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| 4/26 |
NYI 1 at BUF 2 |
Won |
SO |
| 4/23 |
BUF 4 at PIT 2 |
Won |
F |
| 4/22 |
WPG 2 at BUF 1 |
Lost |
F |
| 4/19 |
NYR 8 at BUF 4 |
Lost |
F |
| 4/17 |
BUF 3 at BOS 2 |
Won |
SO |
| 4/14 |
TBL 1 at BUF 3 |
Won |
F |
| 4/13 |
PHI 0 at BUF 1 |
Won |
F |
| 4/11 |
MTL 5 at BUF 1 |
Lost |
F |
| 4/9 |
BUF 1 at WPG 4 |
Lost |
F |
| 4/7 |
NJD 2 at BUF 3 |
Won |
SO |
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| Hurricanes to unveil new uniforms; Quick’s ‘embellishment’; Gordon Bombay ’30 for 30′ (Puck Headlines) (Puck Daddy) |
| Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.
• The Dallas Stars won't be the only ones revealing new jerseys on June 4. That same day the Carolina Hurricanes will unveil their new home and road looks. Their logo and colors will remain the same. [ Hurricanes ]
• Meanwhile, the Texas Stars showed off their new jerseys on Thursday. Could these be a hint as to what the Dallas Stars' new look will be? In a word, no. [ Stars Inside Edge ]
• As the Boston Bruins go for the sweep tonight, it appears as if they'll ice the same lineup from Game 3, meaning Dennis Seidenberg and Wade Redden will be spectators. Redden and Brad Richards in a press box together? Glen Sather must be proud. [ CSNNE ]
• Remember Brian Boyle's giant family from 24/7 ? Well, residing from outside Boston, their custom-made t-shirts reveal who they're supporting in the series: “Bruins? Rangers? We’re rooting for Boyle.” [ Boston Globe ]
• Jimmy Howard on how his nap went during Wednesday's full day off for the Detroit Red Wings: “It was great. I think I had a little dream, too, so it was a bonus.” [ Free Press ]
• San Jose Sharks forward T.J. Galiardi on Jonathan Quick: "What kind of bugs me about him, I don't know if I should say it, but a little embellishment every now and then. You skate by and you don't even touch him or you barely even touch him and he's throwing his hands in the air. So that's one of those things." [ Mercury News ]
• Vezina Trophy finalist and Columbus Blue Jackets netminder Sergei Bobrovsky is set to be a restricted free agent this summer. At the moment, there has been no progress in contract talks between both sides. What is he worth? And how soon until Paul Holmgren throws him an offer sheet to get him back? [ Columbus Dispatch ]
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| Posted: 05/23/2013 |
| Alain Vigneault fired by Canucks; who takes over the coaching gig in Vancouver? (Puck Daddy) |
| Vancouver Canucks GM Mike Gillis didn’t mince words during his postseason press conference, calling the team’s 2012-13 campaign a “terrible season” after their ouster at the hands of the San Jose Sharks in Round 1.
"We’re going to have to reinvent ourselves and do things differently in order to be successful. The macro look at this team is that changes have to be made,” said Gillis.
On Wednesday, changes were made: According to Louis Jean of TVA, head coach Alain Vigneault and assistant coaches Rick Bowness and Newell Brown were all fired by Gillis in a massive house cleaning for the franchise.
It was later confirmed by the Canucks:
“We have made the very difficult decision to relieve Alain Vigneault, Rick Bowness and Newell Brown of their coaching duties today,” said Canucks President and General Manager, Michael D. Gillis. “Alain, Rick and Newell worked tirelessly to lead this team to great on-ice success. I am personally grateful to each of them and their families for their commitment to the Canucks and the city of Vancouver and wish them continued success in future.”
Vigneault coached the Canucks from 2006-2013, winning 313 games. He captured the Jack Adams in 2006-07, and coached Vancouver to the playoffs in six of those seasons, including that Stanley Cup Final loss to the Boston Bruins in seven games.
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| Posted: 05/22/2013 |
| Brad Richards, postseason disaster for the New York Rangers (Puck Daddy) |
| Back in February, Larry Brooks of the NY Post speculated that the New York Rangers could eventually use an amnesty buyout and get out of center Brad Richards’ elephantine contract that runs through 2021.
At the time, I found the notion absurd: Two years removed from winning the Richards Derby, one year after he had 15 points in 20 playoff games for the Rangers, and a slow start means the Blueshirts jettison what was to be a major pillar of a championship foundation?
