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After a frenetic week of hockey, the NHL is back. Call them postseason games or not, the qualification round saw plenty of terrific series and a couple of March Madness-style 12-5 upsets—with heavy underdogs Chicago and Montreal advancing into the conference quarterfinals. The league proved that, despite no fans...
After a 2019-20 National Hockey League (NHL) season unlike any other that included an abrupt 140-day pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic, hockey is officially back with an epic sprint to the finish. 24 teams remain alive, with the eight remaining lowest seeds in each conference facing a play-in...
Detroit is Hockeytown. At least that’s what it likes to call itself.  The Red Wings have won Stanley Cups there, the Great Lakes Invitational college hockey tournament is played there each year, and it has hosted Frozen Fours before. The most recent came in 2010, when the event took place...
Jordan Binnington
Three years ago, I got to be part of a blockbuster event. After covering and participating in Kraft Hockeyville USA when it came to Marquette, Michigan in 2016, I thought that would be the peak moment of exposure for the Upper Peninsula. An often-overlooked place in the country (especially by...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKCkym7pbBo&list=PL1NbHSfosBuGtFVEXrdXf0iYrgB4s9dVA&index=2&t=0s Sitting in last place at the beginning of the 2019 calendar year, St. Louis provided optimism for every National Hockey League (NHL) team by rebounding all the way to a magical Stanley Cup championship run in June. The Blues won’t be the favorite to repeat. The title of this...
For two-plus rounds the San Jose Sharks were the story of the 2019 playoffs. The Sharks were certainly a serious contender despite suffering several key injuries during their quest. However, what San Jose will be remembered for most during this postseason is helping rewrite the NHL yearbook. The Sharks...
The 2019 Stanley Cup Playoffs are setting up to have few rivals as far as unpredictability and tight match-ups. Both series in the Western Conference reached Game 7s, with St. Louis becoming the third team this postseason to clinch a series in a decisive seventh game in overtime. San...
Remember those fearless predictions about the Stanley Cup playoffs I made about the Stanley Cup playoffs, just two weeks ago? That bracket might as well get tossed through the shredder. The top seeds in both conferences, Tampa Bay and Calgary, won exactly one first-round game between them. All four...
After 16 years, the Frozen Four is finally returning to Buffalo. Some might say it’s been far too long for college hockey’s main event to return to upstate New York. Minnesota fans, who I’m sure have fond memories of the city, probably feel the same way. After all, the Golden...
2019 Stanley Cup playoffs
After an 82-game National Hockey League (NHL) regular season, one team stands alone as the clear favorite to win the Stanley Cup: the record-tying Tampa Bay Lightning, who finished with 62 wins and ran away with the Presidents’ Trophy. Fortunately or unfortunately, two of the Lightning’s biggest rivals, Boston...