Don Cherry and His All-Star Game Outfit
One of the beauties of growing up in Detroit is that we are so close to Canada that we are able to receive CBC. I’ve grown up watching Hockey Night in Canada for as long as I’ve been playing hockey…
Eddie
I love hockey. I love writing about hockey. I have an extensive background in and around hockey. I played the game going on 21 years and have been officiating the last 13. You'll see me write and give fair honest opinions on controversial plays, rules questions and other realms of hockey such as college hockey.
Ovechkin Suspended Three Games for Charging Hit
Judge NHL Senior VP of Player Safety and Hockey Operations Brendan Shanahan weighed in on a hit by Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin on Zbynek Michalek of the Pittsburgh Penguins during Sunday’s nationally-televised game on NBC. His verdict is that the Russian superstar will sit…
NHL Announces Skills Competition Events
The most exciting part of the NHL All-Star weekend isn’t the game itself. It’s Saturday night where the skills competition takes place. Besides the playoffs and the Olympic tournament, it is perhaps the third-most thing I look forward to in…
Todd Bertuzzi’s 360 Spin Goal
Last night in the Detroit-Buffalo game the Red Wings set a franchise record with 15 consecutive wins at home. In addition, Pavel Datsyuk passed the 700-point plateau with three assists in the game. All-Star goalie Jimmy Howard recorded his fifth…
All-Star Game Roster Analysis
With the rosters for the NHL All-Star Game set, let’s breakdown the players that will be competing in the annual talent showcase January 29 in Ottawa. Between the All-Star Game and 12 All-Star Skills Competition rookies, every team will be…
Bobby Ryan Nets Ducks First Shorthanded Goal of Season
Not much good has gone right for the Anaheim Ducks this season. Yours truly drafted Bobby Ryan and Ryan Getzlaf in the second and third rounds respectively of our fantasy hockey league. The Ducks have already fired their coach and…
Easton Synergy EQ40 Skate: Midseason Review
We are halfway through the current hockey season. Players in leagues from the NHL to the youth leagues are midway through the long, grind of a season while others that have a season beginning in January are approaching their first…
Winter Classic Recap
Yesterday was the fifth incarnation of the NHL Winter Classic. And this could have been one of the best between the New York Rangers and the Philadelphia Flyers. Entering the game, both teams were separated by two points in the…
HBO 24/7: Rangers- Flyers Episode 3 Recap
With the Winter Classic being a couple days away, things are starting to heat up between the teams competing in the annual showcase of the National Hockey League. The buildup to the game is ever increasing, but before the teams…
Jack Campbell’s Captain America Mask
This week the World Junior Championships is being held in Calgary and Edmonton. The best players under 20 are playing in the annual tournament that began Monday. Canada and the United States looked very strong in their opening games. Today,…