Oh boy. Alex Kovalev is back with the Penguins. Ray “I get s*** done” Shero acquired him from Ottawa for a conditional draft pick [link]. On top of James Neal and Matt Niskanen, Shero is running down the dream here. Today is Kovalev’s 38th birthday so I hope he wished for a playoff race. Kovalev […]
If one more sportscaster talks about Crosby and Malkin being out like they just decoded the news with their Enigma machine, I’m going to throw a shoe at my TV. WE KNOW. What you should be talking about is how freaking clutch some of our guys are coming up these days. Guys like Tyler Kennedy. […]
In baseball, players get to choose the song that plays when they come up to bat. Sometimes they have a different song for each time through the rotation. Since you can’t play a song very time someone jumps over the boards, we thought we could give them another anthem: fight songs. My brain goes immediately […]
The Blackhawks needed a big weekend and they got it. Sunday it took a shootout for them to beat the Pens 3-2 and claim the desperately needed extra point. It almost wasn’t enough. Monday, the Hawks ended up down 2-0 in the first period to St. Louis. In the intermission, Captain Serious went all Miranda […]
The long weekend is over, it’s back to work and you know what I feel like? Chuck loves it too: I tried to watch the Heritage Classic, but I couldn’t focus my eyes on the bizarre non-color of the Flames shorts. Is that taupe? Nude, maybe? If you’re going to commit to sweaters and socks […]
Dawn and I are going to our first Caps game tonight in San Jose. Dawn will be wearing the aforementioned Ovechtrick head-to-toe ensemble. And she’s bringing me Caps gear. I might even wear it. At the very least I have consented to a red & white hoodie (from BU, gotta keep some of my dignity). […]
If you are the Colorado Avalanche, your morning went like this: Matt Duchene is out indefinitely with a hand injury [link]. He is the Avs leading scorer this season (21 G, 26 A). The Avs are in the midst of a franchise-worst losing streak (8 straight) and play against Pittsburgh tonight. He was hit by […]
Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville has been hospitalized with an undisclosed (non-cardiac) medical condition [link]. Coach Q won the Cup with the Hawks last year. He also won as an assistant coach with Colorado in in ’96, and has been head coach of the Avs and Blues. Always the Moustache Master, Coach Q played 7 seasons […]
Mike didn’t play in last night’s loss to Phoenix, though the Capitals said nothing before people realized he wasn’t on the ice at warm-ups. Now they’re telling – it’s “inner-ear trauma” resulting from the slapshot to the head on 2/6 [link]. All we can say is at least it’s not a concussion. Get well soon, […]
I was going to dedicate Mikey Monday to a hilarious trove of photos of Mike & Niklas Backstrom challenging Kaner & Toews for Bromance of the Millennium. Then I saw this: Marilyn Denis is a Canadian talk show host. That should be my job! She had Cabbie on the Street (Cabral Richards) on today with […]
“I know you can be overwhelmed and I know you can be underwhelmed, but can you ever just be whelmed?” “I think you can in Europe.” – 10 Things I Hate About You (WUYS all-time fave) And in Sweden. This afternoon, Peter Forsberg will announce his re-retirement from the NHL. Well thanks a lot, Indiana […]
Perhaps the best website name ever is “Runs on Duncan“ and the banner is even better. We bow and scrape to Kat’s hilarity. And for Valentine’s Day, there is a special delivery: I should stop laughing around lunch time. In your high school, did they have carnations on Valentine’s Day? I bet Jon was the […]
Happy Valentine’s Day!
It’s been a wild week of fights in the NHL and we’ve been loving it. Then something like this comes along. People always argue about fighting in hockey. I’m confident that those who know and love the game understand and respect the role that fighting plays. But it’s like Russian Roulette and sometimes, you get […]
Happy Birthday, Superstar! Once a Foxy Friday, always a Foxy Friday. Max Talbot is 27 today and everyone but Dawn just loves him. The reasons are simple: 1) Sometimes taking one for the team can change everything. 2) Max is the Pens’ class clown, which can only be pulled off when you are dead sexy. […]
Shut the front door. Peter Forsberg will play tonight when the Avalanche take on the Blue Jackets. If you were me, and it was any year before 2005, you would be freaking out right now. ACES! When I first moved to the west coast and experienced the annoying concept of time zones and TV schedules, […]
While I’m sending positive energy all over the NHL lately (Pens, Tanguay, Green…), I don’t want to leave out the Blackhawks. The Hawks won 4-1 over Edmonton last night – they had to. They’re 5-4-1 in the last 10,which is not going to get you through the tight pack at the middle of the Western […]
It’s no longer a question. This is just crazy. Flames’ Alex Tanguay is out indefinitely with a concussion. No individual hit has been identified as the culprit, but Tanguay last played in the Flames win over Chicago on Monday night. He missed practice Tuesday and Wednesday before the announcement was made. I am the world’s […]
We knew. Everybody knew. And yet today, every hour on the hour I have the urge to throw something across the room. It could have something to do with the POS performance against Columbus last night. Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin will undergo surgery Thursday to repair a torn ACL and torn MCL in his […]
Hello! Intern Jeff Skinner here, very excited to be writing my first post for WUYS. In case you missed it I scored two goals last night. We still lost 3-2 in overtime to the Devils, but that’s okay. I don’t want the girls thinking that I can do everything around here all by myself. Pants […]