http://www.thehockeynews.com The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. en 2007 Medias Transcontinental Sat, 17 May 2008 00:32:43 -0400 60 http://thehockeynews.com/imgs/design/logo_thn_print.gif http://thehockeynews.com/ http://thehockeynews.com/articles/15928-From-The-Point-Spokes-of-Winged-Wheel-come-from-high-and-low.html 2008-05-09 23:19:47 From The Point The NHL entry draft is in Ottawa this year, on June 20th and 21st. But don’t expect to see any Red Wings representatives on the first day, because they probably won’t even show up. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/15749-From-The-Point-What-will-be-Jagrs-legacy.html 2008-05-02 17:17:52 From The Point Dear Jaromir: Thanks for the memories…or good riddance? That’s pretty much how it breaks down when fans discuss the possibility that the 2008 playoffs may be the final NHL action for Rangers superstar Jaromir Jagr. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/15351-From-The-Point-Briere-Time-and-minutemunchers.html 2008-04-18 10:44:11 From The Point Not that Daniel Briere’s regular season was a bust – it wasn’t; he did rack up 31 goals and 72 points in 79 games. But there was also a woeful minus-22 rating, easily the worst on the team, plus the more pertinent fact that greater leadership and overall impact was expected of the dynamic scoring star in the first season of his massive eight-year, $52-million contract (the richest of all the unrestricted free agent deals handed out last summer). http://thehockeynews.com/articles/14525-From-the-Point-The-woulda-coulda-shouldas-of-the-Oilers-playoff-run.html 2008-03-21 10:58:13 From The Point Could they? Would they? Should they? Sure. Doubtful. Heck yes. Of course, we’re talking about the playoff chances of the hard-charging Edmonton Oilers (winners of 10 of their past 13, don’t you know?). http://thehockeynews.com/articles/14118-From-The-Point-Eye-towards-the-playoffs.html 2008-03-07 18:45:06 From The Point ANAHEIM The top two lines that did all the damage for the Ducks in the playoffs last season will look a little different this time around. Last year’s No. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/13715-From-The-Point-Malkin-makes-up-for-loss-of-Crosby.html 2008-02-22 18:59:10 From The Point Take your time, Sidney. Because in Pittsburgh, there’s always Evgeni. The Crosby-less Penguins – it’s been 15 games and counting – have discovered just how dominant their other superstar can be, as Malkin has carried the team in the absence of its captain. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/13341-From-The-Point-The-good-and-bad-of-goaltending.html 2008-02-08 20:13:48 From The Point The best, busiest and most blueline-challenged goaltenders in the NHL this season: Great Teal Shark Evgeni Nabokov has never really been a year-end contender for the Vezina Trophy as the NHL’s best goalie. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/12996-From-The-Point-Alfredsson-the-older-the-better.html 2008-01-25 18:28:17 From The Point At the rate he’s going, Daniel Alfredsson is going to have a heckuva season in 2020-21. The Ottawa Senators’ captain, heart-and-soul and best player piled up seven points – a hat trick and four assists – against Tampa Bay Thursday night. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/12609-From-The-Point-Is-Ovie-worth-that-much-dough.html 2008-01-11 20:02:48 From The Point Aren’t hockey players supposed to be superstitious? Not Alex Ovechkin, apparently. The Capitals sniper accepted a 13-year deal from Washington, signing the contract under a ladder while breaking a mirror on a black cat. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/11933-From-The-Point-NHL-cant-ignore-steriod-issue.html 2007-12-14 14:28:00 From The Point It was difficult to watch Major League Baseball’s Great Steroid Investigation press conference on Thursday – in which dozens of new players were implicated, including Roger Clemens – without wondering what the impact would be, if any, on the hockey world. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/11510-From-The-Point-Quarterpole-awards.html 2007-11-30 21:05:07 From The Point The first quarter of the NHL regular season has come and gone; let’s check in on the top performers of the first two months of the season: MVP: Henrik Zetterberg, Detroit There are several worthy candidates – Sidney Crosby, Daniel Alfredsson, Roberto Luongo, Vincent Lecavalier – but the Wings winger has been a consistent driving force in Detroit’s lineup. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/11137-From-The-Point-Go-figure.html 2007-11-16 17:29:25 From The Point Numbers don’t lie 1.    Montreal, at 10-4-3, is tied with Colorado for the third-best winning percentage in the league (. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/10678-From-The-Point-Carolina-Crosby-crank-it-up.html 2007-11-02 18:05:36 From The Point Quick! Can you name the highest-scoring team in the NHL? Hint: They didn’t make the playoffs last year, but they won the Stanley Cup the year before that. