CrashingTheGoalie

by Drew Baird
Wednesday December 30th, a day most Canadian hockey fans have been looking forward to for a few years. Thirteen forwards, seven defenseman and three goalies will be lucky enough to wear red and represent our nation at the 2010 Olympic games and we all find out who they are today. I took the [...]

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by Drew Baird
Just fourty-six days remain until the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games hosted this year in beautiful Vancouver. Just fourty-six days until we play host to the arguably the best hockey Vancouver has played host too. My name is Drew Baird, I’m 22 years old and that is about how long I’ve  lived [...]

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Defenseman Adrian Aucoin, signed as a free agent in the off-season, is not surprised that the Coyotes have emerged as one of the surprise teams in the NHL with the first half of the season winding down.

He said he knew the caliber of players on the roster, and “I knew the potential was there.”
“You see it [...]

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by Kris Gray
What in the world is veteran NHL goalie Dan Cloutier doing in Rockford, IL you ask?

The 33 yr old family man took a few minutes to answer few questions after practice on Tuesday. Cloutier recently signed a professional tryout with the AHL Rockford IceHogs. Cloutier has not played professionally in the past 18 [...]

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In 1983-84, the Oilers totaled 57 wins and 119 points—establishing an NHL record 446 goals
Mark Messier, was switched to center late in the season and won the Conn Smythe Trophy,  as playoff MVP.
EDMONTON OILERS – 1984

EDMONTON OILERS – 1985
Edmonton overpowered the Philadelphia Flyers and goaltender Pelle Lindberg  to win their second Stanley Cup in 1985. Gretzky, [...]

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There have been a number of Canucks Killers – players who have played well against the nucks and padded their stats at Vancouver’s expense. Some padded their plus/minus stats.
courtesy of robdumoart.com
The player that I remember the most – besides Gretz – was Teppo Numminen who played against Vancouver first as a Jet and later as [...]

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After an absence of nearly three years, Dave Scatchard hasn’t just returned to the NHL. In many ways, the Nashville Predators’ center has been to hell and back.
On Jan. 27, 2007, Scatchard was playing his 651st game in the bigs, with his fourth NHL squad, the Phoenix Coyotes, when his life took a sudden, fateful turn.
The [...]

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Andrew Raycroft was a Bruins goalie who was traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs. He was later bought out by the Leafs and signed as a free agent with the Rockies, and later the Canucks.

Who did the Leafs give up to acquire Raycroft?
On June 24th, 2006 they traded Tuukka Rask to Boston.
Rask, 22, was originally [...]

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by Ron Spence
They didn’t measure plus/minuses in Stan Mikita’s day. But, since that time a few Slovacks have had decent plus/minuses.

Peter Bondra retired with a +74, having played on some pretty bad Caps teams. And Peter Stastney was a -12, having been a Nordique doormat for many seasons.
The best plus/minus Slovakian?
Pavol Demitra with a +121. [...]

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