Category: Puck Blog

Texas Stars Hockey May 25, 2010 Wednesday, May 26th come see your Texas Stars take on the Hamilton Bulldogs in Round 3 Game 7 at the Cedar Park Center. The game will be showing in the arena on the jumbotron! Free Parking, and no entry fee! Click Here to Read Full Article

Texas Stars Stay Alive With 3-2 OT WinGame 7 of the Western Conference Finals Is Wednesday at 6:30 PM (CDT)Dallas Stars May 25, 2010 The Texas Stars defeated the Hamilton Bulldogs 3-2 in overtime on Monday night in front of 2,613 fans at Copps Coliseum in Game 6 of the Western Conference Finals. Center Aaron

Jacques Lemaire believes the Devils could still be playing hockey this spring. During almost a month of vacation in Florida since he announced his retirement on April 26, Lemaire has watched the Stanley Cup playoffs and feels the Devils could have been the team coming out of the Eastern Conference. “We all tried to find

Ilya Kovalchuk Sparkled for Russia; Andy Greene did not for USA – Summary of Devils at 2010 World Championships John Fischer In Lou We Trust May 23, 2010 Kovalchuk shouldn’t feel too bad about his own performance. While the IIHF directorate named his teammate Datsyuk the best forward of the tournament and the media snubbed

Stars Win 5-4 On Grahams’s OT BlastHundred Degree Hockey May 19, 2010 Ethan Graham had yet to score a Calder Cup playoff goal in his entire career. In fact, Graham had only suited up for four playoffs games for the Stars before tonight. “It’s probably my biggest [career goal]. I think I had an overtime

Ilya Kovalchuk Contributed More on Defense than Evgeni Malkin – A Look at Kovalchuk’s 2009-10 GVT John Fischer In Lou We Trust May 19, 2010 Ilya Kovalchuk is a fantastic sniper, a player who has put up 338 goals and 304 assists in 621 games. Standing officially at 6’2″ and 230 pounds, Kovalchuk will be

Russian power playBeats Finland, wins group, gets ready for Canada. Russia rolled over Finland, 5-0, getting goals by five different players and a shutout by Semyon Varlamov. Ilya Kovalchuk got two assists and Maxim Afinogenov a goal and an assist. “With the new rules it is all about special teams and I think our penalty

One of the big reasons I’m so interested in advanced statistics is because they provide a different perspective into a player’s performance. For example, we know that Ilya Kovalchuk is a goal scorer. He’s scored 338 goals in 631 games in his NHL career. This is simple. But how impressive has been his performances? What

Jokinen sinks SlovakiaFinland clinches quarterfinal spot with 5-2 win.IIHF May 17, 2010 Jussi Jokinen scored twice, his first goals of the tournament, and Pekka Rinne made 27 saves as Finland beat Slovakia 5-2 and secured its spot in the quarterfinal. “It was another must-win game for us, we’ve had four of those now. This is

Ilya Kovalchuk’s line with Pavel Datsyuk and Evgeni Malkin has Russia on a roll at the 2010 IIHF World Championship in Germany. Led by Datsyuk’s hat trick, the trio collected 10 points in Sunday’s 6-1 win over Denmark. Kovalchuk, the Russian captain, tallied three assists and is tied with Alex Ovechkin for the team points