CrashingTheGoalie

There are some stories that you read and want to share with people that you know.
The following article was written by Jonathan Bombulie, who covers the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins – AHL farm team for the Stanley Cup champions.
He narrates the experiences of a group of minor league players and the Stanley Cup:

The group picture of [...]

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by Ron Spence
 
I have this irritating habit of gestalting players.
I see them as part of a whole, rather than a linear progression.
I hear a name and think of: where they played their amateur hockey – if I know the player; who was their coach and on their team; who drafted them and who else was [...]

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by Ron Spence
I have always enjoyed a hockey fight – or two.
When I was covering the NHL, I interviewed all of the fighters and had a blogsite: HOCKEYENFORCERS.COM
And I have always been aware of the arguments for fighting – in hockey – and the downside of the exchanges.
Don Sanderson died a half a year [...]

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by Ron Spence
I enjoyed the Stanley Cup finals very much – even though I had to listen to all of the games on the radio via my computer.
The games were great, as were the numerous subplots – old vs. new, Hossa, Crosby, etc.
But, what happened afterwards has prompted me to comment.
I like Ken Holland a [...]

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by Ron Spence
I’ve never been a Matt Cooke fan.
I have been critical of him, and don’t respect much of his game.
But, I have to give credit where credit is due.
Cooke was being interviewed – after game 7 – and said that it was a moment that his family would never forget, and that he wanted to [...]

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by Ron Spence

Thirty NHL GMs are putting together a blueprint for their championship team. They just have a few pieces – here and there – to acquire – and a hundred or so games to play – and they’ll be hoisting Lord Stanley.

I wanted to look at how the current championship team was assembled.
It’s a [...]

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On June 4, 2008, the Penguins lost to the Detroit Red Wings in Pittsburgh. When the Conn Smythe trophy was awarded to Henrik Zetterberg, Penguin fans did not boo. When the Stanley Cup was presented to team captain Nicklas Lidstrom, again, Penguins fans did not boo. The Red Wings fans response to the Penguins winning [...]

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by Ron Spence
I’m not trying to join the Leaf bashing bandwagon, but a good joke is a good joke….

courtesy of Bob Husband

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by Ron Spence
Dave Nonis – and most of the NHL’s other GM’s – had wet dreams about a late-blooming Swede named Fabian Brunnstrom.

“This is a player,” said TSN’s Bob McKenzie, “who, right now, is demanding ‘Top 5′ entry draft-level money. If you draft a guy in the Top 5, you have to pay out all those [...]

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“Evan Oberg, who closed out his Canadian junior league playing days…by being bestowed with the Top Defenseman Award at the prestigious Royal Bank Cup, has signed a national letter of intent to attend and play hockey for the University of Minnesota Duluth in 2007-08.”

That was the Western Collegiate Hockey Association’s press release published on July [...]

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