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Canada 2010 Olympics hockey tribute

admin — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:27:47 +0000

Canada 2010 Olympics hockey tribute featuring Jarome Iginla & Dion Phaneuf

Team Canada Junior captain suspended for nasty elbowing

admin — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:27:32 +0000

Patrice Cormier (Captain of the 2009 Team Canada Silver Medal Junior Team) was suspended indefinitely yesterday by the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Monday following a nasty mid ice hit that sent Quebec Remparts defenceman Mikaël Tam to hospital. The league has reported that it will continue to investigate the elbowing incident, and would not say when its disciplinarian, Raymond Bolduc, would issue a ruling on the incident.

Video footage of the incident shows Patrice coming on to the ice from the bench and skating towards Tam, whom started to rush from behind his goal up the ice. Cormier then caught him with in the trolley tarjks with his elbow near centre ice, dropping him instantly.

Repeat offender? Cormier is well known to be a physical player with good and bad major hits. He connected with Sweden’s Anton Rodin in a similar elbow to the mouth during the world juniors tournament month. He was drafted by New Jersey in 2008 and has since signed a three-year entry level contract with the Devils — maybe a good replacement for the Former Devils Scott Stevens!!

Check out some of his other notorious known elbows … Like the nasty Elbow on Anton Rodin – Sweden vs Canada – Dec 20th 2009

Joseph retires with 454 wins

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:34:16 +0000

After 18 seasons in the National Hockey League, veteran goaltender Curtis Joseph has decided to call it quits. The 42 year old native of Keswick Ontario made the announcement while at Air Canada Centre in Toronto. Joseph originally broke into the NHL as an undrafted player with the St.Louis Blues in 1989, however he also played for several other NHL teams including the Toronto Maple Leafs on two different occasions, the Calgary Flames, the Detroit Red Wings, the Edmonton Oilers, and the Phoenix Coyotes.

He actually did not play any games this season and last played in the NHL during the 2008-09 season with the Toronto Maple Leafs playing his final game on April 9, 2009, witch was a 3-1 loss against the Buffalo Sabres. During the 2008/09 season he played 21 games, posting a 5-9-1 record with a 3.57 GAA and a 0.869 save percentage.

In all he played 943 career NHL games where he posted a 454-352-90-6 record, including 51 shutouts, a 2.79 GAA, and a 0.906 save percentage. Only Martin Brodeur, Patrick Roy, Terry Sawchuk and Ed Belfour made more regular-season appearances then Joseph. His 454 regular season wins is fourth in all-time NHL wins trailing only Martin Brodeur (585 and counting), Patrick Roy (551), and Ed Belfour (484). He is currently the NHL goaltender with the most wins who has have never won a Stanley Cup. Joseph ranks second in Blues history with 137 wins and 15,987 minutes played. As a member of the Leafs, he retires with 138 wins, good enough for fourth all-time Leafs net minder behind Turk Broda, Johnny Bower and Felix Potvin.

Joseph also happens to have the NHL all-time record with the most loses, his 352 losses is the most in League history tied with Gump Worsley. The 51 recorded shutouts he got puts him 20th in all-time NHL shutouts.

He appeared in 133 post season games, posting a 63-66 record with 16 shutouts and a 2.42 goals-against average. He backstopped the Maple Leafs to the Eastern Conference Finals in 1999 against Buffalo and then again against Carolina in 2002, but was never able to bring his team to the next level. On April 13, 2008 after leading the Calgary Flames past the San Jose Sharks in the Western Conference Quarterfinals he became the first NHL goaltender to win a playoff game with five different teams.

