Looking out for #1: How Eric Lindros showed the way for modern NHL players
Doing what is best for yourself comes first for NHL players, says Peter Adler BY PETER ADLER The Cult of Hockey @ The Edmonton Journal Do you remember June 21, 1991? Not only was it the eve of the 50th...
View ArticleAnaheim’s Bobby Ryan flies Ducks’ coop to Ottawa
Twenty or so ruminations on a busy, busy free-agent few days to steal a page from CBC’s Elliotte Friedman’s excellent 30 Thoughts blog: *Daniel Alfredsson, who will have his No. 11 hanging from the...
View ArticleBrian Burke says what’s on his mind and people don’t like it
I have to admit, I had Bobby Ryan making my USA Olympic team. The kid can play and he can score and even though he wasn’t up on the historical significance of the Legion of Doom a few years back when...
View ArticleCanada can’t afford to not have exuberant Subban on Olympic team
If you thought there was an outcry when Bobby Ryan (four 30-goal seasons) didn’t make Team USA for the Sochi Olympics, watch the shots blowing hard if P.K. Subban doesn’t make Canada’s squad. But it...
View ArticleShorts shifts: Oilers can go Faulk or Subban routes for new Justin Schultz deal
- If the Edmonton Oilers give Justin Schultz a long-term deal like they did Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins and Jordan Eberle, they’ll probably use Carolina Hurricanes defenceman Justin Faulk’s new...
View ArticleCanucks’ Kesler perfect fit as shutdown centre for Ducks
Mathieu Perreault is a good little cheap centre who did some nice things as the guy behind Anaheim Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf, but as sure as the Zamboni comes out every period to resurface the ice at...
View ArticleOttawa Senators goalie will have more on mind than stopping Oilers shots
It’s early in the NHL season, just one-tenth gone, but the points don’t devalue from October to, say, March. Two points now is two points in the bank, so the Edmonton Oilers want the roll to continue....
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