May 26, 2020 | Hockey, News, NHL
Here’s how you know a player is extra special: His name inspires an adjective. And in the first decade of the 21st Century, amazing plays became “Datsyukian.” There were Datsyukian dekes, (coined by Red Wings announcer Ken Daniels), and Datsyukian...
May 25, 2020 | Hockey, News, NHL
In 2009, when President Barack Obama welcomed the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins to the White House, he made it a point to congratulate the youngest captain ever to win the Cup, 21-year-old Sidney Crosby. Toward the end of the ceremony, Obama got a big laugh...
May 24, 2020 | Hockey, News, NHL
Beep-beep … Whooosh! For every hockey writer, broadcaster and fan who had seen a “Looney Tunes” cartoon featuring the Road Runner, the nickname was a no-brainer. Time after time, the animated little desert bird leaves the bigger, would-be predator Wile E....
May 22, 2020 | Hockey, News, NHL
Many decades before the cannon blasts of Zdeno Chara and Shea Weber, and of Al MacInnis and Bernie “Boom Boom” Geoffrion and other thunderous shooters before them, there was the man known as “The Big Bomber.” Charlie Conacher, the second...
May 19, 2020 | Hockey, News, NHL
Picture a smallish pro hockey player — he’s 5-foot-10 — with a big, wet mop of curly hair atop his choirboy face. A huge smile lights up that face, a smile made even larger by the wide gap where his top front teeth once were. His eyes mischievously...
May 18, 2020 | Hockey, News, NHL
Many of the colorful yarns involving Francis Michael “King” Clancy, whose Hall of Fame career extended to refereeing, coaching and serving as an assistant general manager, ambassador and raconteur, come in different versions, perhaps seasoned with a touch...
