A couple weeks into the NHL season, and we have yet to run a hockey post! Nothing against puck–I love the sport–but we here at DIS have had our hands full with baseball, college football and the NFL.
So it’s time for some hockey.
This isn’t an NHL post, though. It’s video of a nine-year-old [...]

 
Random thoughts and observation on the Stanley Cup Finals…
 
 

Save for the game five blowout when the ‘Guins lost their poise and the Wings mauled Fleury, this has been an even, hard fought and beautifully played series.
Hockey purists who believe fighting is necessary to the game’s quality must be disappointed. A fight would only detract [...]

The Pittsburgh Penguins and the Detroit Red Wings are on the verge of a surprisingly (or perhaps not so surprisingly) infrequent occurrence, that of meeting in the Stanley Cup Finals for two straight seasons. Although such repeat showdowns are not common these days in any of the Big Four sports (the last time it [...]

For anyone who didn’t catch the highlights on ESPN, Mike Ribeiro of the Dallas Stars made an amazing shootout goal last night against the Avalanche:

Anyone who has played sports for any length of time is familiar with the type: the fire-and-brimstone coach who thinks that the best way to deliver his instructions is at Led-Zeppelin-concert volume. We’ve all had that coach that feels that public embarrassment is the best motivator; the guy that would make Don Rickles [...]

The last fifteen years have not been king to hockey. The labor dispute may be the most devastating in American professional sports history. Coming on the heels of a period during which the NHL overexpanded–not in terms of talent, but in terms of the rate of growth of the potential fanbase–coupled with the relocation of [...]

Interesting article on Yahoo! Sports about what cities might be next to receive a new sports franchise, whether by expansion or by a team moving. Since MP Olson recently wrote about the possibility of the Vikings moving to LA (“Chicken Little Wear Purple”, January 29), I thought I’d link to the Yahoo! Sports article here [...]

By the time the Simon Gagne and his Philadelphia Flyers scored the game-tying goal with 1:44 left to go in the third period of Thursday night’s game against the Carolina Hurricanes, I’d long since screamed myself hoarse.  The Flyers mounted their improbable four-goal comeback in electric fashion, paced by Scott Hartnell’s hat trick and capped [...]

Commissioner of the NHL, Gary Bettman has handed down his judgment on Sean Avery and it looks as though the Dallas winger will have six games’ worth of time to work on his fashion portfolio while continuing his valuable service of screening potential dates for other members of the NHLPA.  Maybe he should get a [...]

The Pittsburgh Penguins-New York Rangers match-up tonight was widely considered a test for New York, with the Penguins coming into the game red-hot.  The Rangers passed with flying colors, defeating Pittsburgh in a shootout after drawing to a 2-2 tie in regulation and overtime.
Tonight’s game came down to the wire, as any contest between first- [...]