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9849-From-The-Point-Hoping-to-dance.html 2007-09-28 00:58:00 From The Point The Western Conference is packed with top contenders: Anaheim, San Jose, Detroit and Calgary all garner big respect. And it's a deep conference, too, with Minnesota, Vancouver and even Nashville still lurking in the shadows. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9848-From-The-Point-Fringe-festival.html 2007-09-22 00:36:00 From The Point Who's going to win the Stanley Cup? Really, it's the only question worth asking with a new NHL season around the corner. But then again, you can read about the “who's the best team” debate anywhere (even, say, in the latest issue of The Hockey News, our annual Season Opener special, now available on a newsstand near you!) Instead, let's take a skate down the path less Zamboni-ed and look at the chances of last year's also-rans in 2007-08. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9847-From-The-Point-Summer-of-love.html 2007-08-24 00:16:00 From The Point Is it late August already? Wow…only three more weeks until training camps…begin. So, it must be time to talk hockey, then, right? Right. As always, the past couple of months featured the usual slew of summertime signings and sunny promises of brighter days in 2007-08. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9846-From-The-Point-Best-of-whats-left-on-the-UFA-market.html 2007-07-05 00:38:00 From The Point And just like that, the free agent frenzy is finished. All it took was $52 million for Daniel Briere, $51.5 for Scott Gomez and $30 million for Brian Rafalski. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9845-From-The-Point-An-early-look-at-the-2007-UFAs.html 2007-06-08 00:59:00 From The Point ANAHEIM Only three Ducks of consequence are eligible for unrestricted free agency: goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere, right winger Teemu Selanne and defenseman Sean O'Donnell. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9844-10-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-2007-playoffs.html 2007-06-01 18:09:00 From The Point STANLEY SAYS…10 things you didn't know about the 2007 playoffs: 1. The Anaheim Ducks have the second-best winning percentage in the playoffs in NHL history. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9843-From-The-Point-Thoughts-On-The-Conference-Final.html 2007-05-18 00:26:00 From The Point • With all-star Anaheim defenseman Chris Pronger serving a one-game suspension in Game 4 – for driving Tomas Holmstrom's head into the boards in Game 3 – the pressure was on Scott Niedermayer to play well and play often. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9842-From-The-Point-Tables-turned.html 2007-05-11 00:18:00 From The Point Four years ago, the upstart Anaheim Ducks upset the Detroit Red Wings in the first round of the playoffs and ended up advancing all the way to the Stanley Cup final before falling to New Jersey. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9841-From-The-Point-Learning-curve.html 2007-05-04 00:41:00 From The Point There's an old saying that goes, “If you don't learn from the NHL playoffs, you're doomed to miss the post-season next year.” Or something like that. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9840-From-The-Point-Blueshirts-ready-to-shock-the-world.html 2007-04-20 00:58:00 From The Point Not only did the New York Rangers win their first round series in convincing fashion, sweeping the playoff-neophyte Atlanta Thrashers, but the Blueshirts also won the NHL's first round. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9839-From-The-Point-Playoff-battle-lines-are-drawn.html 2007-04-13 00:51:00 From The Point For the bottom line on the playoffs, all you need is The Headline, The Deadline and The Last Line: Detroit Red Wings (1) vs. Calgary Flames (8) The Headline: “HE SCORES!” Pavel Datsyuk, who had suffered through three goal-less playoffs and hadn't scored in the post-season since 2002, snapped his 26-game springtime drought when he beat Flames goalie Miikka Kiprusoff in the second period of Game 1. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9838-From-The-Point-Stretch-drive-news-and-notes.html 2007-03-13 00:37:00 From The Point ANAHEIM: Teemu Selanne is the first player in NHL history aged 35-and-over to record back-to-back 40-goal seasons. ATLANTA: The Thrashers are 6-1-0 with Keith Tkachuk, who has four goals and an assist since coming over from St. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9837-From-The-Point-Around-the-NHL.html 2007-02-06 00:59:00 From The Point Some of the things we've learned from the NHL in recent weeks include a leading sniper in the West; the league's most lethal team while shorthanded; the least-busiest goalie; and how many bottles of beer the Stanley Cup holds: Buffalo: Chris Drury tied a career-high with his 30th goal of the season on Feb. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9836-From-The-Point-New-Years-resolutions.html 2007-01-04 00:58:00 From The Point With a new year comes new hope and new promise. Yes, even in St. Louis and Philadelphia, where the once perennial playoff participants had stopped thinking about the post-season by mid-November. