The 29th September 2020, a day that will stand out for Tampa Bay Lightning fans. After five long months in the Hockey ‘bubble’, set up by the NHL, they were crowned Stanley Cup champions. An emphatic 4–2 series victory over the Dallas Stars, meant the Bolts had claimed Hockey’s ultimate prize. ‘Chokers’ This seemed a …
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The date for NHL 2020 entry draft has been confirmed, so I thought I’d do a mock draft to try and predict who will be drafted where. I have started with the top 10, as the article would be even longer if I strayed into the 20s or to the end of the first round. …
Beaten in four games in the ‘play-in’ round of the Stanley Cup play-offs, an embarrassing reality for Pittsburgh Penguins fans, who would have been expecting a deep play-off run. The fact that this defeat was at the hands of the worst team to qualify for the play-in, the Montreal Canadiens, added extra salt to the …
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Today’s NHL has a multitude of talented players from all over Europe and North America. Players from former Eastern Bloc countries make up a huge portion of the stars of the League. However, this wasn’t always the case, as the USSR heavily guarded their hockey programmes. They certainly didn’t allow players to choose where they …
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Even though the NHL playoffs are quite a distance off, and the regular season isn’t even halfway through, I thought I’d try and make my picks for the Stanley Cup Final. It’s around this time of year that the future winners of the cup or the surprise packages start to emerge, and the hottest teams …
On 25th June this year Pittsburgh Penguins General Manager Jim Rutherford was entered into the hockey hall of fame. He was chosen due to his status as a ‘builder’ of the reputation of hockey with his Stanley cup in Carolina and the impressive back to back cups in Pittsburgh. Despite all this success however, Rutherford …
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