Showing posts with label williams. Show all posts
Showing posts with label williams. Show all posts
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...
Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Let’s all boo the 2020 Playoff Disappointment Team

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We’ve finished two rounds of the NHL playoffs. Or maybe three, if you count the play-in. Did we ever decide if that counted? I’m not sure we...
Wednesday, December 18, 2019

The 10 players that no NHL fan can hate (except for all the ones that do)

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We’re into holiday mode, where everything is supposed to be about peace and goodwill. Love thy neighbor and that sort of thing. That’s nice ...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Six more active players who’ll make for tricky Hall of Fame debates someday

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It’s Hall of Fame Induction weekend, one of my favorite times on the hockey calendar. I love the HHOF, partly because of the history and rev...
Friday, May 17, 2019

Grab Bag: Not another replay review

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In the Friday Grab Bag: - Oh god we have to talk about expanded replay again don't we? - The best way to react to a waved-off goal - ...
Thursday, May 11, 2017

What do the Washington Capitals do now?

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Heading into last night, it felt like something might have finally changed for the Washington Capitals . After three decades of increasingly...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Round two preview

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Welcome to Round 2 of the NHL playoffs. It arrived a bit early, since the hockey gods cruelly deprived us of so much as a single Game 7 in t...
Friday, March 31, 2017

Grab bag: April Fools

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In the Friday Grab Bag: - The NHL eventually gets it right on the expansion draft - The one hockey prank we can all stop pretending is fun...
Friday, April 1, 2016

Grab bag: Leaked emails, dramatic refs, and the Sabres get foolish

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In the Friday Grab Bag: - What's in the NHL's email leak -- and what isn't - A referee gets dramatic with this goal call - An...
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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Beyond John Scott: A brief history of NHL enforcers turning out be more talented than we thought

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Even as the regular season resumes, the hockey world is still buzzing over John Scott’s all-star weekend. Voted in by fans at least partly o...
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Monday, July 6, 2015

Free agency winners and losers

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Welcome to the second week of July. Or, as hockey fans call it, a black hole of summer boredom from which no interesting news can escape. We...
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Monday, June 16, 2014

The not-supposed-to Stanley Cup champions

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The Kings will parade the Stanley Cup through Los Angeles today, after earning the title by beating the Rangers on Friday night. You’ve seen...
Friday, June 13, 2014

Dispatches from a Cup Final

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New York, New York. The city so nice, they played here twice. Wait, I may have gotten that line wrong. Which would be fitting, given that so...
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Thursday, May 8, 2008

Five reasons why things could get better

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You people are hard to please. You all tell me I'm too negative. Then, when I write 20 Good Things About The 2007-08 Leafs , some of you...
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

20 Good Things About the 2007-08 Leafs

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Optimism Week continues at Down Goes Brown. My first post this week was kind of a copout, since I spent most of it talking about other team...
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Monday, March 10, 2008

So now what?

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Now that the pulse has stopped and we're two Flyer mudhole-stompings away from the official funeral, it's time to start thinking of ...
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Thursday, March 6, 2008

Are the Leafs the softest team in the NHL?

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I've been thinking about this topic for a few days, but after watching Ponikarovsky get pummeled tonight while his teammates stood aroun...
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