After a 7-3 victory on Thursday night against the Vancouver Canucks, Toronto Maple Leafs head coach Sheldon Keefe told reporters that the greatest challenge this year is to beat the same team in back-to-back games….
Stories about goalies being a touch unusual are not just part of hockey folklore, they are very much a reality throughout the game’s past and present. Eddie Lack has one you may have never heard. …
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Although a lockout may benefit the quality of play in Canadian major junior hockey in the short-term due to the influx of more mature, NHL-ready talent, a work stoppage in the “show” is not welcome in the eyes of many CHL executives.
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After a disappointing Game 7 loss to the Boston Bruins in last year’s cup final, the organization went in to the off-season with the ‘if it ain’t broke, why fix it’ mentality. They lost Ehrhoff to the Buffalo Sabres via free agency, but look to youngster Chris Tanev to step in on the blue line. Vancouver will need to overcome injuries to forwards Ryan Kesler (hip), Mason Raymond (back) and Mikael Samuelsson (abdominals) to start the season, but with their depth they should be able to cope.
A long 82-game season and two intense months of playoff hockey came down to just one game for the right to hoist hockey’s Holy Grail, a right claimed by the Boston Bruins. At bars across Toronto last night, the beer flowed and servers were kept busy as fans of the Vancouver Canucks and the Bruins lifted mugs of a different sort.
The Boston Bruins blanked the Vancouver Canucks 4-0 at Rogers Arena to earn the franchise’s first Stanley Cup since Bobby Orr’s team in 1972.
One city will celebrate the end of a long Stanley Cup drought while another will be left to wonder what could have been.