JR Reed
It Sucks to be Marian Gaborik
I’m not going to sugar coat things. It sucks to be Maran Gaborik right now. It really does. The 31-year-old Slovakian winger was traded from the New York Rangers to the Columbus Blue Jackets last week and though Gaborik put on a brave face and called it a “new challenge”, there is no way he can be happy about ...Full Article
Development Pays Dividends for the Red Wings
Some teams go out and buy high priced free agents, some teams continue to get, and waste, high draft picks year after year and then there are the ...Full Article
Ducks 4 Blackhawks 2 in Biggest Western Conference Tilt Yet; Holland Emerges for Ducks
People had this one circled on their calendars for a couple weeks and the people in the standing room only crowd at Honda Center were not disappointed to be ...Full Article
Is It Time To Blow Up the Calgary Flames?
Honda Center is a scary place for the Calgary Flames and they returned to Anaheim Friday night looking to metaphorically roast the Ducks. It’s true that Anaheim was on ...Full Article
ESPN Killed Hockey in America and Ryan Seacrest’s New Job
For years I’ve been saying that TV coverage of hockey in America sucks. Forget TV coverage, coverage of the NHL in general is a joke in these United States. ...Full Article
Of X’s, O’s and Three Amigos
Wednesday night’s 2-0 victory over the Phoenix Coyotes was special in two ways. The two points they picked up increased their lead over Montreal for the second best record ...Full Article
Suicide Isn’t Funny
Yesterday I ranted about a goalie who never really had a prime, his backup goalie/GM and a team owner who sounds like a teenage girl. Today we learned that ...Full Article
Rink Rant–Waive Goodbye to Rick Di Pietro
I’m pretty sure that everyone in the Northern Hemisphere saw this coming. I know I did. Seven years ago when New York Islanders backup goalie turned GM Garth Snow ...Full Article
J.R.’s Rink Rants
In this edition of Rink Rants: A Fasth Start, Hart Trophy Finalists and a letter to Eugene Melnyk 7-0-0 is a Fasth Start This is one of those ...Full Article
Video: Ryan Suter of the Minnesota Wild
Ryan Suter of the Minnesota Wild talks about coming to the State of Hockey, what he sees for the future of the Wild, his legendary uncle, Gary Suter and ...Full Article
Video–Zach Parise of the Minnesota Wild
Zach Parise talks about his college career, international play, coming to Minnesota, his goals as a member of the Wild and his father who played in the 1972 Summit ...Full Article
Video: Jonathan Blum of the Nashville Predators
New Video! Jonathan Blum sits with Hockeytalk to discuss playing in Southern California, making it to the NHL, moving between the AHL and NHL and what his personal goals ...Full Article
Hockeytalk Audio: Lorne Henning, Asst. GM Vancouver Canucks
Lorne Henning sat down with Hockeytalk to discuss the team’s conditioning, holding onto leads, their second and third line players, their goaltending situation and the return of Ryan Kessler ...Full Article
Hockeytalk Audio: San Jose Scout Dirk Graham
Former NHL captain and current scout for the San Jose Sharks sat down with Hockeytalk to talk about Scott Gomez, Tim Kennedy. Joe Thornton, Antii Niemi and their chances ...Full Article
Return of the Rink Rant
I enjoy looking at how something is written, listening to what isn’t said, coming to my own conclusions and then sharing them with you… I’m a ponderer. I also ...Full Article
