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As the regular season comes down to its final five games for the Detroit Red Wings, the team heads into this week (April 6-12) on the outside looking in for a playoff spot. They will face a tough schedule again this week against teams they are battling with in the standings, and will need something…
After losing 6-2 to the St. Louis Blues on Friday (April 3), the Anaheim Ducks are now deadlocked with the Edmonton Oilers atop the Pacific Division standings. With less than two weeks remaining in the 2025-26 NHL season, the Oilers and Ducks both have 87 points and six games left to play. Edmonton, however, holds…
The franchise was known as the Minnesota North Stars from 1967-1992 before they moved to Dallas. There are ten distinct uniforms that they had along the way from Minnesota to Dallas. Since sweaters are a hot topic in the NHL, let’s see where each jersey falls in the rankings. 10. What Were They Thinking? (2007-2012)…
Goaltending: hockey’s most precarious and polarizing position. The masked men often take the blame when the team loses and receive little credit when they win. They face 100 MPH slap shots and 200-pound players barreling into them. They’re quirky and unique, but no team can get by without a good one. The Edmonton Oilers had…
This article was originally written in Jan. 2015. If you followed the 2015 NFL Playoffs, you know the NFC South champion Carolina Panthers moved on to the Divisional Round. A team that finished the regular season at 7-8-1 advanced by virtue of defeating an Arizona Cardinals team with a third-string quarterback. In the Stanley Cup…
The news officially dropped at around 3 PM EST on Saturday, April 4. When the New York Rangers defeated the Detroit Red Wings that afternoon, it was the clinching scenario for the Buffalo Sabres to finally have that coveted “x” next to their name in the standings. Years of hard work, different players, goalie rotations,…
Looking to win their ninth straight game on Sunday, the Montreal Canadiens officially clinched a spot in the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs on Sunday… just without actually having taken the ice. After beating the New Jersey Devils 4-3 in a shootout on Saturday night, in the first half of a home-and-home, back-to-back set of games,…
NHL The Montreal Canadiens are playoff-bound again. Montreal clinched its spot in the Stanley Cup playoffs Sunday afternoon after the Detroit Red Wings fell 5-4 to the Minnesota Wild, making the Canadiens the first Canadian NHL team to secure a post-season berth. Montreal becomes 1st Canadian team to secure berth following Detroit’s loss The Canadian…
The Minnesota Wild finished their quick two-game road back-to-back on Easter Sunday, Apr. 5, against the Detroit Red Wings. Both teams they faced on this road trip were battling each other in the Eastern Conference for the final wild-card spot. They took down the Ottawa Senators on Saturday, Apr. 4, and looked to do the…
Only a few players have entered major junior with exceptional status: John Tavares, Aaron Ekblad, Connor McDavid, Sean Day, and Joseph “Joe” Veleno. The list illustrates how unpredictable hockey careers can be. Two turned into franchise stars, one became a reliable shutdown defenceman, and one played two NHL games. Veleno always seemed likely to land…
