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In a season where one of the participants in the Stanley Cup Finals needed a shootout goal in the last game of the regular season just to make the playoffs and completed a historic comeback by falling behind 3-0 in Game 7 all things are still possible.    Its just that after last night one wonders just how the Flyers can find a miracle large enough to cover this hole.   Its not that ...

Sometime in June an NHL team will be taking another picture just like this one. They will have arrived on top of the hockey mountain and fufilled a million dreams. Everyone whose team is still playing hockey this week thinks that it will be their team, their year. But the hockey gods have all sorts of tricks up their sleeves. Hot goalies, third line scoring heroes, and injuries all have ...

The Tampa Bay Lightning are the second most penalized team in the NHL.  They managed to add to their total only 40 seconds into their Sunday evening tilt with the Pittsburgh Penguins at The St. Pete Times Forum and nearly threw the balance of the Eastern Conference into chaos at the same time. Steve Downie's slew foot turned reverse figure four leg lock on Sidney Crosby would have blown out the ...

Alexander Ovechkin changed the face of the Stanley Cup playoffs a month before they begin with a single play on Sunday afternoon in Chicago.  His exploits are splashed across sports pages from here to Fairbanks this morning.  But like much of the publicity he has generated this season Ovechkin is in the headlines again for all of the wrong reasons. Ovechkin ended the season of the Chicago Blackhawks defenseman Brian Campbell ...

It happened again Sunday in Pittsburgh.  You knew it would.  Late in the third period Boston Bruins forward Marc Savard caught the puck in the Penguins zone about ten feet inside the blue line and prepared to launch a shot toward the Pens goal when Matt Cooke interrupted the proceedings with a shoulder to the right side of Savard's head.  While Savard did get the shot off, it's likely that he ...

Somewhere, Reggie Dunlop is spinning in his grave. In a scene straight out of the last reel of the classic hockey movie "Slapshot," Johnstown Chiefs owner and former New York Rangers GM Neil Smith announced that the team would move to Greenville, S.C., for the beginning of the 2010-2011 season.á Just as in the movie, the Chiefs died at the box office right along with a steel town whose economy had ...

In a sport where the season will drag into the middle of June nothing has been settled as of yet. There are the Olympics and a crowded second half schedule to be dealt with before a champion can be crowned. Anything remains possible but in the first half of the 2009-2010 season several teams have defied the odds and put themselves in contention while several others have put ...