(titles are still a work in progress! Suggestions? Shannon@puckdrop.ca) Poni Up Pens fans! I hope all you lovely hockey people had a great week, I apologize for the late post.. The Pittsburgh Penguins played the Dallas Stars and the Boston Bruins winning both games and on a more controversial note, Matt Cooke’s hit will also be briefly discussed. Dallas Stars. The biggest news of the

The Philadelphia Flyers have been called many things.  In addition to the usual unprintable obsenities used by rival team’s fans, they have been called ”contenders”, “pretenders”, and ”inconsistent” by hockey experts at different times during the season.  After last night’s game against the New York Islanders, another new moniker has arisen:  “The Comeback Kids”. Through the first 56 games of the current NHL season, the Flyers had not come back

It’s become obvious now to even non-Devils fans: The Devils have some problems. After losing to the Flames last Friday 5-3, the Devils got blanked by the league-worst Oilers, 2-0. The Devils are 3-6-1 in their last 10 games. If, in the first three months of the season, you had told me that the Devils would acquire Ilya Kovalchuk and that by March 7th they would only have 10 wins out of 25 games, I’d say you were crazy. But that’s how it stands.

It’s hard to believe, but a Trade Deadline deal that GM Paul Holmgren got done last season is actually looking a lot better now.  Holmgren took a lot of heat for trading fan-favorite Scottie Upshall to the Phoenix Coyotes for what appeared to many to be a one-dimensional player, Daniel Carcillo. This is a player that then-Coyotes coach Wayne Gretzky would make a healthy scratch periodically for taking an exhorbitant amount of misconduct penalties. In the National Hockey League, the

Hey readers! So my spring break is right around the corner and I want to do something fun for you guys (the amazing readers of Puckdrop). So I’m going to have you guys put me in the hot seat! Send me questions! What do you want to know? I’ll make a video update answering all questions or my thoughts on what you think or want to know! Fun right? They

Peace. Love. & the Pittsburgh Penguins. (still a working title.) I apologize for not posting the past few days, and oh what a few days it has been in the hockey world! Between the Olympics, the return of the NHL and the trade deadline there is so much to talk about! Let’s start with the Olympics. I love Olympics in general, but especially Olympic hockey. Enemies come together (Richards, Pronger

There were two significant dates for Tim Thomas as he entered his first game in what seems lifetime against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night. Jan. 14 was the last time that Thomas got a win for the Boston Bruins and Feb. 2 was the last start. So with a little over a month between starts Thomas wanted to prove that his team could still depend on the 2009

I guess you could say it was the worst possible timing for a performance like the Philadelphia Flyers gave during a  7-4 loss to the Florida Panthers on Wednesday night in Miami.  The team’s GM Paul Holmgren had stood pat as the NHL Trade Dealine came and went earlier in the day without the Flyers making as much as a ripple in the league’s ocean of activity.  Holmgren, who has pretty much tied his own hands with regards to the possibility of making any

Hello PuckDrop readers, and welcome to another article from your friendly, neighborhood Leafs fans over at LeafsWire. First off, we want to apologize that we didn’t continue our mini-series of articles leading up to trade deadline. We got sick, dealt with some school issues, and generally didn’t even update our own site. But hey, thats life. As you know, yesterday was the 2010 NHL Trade Deadline. After 3:00 PM,

In past years, the NHL trade deadline day was always a huge event in Philadelphia.  But since the commencement of the salary cap and an increasing number of No-Trade / No Movement Clauses in players’ contracts, today’s 3 PM deadline came and went without much ado for the Flyers. And that is not necessarily a bad thing. Last night the Orange and Black picked up right where they had left