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9835-From-The-Point-Holiday-gifts.html 2006-12-20 00:59:00 From The Point It's gift-giving time in the NHL, where they already got what they wanted in St. Louis after the Blues capped an 11-game losing streak with a 4-1 win over Pittsburgh. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9834-From-The-Point-Chasing-Patrick.html 2006-11-15 00:47:00 From The Point Congratulations to Patrick Roy on his induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame Monday night. Roy, who'll forever be part of the ‘greatest goalie of all-time' debate, was joined by 1960s star Dick Duff and builders Harley Hotchkiss and the late Herb Brooks. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9833-From-The-Point-Ultimate-captain-unruly-GM.html 2006-10-24 00:45:00 From The Point Bob Clarke always gave as good as he got. And in the end, he got himself good. The ultimate face of the Flyers since the start of his playing days in the early 1970s, Clarke resigned after 17-plus seasons in Philadelphia's GM chair (he also had brief stints as the GM of the Florida Panthers and Minnesota North Stars in the early 1990s). http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9832-From-The-Point-A-tale-of-two-stories.html 2006-10-03 00:03:00 From The Point ANAHEIM DUCKS The BIG story: Chris Pronger joins Scott Niedermayer on the blueline, giving the Ducks one of the best 1-2 ‘D' punches in NHL history. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9831-From-The-Point-Tales-from-training-camp-Part-2.html 2006-09-11 00:00:00 From The Point NHL training camps. The first tangible sign that hockey is right around the corner. With help from THN's 30 NHL team correspondents, here's an anecdote from a past training camp or a storyline heading into this year's camp, for each club. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9830-From-The-Point-Tales-from-training-camp-Part-1.html 2006-09-08 00:11:00 From The Point NHL training camps. The first tangible sign that hockey is right around the corner. With help from THN's 30 NHL team correspondents, here's an anecdote from a past training camp or a storyline heading into this year's camp, for each club. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9829-From-The-Point-Best-of-the-rest.html 2006-07-13 00:02:00 From The Point With all due respect to Tie Domi and Todd Simpson, calling the remaining group of unrestricted free agents the “best” of anything is an overstatement, and then some. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9828-From-The-Point-And-they-said-it-couldnt-be-done.html 2006-05-30 00:28:00 From The Point Actions speak louder than words, they say, and if you don't believe it, take a midnight stroll along Edmonton's now notorious Whyte Ave. after any Oilers playoff game. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9827-From-The-Point-Just-the-usual-playoff-story.html 2006-05-16 00:45:00 From The Point So far, no big surprises, right? We all knew that, uh, perennial contenders Buffalo and Carolina would emerge from the East, right? And Anaheim, Edmonton and San Jose would be the last three teams standing in the West? Right? That rookie backup goalie Cam Ward would win eight games in nine starts? That rookie backup goalie Ilya Bryzgalov, a household name if ever there was one, would shut out opponents for nearly 250 minutes, the second-longest streak in NHL playoff history? That rookie backup goalie Vesa Toskala would dislodge Evgeni Nabokov in San Jose's net? And that rookie goalie Ryan Miller and under-the-radar goalie Dwayne Roloson would be the other netminders still stopping pucks as the number of teams participating in the post-season was whittled down to five? Of course we knew all that. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9826-From-The-Point-Early-playoff-MVPs.html 2006-05-02 00:44:00 From The Point It's a little early to hand out the Conn Smythe Trophy to the playoff MVP, but here's the next-best thing. Team-by-team first round MVPs: EASTERN CONFERENCE No. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9825-From-The-Point-Ottawa-vs-the-Tampa-Maple-Leafs.html 2006-04-25 00:13:00 From The Point Ottawa Senators fans know history repeats itself. After all, they've seen the Toronto Maple Leafs come in and eliminate their precious Sens more times than they want to remember (four times in five years, to be precise). http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9824-From-The-Point-NHL-alphabet-soup.html 2006-04-18 00:17:00 From The Point Things can get a little crazy in the NHL when the end of the regular season collides with the start of the playoffs. In an effort to achieve order amidst the chaos, here's an alphabetical look at the season that was…and post-season that will be: A is for…Anaheim's no-name No. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9823-From-The-Point-Nobody-wants-the-No-8-seed.html 2006-03-21 00:14:00 From The Point Know what makes an exciting playoff race? When the teams in a playoff position start to fade, and the teams on the outside start to charge. Welcome to the NHL's playoff race, circa 2006. