Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
From Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy: As we continue our rankings of the best in the last decade, it’s time to look back at the best single-season performances from players in the 2000s. We’re going for the total stats picture, and not just one facet (goals, for example). Looking back at the last 10 years, there have been some awesome performances, but only a few that cracked...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
from Greg Wyshynski of PuckDaddy, Next Wednesday (on Versus) is the episode featuring Seau as an equipment manager for the Washington Capitals. He spoke with us recently about working that sports job, gauging the toughness of hockey players and the impression Alex Ovechkin(notes) made on him. That, along with talk about his three days as a reporter for Sports Illustrated, concussions...
From The Rink (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
On the air w/ The Kurtenbloggers For the first time in a couple months, I caught up with The Kurtenbloggers out in Vancouver to chat a little Leafs, a segment you can catch here . Their show was pretty much all bloggers, all the time, as Yahoo! Sports' Greg Wyshynski was on in the first hour . The other thing I've been meaning to mention is the weekly podcast we do at The Globe with myself,...
From The Rink (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
More photos » by Darren Calabrese - AP Browse more photos » A lot of stuff going on in Toronto these days, especially with the story on Brian Burke's son yesterday. (Greg Wyshynski and Justin Bourne have more on that today here .) Time permitting, I'll add some thoughts on that later today. On the ice, meanwhile, the Leafs are still in the league's basement, and one of the...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
from Greg Wyshynski of PuckDaddy, How you choose to define, or quantify, the “best” player in the NHL over the last decade will determine your level of agreement with this ranking, which is sure to be one of our most controversial End of Decade lists. Do you judge greatness based on flashy stats? Championship rings and playoff performance? Individual awards? Do you factor...
Mr. Irrelevant (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
We showed you the not-so-nice things Google calls Dan Snyder, which prompted Joe Sports Fan to do the same thing with other stars of sport, which leads us here: fun with D.C. sports figures and Google suggestions. Ovi has many fans that don’t speak English good. Also, many that party. Update: Greg Wyshynski informs me that “Is [...]
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
from Greg Wyshynski of PuckDaddy, Here are the Top 9 NHL Teams of the Last Decade ... 9. 2005-06 Carolina Hurricanes A Southeast Division champion with 112 points in the first regular season following the lockout, Peter Laviolette’s group had four 30-goal scorers including Eric Staal’s 45-goal, 100-point career year. Outside of their star center, it was a solid but unspectacular...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
In ranking the nine best NHL teams of the last decade, Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo! Sports gives the No. 1 spot to the 2001-'02 Detroit Red Wings and the No. 5 spot to the 2007-'08 Wings.
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
In ranking the nine best NHL teams of the last decade, Greg Wyshynski of Yahoo! Sports gives the No. 1 spot to the 2001-'02 Detroit Red Wings and the No. 5 spot to the 2007-'08 Wings.
Chrome Beach (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
I've written before about marketing experts' tendency to think that making something pink is a good way to market it to women. Greg Wyshynski, who blogs at Puck Daddy , writes on how the problem has come to the NHL's sale of third jerseys. These are optional jerseys that many teams have, a number of which are throwback jerseys from earlier years, and carry much nostalgia. There aren't...
Kukla's Korner (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
from Greg Wyshynski of Puck Daddy, The NHL believes that bringing fans together socially online, and bringing fans closer to their favorite teams and players, is a fundamental way to grow the game in a changing media culture. But will these “fan experiences” happen organically enough to not feel like a corporate marketing campaign; and will the ongoing debate about how teams...
Off Wing Opinion (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
I was reading Greg Wyshynski's account of Rob Scuderi's hit on Jason Chimera over at Puck Daddy late last night when it occurred to me that nobody had mentioned the penalty that could have been called: clipping. Here's the reference straight out of the NHL rulebook. Should they have thrown ...
Dan Shanoff (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Bill Simmons was NOT at Blogs With Balls 2.0 in Las Vegas last week, but if you want to see my "Future of Simmons" post that has been getting some attention, click here . Anyway... ***** I was a bit inspired by Greg Wyshynski's post recapping Blogs With Balls 2.0, which happened last week in Las Vegas. I'm going to borrow the form to do my own recap: *This was my first time...