Then came Richards’ finish to the regular season: 11 points in 6 games, including a hat trick against the Buffalo Sabres. I kept hearing terms like “empty points” to describe that effort, but on paper Richards looked like he was rounding into postseason form.
And then the postseason hit, and that paper was crumbled up and tossed in the trash.
As Rangers fans flail about trying to diagnose how this team could be down 0-3 to the Boston Bruins in the Eastern Conference semifinals, Brad Richards’ name glows like a neon sign on Broadway. He’s arguably the biggest bust of the 2013 postseason on an individual basis; a pathetic shell of a formerly clutch player who’s been reduced to a $60-million fourth liner.
Turns out Larry Brooks’ speculation may become a necessity. |
| Posted: 05/22/2013 |
| Seidenberg, Redden practicing with Bruins; Sabres re-sign Scott; Sweden atop the world (Puck Headlines) (Puck Daddy) |
| • Wondering how Daniel Alfredsson was so open for the game-tying goal last night? The photo above pretty much explains it, but here's a full breakdown. [ Pensburgh ]
• Good news for Boston: Dennis Seidenberg and Wade Redden are back at practice. [ Boston ]
• The Buffalo Sabres have signed up for another year of John Scott. [ Sabres ]
• Led by Daniel and Henrik Sedin, Sweden took home the gold medal at the World Hockey Championships. They celebrated with a bunch of gold helmets. [ PITB ]
• With the gold medal, Sweden moved from fourth to first the IIHF's world ranking. And Switzerland moved up to seventh. [ IIHF ]
• Viktor Stalberg and Michal Handzus will be in the lineup for the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3. [ Chicago Tribune ]
• AHL president David Andrews thinks NBC should mention the impact his league has had on the Bruins' young defensive guns. [ Stanley Cup of Chowder ]
• Speaking of the AHL and the Providence Bruins, the league has announced that Graham Mink has been suspended 2 games for the match penalty he earned in this brawl . [ AHL ] |
| Posted: 05/20/2013 |
| What We Learned: Complaining about NHL officiating? Time to fine these sore losers (Puck Daddy) |
| Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it.
No one is ever going to be totally happy with the ways in which the NHL's referees or officials make their decisions. We can all agree on that.
If there's a game in which neither team is whistled for a penalty, both will likely complain that the refs missed calls on the other. If there's a game in which both teams receive 10 power plays, both will complain that the referees were overly harsh in doling out discipline. No one is ever especially happy with calls that go in between those two extremes, either, because unless you win, you aren't happy. And sometimes, even when you do win, you aren't happy.
It's tough to know what, exactly, brought all this to a head in these playoffs. Alex Ovechkin complaining about a league-wide conspiracy in Game 6 after the end of Game 7; Jonathan Toews stamping his feet when his team got clobbered on home ice by its archrival; Sidney Crosby saying the league needs to institute video review for puck-over-the-glass calls; Jonathan Quick abusing officials because the Kings gave the Sharks a two-man advantage in overtime.
Doesn't it strike anyone as being a bit much?
No one likes to lose in October, let alone in the second round of the playoffs, and you might even say that the refs have made a bit of a spectacle of themselves in the last few games. The best thing a ref can do, the old saying goes, is not be noticeable, and things have admittedly gotten a bit out of hand in some instances.
But nonetheless, can you imagine the eye-rolling or outright mockery in Chicago if Henrik Zetterberg had said the same things Toews did after they got creamed in Game 1? Or the uproar if Ryan Callahan of the lionized New York Rangers had complained about a conspiracy to push the series longer? Or the furor if Joe Thornton had done what Quick did after the Sharks gave up a similar late-game 5-on-3 advantage that allowed the Kings to tie Game 1?
What it boils down to is being a sore loser. |
| Posted: 05/20/2013 |
| What We Learned: Pittsburgh Penguins have to get rid of Marc-Andre Fleury (Puck Daddy) |
|
Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it.
One of the things people said constantly throughout the Pittsburgh Penguins' six-game series victory over the New York Islanders was that their play was well below the expected level of quality.
In fact, the most common refrain was that this particular brand of awful play -- rife with defensive irresponsibility and baffling lack of execution for a team that was pretty much incredible from start to finish this year -- was probably only good enough to get them past a try-hard pretender like the Islanders.
Against a real team, it was generally agreed, this kind of play would result in them losing the series in short order, probably pretty badly.
