Showing posts with label rutherford. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rutherford. Show all posts
Friday, January 27, 2023

Grab Bag: Bruce Boudreau vs. Jim Rutherford, secret NHL trade deadline plans and more

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In the Friday Grab Bag: - My spies report on teams' top secret trade plans - An obscure player who was kind of trade for a Hall-of-Fam...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Puck Soup: Tanks for nothing

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On this week's episode of the Puck Soup podcast: - Gary Bettman swears that nobody is tanking - The Canucks finally fire Bruce Boudrea...
Monday, January 23, 2023

Weekend rankings: The Bruce Boudreau debacle gets a fittingly pathetic final chapter

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No bonus top five this week because I’m cranky. Instead, I’m going to ask you to let me vent for a bit. I’m a bit of an NHL history buff. Yo...
Wednesday, January 18, 2023

Puck Soup: Canucks in chaos

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On this week's episode of the Puck Soup podcast: - What the hell is happening in Vancouver? - A few new extensions, but no David Pastr...
Thursday, December 15, 2022

Grab Bag: Gary Bettman’s surveys, renaming awards, and Rod Brind’Amour’s workout

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Gary Bettman made headlines this week when he defended the league’s foray into digital board ads. While many fans have complained that the a...
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Puck Soup: Ironman in an Apple store

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On this week's episode of the Puck Soup podcast: - Thoughts on hockey's ongoing racism problem - The Canucks make some intriguing ...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Puck Soup: You're fired

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On this week's episode of the Puck Soup podcast: - If you missed it we fired Greg - Big changes for the Canucks and Flyers - The NHL ...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

The Athletic Hockey Show: Muzzin vs. Tkachuk

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In this week's episode of The Athletic Hockey Show: - Ian and I try to figure out what just happened in Pittsburgh - My thoughts on Mu...
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Friday, June 28, 2019

Grab Bag: Breaking down the HHOF class of 2019, a taxing debate and inside the goaltender’s mind

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In the Friday Grab Bag: - Breaking down the pros and cons of the HHOF class of 2019 - A debate about free agency that gets kind of taxing ...
Thursday, June 27, 2019

Puck Soup: Hockey Hall of Lame

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In this week's episode of the Puck Soup podcast: - Reacting to this week's HHOF announcement - Our thoughts on who'll be next,...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Evaluating the GM class of 2014

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Hockey fans love to review, rank and debate draft classes. Is this year’s any good? Was 2003 better than 1979? How does the Oilers’ class o...
Tuesday, December 26, 2017

2017 Trade Grades: Eastern Conference

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The NHL’s holiday trade freeze ends at midnight tomorrow. That leaves the league’s GMs with four more days to get any last-minute deals int...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Penguins vs. Blackhawks -- Who is the cap era's best team?

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With Sunday night’s win over the Nashville Predators, the Pittsburgh Penguins captured their second-straight Stanley Cup, becoming the firs...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Which GMs are facing the most deadline pressure? (Eastern Conference edition)

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Tomorrow marks the start of February. More importantly for hockey fans, it also marks four weeks until the trade deadline. With more teams t...
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Thursday, June 16, 2016

Last year's biggest offseason stories, and what they can teach us

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Welcome to the NHL off-season, Penguins and Sharks fans. The rest of us have been here for weeks, and in some cases months. It’s been ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

Can the Penguins repeat?

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The Pittsburgh Penguins are Stanley Cup champions. After a challenging season and a long and winding road through the playoffs, the team a...
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Thursday, December 17, 2015

The NHL GM trade power rankings (part two)

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15. Doug Wilson, San Jose Sharks Current standings: 15-14-1, second place in the Pacific Estimated cap room: $1 million (assuming Ben Smi...
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Thursday, July 2, 2015

Making sense of the Phil Kessel trade

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If the last few days of NHL transactions have reminded us of anything, it’s this: There’s a huge difference between the trade you choose to ...