Realignment pushed the Jets from the NHL’s Eastern Conference to the West in 2013-14 and the change did not suit the club with Winnipeg finishing last out of seven teams in the Central. Paul Maurice is back for his first […]
Also gone from Vancouver is general manager Mike Gillis, the man who made the ill-fated decision to fire head coach Alain Vigneault after the 2013 campaign and replace him with Tortorella. All Vigneault did in 2013-14 was take over the […]
Toronto’s big move came shortly after last season when it named Brendan Shanahan as the team’s president and alternate governor. The Hall of Fame winger left behind a job as the NHL’s director of player safety to try and help […]
Even though the postseason run ended shortly after it began with a four-game sweep at the hands of the Montreal Canadiens, there were plenty of positives to draw at the end of 2013-14. If anything, general manager Steve Yzerman, who […]
Losing to Chicago is understandable considering the Blackhawks entered the 2014 playoffs as defending Stanley Cup champions, but that’s probably of little consolation to Blues fans. After all, St. Louis has only won one playoff series since Ken Hitchcock took […]
For 11 straight seasons from the 1996-97 campaign through 2007-08 the Senators qualified for the playoffs, with the franchise’s high point coming in a trip to the 2007 Stanley Cup Finals. After missing the postseason in the spring of 2009, […]
The Flames are coming off a not-so-surprising 77-point season, the lowest for the club since it notched just 75 in 2002-03. And though Calgary would reach the Stanley Cup Finals the following spring a decade ago, the turnaround isn’t expected […]
Although New York lost several pieces from its Eastern Conference championship team in the offseason, the club still enters 2014-15 as one of the favorites to win the East. Vigneault instituted a new system in New York and it obviously […]
The three-time Stanley Cup champion and four-time Vezina Trophy-winning goaltender will no longer man the pipes for the Devils, and as of the start of October is still waiting for a call from someone. He’ll always have a prominent place […]
However, recent history hasn’t been kind to either the Isles or the Coliseum. The building derisively known as “The Mausoleum” is the most maligned arena in major professional sports, and the team it houses is usually nothing to rave about […]