Tomas Vokoun, former netminder who last played for the Pittsburgh Penguins, has announced his retirement after playing for five different teams over a fourteen year period. He is a veteran of 700 NHL games and owns a record of 300-288-35-43 with a 2.55 GAA and 9.17 SV% from 1998-99 up until his last NHL season […] READ MORE
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Best Remaining NHL Free Agents: Defence and Goalies
Yesterday we started a look at the best remaining NHL free agents. Today marks a full one-week of free agency and teams have wasted little time in scooping up the best of the best available. What was already a thin crop of free agents has gotten even thinner and nowhere is that more apparent than […] READ MORE
Gruesome NHL Injuries (Part 2 of 2)
Searching through hundreds of NHL injuries, I have narrowed down to what I believe are 50 of the most gruesome NHL injuries that many NHL fans today remember will remember. This isn’t a comprehensive list, and *Please note: The numbers 1-50 do not denote the severity of the injury. The numbers are simply there to […] READ MORE
Perennial Contender: Penguins Needed to Hit Bottom Before Rising Up
This is the fourth article in a series of articles looking at and analyzing the success of the last five teams to raise the Stanley Cup. Be sure to read the first three articles in the series, “Where Have all the Dynasties Gone?”, “Detroit: Setting the Parameters of a Modern Day Dynasty” and “Detroit: End […] READ MORE
Penguins and Bruins: United by Colour and Not Much Else
Black, Gold (or Yellow) and White are the colours both teams in the Eastern Conference finals will dawn. This is where both the friendship and similarities end. When the Pittsburgh Penguins and Boston Bruins step on the ice for Round 3 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs it could well be the best series of the […] READ MORE
Pens and Sens Have Plenty to Prove in Round Two
The Ottawa Senators and the Pittsburgh Penguins will have two very different mindsets on what transpired in the first round. For the Sens it is entirely positive, they took down the somewhat favoured Canadiens in five games and proved themselves immensely while doing so. Meanwhile, the Penguins had difficulty dispatching the underdog Islanders in what […] READ MORE
Fleury on Trial: The Penguins Have Been Exposed
First, let me give you a musical interlude. On the Pink Floyd magnum opus “Pink Floyd: The Wall,” the lead character in the story is put on trial by his subconscious for his imagined sins. His sentence, given to him by a judge that is basically a giant arse, is to be “exposed before his […] READ MORE
Top Shelf Prospects: Washington Capitals
Welcome to today’s edition of “Top Shelf Prospects” – a team-by-team look at the top prospects in the NHL. As I continue my alphabetical journey, I bring you a look at the Washington Capitals. As always you can find a complete listing of my previous articles here. Since we had an extensive NHL Draft preview, […] READ MORE
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Ben Kerr
Ben is a sports fan from just outside Toronto, Canada. In his day job he works as a lawyer. At night he is the COO of Last Word on Sports. Most of his articles are focused on hockey prospects.