Month: February 2024

Three Hat Tricks in one game

Wild 10 Canucks 7- The number one team in the NHL scored seven times during last night’s contest and ended up losing by three as their opponent incredibly scored five times in the first 5:12 minutes of the third period and eventually scoring two empty netters to finish the offensive onslaught.

Two Wild players and one Canucks player combined for the game’s three hat tricks, after Vancouver took an early 4-1 lead Minnesota would get one back but a successful Canucks breakaway gave Vancouver another three goal lead 5-2 with five and a half minutes remaining in the second period.

Vancouver scored twice in the third period to make it an 8-7 game but Minnesota scored two happy net goals in the remaining two minutes of the game for the 10-7 final and set their team record for most goals in a game.

Not to be out done…

Calgary, Carolina, and Edmonton teams all scored six times and won by 6-3 in each of their three contests.

Awesome Matthews

The Maple Leafs beat the Blues 4-2 last night and Mr. Matthews scored his NHL leading 49^th goal of the season and the next closest four players in the league are all still in the 30 goal range.

Road Warriors

The Sabres take their winning road record to the test beginning tomorrow night as Buffalo plays three consecutive road games versus Montreal, Tampa Bay, and Columbus before returning home to face Carolina Sunday night making it four games in five nights for the Sabres.

Woman’s Hockey in the USA during the Roaring Twenties

The 1920s brought the Prohibition, women achieving the right to vote, the beginning of the Great Depression, and Flappers who were the young women of the era that sought more out of life.

No one ever said that woman could not play hockey, but men and women of the time just preferred that females did not play professionally or in any organized league but only for recreation.

So they did, believing that this was a way of cutting the Victorian constraints still imposed on women and to show their vitality and health they played ice hockey unbelievably outside in their swimsuits.

Without any organization to represent or provide league play there is little to no information on the young ladies that took to the ice a century ago, a few images and admiration is all that you can find researching online.

Today woman’s ice hockey played in the United States of America is vibrant and entertaining and provides ladies of all ages to be able to participate in organized league play and hockey always was and has always been for everyone even without the government’s overreach to tell us so.

Wild honor goaltender, Oilers Kane x3

Minnesota 3 Pittsburgh 2

Marc-Andre Fleury earned his 553rd win last night as the hometown crowd was treated to an unabashed celebration of “Flower” with a video compilation on the scoreboard, his family present as he was recognized for his most recent accomplishments before the game.

Had already Passed Mr. Roy for 2^nd most wins (552) and now has played 1000 NHL games and during his night Sid the Kid scored on his former Cup winning teammate.

NYR 4 CHI 3 OT

The Rangers goaltender became a maniac and began throwing punches, chaos ensued.

The referees in the crowd thought there was a trip in overtime before New York scored the winning goal, to be fair it did appear that way but under closer inspection with video replay, it highlights a solid check was the culprit.

EDM 5 ANA 3

Commander “Hat Trick” Kane registered his eighth career hat trick versus the Ducks and fifth so far for his current Oilers team.

NHL All-Star Vacation Weekend Extravaganza

This past weekend appeared to be a whole lot of fun for the players and their families and some well-deserved time off for the players not “invited” to participate, I do wax nostalgic about All-Star games hoping the NHL returns to having them.

New York 2 Colorado 1 OT  In an exciting goaltending duel between Mr. Georgiev and Mr. Quick the Rangers goalie earned the secondary assist on the game winning goal as New York wins big in the Big Apple.

New York 3 Toronto 2  This game had both defensemen M. Reilly (Islanders) and M. Rielly (Maple Leafs) earning an assist, Toronto’s Mr. Nylander with 6 SOG and an assist, and just an amazing post, crossbar, post, and out bell ringer from Mr. Matthews.

But it was the Islanders Mr. Sorokin in net stopping 35 out of 37 shots that help New York earn its ninth victory on the road this season.

Buffalo returns to action tonight as they host Dallas at seven o’clock and Edmonton endeavors to tie Pittsburgh’s NHL record for consecutive wins in sin city beginning at ten.

The Phoenix Coyotes are moving to…

One summer many NHL seasons ago I attended an “Alice Cooper” concert and low and behold at one point during the show he was sporting a hockey sweater that was half Phoenix and half Buffalo.

The fact that Mr. Fournier was wearing any Sabres or NHL gear at all increased my admiration for the man as well as learning he was an investor in one of the newest teams in the NHL.

Tomorrow we might be told by Mr. Bettman what the future holds for the dejected Arizona hockey fans team, the Phoenix Coyotes a once proud WHA Winnipeg Jets team and will they receive a stay of dissolvement?

Will the NHL locate the Arizona team to Utah instead of some of the brilliant financially sound locations in Canada, incredible as it may seem the Board of Governors the ruling body of the NHL with their one voice, one conductor so to speak in Mr. Bettman just might.