a full season off, where he admittedly didn’t…
Finishing off the series of 10-game segments is a look at individual shooting percentage during each set. The data was generated through timeonice.com scripts and represesnt even-strength on-ice shooting percentage. That’s the combined shooting rate for every player on the ice at even strength. The numbers represents the team shooting percentage while the player was…
So the football team just won a championship and the Mayor apparently got kicked out of office, so on Monday morning I decided to look at Ben Scrivens. I think regular readers at this space know exactly what’s coming. Scrivens has just a .900 save percentage this season and is 5-6 with a 2.56 goals…
Can you imagine how much everyone would freak out if a team won a game that moved them into 1st place in the league and then they fired the coach? Well, that happened today in the KHL. No, really. Some great action around the KHL today. Check it out!
After the jump, the best of the Nations from this past week, including a bunch of lockout talk, whether the Sedin twins are Hall of Fame-calibre players, which unknown Europeans might deserve an NHL shot, the best and worst jerseys in Oilers history, a healthy dose of comedy and a look at the only player…
Last week Leo Komarov was riding a bus with the AHL’s Toronto Marlies. Now he’s on a line with Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom. Not bad. The NHL keeps cancelling games, and the KHL keeps churning them out. I hope you like the videos we’re putting out, and as always, I’d love your feedback….
It’s Grey Cup week in Toronto. In the midst of an NHL lockout, there’s no sense of whining and complaining that we can’t watch our favourite athletes compete. There was a time where even if the NHL had it’s doors shut, you could watch your favourite player in a different spot—football. Introducing Gerry James, a…
Mikhail Grabovski drilled Colorado Avanlanche (currently Lokomotiv) goalie Semyon Varlamov right in the head in the first period of Lokomotiv’s game against CSKA Moscow on Wednesday. Was it on purpose? I’ll let you decide. In other Wednesday KHL action, Nail Yakupov scores in the shootout, and Ilya Kovalchuk’s duo with Blues prospect Vladimir Tarasenko…
The players union unveiled a new CBA offer this morning. It is fairly comprehensive and, unlike some of their previous offerings, has a sound basis for negotiation (from a league perspective, naturally). The most significant movement is on the issue of player share of hockey reltaed revenue. The players accept an immediate 50/50 with the stipulation…
In a Pension Plan Puppets discussion about Leaf performance on the Subway Super Series, somebody commented about a post I wrote over at Yahoo on Team Canada’s defensive prospects for the World Juniors. They were pointing out that I hadn’t even mentioned Stuart Percy as a possibility for the team. Seeing as Percy is a…
