Bono praises Mike Fisher's milestone with Proclaimers tune (Video) The Nashville Predators gave center Mike Fisher quite the ceremony for reaching 1,000 games.  Fisher reached the mark on March 3, but the team waited until Monday's game to note his accomplishment. This included a pre-game celebration before Nashville's win over the Los Angeles Kings with his wife, country music star Carrie … [Read more...]

AHLer scores goal of the year candidate with lacrosse move (Video) Not long after their parent clubs played one another, the AHL’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins beat the Hershey Bears in a wild 6-5 overtime game. Long before Will O’Neill was the game’s hero, Penguins forward Kael Mouillierat opened the scoring in quite unique fashion. Just 111 seconds into the game, Mouillierat pulled the … [Read more...]

NHL Playoff Death Watch: Penguins gunning for home ice in Metro Since we're down to the final moments of postseason life for teams in contention, Puck Daddy solemnly begins a daily countdown to annihilation. Remember when the Pittsburgh Penguins lost Evgeni Malkin and the Philadelphia Flyers were surging and many felt there was a chance the Pens would tumble down the standings?  Well, expect … [Read more...]

What We Learned: Dan Girardi is an embarrassment for Rangers (Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it.) If you were paying attention in 2014, when Dan Girardi signed his six-year, $33 million … [Read more...]

Pens look like contenders after routing Caps For the first two two months of the 2015-16 season the Pittsburgh Penguins were a broken hockey team. They were not only sliding down the Eastern Conference standings, but they had the look of a team that lacked any kind of clear identity, had a flawed roster, and were not only losing more games than they were used to in recent years, but were also ... … [Read more...]

NHL Three Stars: Wedgewood's first win; Pens quiet Caps; Ducks down Jets No. 1 Star: Scott Wedgewood, New Jersey Devils Congrats to Wedgewood for starting in and winning his first career NHL game. Wedgewood played in the second of a home-and-home against the Columbus Blue Jackets earning his first win with 27 saves. No. 2 Star: Trevor Daley, Pittsburgh Penguins In the 6-2 rout of the … [Read more...]

Capitals' Weber boards Rust in rout; suspension coming? (Video) The game was already way out of hand when Washington Capitals defenseman Mike Weber laid the hit above on Pittsburgh Penguins forward Bryan Rust. Weber was quickly tossed from the game with a 10 minute misconduct and a five minute major penalty for boarding. Pittsburgh's Tom Kuhnhackl was also sent packing with a two-minute … [Read more...]

Jets' gaffe leads to easy OT winner for Ducks The Winnipeg Jets are currently in last place in the Western Conference. Sunday afternoon against the Anaheim Ducks, we got a good reminder as to why they're there. After playing a really strong game against Anaheim through 60 minutes of regulation, they almost made it out of overtime with a chance to go to the shootout. It didn't work out that … [Read more...]

NHL Playoff Death Watch: Islanders dip to the wild card Since we're down to the final moments of postseason life for teams in contention, Puck Daddy solemnly begins a daily countdown to annihilation.  The New York Islanders’ loss to the (Tyler Seguin-less) Dallas Stars on Saturday night allowed the Pittsburgh Penguins to leapfrog them into the No. 3 seed in the Metro Division, and knocked … [Read more...]

NCAA 2016 men’s hockey tournament bracket drops The bracket for that other March Madness dropped on Sunday, as the NCAA Div. I men’s ice hockey tournament draw was revealed.  Here’s a look at the Road To Tampa Bay, which still sounds weird even if the Frozen Four is going to be an awesome event down there: (Via the NCAA) The final brackets match the final bracket projections of College … [Read more...]