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2013 NHL Draft Rankings – Last Chance to Make a Move
THG 2013 NHL Draft Collage
The top of The Hockey Guys’ 2013 NHL Draft April Rankings remains virtually untouched for the second straight month as Portland Winterhawks’ defenseman sits atop the rankings at first. Trailing Jones are Halifax Moosehead teammates Jonathan Drouin and Nathan MacKinnon followed by high potential Finnish forward Aleksander “Sasha” Barkov. After recently...
Bruins Sign Carl Soderberg To Three Year Contract
By Mitch Cole (@DirtyWaterBuzz)
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Bruins General Manager Peter Chiarelli announced today that the team has officially signed Swedish forward Carl Soderberg to a three year contract. The deal is worth an annual cap hit of $1M and is a one way contract.
“We are very excited to get a player like Carl at this stage of the season. I would like to thank the President of the...
Why It Really Doesn’t Matter How The Buffalo Sabres Finish The Rest Of The Season
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By: Connor Nielen (@ConnorNielen)
As they traipse through the final stretch of their abbreviated 2013 schedule, consecutive regulation losses to Winnipeg and Montreal (by a combined margin of seven goals, at that) have all but mathematically eliminated the Buffalo Sabres from playoff contention.
SportsClubStats.com, a widely visited website...
Petr Straka Signs with the Philadelphia Flyers
By Dustin Leed (@D_LEED)
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Petr Straka wants to bring a different element to the Philadelphia Flyers.
Pure skill and speed.
“My best skill would be skating,” Straka told The Hockey Guys Friday afternoon. “I can use my speed and I like to use my speed.”
“I can use my hands with (the speed), too,” he added. “When I score goals I need the hands to do that...
Swedish Ice Hockey Federation Blocks Bruins’ Deal with Carl Soderberg
By Mitch Cole (@DirtyWaterBuzz)
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Just when the Bruins thought they were going to add one final piece to their forward corps, Sweden decided to object.
Just days after Carl Soderberg signed a three year, $2.6M contract with the Bruins and secured his release from his Swedish team, Linkoping HC, the Swedish Ice Hockey Federation chose to block the move.
The Bruins first...
New Jersey Devils Set For Pivotal Clash With The Boston Bruins
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By Kristin Tullo (@K_Tullo)
The New Jersey Devils are both two points away from joining 16 teams in the Stanley Cup Playoffs and two points away from falling into 11th and increasing their odds of joining the other 14 teams for the first-overall draft pick in June. So with the clock ticking on their fate, it may not be too early to...
Lack of Production from Key Players Creating Woes for New Jersey Devils
By Kristin Tullo (@K_Tullo)
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It’s been the tale of two teams for the New Jersey Devils.
The team coming off a Stanley Cup run which began the shortened season with an 8-1-3 record and the team in the latter part of the season that is now riding their second six-game losing streak of the year.
Their decline began when Martin Brodeur was sidelined with a back injury and...
Detroit Red Wings: Winged-wheeling and (Not) Dealing
By Rhys Richards (@RREsq)
Paul Sancya
Another Trade Deadline has come and gone.
While the Detroit Red Wings moved their first round pick for defenseman Kyle Quincey last season, the past several seasons have been relatively quiet for the organization. This season, Detroit made no deals before the 3 pm deadline on Wednesday, though the team did sign highly sought after college defenseman...
OHL Draft: Exceptional Sean Day Selected 4th Overall
Travis Konecny selected 1st overall by the Ottawa 67′s! (Photo courtesy of Mike Carroccetto, Ottawa Citizen)
By: Matthew Burnside (@MattBTHG)
With the 1st selection in the 2013 Ontario Priority Selection, the Ottawa 67′s select Travis Konecny from the Elgin Middlesex Chiefs. The Ottawa 67′s opted to select Travis (Alliance Player of the Year) after recording an astonishing...
Blue Jackets Mean Business, Land Marian Gaborik
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By Tim Lucarelli (@tlucarelli)
A few days before the trade deadline, the consensus was that most of the big fish had already been moved – Jay Bouwmeester, Ryane Clowe, Jaromir Jagr, Derek Roy, Jarome Iginla, and Brenden Morrow. But Columbus GM Jarmo Kekalainen – who had been relatively quiet since being named GM on February 13th – was ready...
Boston Bruins Acquire Jaromir Jagr From Dallas
By Mitch Cole (@DirtyWaterBuzz)
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The Bruins may have lost out on Jarome Iginla, but they did get the next best player on the market.
Tuesday afternoon, the Bruins announced that they had acquired veteran forward Jaromir Jagr from the Dallas Stars in exchange for forward Lane MacDermid, the rights to unsigned draft pick Cody Payne, and a conditional second round pick that...
Nathan Horton Comes Up Big As Bruins Defeat Senators
By Mitch Cole (@DirtyWaterBuzz)
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Nathan Horton seems to have a real knack for scoring big goals in clutch moments. Tuesday night was yet another example of this ability.
After falling behind 1-0 early on, the Bruins came back with two quick strikes by David Krejci and Tyler Seguin, respectively, to put Boston up 2-1.
The Bruins continued to play well throughout the game...