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9822-From-The-Point-Tampa-turnaround.html 2006-03-14 23:44:00 From The Point Two years ago, the Tampa Bay Lightning hit the midway point of the season in ninth place in the Eastern Conference. A couple months later, they finished the regular season in first place. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9821-From-The-Point-Olympic-ouchies.html 2006-02-28 00:26:00 From The Point Welcome back, NHL. Don't worry - not much has changed since you've been away, save that Dominik Hasek can't make any saves for a while due to a strained abductor muscle (which is a fancy way of saying groin injury) sustained in the opening minutes of the Olympics. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9820-From-The-Point-Olympic-results-the-Great-Debate-and-hair-problems.html 2006-02-14 12:27:00 From The Point The Stanley Cup is hockey's ultimate silver trophy, but the Olympics are all about gold. And the 2006 edition of the worldwide tournament is starting to feel pretty wide open. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9819-From-The-Point-The-big-3-surprises.html 2006-02-07 15:16:00 From The Point It can be argued that the three biggest surprise teams this season all reside in the East. While the Nashville Predators have been impressive, they did make the playoffs in 2003-04 (and pushed the mighty Red Wings to six games), so their success this season isn't so much surprising as it is another step in their progression. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9818-From-The-Point-Road-to-respectability.html 2006-01-31 00:39:00 From The Point Rookie goal machine Alex Ovechkin is getting all the attention - and deservedly so - for the fact the Washington Capitals are not utterly horrible this season. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9817-From-The-Point-A-special-week.html 2006-01-09 00:34:00 From The Point Joe Thornton. Mark Messier. Wayne Gretzky. Three of hockey's biggest names will be in the news this week. More than usual, we mean. Why? Because they're all going to be present at a special place for a special game. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9816-From-The-Point-Canada-needs-Sidney-Spezztaal.html 2005-12-12 12:39:00 From The Point Mario Lemieux and Steve Yzerman, two Team Canadians since the late 1980s, have opted to pull out of the 2006 Winter Olympics. It would have been special for the pair of 40-year-old legends to represent Canada, one more time, on the grandest of world stages. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9815-From-The-Point-Pierres-Peter-impression.html 2005-11-28 15:20:00 From The Point Pierre Turgeon arrived in Colorado at the start of the 2005-06 season and told Avalanche fans he “was no Peter Forsberg.” The people of Colorado, having experienced a decade of Forsberg's finest, quickly concurred. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9814-Penalty-shots-for-all.html 2005-11-21 11:30:00 From The Point Remember that old Maurice ‘Rocket' Richard TV commercial for Grecian Formula, in which the retired Richard was the referee and a player skates up to him and says, “Hey Richard, two minutes for looking so good!”? If they made that commercial today, the line would have to be changed to: “Hey Richard, the other team gets a penalty shot for you looking so good!” No, it doesn't roll off the tongue as easily as the original line. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9813-Anderson-deserves-induction.html 2005-11-14 00:10:00 From The Point The Hockey Hall of Fame inductions last week – power forward pioneer Cam Neely, deceased Russian legend Valeri Kharlamov and builder Murray Costello were welcomed into the exclusive club – means it is time for the annual “why isn't Glenn Anderson in the Hall?” column. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9812-The-Ottawa-onslaught.html 2005-11-09 00:12:00 From The Point OK, Ottawa, OK. The rest of the league gets it. You're good. You can skate. You can score. Man, can you score. The Ottawa Senators (11-2-0) are doing their best impression of the Edmonton Oilers of the mid-1980s, scoring 64 goals through 13 contests. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9811-Life-without-Brodeur-scary.html 2005-10-31 00:50:00 From The Point Goaltender Martin Brodeur's true value may soon become scarily evident - and not just because he's a masked man that plays for the Devils, and today is Halloween. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9810-From-The-Point-Kudos-to-Jagr.html 2005-10-25 11:46:00 From The Point Heard about Henrik Lundqvist yet? Fans in New York have – they've been chanting “HEN-RIK! HEN-RIK! during recent games at Madison Square Garden. http://thehockeynews.com/articles/9809-From-The-Point-The-Final-Countdown.html 2005-01-17 00:00:00 From The Point It's not as though there haven't been any offers. There have been. Unfortunately, the only purpose they've served is to illustrate how far apart Gary Bettman's owners and Bob Goodenow's players are from reaching a CBA agreement.