NHL
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Brown vs. Newbury — 10/27/11
The award for most unlikely fight of the night goes to Brad Marchand of the Boston Bruins and P.K. Subban of the Montreal Canadiens, as these two young stars showed that their hands can do more than just put the puck in the net. Although, I guess there is nothing unlikely about any fight that [...]
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Ilya Bryzgalov: “I’m Terrible And I Have Zero Confidence” (Video)
While every member of the media appreciates a player who gives their honest opinion during an interview, I am quite certain that the last thing any goaltender’s teammates would want to hear is their $5.67-million netminder admit that he is terrible and has zero confidence. After last night’s game, Philadelphia Flyers goalie Ilya Bryzgalov did [...]
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Tomas Plekanec Wins Faceoff Into His Own Net (Video)
Montreal Canadiens center Tomas Plekanec didn’t have himself the greatest of nights in the faceoff circle during yesterday’s game against the Boston Bruins. In addition to winning only nine of the 20 draws he attempted, one of those wins just to happened to end up in the back of his own net. Seeing as how [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — One From The ECHL — 10/26/11
There were three games in the NHL last night and not one of them produced a single fight. That left us digging deep for our “Frozen Fisticuffs Fight of the Night” for Wednesday, October 26, 2011. We finally found our winner, and it comes from an East Coast Hockey League match-up between the Gwinnett Gladiators [...]
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Picture Of The Day: Zdeno Chara As A Pink Bunny Is Frightening
In an act of good faith, Zdeno Chara, Brad Marchand, Adam McQuaid and Jordan Caron dressed up in their Halloween costumes and paid a visit to the Children’s Hospital in Boston in order to cheer up some of the patients on Tuesday. We aren’t quite sure who came up with the costume ideas, but somehow [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Kaleta vs. Downie — 10/25/11
Steve Downie of the Tampa Bay Lightning and Patrick Kaleta of the Buffalo Sabres are two players that many enforcers around the league would love to get their hands on. It therefore must have made many NHLers happy to see these two on-ice-pests beat the crap out of each other during the first period of [...]
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Picture Of The Day: Jonas Hiller’s Movember Goalie Mask
It is almost Movember, which means several men around the world will begin to grow their mustaches from scratch in an effort to raise awareness on men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and depression. Approximately 150 players in the NHL took part in the Movember movement last year, as they sported their dusters on [...]
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Patrick Kane Delivers A Perfect Spin-O-Rama Pass (Video)
Trailing 1-0 midway through the second period, the Chicago Blackhawks were in need of a goal. While they likely would have settled for a garbage goal that banked off a few players and took a favorable bounce into the back of the Anaheim Ducks’ net, Patrick Kane and Marian Hossa provided us with something that [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Prust vs. Glass — 10/24/11
There was only one fight in the NHL last night, but it was a good one. It came only a few minutes into a game between the New York Rangers and Winnipeg Jets, as Brandon Prust and Tanner Glass exchanged punches for an action-packed 50 seconds of fisticuffs. The Rangers and the Jets aren’t exactly [...]
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John Tortorella Is Master Of The Post-Game Press Conference (Video)
Following a 2-0 loss to the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday night, New York Rangers head coach John Tortorella was not in the mood to discuss his team’s poor play. So rather than stand around and answer question from the media regarding what went wrong and what needs to be fixed, he had the following to [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Boulton Knocks Out Murray — 10/21/11
After taking the weekend off, we often try to look back at the fights that take place in the NHL throughout Friday, Saturday and Sunday night when providing you with our “Fight of the Night” every Monday. This time around our search has taken us all the way back to Friday’s slate of games, as [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Tootoo vs. Volpatti — 10/20/11
At 5-foot-9, 199-pounds, Nashville Predators forward Jordin Tootoo may not be the most imposing figure on the ice, but don’t let that fool you. Those punches still have plenty of power behind them. Vancouver Canucks forward Aaron Volpatti may have been fooled by Tootoo’s size when he dropped the gloves with him during the second [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — McCormick vs. Moen — 10/18/11
Whenever division rivals hook up in the NHL, their games always tend to be a little more chippy than usual, as players from both teams find themselves playing with more emotion than usual. Last night’s game between the Montreal Canadiens and the Buffalo Sabres was no different. In addition to all of the pushing, shoving [...]
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Jamie Benn Gives Us This Early Candidate For “Goal Of The Year” (Video)
After recording 22 goals in each of his first two seasons in the NHL, there was plenty of buzz surrounding 22-year-old Jamie Benn heading into the 2011-12 season. Through the first six games of the season, the Dallas Stars’ forward has done a good job living up to that hype. Benn has five points already [...]
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NHL 12 Glitch Results In Homoerotic On-Ice Moment (Video)
Every year EA Sports has quite the difficult task, as they attempt to bring every hockey fan closer to their fantasy of laying in the NHL but creating as realistic a video game as they possible can. They have done a great job of accomplishing such a feat, as the graphics and game-play of the [...]
