The annual Showcase tournament in Blaine, MN is generally considered as the opening of the North American Hockey League season, but each year a few teams manage to get a few games under their bests before the four games in four days extravaganza. This season, four different cities regular season matches and two of those

All of the Junior Hockey Leagues are underway now in the Midwest. This is the start of a quick series of posts on how Midwest teams have fared so far. Tier I – USHL Pre-Season The Resch Center in Green Bay hosted the nine East Division teams and Sioux City was the host for the

This is written as a half explanation/half apology to my readers of which there may not be any…As of right now, I have had about 50-100 comments on my blog so far…about half are from a shoe company which apparently has a new special every day and the other half is from various people so

The time is now for the St. Louis Blues. No longer a talented team with little playoff experience, it’s time for the Blues to move forward and the team’s moves late last season and over the summer shows management understands that concept. Picking up Ryan Miller at the trade deadline last spring seemed a gutsy

When the Minnesota Wild signed both Zach Parise and Ryan Suter in the summer of 2012, the team became an instant Stanley Cup contender — at least in the mind of this writer. So, when the team scrambled to get the eighth and final Western Conference playoff spot, then subsequently found itself bounced in five

A suddenly young Detroit Red Wings team looked to be mismatched in the opening round of the NHL post season, brushed aside by the Boston Bruins in five games. But the Red Wings made surprisingly few off season moves –actually nothing at all worth noting and there could be a pretty good ready for that.