2008 NHL Entry Draft

It didn’t take long for the puns to start on social media regarding Doug Weight and his head coaching debut for the New York Islanders as they prepared to take on the Dallas Stars in Brooklyn. Admittedly, I joined in the ‘fun’ leading up to faceoff and at select times throughout the game. After all, why should you have all the fun? After New York kept their structure and confidence, even though the immense struggles of a power(less) play that was 0 for 7 on the evening and is 0 for their last 22

In Praise of Bill Peters Now firmly into his third season as a head coach in the NHL, Bill Peters, coach of the Carolina Hurricanes, has a lot of work in front of him to get this team into post-season contention. Through his first two years with the organization, Peters is still yet to participate in the playoffs. In fact, it has been seven years since Carolina last saw the playoffs. Peters ' current lack of post-season success shouldn 't be an immediate point for concern, as he came into the team

could, however, prove to be the most challenging and defining of all. We are officially at the end of year one in the Jon Ledecky/Scott Malkin era of ownership, Garth Snow remains at the helm of hockey operations and Doug Weight, he of 40 games of NHL head coaching experience, was seemingly the only option in a summer that saw at least four others looking for work with pedigree, and some even Stanley Cups, on their resume. We covered where the Islanders were this year in our annual season retrospective

When asked what it means to finally climb back to NHL .500 at 10-10-5, he summed it up perfectly, as he is known to do. “It means we still have a lot of work to do. Obviously, we’ve certainly had some ups and downs, plenty of frustrations and while we’re certainly playing better hockey, we know we still

games Kulemin played for the Islanders for four seasons as a constant fourth or third liner that does the dirty work and is a great penalty killer.  The NHL is

We are effectively paying more for a guy that this organization has doubt in. A key draft pick that was supposed to be “the next best thing” is getting paid more than an experienced veteran. If the Ott deal doesn’t work out, then he simply walks away whereas if Mantha doesn’t work out we are a lot more disappointed and left wondering what

captain of the rebels starts a new season with new players. However, these new players don’t have that good chemistry with the original players and the team becomes divided. I made the connection between the rebels, and the ottawa senators. In the NHL this season, Matt duchene of the colorado avalanche gets traded to the ottawa senators. Matt duchene, a superstar, has some trouble in ottawa, he is not scoring as much or pressuring like he used to with his former team. This is because Matt duchene

September, 20, 1990. He was drafted first over all in 2009 in the NHL entry draft. In his junior years he play in the OHL for the Oshawa Generals but got traded to the London Knights in the 2009 season. In that 2009 season he finished with a career total of 215 goals breaking the OHL record by 2 goals. He was also the focus of a unsuccessful push to have the NHL draft rules changed to allow him to participate in the 2008 entry draft, as well as an attempt to allow him to play i the AHL. He excelled

Sidney Crosby the Next Great One Sidney is Crosby is a phenomenal hockey player currently playing in the NHL. Many people debate on him being the next Great One, due to multiple aspects of his talent. Sidney Crosby, being the talented player he is, many people compare him to Wayne Gretzky who is the best known hockey player in history. Since hockey has evolved from when Wayne Gretzky was on top, it makes it difficult to compare him to Sidney Crosby. But, since the evolution of hockey has occurred

The Minnesota Wild have made a major contribution to the NHL. The Minnesota Wild franchise was founded in 1997 and took place in the 2000 NHL entry draft. The wild played their first season in the 2000-2001 season. They had a rough start, which is regular throughout teams in their first year in the league. They had a record of 25-39-13 and didn’t qualify for the playoffs. They barely made progress in their second year and didn’t have any major progress until their third year. In the 2002-2003 season