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While we watch the first round action of the 2010 NHL Playoffs, and see the number of teams fighting for the Stanley Cup drop to eight, most of our teams are fighting to get par on the local golf course. Excitment is high, but it's always nice to test your hockey knowledge, or superficial tendencies if you will. If you watch a lot of postgame interviews, or oddly pay attention to players' ...

A few years ago you could always joke about the San Jose Sharks bowing out early in the playoffs. Now, it's no laughing matter and the only explanation to the Sharks significant drop in play from the regular season to the postseason is that they're cursed. The Sharks take a lot of flack for being playoff underachievers, but if we look across the nation to Jersey, there's another team that hasn't ...

Four days, thirteen games, ten one goal games (add in two more if you exclude empty net goals). Not much more you can ask for. A few years ago, this would almost be unheard of. Especially in the first round Most of the series have been nodded up one to one, but I think it's clear the salary cap is doing it's job. Before the salary cap came into effect, you could ...

Before we get to see the 16 best teams in the National Hockey League fight it out for the Stanley Cup, we get to see which of the not so great teams will pick first in the 2010 NHL draft in June. Only the five worst teams get a shot at choosing first. These teams, in order, are: The Edmonton Oilers (48.2 percent chance of selecting first)(25 percent of winning outright) The Boston ...

The season is not done, but with seven games left and six points back of the Avalanche, it is not looking likely the Flames will be among the top eight teams in the West. Detroit, Los Angeles and Nashville could all be caught, but the chances Calgary will catch any of those teams is slim to none. (I had to edit this paragraph, as today the surging Wings hopped all ...

Like most NHL goaltenders taken in the first round of the entry draft, Jonathan Bernier had immediate expectations thrust upon him—especially for a franchise who hasn't really had a good goalie since the turn of the century in Felix Potvin and Roman Cechmanek. But sometimes these expectations can really take a toll on these goalies. Sometimes when a rookie goalie comes in and wins a few games immense ...

Ironic of sorts. At a time I work on this slideshow, one thing the Flames could use is an elite centre. This season a lot of centres have had a shot at centering the top line with Jarome Iginla. A lot of centres have failed at centering the top line with Jarome Iginla. Currently it's Matt Stajan, but right now the Flames could use any of the guys on this ...

It's called Christmas Eve for a reason. Maybe not this year because of the Olympics (which were unbeliveable by the way) and a lot of big fish moving pre-deadline ( Kovalchuk, Phaneuf) but this trade deadline still has a lot of potential. Coast to coast some Canadian teams have similar philosophies heading into the deadline, and some have very different philosophies. Here's whats up with the six Canadian NHL teams heading into ...

There's always at least one player in every sports draft that will take a fall from where they were projected to get draftedùusually for a reason. Seen in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, highly touted Russian defenseman Dmitry Kulikov fell into the Florida Panthers' lap at the 14th spot of the draft. Most experts agreed the drop was due to the always present possibility of the player feeling homesick and going ...