Played organized hockey for 35 years – MTHL as a youth growing up in Toronto and in High school for 2 years on a team ranked as high as 2nd in the city. Men’s League player. Referee for 3 seasons. Coach for 2 seasons. Conducted Minor and Woman’s League Summer Camps. Color Commentary for The Stockton Thunder of the ECHL for 2 seasons. Covered The San Jose Sharks for prohockeynews.com for 1 season. Covered the San Jose Sharks for 3 seasons for Hockeybuzz.com Covered the NHL for SOA (Sports Overnight America) aka the Chris Townsend show for 4 years. Lead Hockey expert on Ken Thomson’s SportsXRadio show, 2012 through Present.
The Nashville Predators continue their extraordinary run as they go on to face the defending Cup champs, The Pittsburgh Penguins for this season’s title. Here’s how the teams match up. GOALTENDING After a few years of inconsistent play Pekka Rinne has found his game at the right time and low and behold the Predators netminder…
The playoffs begin on Wednesday and the stage is set. The pairings have been determined and from where I’m sitting there are a couple of easy first round matches. There are many who are saying it is the year of the Capitals with the roster they have and the deadline deal to acquire Kevin Shattenkirk.…
I can’t remember when we have seen such parody in the NHL where there are 28 of the 30 teams that are still in the playoff hunt. We are a week off of the All-Star break and there are teams that are trailing with games in hand, The Columbus Blue Jackets are a legitimate contender…
The NHL season is well underway, and most teams have settled in to some kind of normalcy with the exception of a few. Keep in mind, teams that are in a playoff position at the end of November are often there come spring time. The percentage of change is quite small. The Eastern Conference has shaped up the…