The 10 Best Hockey Saves of 2011

From Puck Daddy over at Yahoo! Sports 

The Ten Best Hockey Saves of 2011

The 2011 Hockey Hall of Fame Inductions

Mark Howe




Joe Nieuwendyk




Ed Belfour




Doug Gilmour

Highlights for November 4th 2011

Here are some highlights from the games on November 4th 2011

News and Notes August 2nd 2011

Versus is no longer and we now have NBC Sports Network.


Dave Strader to join NBC/Vs hockey team full time


Chelios, Tkachuk and Gary Suter among players named to the US Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2011


Voter reject referendum for new Islanders arena in NYC.  Does leave the future of the Islanders in doubt?

2010-2011 ECHL Kelly Cup Champions

The winner of the ECHL Kelly Cup as the Champions of the League:


The Alaska Aces


They defeated the Kalamazoo Wings 4 games to 1 to win the Kelly Cup.
Scott Howes LW for the ACES was named MVP of the Playoffs.


The Aces were also the winners of the Brabham Cup as champions of the ECHL regular season. They finished the year with 47 wins for 97 points.
Aces head coach Brent Thompson was the winner of the John Brophy award as coach of the year, while Gerald Coleman won the Reebok Goaltender of the year award.
Aces forward Wes Goldie was named the ECHL MVP.  He led the league with 46 goals and became the first player in league history with 5 consecutive seasons with 40 or more goals.

Scott Burt accepts the Kelly Cup.

The Jets Are Back!

True Sports made it official tonight at the NHL Entry Draft in Minneapolis, that the Winnipeg team will once again be the JETS

The Sad Demise of a Hockey Team

Congratulations to the Bossier-Sherevport Mudbugs on winning the 2010-2011 President's Cup as the Champions of the Central Hockey League.

That was the good new, now the bad news.  Less than a week later the Mudbugs ceased operations.

Read about the sad demise of a championship team.


More about the fans and friends of the Mudbugs.

Stanley Cup Fact of the Day

Alex Burrows OT goal at 11 seconds is 2nd-shortest in Stanley Cup Final history (shorter: 9 sec. by Skrudland in '86: MTL 3, CGY 2 in Game 


From ELIAS Sports Bureau : Mark Recchi is oldest player with a goal in Stanley Cup Final history (43, 123 days). Previous oldest: Igor Larionov (41, 189 days)

Announcement Coming Soon

The NHL is expected to make an announcement on Tuesday regarding the sale of the Atlanta Thrashers to True North Sports and then the movement of the team to Winnipeg Manitoba for the 2011-12 season.

The sound of complete indifference from Atlanta is deafening

Read the article courtesy of Slam Sports!

2011 Eastern Conference Finals - Game 7

Well this blogger was very disappointed that the Tampa Bay Lightning did not beat the Boston Bruins in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals this year.   Now I will have to cheer and hope the Vancouver Canucks have it to win their first Stanley Cup

2011 Playoffs - Stat of the Night

Here are the leaders in goals scored in the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs

(as of today May 27)

1 - Martin St Louis (TB) - 10 


1 - David Krejci (Bos) - 10


3 - Sean Bergenheim (TB) - 9


4 - Daniel Sedin (Van) - 8


5 - Nine Players tied with 7 goals   

NHL Western Conference Finals Game 3

Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals

San Jose Sharks vs Vancouver Canucks

NHL Plays of the Night 5/17/11

Eastern Conference Finals

Tampa Bay vs Boston

Game 2

2011 Western Conference Finals

Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals

San Jose Sharks  vs  Vancouver Canucks

Lightning @ Bruins Game 1 5/14/11

Game 1 of the 2011 Eastern Conference Finals

Tampa Bay Lightning vs Boston Bruins

Game 1 TONIGHT on VERSUS: Lightning vs. Bruins 8PM ET

The Eastern conference finals get started tonight in Boston

2011 Eastern Conference Finals

The 2011 Eastern Conference Finals are now set

Tampa Bay Lightning vs Boston Bruins

The Ted Lindsay Award

The Ted Lindsay Award is in its 2nd year with the NHLPA and NHL.  Formerly the Lester B Pearson Award since its beginning in 1971, this was changed in 2010 to reflect the contribution to the founding of the NHL Players Association Union by Ted Lindsay, the legendary Detroit Red Wings player Ted Lindsay.  

The winner of this award is National Hockey League's outstanding player in the regular season as judged by the members of the NHL Players Association

The Award has been won the last 3 years by Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals.  Wayne Gretzky has won it the most times (5) followed by Mario Lemieux (4).

This year the nominees for the award are:

Corey Perry (Anaheim) - The 2011 Rocket Richard Trophy winner for league leader in goals
Daniel Sedin (Vancouver) - The 2011 Art Ross Trophy winner for league leader in points
Steven Stamkos (Tampa Bay) -2010 winner of the Hart Trophy as the league MVP.

Hart Trophy Finalist 2010-11

The 3 finalist for the 2010-11 Hart Trophy as league MVP are:

Corey Perry - Anaheim (2010-11 Richard Trophy Winner)

Daniel Sedin - Vancouver (2010-11 Art Ross Trophy Winner)

Martin St Louis - Tampa Bay (2004 Hart Trophy Winner)

Stat of the Night (Playoff Edition)

Last night in what was just a great game to watch as a hockey fan, we saw a first.  For the first time in the 86 years the Chicago Blackhaws have been in the NHL they had never had a player score a playoff penalty shot.....until April 24th 2011.

Michael Frolik put his name in the record book as the first Blackhawk to register a penalty shot goal in the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs in route to a 4-3 OT win over the Vancouver Canucks. 

In the process of the play the starting goaltender for Vancouver, Corey Schneider, tore his hamstring which meant that benched starter/All Star/Vezina finalist Roberto Louongo had to come into the game.  He ended up losing the game on the OT game winner.   Game 7 Tuesday night in Vacouver, fasten your seat belts they are going to let it all hang out.