Joseph was a three-time nominee for the Vezina Trophy, finishing second in the voting to Buffalo’s Dominik Hasek in 1998-99. He was awarded the King Clancy Memorial Trophy in the 1999-2000 season, for being the player who best exemplifies leadership qualities on and off the ice and has made a noteworthy humanitarian contribution in his community. He played in two NHL All-Star Games, representing the St;Louis Blues in 1994 and then the Maple Leafs in 2000. He helped Team Canada win the gold medal at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Playing for Toronto was perhaps the pinnacle of his career, getting to play for his home town fans. However his hunger to win a Stanley Cup led him to sign with the dominate Detroit Redwings after Dominik Hasek retired. A move similar to Ray Bourque’s late career move from Boston Bruins to the Colorado Avalanche. Joseph’s move however never really worked out for him and he never got a cup like Bourque managed to do. It didn’t help much that Hasek then returned to play with the Red Wings giving them two of the leagues best goaltenders of witch they couldn’t afford giving Joseph the shaft.

Joseph was always a very steady and reliable goaltender throughout his lengthy career whom was extremely great under pressure and could be depended on time and time again. He kept many of his team’s competitive when perhaps they shouldn’t have been and it’s a shame he never got to win the Stanley Cup.
And although Joseph boasts some strong statistics, many people will no doubt argue that he is not Hall of Fame material because he never won a Stanley Cup, and has the most NHL loses.

We feel that he should become inducted in the Hall of Fame one day but only time will tell. Either way he was a very classy player, great goaltender to watch during his peak period and his 454 wins is certainly an impressive feat and we have to remember he did it playing on some teams that were not as competitive, compared the teams that Belfour, Brodeur or Roy (who recorded have more wins) have played for.

[photo source: Flickr - flickr.com]

USA wins gold at WJC

admin — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:56:57 +0000

Yesterday was yet another classic US/Canada thriller matchup that saw Team USA defeat Team Canada in overtime 6 to 5 to win the Gold Medal at the World Junior Championship Tuesday in Saskatoon. The win is only the second Gold medal win for the Americans in WJC history (Team USA beat Canada in the 2004 title game in Helsinki, Finland) and the win also ends Canada’s streak of five straight gold medals.

The American team will have the chance to defend their title on home ice because the 2011 WJC tournament will be played in Buffalo, NY next year. Canada is 27-6-3 all-time versus the U.S. in the tournament and will no doubt be back strong to try and get back the title.

Sweden defeated the Swiss team 11 to 4 to take the bronze medal. Swiss netminder Benjamin Conz was named goaltender of the tournament and Pietrangelo was named defenceman of the tournament. They were both named to the tournament All-Star team along with American’s Stepan and Carlson, Canada’s Eberle and Swiss forward Nino Niederreiter.

Will this gold medal win bring luck to the US Olympic Hockey Team as well or will it just drive Canada to play harder to prove that they are still king at International hockey?

[photo source NHL.com :nhl.com]

USA 2010 Olympic Hockey Team Roster

admin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:48:55 +0000

The USA Olympic Hockey Team 2010 roster was reveled during the 2010 Winter Classic hockey game. Team USA hopes to improve their disappointing eighth place finish at the last winter games and bring back the type of team that gave them Gold in 1980 at Lake Placid. Only three players with prior Olympic experience have been included

Have a look at the Team USA 2010 roster:

Forwards include:
David Backes
Dustin Brown
Ryan Callahan
Chris Drury
Patrick Kane
Ryan Kesler
Phil Kessel
Jamie Langenbrunner
Ryan Malone
Zach Parise
Joe Pavelski
Bobby Ryan
Paul Stastny.

DEFENSEMEN:
Erik Johnson
Jack Johnson
Mike Komisarek
Paul Martin
Brooks Orpik
Brian Rafalski
Ryan Suter.

GOALTENDERS:
Ryan Miller
Jonathan Quick
Tim Thomas.

Some key players that were left off the roster include Dustin Byfuglien, Scott Gomez, Bill Guerin and Ron Hainsey.

The Head Coach will be Ron Wilson and General Manager is Brian Burke (hopefully they do not use too much from the Toronto Maple Leafs secret play books

We will have to wait and see in February if the Team USa selection was the winning combination or not.

The Russian Olympic Roster should be named later this week.