2013 OHL Playoffs: Western Conference Preview and Predictions – Round 2
After Todd Cordell and I both predicted six of eight opening series correctly, we return to preview and predict the conference semi-final match-ups slated to begin Wednesday, April 3rd as Barrie and Oshawa take the ice in game one. This release will feature the Western Conference Semi-Final Previews and Predictions that feature the top four seeds including London Knights (1...
2013 OHL Playoffs: Eastern Conference Preview and Predictions – Round 2
Photo courtesy of Aaron Bell / OHL Images
By Todd Cordell (@ToddCordell)
Belleville Bulls (1) vs. Sudbury Wolves (5)
Season series: 3-1 Belleville
Key players: Alan Quine (Bulls), Brendan Gaunce (Bulls), Jordan Subban (Bulls), Malcolm Subban (Bulls), Mathew Campagna (Wolves), Nick Baptiste (Wolves), Nathan Pancel (Wolves), Franky Palazzese (Wolves)
X-Factors: Goaltending as well...
Montreal Canadiens Spotlight: Bergevin’s Trade Deadline Options
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By James Stephan (@J_Habs)
The Montreal Canadiens are currently sitting second in the Eastern Conference, with only the juggernaut Penguins ahead of them. The trade deadline approaches fast and the impression around the league is that GM Marc Bergevin has been working the phones feverishly since the beginning of the season.
While the Canadiens...
Flyers Acquire Kent Huskins From Red Wings
via NHL.com
While the Philadelphia Flyers are expected to be sellers at the deadline, the team desperately needed depth at Defensemen. With Braydon Coburn and Andrej Meszaros out for the year, Philadelphia has acquired Kent Huskins from the Detroit Red Wings. The compensation is a conditional 7th round draft pick in 2014.
The 33 year old Huskins was without a team until after...
Bruins Lose Out on Jarome Iginla, Now Look to Other Potential Trade Targets
By Mitch Cole (@DirtyWaterBuzz)
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Wednesday was a whirlwind night in Boston.
Just when the Bruins thought they had acquired Flames legend Jarome Iginla in a trade, Calgary called them back and broke the news; Iginla was a Penguin, not a Bruin.
It’s one of the strangest situations NHL fans have seen in a very long time. Multiple reports throughout the night indicated...
NCAA Tournament: Midwest Regional Preview
By Andrew Weiss (@WeissFC)
In terms of toughness, the Midwest Regional is hand in hand as tough as the deep Northeast Regional to get out of. It is uncommon to see a team that won a share of the strongest league’s title receive a four seed, but that is the case with St. Cloud who plays Notre Dame Saturday afternoon.
Saturday’s matchups also add intrigue in that the regional pairs...
NCAA Tournament: West Regional Preview
Kyle Rau (WCHA.com), Rocco Grimaldi (UNDSports.com), Kenny Agostino (Yale Daily Sports), Casen Chubak (Buffalo News)
By Andrew Weiss (@WeissFC)
While the West Regional features four teams who received at large bids to this year’s tournament, there is no shortage of high end talent. Traditional hockey powers Minnesota and North Dakota combine for 29 NHL Draft picks and have the...
NCAA Tournament: Northeast Regional Preview
Jake McCabe (Collegehockeyinc.com), Nick Shore, WCHA.com, Riley Wetmore (Gretchen Ertl-Boston Globe), Brett Pesce (Futureconsiderations.ca)
By Andrew Weiss (@WeissFC)
Twenty-six weeks of college hockey games have come and gone and just two weekends of the season remain. This Friday kicks off the second to last weekend with four first round games taking place. Of those games are the...
Jarome Iginla: The End Of An Era In Calgary
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By Ryan Holmer (@ProspectReport)
Talk about a confusing night. I shut off my computer, and phone at 1:00 am on Wednesday, March 27th with the thought that Iginla to the Bruins was essentially completed. Conflicting reports had been surfacing all night on the Twitter-verse, but general consensus was that Iginla was indeed going to Boston. When I woke up this morning,...
Jarome Iginla: A Look At The Calgary Flames’ Options
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By: Christian Roatis (@CRoatis)
The list has been submitted – or so say the juggernauts of mainstream media, TSN and RDS. On that list are said to be 4 teams: the Pittsburgh Penguins, the Boston Bruins, the Los Angeles Kings and the Chicago Blackhawks. What do those teams have in common? First of off, they are the last four teams to hoist Lord...
Free $300 Fantasy Hockey Night with DraftStreet.com
We’ve partnered up again with Draftstreet for another free one-night only fantasy hockey competition with $300 in prizes to the top-15 finishers exclusively for The Hockey Guys readers.
We hooked up with Draftstreet two weeks ago, but we’ll give you a reminder on how to play.
Pretty simple — it’s a salary cap league where everyone tries to assemble the best team out of the...
Philadelphia Flyers Sign College Free Agent Kyle Flanagan
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By Jake Pavorsky (@JakePavorsky)
As the NCAA hockey season begins to wrap up, many college prospects are on the hunt for NHL teams to call home. In Kyle Flanagan‘s case, the Philadelphia Flyers were more than happy to oblige. According to TSN’s Bob McKenzie, Philadelphia has come to terms with Flanagan, who spent the last four years at St. Lawrence Unviersity...
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