Tag: Ales Hemsky

  • 2018 Offseason Preview: Montréal Canadiens

    Day 1 of our offseason preview series reaches a close with the third lottery-winning team, the Montréal Canadiens. After finishing the season with a 29-40-13 record good enough for fourth-worst in the NHL, there’s little doubting the league’s most-storied franchise is in a bit of a funk right now. The offense was anemic (averaging a…

  • Montreal Canadiens 2017-’18 Season Preview

    Montreal Canadiens 47-26-9, 103 points, 1st in the Atlantic Division Eliminated in the 1st round by the New York Rangers Additions: D Karl Alzner, C Jonathan Drouin, C Byron Froese, RW Ales Hemsky, C Peter Holland, D Joe Morrow, D David Schlemko, D Mark Streit, D Matt Taormina Subtractions: D Nathan Beaulieu, C Connor Crisp, RW Bobby Farnham, C Brian Flynn, LW…

  • 2017 NHL Expansion Draft: Available Lists

    30 of the NHL’s 31 teams submitted their protected lists on Saturday by 5 p.m. ET. The protected lists were made public at 10:30 a.m. ET (originally scheduled for 10 a.m.) on Sunday. Additionally, the available lists of players to choose from were released. The Vegas Golden Knights will now spend the next few days…

  • St. Louis at Dallas – Game 1 – Lehtonen leads Stars to 2-1 victory

          No, this is not the 1999 Stanley Cup Finals.  Just because Ken Hitchcock, Brett Hull and Lindy Ruff are involved doesn’t mean we’re going to be concerned with skates in the crease.  That being said, that game from almost 17 years ago may have been in the back of Ruff’s mind, as…

  • Dallas Bounces Back to take Game 4

    The Dallas Stars beat the Minnesota Wild in game 4 of the playoffs. The special teams were the story of the night as Dallas went 2/2 on the powerplay and Minnesota went 0/2. Antti Niemi got his first start of the playoffs and had a strong night stopping 28 out of 30 shots. Jason Spezza…

  • Minnesota at Dallas – Game 2 – Scandella’s power play goal can’t cover his rough defensive night, Stars take 2-0 series lead

      The best in the west are continuing their winning ways in the postseason, as they now have a two-game lead on Minnesota after winning 3-2. Although both teams had over three minutes of power play action in the first period (we had a little bit of 4-on-4 action), they both went 0-for-2 with the…

  • Benn and the Stars take Game 1

    The Dallas Stars defeated the Minnesota Wild Friday night by the score of 4-0. The Stars were led by their captain Jamie Benn, who had a goal and two assists. The Wild couldn’t get any offense going without Thomas Vanek and Zach Parise in Game 1. The Stars were also without Tyler Seguin, but that…

  • Viable Trade Options- Part Two- Central Division

    By: Nick Lanciani The Trade Deadline is fast approaching, is your team ready for this year’s fire sale? I take a look at some reasonable ideas for deals, as well as the overall consideration of buying or selling for each team in the league in this month long series. Buyer beware, all sales are final…

  • 2014 NHL Free Agency Recap

    Recapping all of the signings from the entire day. Updated as necessary when newer deals are signed. Everything that is known is shown. Christian Ehrhoff signed a 1 year deal worth $4 million with PIT. Manny Malhotra signed a 1 year deal worth $850,000 with MTL. Jori Lehtera signed a 2 year deal with STL.…