Team Canada 2010 Olympic Hockey Team Roster

admin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:22:51 +0000

The Canadian Olympic Hockey Team 2010 roster was released today and already hockey analysts all over have begun to debate the roster for Team Canada witch is also the host country of the 2010 Olympics that will be held in Vancouver in February. The team hopes that it can improve on the disappointing seventh place finish at the last Olympic Games and perhaps bring back the gold like they did in 2002. The roster has some return players but a lot of new faces with the hope to bring in a younger hockey generation.

Forwards include:
Patrice Bergeron (Boston Bruins)
Sidney Crosby (Pittsburgh Penguins)
Ryan Getzlaf (Anaheim Ducks)
Dany Heatley (San Jose Sharks)
Jarome Iginla (Calgary Flames)
Patrick Marleau (San Jose Sharks)
Brenden Morrow (Dallas Stars)
Rich Nash (Columbus Blue Jackets)
Corey Perry (Anaheim Ducks)
Mike Richards (Philadelphia Flyers)
Eric Staal (Carolina Hurricanes)
Joe Thornton (San Jose Sharks)
Jonathan Toews (Chicago Blackhawks)

Defensemen:
Dan Boyle (San Jose Sharks)
Drew Doughty (Los Angeles Kings)
Duncan Keith (Chicago Blackhawks)
Scott Niedermayer (Anaheim Ducks)
Chris Pronger (Philadelphia Flyers)
Brent Seabrook (Chicago Blackhawks)
Shea Weber (Nashville Predators)

Goaltenders:

Martin Brodeur (New Jersey Devils)
Marc-Andre Fleury (Pittsburgh Penguins)
Roberto Luongo (Vancouver Canucks)

Some key players that were left off the roster include Jeff Carter, Shane Doan, Vincent Lecavalier, Martin St. Louis, Brad Richards, Mike Green, Dion Phaneuf and Jay Bouwmeester.

Former NHL star Steve Yzerman is the team’s GM and Mike Babcock will assume be the Head Coach for Team Canada.

We will have to wait and see in February if the Team Canada selection was the winning combination or not.

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admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:50:36 +0000

I found this image while cleaning up the server, it was left over from the original forum based site … not sure who the artist was …

Top Ten Shootout Goals in Hockey History

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:53:25 +0000

New Jersey Devils Team Info

admin — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 18:32:14 +0000

Team: New Jersey Devils

Arena: Prudential Center

Division: Atlantic Division

Contact Info:

New Jersey Devils

165 Mulberry Street

Newark, NJ, United States 07102

Websites:

Official team web site: http://devils.nhl.com/

Elias web site – http://eliaspatrik.com

Martin Brodeur web site – http://www.martinbrodeur30.com/

The New Jersey Devils are part of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference of the NHL. The club was originally founded in Kansas City, Missouri as the Kansas City Scouts in 1974, then moved to Denver, Colorado to become the Colorado Rockies. But after only two seasons it was then relocated again to New Jersey in 1982 where it has since remained.

The franchise was poor to mediocre for most of its first 13 seasons, only making the playoffs once. However, under current president and general manager Lou Lamoriello, the Devils have made the playoffs in 19 out of the last 21 seasons, including each of the last 12. They have won the Stanley Cup three times (1995, 2000 and 2003).

The Devils are known for their defensive based style of play, but have recently also excelled with their offense skills as well. The Devils have a close rivalry with both the New York Rangers, and the Philadelphia Flyers. The Devils have won the Atlantic Division season title eight times, most recently during the 2008-09 season.

Martin Brodeur has been the back bone of the Devils success and during his time with the Devils (the only NHL team he has ever played for) he has become the NHL’s all-time leader in regular season wins, shutouts, and games played.

Marty Turco free PSD cutout

admin — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:28:46 +0000

A number of graphic files were generated as part of the Double Deke hockey community so that people could make banners, wall papers, signatures, fan images, etc. Here is a cutout of Marty Turco – Dallas Stars for any Turco fan that wants to generate some fan based graphic sets.

Download the PSD file here.

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