Fantasy leagues between friends can be fun. Most leagues are designed around fun and bragging rights. Most leagues are online and people enter them for fun and the attention level varies between league to league, player to player. And then there are the leagues that involve cold hard cash and are very competitive. Trophies, trash […] READ MORE
Author: Maksim Vasilyev
How Good Are the Detroit Red Wings?
The Detroit Red Wings are an elite team. What? Don’t agree? Goaltending not elite? Defense is not good enough? Injury prone superstars? Don Cherry thinks they are soft? You need to look at this objectively. Over the last few years, there have been bad seasons for the Wings – and none worse than last season. Was […] READ MORE
NHL Happy Hour: Red Wings Playoff Streak to Stay Alive
Writing for the first time in a while is a weird experience. You have done it so many times before, but picking it back up is almost like finding yourself in your friend’s new car. You are confident that you can drive it just fine, but for whatever reason it still feels a bit weird […] READ MORE
The Rest of the NHL Should Be Scared of the Dallas Stars
Ahem…Has anyone noticed what is happening in Texas this summer? I mean, seriously, has anyone at all raised their hand and went…big D is really big? Terrible puns aside, the Dallas Stars and general manager Jim Nill have had one of the best summers with a team that was already geared-up to mature. The additions […] READ MORE
Improving your Fantasy Hockey League
Fantasy hockey season is not far away now and the anticipation is killing me. Like most hockey fans, I love participating in Fantasy Hockey leagues with both my local friends and strangers around the world. The fantasy leagues may puzzle most girlfriends and wives, but the majority of men are completely incapable of watching sports […] READ MORE
3 Rounds Preview: Blues vs Blackhawks
3 Rounds is a three-part series. Writers select what they feel is the most important individual match-up in the upcoming playoff series and give it an in-depth preview. The second piece is a mid-series assessment of that match-up. In the final installment, we analyze how the match-up contributed to the outcome of the series. If […] READ MORE
Top Three Candidates for The Hart Memorial Trophy
The defining moment in every NHL players career is the moment where they win the Stanley Cup, I think that is safe to say. No one will question your NHL career with a big Stanley Cup ring on your finger. Although, I think there is another award that can arguably be the second most important […] READ MORE
The Detroit Red Wings Rebuild In Front Of Our Eyes
The adjustment of me becoming a Detroit Red Wings fan is in a full swing. While most of what I write on here is fairly subjective and lives in the realm of a statistical reality sprinkled with my own analytics of said data, this piece comes purely from the fan side of things. The feeling […] READ MORE
NHL Happy Hour Presents “Life, Sports, and Two Bottles Podcast #7!
We are always trying to improve our hockey gameday experience, and occasionally that includes the partaking of some libations. Sometimes, however, our love of hockey and celebratory beverages spills over in this thing we call “life”. And this is the backbone, the life-force if you will, of “Sports, Life and Two Bottles” brought to you by Last word […] READ MORE
Sochi Preview: Russia Will Have A New Weapon in These Olympics, Goaltending
Sochi is, from what I remember as a kid while spending a summer there, a very pleasant place. It is filled with sunshine and diversity. The sea seemed huge back than and the food vastly differed from what I was used to back north in St. Petersburg. It is funny what you remember about a […] READ MORE
