Ouch. The Toronto Maple Leafs have fallen out of the NHL playoff race again marking 112 straight years without playing a postseason game. Okay, it’s not quite that bad, it just feels like it – especially for Leafs fans. The Leafs last saw playoff action in 2004 and the last time their players’ names were [...]
Duncan Keith. 5 Games. So what? I get that this looks like a big deal by NHL standards because this is the first superstar Keith has been suspended for headhunting, but I’d be more inclined to take it seriously if it included the stipulation that in the event the Canucks meet the Hawks in the [...]
Sidney Crosby is skating again and I suspect even in the Pittsburgh dressing room there are private pools on how many games before he’s back watching hockey at home in high def. Heck, I’m writing this before Sid the Kid’s return against the Rangers and realizing I’d better not post it right away in case [...]
Brian Burke could be riding the float for a Maple Leafs Stanley Cup parade down Yonge Street… heck, both his goalies could be injured late in game seven and he could be forced to lace on his skates and take over as netminder just like Lester Patrick, and in terms of impossible hockey achievements he’d [...]