nhl standings Stories - Hockey Wilderness
Ducks Gameday -- A cartoon that keeps on giving.
Minnesota Wild (13-11-4) at Anaheim Ducks (15-13-4), 5 pmHockey Wilderness and Anaheim Calling -- Where the Wild Wings are. You might not be terribly excited for this afternoon's Ducks-Wild matchup, and that's understandable at this point of the season -- in terms of "games above .500", these two...
Standings Watch: Can Panthers be out of league basement by Christmas?
With fifteen games played, the Panthers are almost through the first twenty percent of their season. As widely expected, the team does not have a stellar record so far, but there have been some encouraging signs. Although their record doesn't show it, they have only played two or three bad games in...
Despite Panthers record, Gord Murphy needs a (nice) canal named in his honor
In no way does a stat of this sort tell the whole story, though interesting nonetheless at the one-seventh point of the year: at this early stage, Florida is ranked 12th overall in the Eastern Conference (as of games through 11/07/10), but their goal-differential numbers weave a rather different...
A brief snapshot of frivolous absurdity
I've seen an astounding number of mainstream articles reading great meaning into the 2-0 start by Toronto, the 0-2 start by Pittsburgh and the 0-1-1 start by Chicago -- just to name a few. You know, because two games does a season make. I would link to them, but they don't deserve any more...
Tuesday/Wednesday: The Points You Blew, the Record You Need
The Good: Wings lose, Wild half-lose, Avs lose, Ducks lose, Stars lose, Canucks half-lose. The Bad: Flames win, Preds win, Canucks win, Kings half-lose, Yotes win (3pt all-rival game grrrrr). And as a result... Three points separate 3 from 6. Six points separate 7 from 10. Here are the...
Standings in Points-Blown Make It All So Clear
The Good: Canucks lose, Preds lose, Wild half-lose; (and last night) Stars lost, Avs lost. The Bad: Hawks win, Wings win, Flames win; (and last night) Kings lost, Preds won, Blues won, Yotes won, Sharks won. Yeah, so? Only 13 points separate 3rd from 13th. This would be why so many teams think...
Welcome Back Edition: Tuesday's Standings in Points-Blown
The Good: Kings win, Coyotes lose, Avs lose, Hawks lose, Stars lose, Sharks lose. The Bad: Wings win, Canucks win, Preds win. And that means what exactly? For one thing, the Kings are 7 points from the top of the conference, and 11 points from being out of the playoffs. We still have four fairly...
With playoff race heating up in the East, Bolts square off against the Anaheim Ducks (preview)
WHERE: St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, FloridaWHEN: 7:30 PM ESTMEDIA: Sun Sports (cable), 620 WDAE (radio)OPPONENT COVERAGE: Anaheim Calling, Battle of California Last time the Lightning and the Anaheim Ducks danced... No one in Tampa Bay saw it. The game wasn't televised in the Tampa Bay area and...
BoC Gameday -- Is the Western basement too lofty for the Eastern draft lottery?
Anaheim Ducks (13-13-7, t-14th in west) at San Jose Sharks (19-8-7, t-2nd in west), 7:30 pmAnaheim Calling for the birds, Fear The Fin for the fish. Some teams don't celebrate the season of Positivity, evidently. I brought this up in last night's comments, but here's the crazy accomplishment of...
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