Brad Marchand has a bit of a reputation in the NHL as being a dirty player. He certainly didn’t make people think otherwise with his antics last night against the Detroit Red Wings. Halfway through the first period of last…
After a team is eliminated from the playoffs, news immediately comes out of various injuries and other behind the scenes factors that possibly attributed to the loss. But a very interesting rumor is coming out of Detroit just one day…
Mark Letestu of the Edmonton Oilers is the latest victim of Red Wings defenseman Niklas Kronwall, who is well-known around the league for his borderline legal body checks. The hit came mid-way through the first period of a scoreless game…
It’s widely known that Detroit defenseman Niklas Kronwall is one of the hardest hitters in the game. We’ve seen the Top 10 videos, memes, and highlights. While he hasn’t been severely penalized for his play, it caught up with him…
Niklas Kronwall, the Detroit Red Wings premier defenseman, was taken off the ice on a stretcher after a nasty hit from Colorado Avalance forward Cody McCleod. Kronwall was retrieving the puck in his defensive zone when he made a sharp…
Changing gears a bit this week, we will focus on some of the big performers of the week. Looking at offensive stats such a goals and assist, as well as some defensive plus/minus numbers, goalies wins, save percentage and goals…
As of tomorrow, the NHL will officially be back in action. Which means, subsequently, that fantasy hockey is back too! So in honor of fantasy hockey set to begin again, here are five players poised for big seasons and five…
Round robin play wrapped up yesterday at the 2012 IIHF World Championships in Finland & Sweden. As the teams wrapped up their seventh games, the playoff picture became more and more clear. In the Group S, Russia dominated the field.…
Today was the final day of group play at the 2012 IIHF World Championships in Sweden and Finland. Today, the co-host Swedes played Latvia. Swedish defenseman Niklas Kronwall put on what could have been the hit of the tournament on…
IIHF World Championships rosters were announced yesterday and are again laden with top talent from the NHL as several players around the league whose teams were either bounced from the playoffs early or did not qualify opted to step on…