by Ryan Dixon - November 4, 2009 2:37 PM EST
When he left press row for a management box, John Davidson was inheriting a last-place team. Now that he's been on the job for three years, the results of a patient re-build are beginning to present themselves.
Even when you’re doing something you love, not every day is a good day.
John Davidson can tell you that. And he would have told you it even before he left a cushy spot in the broadcast booth to become the St.
by Ryan Dixon - October 28, 2009 12:00 PM EDT
After exiting from the hockey stage, the bruising defender took on a role as an analyst for his former team and recently participated in a figure skating contest.
Toronto isn’t often a place where three-time Cup winners have their vocation mistaken.
So you can imagine Ken Daneyko’s surprise when a two-month foray into a different kind of skating career began to trump two decades in the NHL in terms of how people were placing him.
by Ryan Dixon - October 21, 2009 2:35 PM EDT
From Broadway to sunny California, the impact of blueliners is being felt on several fronts this season.
An upcoming issue of The Hockey News will focus solely on defensemen and there’s plenty of fodder – so much so that we can get a jump on things with a column centered around the impact D-men everywhere are having right now, good and bad.
by Ryan Dixon - October 14, 2009 2:10 PM EDT
Whether the Avs can continue their hot start or not, 18-year-old rookie Matt Duchene won't let NHL pressure affect him.
Matt Duchene can feel it.
Not the pressure. Not the heat. The excitement.
Six games into a goalless rookie season, it’s Duchene’s grin, not an increasingly tight grip, that defines him.
by Ryan Dixon - October 7, 2009 1:50 PM EDT
With a perfect mix of skill and grit, the 25-year-old is the one Vancouver should look to to pull them out of their early slump.
It’s a little too soon and tacky to say the Vancouver Canucks need a hero.
But the left-coasters could undoubtedly use a lift.
Most believe that charge must originate from the crease, where Roberto Luongo has been more Bobby Lose – even Bobby Booed – than the sweet Bobby Lou Canucks fans have come to adore.
by Ryan Dixon - September 30, 2009 9:46 AM EDT
What lessons can the ups and downs of the 2008-09 campaign teach us about the 82 games to come?
Hockey summers, even ones made compelling by off-season moves, malcontents, boardroom power plays and backroom meetings, are still all about the words.
by Ryan Dixon - September 23, 2009 1:20 PM EDT
Tuukka Rask and Ondrej Pavalec prove to be two rookies worth watching; how the Bruins will replace Kessel; and Montreal's astronomical numbers.
One week of pre-season hockey and already a lot to talk about, starting with…
• Tuukka Rask is making a major push to crack the Boston Bruins lineup.
by Ryan Dixon - September 16, 2009 1:31 PM EDT
With Paul Kariya coming back from injury, the burgeoning Blues will look to become a Western Conference force.
Every time Paul Kariya pulled on the Blue Note, he was, essentially, competing for a bad team.
He signed with the Blues on July 1, 2007 and played every game on the team’s schedule through Nov.
by Ryan Dixon - September 9, 2009 11:38 AM EDT
If you were a GM and could have only one of the two super goal-scorers, which one would you want on your roster?
Two snipers, one question: Dany Heatley or Phil Kessel?
Who would you take?
With NHL training camps inching closer by the day, there are, by my math, roughly 90-plus goals worth of uncertainty still floating around out there in the unhappy Senator and unsigned RFA Bruin.
by Ryan Dixon - September 2, 2009 2:47 PM EDT
The signing of Alex Tanguay has given some spark to Tampa Bay, but aside from a tantalizing forward unit, do they have enough to carry them into the playoffs?
It doesn’t take much to spark debate within the walls of THN’s office.
Whether we’re barking about who the real face of the NHL is or merely which sub joint within a five-minute walk of the building provides the best bun for buck.
by Ryan Dixon - August 26, 2009 2:15 PM EDT
This is the time of year to be optimistic about your team, but while many dream of winning, there is still so much that could go wrong.
As per our most recent issue, fans are under direct orders to get excited about the NHL season that is now nearly just a month away.
Not that you needed any prodding, but THN provided one reason per franchise to embrace the notion that this could, possibly, just maybe, you never know, be the year everything falls in line for your team.
by Ryan Dixon - August 19, 2009 12:15 PM EDT
With the Olympics on the horizon, it's time to start asking the burning questions that surround each country.
Summer is all about camp.
For kids, a trip to camp means new friends, new experiences and days filled with games like capture the flag.
For parents, it’s a case of capture the quietness.
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“I was coming in to take the boards away and had some good jump. He bobbled the puck at the last second and I don’t think he saw me coming at all. It was a shoulder right in his chest. He’s eight feet tall, so it’s not like you could hit him in the head.”
- Ottawa's Chris Neil about a hit he threw on Tampa's Victor Hedman Thursday night, causing Hedman to leave the game.
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