Poor Patty. He notches three assists in tonight’s shootout loss to the Predators, including flipping the puck to Gionta for the tying goal with 11 seconds left. In the shootout, after Erat scored the lone goal for the Preds, Patty dropped the puck, recovered enough to get a shot off but left [...]
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Patrik Elias, Free Agent
Free agency season is here. With the salary cap in the NHL, teams are faced with paying their best players market value, limited by the other players who demand market value. In theory, this prevents the escalating salaries that got various teams into financial trouble in the past few years, but it has [...]
Down But Not Out, But Close
I won’t give up until the fat lady sings, or in our case, Arlette stops singing at the Meadowlands.
But it’s really close. The Devils could be done in time for Mother’s Day.
Heads up to Matvichuk, Lukowich, Klee and Albelin: hope you enjoyed New Jersey. Fast, young, aggressive skaters who get to [...]
Lucky Is As Lucky Does
Two and a half hours to puck drop. An hour until we leave for the great swamp. I’m pulling out all of the stops, all of the swag, everything I can think of, do, or conjure up to send luck to the boys in red and black tonight. [...]
Brooms on Broadway
There are brooms on Broadway tonight and it’s not for a ticker tape parade in honor of the Rangers. The $10 bet I placed for a certain friend (sorry, Big D) was good money after bad hockey. Never been so happy to lose a Hamilton.
Devils 4, Rangers 2. Devils [...]
Picture Perfect Ending
What an end to the Devils’ regular season. After being 19 points behind the Rangers, they win the Atlantic Division title in the last game of the year, in the 3rd period, coming back from a 3-goal deficit. The Rangers lost, the Flyers didn’t matter, and the Devils are given [...]
Over and Out From Torino
Olympic hockey has been anything but predictable. The early favorites have early exits, the early disappointments have Turined up the heat, and more than a few people are left scratching their heads.
Chalk it up to global growth and interest. Chalk it up to blatant nationalism that the Canadians and Americans [...]
Olympic Proportions
I’m pumped for the Winter Olympics. 1980’s “Miracle on Ice” stimulated my late-blooming rebellion into a hockey player, and getting to see some of our favorite NHL players don the national jerseys for two weeks in February is more fun than the traditional All-Star break.
Here’s a prediction: Watch the Czech team. With Patrik [...]
Number 9, Number 9
It is a Devils revolution. Elias has 4 goals in 8 games played (he missed one with a cold), along with six assists for a total of 12 points. He’s on pace for 20 goals and 60 points, not quite another 40-goal season but given what he’s been through health-wise this [...]
