Today we’re joined by Jon ‘JP’ Phillips. JP has been a Flyers’ fan since the days of Pelle Lindbergh, who was his idol playing goalie as a kid. Although he grew up in Minnesota, he has avidly followed the team since the early 90’s and now authors the FlyingP blog.
The entire hockey World is enticed on what may or may not happen tonight when Pittsburgh plays Boston for the first time since Matt Cooke’s head shot on Marc Savard.
The passing of time can often be a cruel occurrence, on March 15th Canucks.com proudly reported that Mikael Samuelsson had been named the NHL’s first star of the week, for the week of 8-14 March. During that time Samuelsson accrued some impressive stats, ten points six goals and four assists in four games. Then on 17th March the site reports that Samuelsson will miss at least two – three weeks with an upper body injury.
It seems like the past 12 months all the talk in the NHL is about head shots or deliberate shoulder checks to an unsuspecting players head. Everyone seems to think if these hits can be taken out of the game everything will be fine and dandy.
I broke down the O on Sunday and the Dub yesterday, let’s see what the Q playoffs have in store for us in the first round. The Q has an interesting playoff formula, somewhat similar to the old NHL formula with seeding granted by Division instead of by Conference.
The rise of the Matt Carkner and Colton Orr fighting rivalry has made the Battle of Ontario relevant once again.
The title says it all. Zdeno Chara dumps the puck in and Brodeur catches it, puts it down and fires a strike right to David Clarkson for a breakaway goal.
The National Hockey League has suspended Alexander Ovechkin for two games for his hit from behind on Brian Campbell. The NHL and Ovechkin had a hearing earlier today and have just come to this decision.
With these clues to my identity can you guess which former or current NHLer that I am?
With the OHL write up done, we turn to the Dub. Out West, we’ve got some interesting first round match ups to take a look at.
I have returned just in time to preview the first round of the CHL Playoffs. We’ll start with the OHL, now that we know who the 6, 7 and 8 seeds are in the west with Saginaw defeating Plymouth this afternoon.
The aforementioned mantra has been used throughout all sports for decades. Despite their recent hot streak, it’s a mantra that isn’t being used in the Penguins favor this season.
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