Who saw this coming?
All that talk about a monumental sweep was silenced in powerful fashion as the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the brakes off the Philadelphia Flyers Wednesday night, scoring 10 goals in a Game Four rout on the road.
The Penguins now return home in hopes of building on that momentum Friday night. The bad news is Philadelphia has won seven of eight at the Consol Energy Center. Continue reading
The Chicago Blackhawks suffered a huge blow Tuesday when points leader Marian Hossa was knocked out of the game on a huge hit by Phoenix Coyotes’ Raffi Torres.
With Hossa now out indefinitly, the Blackhawks try to swing back Thursday night in Game Four of the Western Conference playoffs.
Bovada is favoring Chicago by 1 1/2 goals with a -165 moneyline. It may be because of the extra motivation Torres provided. He was suspended indefinitly for the hit Chicago coach Joel Quenneville called “brutal”. Continue reading
How much things can change in a hurry.
The Vancouver Canucks were heavy favorites not only to beat the Los Angeles Kings, but to win the Western Conference Playoffs. A week later, it’s the Los Angeles Kings, eighth-seeded in the west, who are the darlings in NHL Futures Betting.
The Kings have won the first three games of their series with the Canucks, and look to close it out with a shocking sweep Wednesday night. The two teams square off in a pressure-packed Game Four at Staples Center. Continue reading
This wasn’t the kind of fight we were talking about.
With their backs against the walls in Game Three, the Pittsburgh Penguins came out swinging against the Philadelphia Flyers – literally.
Sidney Crosby and Co. brawled their way through most of Sunday’s playoff game, all to the the same result as the last two games. The Flyers delivered the biggest hook, blowing out Pittsburgh 8-4 to take a 3-0 series lead. Continue reading
That was fast.
Just a week ago, the Presidents’ Cup winners Vancouver Canucks were at the top of Bovada’s list to win the Western Conference playoffs. They were the number one seed and set to square off against the eight-seed Los Angeles Kings.
A week later, the favorite to win the west is still from that match-up, but its the Kings who have all the momentum. Continue reading
All eyes are on Phoenix Coyotes goaltender Mike Smith as the series between the Coyotes and Chicago Blackhawks shifts to Chicago on Tuesday night.
Smith has been able to turn away 89 of 95 shots on goal from the Blackhawks so far this series, but couldn’t shake off a big hit by Chicago’s Andrew Shaw. Continue reading
We’ve been documenting it all week. The Pittsburgh Penguins are fading fast and all but out of the 2012 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs. Only three teams have come back from a 3-0 defecit to win a postseason series, and one of those teams is the Philadelphia Flyers from 2010.
They know how quickly it can happen, and won’t take their feet off Pittsburgh’s neck. Continue reading
The Pittsburgh Penguins and Vancouver Canucks aren’t very good at this favoritism thing. They were favored to win each of their first three playoff games this year. They were favored to win their conferences. Heck, they were even the favorites to hoist the Stanley Cup at the end of the entire NHL postseason.
Yet, here we are, shrugging our shoulders at a considerable collapse in the matter of days, in which the favorites in the east are essentially done. The Penguins are down 3-0 to the Philadelphia Flyers after a miserable week by goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury and Sidney Crosby is already fighting. Continue reading
The Vancouver Canucks are having a rough go of things lately aren’t they? First they fail to capture the Stanley Cup last year after winning the President’s Cup, extending the miserable streak of past winners this decade. Then they drop Game One of this year’s NHL Playoffs to the Los Angeles Kings by surrendering two goals in the third period.
What’s worse, the Kings, understandably giddy over their win, took to twitter, writing on the team’s official website: “To everyone in Canada outside of BC, you’re welcome.” Continue reading
The Philadelphia Flyers led the league in comeback victories during the regular season, so I guess it wasn’t all that surprising when they stormed back against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game One of the Eastern Conference playoffs.
That doesn’t make it any easier to swallow for the Penguins, favored in Bovada’s NHL Betting Futures to win the conference championship. A year after bowing out of the playoffs in the first round, Pittsburgh once again couldn’t figure things out. Continue reading