Love is in the air this Valentine’s Day, but no so much in the NHL these days. After a fight filled week of Bruins-Canadiens, Islanders-Penguins and Wild-Blues, suspensions, tempers and emotions are running at a high in the NHL. Even one of the greats of the league is not happy at what is happening around [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Minnesota Wild’
NHL Hat Trick: Holiday Shopping For Some NHL Teams
Monday, December 6th, 2010 Written by: Eric SutterHoliday shopping has begun and as mall parking lots become a hazard zone people search high and low for that perfect gift for their special someone. So in the spirit of the holiday shopping in this week’s Pucking Awesome Hat Trick we will take a look at what is on some teams wish lists. The [...]
Between the Pipes NHL Recap and Analysis Week 4
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 Written by: Alex MuellerRecap of Week 4 in the 2010-11 NHL Season. Including Goalie Spotlight, Fights of the Week, Goat of the Week, Things I Like, Things I Don’t, This Week in Hockey History, Stat Line of the Week, Did You Know, Quote of the Week, Numbers Numbers and Rankings.
Fantasy Focus: Worth It Or Not? Some NHL Waiver Wire Advice After Week 1
Tuesday, October 19th, 2010 Written by: Eric SutterOne week into the season and you are either loving your draft a top the standings or scouring the waiver wire trying to reconfigure a new team to compete. Either way the waiver wire and your current roster is full of hits and misses so lets break the forwards down Pucking Awesome style. Pick Up [...]
2010-11 Pucking Awesome NHL Preview: Northwest Division
Thursday, September 16th, 2010 Written by: Alex MuellerThe Northwest division is one of the most exciting in the NHL. It features half of the Canadian teams in the NHL and the always exciting battle of Alberta. It also features the longest divisional trip in Vancouver to Minnesota, just edging out the San Jose to Dallas trip. The Canucks have locked up the [...]
Weekend Warriors – April 1st
Thursday, April 1st, 2010 Written by: Eric SutterThe calendar has flip to April and the playoff races are heating up, with only a few games remaining here at Pucking Awesome we wanted to introduce a new segment called the Weekend Warriors. Next year it will be mostly focused towards fantasy, but with most leagues headed into their fantasy finals we will look [...]
NHL Fantasy Hockey Focus: The Blue-Line Special
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010 Written by: Eric SutterThe biggest difference between an average and contending fantasy team could be the most overlooked positions on a fantasy team, the defensemen. The back-line players that dominant the much-needed categories of plus/minus, power-play points, and penalty minutes are hard to come by but important to have on a successful team. So in this week’s fantasy [...]
FANTASY FOCUS: Waiver Wire Team
Monday, January 18th, 2010 Written by: Eric SutterThe Olympic break is slowly creeping up on Fantasy owners. As the break hits, this will be a good measuring stick, as teams stuff games into a short time period, to see how your team stacks up. So to help owners out, we will look at some of the best Waiver Wire pickups to gather [...]
THE HAT TRICK WEEK 10
Sunday, December 6th, 2009 Written by: Eric SutterThe season has officially started we had our first NHL coach firing; I will have more about that later, and the league also made Alex Ovechkin angry this week by handing out a two-game suspension for his knee-to-knee hit. I was glad to see the NHL suspend the Russian for the hit, for all his [...]
FANTASY FOCUS: Week 7
Monday, November 16th, 2009 Written by: Eric SutterThe bigger the risk the higher the reward in this week’s Pucking Awesome Fantasy Focus.
Between the Pipes
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 Written by: Alex MuellerRecapping week 3 of the NHL season pucking awesome style.
Northwest Division Preview
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009 Written by: Eric SutterWe start our whirlwind tour through the league out West. We seem to have a two horse race between the Vancouver Canucks and the Calgary Flames, with both teams going defensive in the offseason. We will break it down by first looking at last season’s biggest accomplishments or, what we like to call, the Rear View Mirror. Then we move along to the Ins and Outs; what each team picked up (with some key stats) and what they lost (the one key stat that will be missed) in the offseason. We have to throw in What Makes Them Tick (the Strength of the team) and What Could Make Them Go Boom (what could derail them from finishing below what I predict.) Finally we finish it off with the Player to Watch and Predictions for the upcoming season. Now, let’s look at the teams of the Northwest Division from top to bottom, according to my picks.
