A Day in the NHL Chase for the Cup: Carter Crushes Coyotes; Kings Cruise to 2-0
The Night that Was: The Los Angeles Kings entered Game 2 with the Phoenix Coyotes last night as the hottest, most-dominant team in the playoffs. Little happened to change any of that. Once the puck was…Read More
Conference Finals Predictions
The match-ups for the Eastern and Western Conference Finals are set, and we are ready to get the ball rolling tonight when the LA Kings and Phoenix Coyotes meet for Game 1 in the West. I went 2 for 4…Read More
An Alpha Dog Whose Day Is Due: Phoenix Coyotes On And Off The Ice
If a GM builds a winning Hockey team in the desert and no one’s there to praise him, is he any less successful? In a disinterested market in which most casual fans probably couldn’t name more than…Read More
Who Gary Bettman Wants to Win the Stanley Cup
If it were up to him, Gary Bettman would stroll out on the ice to a chorus of boo’s after the Phoenix Coyotes win the Stanley Cup and proclaim with a sarcastic smirk, ” Who said that NHL…Read More
Mike Smith: Unmasked
Goaltender Mike Smith’s road to NHL stardom was not one that was paved in gold. He had to work hard and never give up on himself, as events led him to a decision in the summer of 2011. Stay in a…Read More
A Day in the NHL, Chase for the Cup: Mike Smith Stymies the Predators in Stanley Cup Playoffs
The Night that Was: Alexander Radulov and Andrei Kostitsyn did not return to the Nashville Predators’…Read More
The Great Goalie Race Part 1: Western Conference
Even the best of goalies lose in the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Someone has to win, and someone has to lose.…Read More
Nontraditional Hockey Markets Take Over The Playoffs
As the first round nears a close, it’s hard to ignore the shift in the teams. No longer is hockey…Read More
Phoenix Coyotes: Top Five Reasons Why They Should Move
It is an awful moment in one’s life to realize your hockey team is packing up and moving. In…Read More
Glendale and NHL At Odds
With less than a week remaining in the NHL regular season and the Phoenix Coyotes in the heat of a…Read More
Quebec Gets New Arena, NHL Return?
We all remember last year when the possibility of a return to Winnipeg seemed more real than ever. That possibility became a reality when True North Sports purchased the Atlanta Thrashers, moved them…Read More
The Lucky Number 4
There were only 10 games on the night of January 19th. Out of these 10, there were two games that went into a shootout. Those teams were Detroit Red Wings vs Phoenix Coyotes and the Calgary Flames vs…Read More
The Detroit Red Wings: First Team To 30 Wins
A while back, I wrote an article for another website about the Minnesota Wild, who were on fire, being the first team to reach 20 wins on the season. At the end of that article, I posted a question, Who…Read More
Phoenix Coyotes – The Final Countdown?
The Phoenix Coyotes are currently a team in turmoil, potentially preparing for their last known season in the Phoenix area. They are a struggling Sun Belt team that has not managed to turn a profit since…Read More
What’s Don Thinking? PHX/CGY Trade
Now, I understand that times are tough in the desert. The loss of Bryzgalov landed the Coyotes with a goaltending trio of Jason Lebarbera, Mike Smith, and Curtis McElhinney. Not exactly the ideal group…Read More
Big Mouths Dominate Headlines
The old saying is “there’s no such thing as bad publicity,” and three NHLers- Dan Carcillo, Alexei Kovalev and Sean Avery- put that to the test this past week with ill conceived comments…Read More
Sun Belt Challenge: For the Love of Hockey
In 1988, former NHL President, John Ziegler, started a plan that would expand the NHL into a league of 30 teams by the end of the 1990s. The basic plan was to expand into cities with strong urban centers…Read More
Winnipeg Year One
With the Jets joining the NHL once again, the NHL will have a fresh look in the next few years as divisional lines will have to be redrawn and a western conference club to join the eastern conference.…Read More
My Mock Draft – Picks 11-20
You can read the first part of my mock draft, picks 1-10 right here, where I made many Senators fan happy with the pick of Huberdeau at the number six spot. Obviously others will disagree with my but that…Read More















