The Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks have not failed in the expectation that the 2013 Stanley Cup Finals would be a clash of titans. The first four games have featured three overtime games (one triple overtime), two games with seven or more goals, two games with five goals combined, big hits, touch-passing plays and everything […]
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My love of Marian Hossa knows no bounds. Ok, maybe that’s a little excessive, but something that eludes even habitual NHL observers is the greatness of Marian Hossa. Yes, I do mean greatness. I was as shocked as everyone else prior to Game Three of the Stanley Cup Finals when it was announced about five
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Anyone that follows my work either here or on Twitter knows I like to take shots at talking heads in any sport. It might be unfair because generally they are just doing what they are paid to do. Unfortunately, they are paid to maximize ratings and capture the attention of the viewers. Most of the
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I’ve posted it many times before but for the newly-initiated, here’s a chart that shows just how predictive Fenwick can be. For this season, there were two teams with at least a 55% Fenwick Close%: the Los Angeles Kings (last year’s Cup winner and 2013 Western Conference Finalist) and the Chicago Blackhawks (the West’s representative
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Game one of the Stanley Cup Finals between the Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks, in all honesty, was one of the best hockey games I’ve watched in recent memory. For some reason, Keith Primeau’s overtime winner in the 5th overtime of game four from the 2000 Stanley Cup Finals came to mind. This game had
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We have reached the apex of the 2013 NHL Playoffs; the Stanley Cup Finals. It seems like it was just yesterday I was going on near-daily rants on Twitter about how childish and selfish the NHL lockout was. How else was I supposed to live vicariously through other adults? Well the time is now here
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In just four games, the Boston Bruins handily dispatched of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference Finals of the 2013 NHL Playoffs. The fact that Boston took the series shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to anyone; despite the star-studded lineup Pittsburgh can roll out including former MVPs Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin and
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It has been a disastrous start to the 2013 NHL Playoff Conference Finals for both the Pittsburgh Penguins and Los Angeles Kings. The two teams I expected to get to the Stanley Cup Finals are facing 0-2 deficits in their respective series. While the Kings’ games were a little bit closer (notably game one) and
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