ESPN Picks
KK Hockey —
... The ESPN ‘Experts’, David Amber, John Buccigross, Scott Burnside, Linda Cohn, E.J. Hradek and Pierre LeBrun make their division, conference, Stanley Cup and individual awards predictions. ...
Season previews, picks, and other stuff
Snapshots —
... of Hart Trophy contenders (I voted for Nicklas Lidstrom, as usual). Very surprisingly, their expert picks for the Stanley Cup only include one Red Wings nod, from EJ Hradek. The other experts are picking the Dallas Stars (2), Montreal Canadiens (1), New York Rangers (1), and San Jose Sharks (1). The Sports Forecaster discusses the NHL's "Rising Stars" in this week's "The Hockey Desk," and they've made a no-brainer pick in tabbing Valtteri Filppula to blossom in Detroit: ...
Michel Ouellet, Ken Phelps All-Star
mc79hockey.com —
... bullish on the Canucks this year. I’m hoping to throw up a big NW look back at last year at some point in the next week to highlight a few things but while I tend to think that, injuries excepted, while the Oilers had a lot of things go more right than they had any right to expect, absolutely nothing went right for the Canucks and they still piled up 88 points. I kind of see the NW as being a fight between Vancouver and Minnesota at the moment, which places me at odds with the the ESPN panel ...
Dallas Stars: new darlings of the MSM?
Battle of California —
ESPN came out with their "expert" picks today (Linda Cohn ... an NHL expert? Huh?). Three out of 6 experts chose a BoC team to win the Stanley Cup and two of them predicted it would be the Dallas Stars (the other BoC team expected to win the Cup was media darling of yore, San Jose). The Stars were the pick of two of the more respectable ESPN.com NHL writers Scott Burnside and David Amber (although Burnside picked Brian Campbell to win the Norris ... come on Burnside, you're better than that!). Pierre LeBrun, ESPN.com's blogger* picked the Sharks to raise the Cup. (Linda Cohn picked the New York Rangers. Sources could not confirm if the pick ...
Tuesday Roundup
Japers' Rink —
... for the Caps.... Linda Cohn is the lone contrarian at ESPN picking against the Caps in the Southeast (though she's got Ovi winning the Hart somehow).... The Caps open the season ...
Press review
Habs Inside/Out —
... goaltender.
• Injury update.
• Another chance for Kyle Chipchura.
• Guy Carbonneau says there are no more defensive lines.
• Ken Campbell of The Hockey News talks to George Gillett about post-lockout finance.
• Report on the death of Laura Gainey will be out at the end of the month.
• Félix Séguin of RDS on Guy Lafleur's 1988 comeback.
• ESPN predictions: all six experts like Canadiens to win the Northeast.
• Bob McKenzie on the Class of '08. ...
The Morning Skate for Tuesday, October 7th
Four Habs Fans —
... Your ESPN NHL "experts" all have the Habs winning the Northeast, half have the Habs winning thee East, and Bucci has them winning the Cup. Only one of 6 has the Wings winning the Cup. These guys are idiots. ...
Linda Cohn Loves the Rangers & Lundqvist
The New York Rangers Blog —
... Over at ESPN.com, their so-called experts try to predict this year's Cup winner and who will take home the major awards, including a tight MVP race. One of those experts is Linda Cohn who picked the Rangers to win the Stanley Cup and Henrik Lundqvist to take home the Vezina. ...
The Season To Come, Part One
Top Shelf —
Hockey - real live, counts in the standings, totally valid to freak out about hockey - is finally, FINALLY just around the corner. I don't know about the rest of you but I really felt like this off-season was never going to end. Ever. But in 72 hours or so the Sabres will have claimed their first victim of the season - and I mean the Canadiens not me, fellas - so it seems like it's time to lay out a couple of thoughts and predictions about the upcoming season. If I were a real journalist I would sit here until my thoughts were all nicely organized and worked but I'm not. I'm a lowly blogger who's not making any money doing this. Some totally random, unorganized ...
…On Pace For 492 Goals…
Yankee Canuck —
... . Giordano, despite some poor plays like the rest of the defense, looked great otherwise. You barely saw Iginla out there other then when he was taking a call and Phaneuf is the Norris Trophy winner ? Good luck with that. Sure, it’s just one game and Saturday will feature a vengeful home team supported by their sea of red, but for now maybe this team swayed a few naysayers out there. Maybe not. Then again, who cares. As Todd would say “it is what it is.”
What We Learned: Let your kids beat the piss out of eachother
The Two-Line Pass —
... New York Rangers — As if we needed further proof that the Rangers were a swirling cesspool of shit, they coughed up three points in two games to the Panthers, and looked like hell doing it. Hope the clods over at ESPN are taking note that their boys aren’t doing so hot. ...
Great Expectations - What is Realistic for the Canes?
Canes Country —
... as downright frustrating at times, has the team actually performed below general expectations so far this year? If you were to ask most experts around the league, they probably would answer “no”. The truth of the matter is, the Hurricanes are probably right about where most hockey people, (outside Carolina), expected them to be. How many pundits predicted that the Hurricanes would finish ahead of Washington in the Southeast Division? Not very many. According to this report polling seven experts at ESPN , not a single one of them chose ...
Spring CleaningJacques Martin, Melanson, Livingston And The Rest
Lions in Winter: Montreal Canadiens (Habs) News and Commentary —
... , but then he thought Dallas would win the Cup , Turco the Vezina, Brian Campbell the Norris and Carbonneau the Jack Adams trophy among other largesses. Not having his opinion on your side is probably quite a good thing. He can join other ...
The Worldwide Leader In...
The Peerless Prognosticator —
...sports that don't involve a stick, ice, and pucks of vulcanized rubber? We were clicking here and there and came upon last fall's predictions from the "experts" at ESPN on who would win what in the NHL this year. Here is how they saw the fight for the Stanley Cup... ...
Preview: Introducing the 2009-10 Dallas Stars!
Puck Daddy —
... season, you're holding an empty box. Which makes using advertisements and infomercials the appropriate template for Puck Daddy's 2009-10 NHL Season Previews, presented each day throughout September. Last Season's Ad Copy: Twelfth in the Western Conference, third in the Pacific Division (36-35-11, 83 points). Last year's team will be remembered, if for nothing else, as solid evidence in support of the notion that "nobody knows nuthin.'" Take one gander at ESPN's NHL predictions for the 2008-09 season; you wouldn't see that many ...
ESPN MAKES “EXPERT” PICKS FOR 2009 NHL SEASON
BigLeagueScrew —
... . But I don’t put much stock in them. Last year, only one out of the seven experts chose the Penguins to make it to the Stanley Cup Finals. None of them picked the Pens to win. Hilariously, more people picked the Rangers (3) to win the Atlantic Division last year than the Penguins (2). So, if you still care, the 2009 “expert” picks are below. Vegas has the Penguins, Bruins, Capitals, Red Wings, Canucks/Flames (tie), and Sharks as their frontrunners for division crowns. As a reminder, the NHL opener is Thursday night on Versus. ...
