By Ross McKeon, Yahoo! Sports
You can argue the order of importance, but the three most pivotal positions on the ice are goaltender, top defenseman and the No. 1 center.
Teams generally look to stop the puck first, but when you want to turn it the other way it’s hard to do unless you have major skill [...]
By Ross McKeon, Yahoo! Sports
The first 20 minutes of Saturday night’s opening game of the Stanley Cup finals were reserved for getting rid of the heebie-jeebies. The final 40 minutes was all men against boys.
Welcome, Pittsburgh Penguins, to your next two weeks, or less.
Did Game 1 really look any different than the Detroit Red Wings’ [...]
By Ross McKeon, Yahoo! Sports
DALLAS – The Dallas Stars staved off the inevitable Wednesday night. They got a little help from the referees, the hockey gods and from the Detroit Red Wings, who should learn a valuable lesson from their 3-1 loss in Game 4.
The leaders of the Western Conference finals will try to punch [...]
By Victor Chi – SportingNews
The Dallas Stars have opened their second-round series by winning twice on the road against the San Jose Sharks. Their success isn’t a huge mystery. The Stars’ upper-echelon players have delivered. Their counterparts on the Sharks have failed to keep pace.
The Sharks still haven’t figured out a way to neutralize Mike [...]
By Ross McKeon, Yahoo! Sports
PITTSBURGH – Two games were played here over the past three days – one the Pittsburgh Penguins’ style and one that conforms to the New York Rangers’ ways. The fact that Pittsburgh won both leaves New York with really only one option – go home and hope that’s going to aid [...]
By Ross McKeon, Yahoo! Sports
How close and crazy is the race for playoff spots and positioning this year? Tuesday night featured no fewer than 10 possibilities for teams to clinch something.
The Pittsburgh Penguins, Montreal Canadiens and Carolina Hurricanes and Minnesota Wild all went into the night’s action with an opportunity to clinch division titles.
The Detroit [...]
By Ross McKeon, Yahoo! Sports
Two weeks have passed since the NHL trade deadline, enough time to judge whether teams got a boost from acquisitions, have stayed the same basically or maybe slipped as result of being a seller. This week’s power rankings, which are updated every Tuesday, look at how each team has responded since [...]