Off-season activity: The 2003/04 NHL season abundantly displayed the holes in their roster that Edmonton needed to fill: a starting goaltender, a number one centreman, and a mobile, puck-moving defenceman. In the two off-seasons that have followed, they’ve made half-fearted attempts to fill all these roles. The starting goaltender duties in 03-04 were split by [...]
(Also posted at The Devils Advocate) What they lost: Experience and leadership. Mike Peca, Adrian Aucoin, Dave Scatchard, and Marius Czerkawski are all gone. Peca was their captain last season, and before him it was Kenny Jonsson who will play in Sweden this year. Peca has also won the Selke trophy twice in his career [...]
(Also posted at The Devils Advocate) Let me start off by saying that it’s great to join HockeyAnalysis.com. Over the next week or so, I will be taking a look at the Atlantic Division. The first team up is the New York Rangers. What they lost: A ton of stars and payroll. Bobby Holik, Eric [...]
Welcome to my new website which is a spinoff of my personal blog Different Thinking I found that I was writing a ton of hockey related articles and decided that maybe it would be best to create a hockey specific site. I intend to expand this beyond a personal blog though and hope to get [...]
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