Grading the Red Wings’ First Round Picks of the Last Decade
2025 will mark the 13th straight year that the Detroit Red Wings have made a selection in the first round of the NHL Draft. That’s a stretch of time that…
Category Archives: Hockey History
Boston Bruins: Ranking Don Sweeney’s Entry Drafts
The two-day 2024 Entry Draft is set to kick off in Las Vegas on Friday night (June 28). Because of busy trade deadlines, the Boston Bruins are not scheduled to…
Maple Leafs’ 3 Best Free Agent Signings of All-Time
*This archive was originally written in June 2023 Every offseason, NHL contenders will try to add that key piece through free agency to help their team immediately, and sometimes it…
Washington Capitals’ History of Drafting 5th Overall
The fifth overall pick in an NHL Entry Draft has the potential to have a star available to whatever team selects at that spot. Sometimes the player picked ends up…
Today in Hockey History: June 22
Yesterday in Hockey History: June 21 Tomorrow in Hockey History: June 23 A pair of games were played on June 22, and both of them saw the winner move two…
Bruins’ Draft History Under Don Sweeney
Don Sweeney has been the general manager of the Boston Bruins since May 20, 2015. The 16-year veteran was an eighth-round pick (166th overall) in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft.…
Best Current NHL Player From Each Canadian Province
There’s nothing more Canadian than the game of hockey, so it’s not surprising that more than 40 percent of current NHLers are from the Great White North. You don’t have…
Flames & Oilers Trade History Revisited
The Calgary Flames joined the NHL as the Atlanta Flames in 1972. While the team was in Georgia, they had no interstate rivals like the two Pennsylvania teams, the Pittsburgh…
Montreal Canadiens’ Conn Smythe Trophy Winners
The next Conn Smythe winner will be crowned on Monday night after the epic duel between the Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers finally comes to an end after a seven-game…
Revisiting The Sabres’ Failed 2015 Draft Class
Of the numerous reasons for the decade of futility that was the 2010s for the Buffalo Sabres, their constant inability to cultivate their own talent was perhaps the biggest. With…