After what can only be described as the most boring offseason in history (despite the creation of our brand new team), the NHL is finally almost ready to spring it’s patented brand of fun mixed with chronic stupidity on its unsuspecting fanbase (the NHL sounds a lot like Hockeenight now that I think about it). […]
Holy shit, I can’t believe I’m doing this again. If you’re reading this website for any kind of analysis for this game, you’ve come to the wrong place. Due to the torrential rainfall in the Chicago area, I spent every game stoppage sprinting down to my basement to make sure that my sump pump was […]
So now we’ve been through five games, and at no time in this series has there been a lead of more than one goal. Tonight the Chicago Blackhawks went into Amalie Arena in Tampa and ended the game with their third one goal lead of the series, winning 2-1 and leaving them one win from […]
Holee-SHIT. If Game 3 was frustrating, Game 4 was stroke inducing. Tonight the Lightning seemed a step faster, to pass better, and to be right on top of every Hawk that had the puck. And they lost. So, the teams go back to Tampa tied, and play a 3 game series for the Stanley Cup. […]
The Chicago Blackhawks came into the United Center for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final having done what they needed to do, taking home ice advantage away from the Tampa Bay Lightning and reducing the series to a best-of-five. So they had the Lightning where they wanted them – They had them coming into […]
Well, that was disappointing. When the Hawks got a 2-1 lead, I was sure they were going to win. When they tied the game 3 again, I thought they were going to win. And when they pulled Crow in the last 2 minutes against a backup goaler, I was sure they were going to send […]
So, it’s the Stanley Cup Final now. After what seemed like an interminable amount of waiting, back-slapping interviews, and Steve Yzerman gushing about Jonathan Toews, it was time to put all that shit aside and play some hockey. Anyway, the game went like this: Tampa game out fast, seemed to get all the “puck […]
Now that the Chicago Blackhawks have advanced to the Stanley Cup Final to meet the Tampa Bay Lightning, we once again call upon the analytic skills of the Hockeenight Mathletes. So while they weren’t happy being taken frm their Silicon Valley cosplay (everyone wants to be Gilfoyle), they’ve once again crunched numbers for us:
Tonight marked the one and only time Jeff Spicoli look-alike Steven Stamkos and the high-flying Tampa Bay Lightning visited the United Center this season, barring a Stanley Cup Final. As Pat Foley told us countless times during this game, the Lightning’s power play is the third best in the NHL while the Hawks’s penalty kill […]
Now that the Chicago Blackhawks have loaned the Stanley Cup to Los Angeles for the year, it’s time for us to once again peruse the various also-rans in the NHL before the Hawks get down to the formality of reclaiming the Cup in June 2015. We continue our series with the Tampa Bay Lightning.