Posted by thesportsjunky on March 16, 2014 · Leave a Comment
The NHL would begin the playoff race this week as players began settling in to their new teams and feeling comfortable with the trade deadline done. As the hockey began to focus more and more on this last stretch of the regular season the sport was struck with an event that put the sport into perspective. In the NHL this was the scary incident in Dallas when Rich Peverly would suffer a heart attack on the bench during Dallas’ game against the Columbus Blue Jackets.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on September 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The new Central Division is not the same as it once was with the top two teams taken away from the group. The Central Division had been built off of the rivalry between Detroit and Chicago but that is no longer there. The Chicago Blackhawks remain in the Central Division while the Detroit Red Wings move to the Eastern Conference.
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Posted by thesportsjunky on September 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment
The newly revamped alignment of the NHL will have its affects in every one of the new divisions including the new Atlantic Division. The Atlantic Division will see a new host of teams from the Northeast join the division. In fact the entire Northeast division has joined the new Atlantic Division among a number of familiar faces. Then there are the new faces for many of these teams in the form of the Florida teams who will move from the southeast to the Atlantic.
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