08 February, 2012

Category Archives: Northeast Division

Some Home Cookin' This Week Could Be Caps' Big Gain

If the Capitals play focused and disciplined and hard during their three home games this week against three beleagured opponents they will have a terrific opportunity to make up some serious ground on first-in-the-East Boston.
Montreal, Colorado, and Pittsburgh — all once-proud teams that have been seriously struggling as of late — visit Verizon Center this week. All of these teams had reasonably high hopes quite recently; the Penguins were picked by many to return to the Stanley Cup Finals and to be a serious contender and even to win it all, while Montreal was thought by many to be Pittsburgh’s toughest competition in the East. Colorado was not too long ago a rough and tough and Cup-contending franchise, and they certainly hoped to make the playoffs this season. Now all three will be lucky to finish above .500 this season. On top of their losing ways all of these teams have some of the ugliest season stats in the league.

OFB Season Preview

What would a band of hockey bloggers be without predictions for the new NHL season? We don’t claim to possess either a crystal ball or spy’s eyes inside the training camps of 29 other clubs, but we thought it might be helpful to our readers to compile a list of offseason (and late last season) [...]

The Arms' Race in the Atlantic

A compelling early storyline on the 2007 free agent season is the arms’ race†within the Atlantic division — wildly resembling the free-spending days previous to the NHL’s 2004 lockout — while the Northeast division appears content to be picked clean. The Flyers and GM Paul Holmgren signaled†their intention of expensively revamping their roster ahead of [...]

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