But that kind of talk ignores two things. First, we were told repeatedly by just about everyone that if there was any team the Penguins, not exactly fleet-of-foot, didn't want to take on in the playoffs, it was these New York Islanders. And yeah, they had their hands full throughout, but still never really looked to be in all that much trouble; the scores were close, yes, but they still only needed six games to put these guys out of their misery.
Second, and more important, is that — lo and behold — the second they took Marc-Andre Fleury out of the crease, they won both games. That's not to say that Tomas Vokoun really won them either game, because he didn't. He posted a shutout in Game 5 because almost any goaltender in the world (with at least one notable exception) would have, but he was also victimized on occasion by the bad defensive work that didn't help Fleury much either.
But the fact of the matter is that if you have pretensions of winning a Stanley Cup, your goaltender has to at least be league-average. The Penguins, with their galaxy of stars and excellent coach and top-quality GM, have that goal. They do not have that goaltender. People will argue that Fleury is a winner, insofar as he won a Stanley Cup. Four years ago. Since that postseason, when he posted just a .908 save percentage and a not-good 2.61 GAA, his save percentage has crept above .899 precisely zero times. This year, when he gave up 14 goals on 128 shots in four games before Bylsma dead-bolted the door to the doghouse from the outside.
Or at least, he should; there's only so many times an entire team can roll its eyes and think, "Oh no, not again," like a pot of petunias, before it's the only reasonable course of action.
I don't know how much longer we need to suffer through the narrative that Fleury is any good at all before it crumbles to sand and is scattered by the wind. That is, if it hasn't done so already behind save attempts like this and this and most notably this .
I mean, look, the fact of the matter is that apart from one good playoff run five years ago in which he fell a game short of winning the Stanley Cup for that not-quite-ready Penguins team, he has always been sub-average, and now things are getting markedly worse .
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| Posted: 05/13/2013 |
| Why Boston is a Bruins Town (Yahoo! Contributor Network) |
| COMMENTARY | Wednesday, April 17, was the first time any professional sporting event took place in Boston since the marathon bombings. It was the Bruins taking on the Buffalo Sabres in front of a packed TD Garden, who were ready to show just how 'Boston Strong' they were. If what happened during the anthem that night doesn't show just how much Boston is a Bruins town, nothing will. |
| Posted: 05/10/2013 |
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| GAME STATS |
|
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
| HOME |
24 |
11 |
10 |
3 |
| AWAY |
24 |
10 |
11 |
3 |
| TOTAL |
48 |
21 |
21 |
6 |
| MAY STATS |
|
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
| HOME |
|
|
|
|
| AWAY |
|
|
|
|
| TOTAL |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| NORTHEAST DIVISION |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
PTS |
GF |
GA |
| MTL |
48 |
29 |
14 |
5 |
63 |
149 |
126 |
| BOS |
48 |
28 |
14 |
6 |
62 |
131 |
109 |
| TOR |
48 |
26 |
17 |
5 |
57 |
145 |
133 |
| OTT |
48 |
25 |
17 |
6 |
56 |
116 |
104 |
| BUF |
48 |
21 |
21 |
6 |
48 |
125 |
143 |
| EASTERN CONFERENCE |
| Team |
GP |
W |
L |
OT |
DF |
PTS |
| 1. PIT* |
48 |
36 |
12 |
0 |
46 |
72 |
| 2. MTL* |
48 |
29 |
14 |
5 |
23 |
63 |
| 3. WSH* |
48 |
27 |
18 |
3 |
19 |
57 |
| 4. BOS |
48 |
28 |
14 |
6 |
22 |
62 |
| 5. TOR |
48 |
26 |
17 |
5 |
12 |
57 |
| 6. NYR |
48 |
26 |
18 |
4 |
18 |
56 |
| 7. OTT |
48 |
25 |
17 |
6 |
12 |
56 |
| 8. NYI |
48 |
24 |
17 |
7 |
0 |
55 |
| 9. WPG |
48 |
24 |
21 |
3 |
-16 |
51 |
| 10. PHI |
48 |
23 |
22 |
3 |
-8 |
49 |
| 11. BUF |
48 |
21 |
21 |
6 |
-18 |
48 |
| 12. NJD |
48 |
19 |
19 |
10 |
-17 |
48 |
| 13. CAR |
48 |
19 |
25 |
4 |
-32 |
42 |
| 14. TBL |
48 |
18 |
26 |
4 |
-2 |
40 |
| 15. FLA |
48 |
15 |
27 |
6 |
-59 |
36 |
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