Tag Archive | "Benoit Pouliot"
Nightly Scrap: Another shutout; Dubinsky leads League in goals?
The New York Rangers bounced back from a 4-1 loss against their rival Philadelphia Flyers to beat the snakebitten New Jersey Devils 3-0. This win proved especially important for the team as they not only avoided back-to-back losses but they also stayed within range of the first place Flyers. Even more interesting was the two [...]
Continue reading...Nightly Scrap: Flyers, Bobrovsky win again at Consol
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Sergei Bobrovsky won his second game at the Consol Energy Center as the Flyers overtook the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2. After defenseman Kris Letang took a first period lead, Philadelphia would fire back with three straight goals– with two coming from Claude Giroux. With 45 seconds left in the game Tyler Kennedy added a goal for [...]
Continue reading...Habs searching for the right mix
Friday, October 15, 2010
The Habs’ coaching staff has seen some positive signs during the first three games of the season, some grit and passion, unfortunately many negatives have surfaced as well including undisciplined play and lack of scoring. Coach Martin will shuffle around the lines tonight to try to get better production from Les Habitants. Benoit Pouliot will [...]
Continue reading...Fantasy Season in Review: Montreal Canadiens
Saturday, July 24, 2010
Offensive Corps: Tomas Plekanec led all Montreal Canadiens in scoring this past season, with his breakout campaign. Although he did not establish career highs in goals — which he did back in 2007-2008 with Alexei Kovalev and Andrei Kostitsyn sniping on both sides of him — every other category got a boost. Somehow Plekanec managed [...]
Continue reading...Minnesota Wild Lock-up Their Star
Thursday, July 1, 2010
At a point last season, Guillaume Latendresse toiled on the third and fourth lines in Montreal. Overwhelmed by the media and the inability to improve his season totals, the young Quebecois struggled with the Canadiens only posting three points in his first 23 games. Then Minnesota Wild GM Chuck Fletcher came calling, offering a my [...]
Continue reading...The State of the Habs
Monday, February 8, 2010
At 4 PM EST the Montreal Canadiens will announce their GM Bob Gainey stepping down. According to TSN’s Bob McKenzie, Pierre Gauthier will take over as his replacement. What does this mean for the team? The Habs will play without top goal scorer Mike Cammalleri and fourth goal leading scorer Andrei Kostitsyn until after the [...]
Continue reading...Minnesota Feeling the Tenderness…
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
It’s been about a month and a half since the Wild acquired Guilluame Latendresse from the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for former Wild first round draft pick Benoit Pouliot and about a month since I wrote about Guilluame’s first couple of weeks as a member of the Wild. Well, in the last month Latendresse has [...]
Continue reading...Some Fresh Faces in Minny
Thursday, December 10, 2009
We all knew the 2009-10 season was going to mean some big changes for the Minnesota Wild. What we couldn’t have known is that a team with some already daunting challenges was going to be further tested by having to overcome numerous injuries. From a slew of concussions (Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Petr Sykora, Brent Burns), a [...]
Continue reading...Under Review: Nov 23—Nov 30
Monday, November 30, 2009
As November ends and the daunting specter of Christmas shopping rises in the oh-so-immediate future, even the NHL is stuck in its “just get it done” phase, with a pretty quiet week of news behind us. Though in “say whaaaat?” news, the Leafs are actually playing well (and getting points for it), and players aren’t [...]
Continue reading...Short Shifts
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Notable lineup happenings from around the NHL: Kings wings Ryan Smyth (upper-body) will not play tonight and will be out “longer than that, for sure,” according to Terry Murray. We will update you when we know more about the injury. Alexander Frolov will move onto the top line. Kings Lineup UPDATE: Smyth is expected to [...]
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Saturday, November 6, 2010
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