The 2011 NHL Awards are taking place tonight in Sin City.  Below is who I believe will win each award. Hart Memorial Trophy Winner: Corey Perry (ANA) Vezina Trophy Winner: Tim Thomas (BOS) James Norris Trophy Winner: Nicklas Lidstrom (DET) Calder Memorial Trophy Winner: Logan Couture (SJS) Lady Byng Memorial Trophy Winner: Martin St. Louis [...]

Tim Thomas has done just about everything a goalie is capable of doing throughout the Bruins’ 2011 quest for Lord Stanley’s Cup.  The 37-year-old netminder is a finalist for this year’s Vezina Trophy, and he’s been going head-to-head with fellow Vezina finalist Roberto Luongo during the last four game of the Stanley Cup Finals.  The [...]

Just when you thought the Vancouver Canucks learned a lesson their thug mentality came out, once again, early on in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Finals.  Vancouver’s blueliner Aaron Rome sent Boston’s Nathan Horton to the hospital on a stretcher after a hit-to-the-head in the open ice of Vancouver’s defensive zone.  Vancouver’s Alex Burrows [...]

As a Blackhawks fan my grudge against the Vancouver Canucks started to become overshadowed by the reality that Vancouver is most likely going to be the team hoisting Lord Stanley’s Cup at the end of the 2011 playoffs.  But before my grudge was completely overshadowed Alex Burrows, the Vancouver forward who ended the ‘Hawks’ 2011 [...]

  The NHL’s Hart Memorial Trophy is awarded to the player who is thought to be the most valuable player to his team during the regular season.  Henrik Sedin, Vancouver Canucks’ Captain, was awarded the trophy last year.  This year’s Hart Trophy finalists consist of Corey Perry of the Anaheim Ducks, Daniel Sedin of the [...]

The West’s top-seeded Vancouver Canucks are set to face-off against the San Jose Sharks in the Western Conference Finals in under an hour.  Both teams have had to play one series that needed seven games to decide the winner.  Both teams have had outstanding goaltending throughout the playoffs.  Canucks’ superstar netminder, Roberto Luongo finally ousted [...]

The Tampa Bay Lightning and Boston Bruins both finished off their respective Eastern Conference Semifinals opponents in four games.  Goaltending was the backbone of each teams’ sweep.  Dwayne Roloson, 41-year-old veteran, has stood on his head for the Bolts throughout the entire postseason.  Tim Thomas, 37-year-old 2009 Vezina Trophy winner, has done the same for [...]

The Chicago Blackhawks‘ 2011 season ended after a hard-fought seven-game series against the Vancouver Canucks.  Blackhawks’ blueliner Chris Campoli committed an unfortunate turnover to Canucks’ forward Alex Burrows who proceeded to bury a knuckling slap-shot past rookie netminder Corey Crawford.  And that was the last memory fans had of Chris Campoli’s short season with the [...]

I can’t be any happier with the play of the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Eastern Conference Semifinals against the top-seeded Washington Capitals.  The two teams have played two hard-fought games in Washington, and Tampa Bay escaped with two victories.  The series now shifts to Tampa Bay for two more games that could potentially end [...]

The East’s top seeded Washington Capitals bounced the New York Rangers from the playoffs in five games, while the Tampa Bay Lightning battled for seven games before eliminating the Crosby and Malkin-less Pittsburgh Penguins.  Washington’s Alexander Ovechkin and Tampa Bay’s Steven Stamkos are two of the NHL’s superstars, but they’re not the only players who [...]