Friday Power Rankings
on Nov 20, 2009 in Power Rankings That's right, it's a regular feature! You can also see our rankings at: http://www.fadoo.ca/hockey.The Blackhawks, Flyers, Blue Jackets and Predators climb, as the Penguins, Rangers and Leafs fall. Last week's ranking in parenthesis.1. (2) San J...

Columbus and Filatov: Creating Zherdev Part II?
on Nov 19, 2009 in KHL Nikita Filatov Columbus Blue Jackets Ken Hitchcock Nikolai Zherdev On Tuesday the Columbus Dispatch reported that "Blue Jackets rookie forward Nikita Filatov, who has struggled to remain in coach Ken Hitchcock's lineup, might be headed back to Russia, perhaps as soon as this week..."On Wednesday the Blue Jackets agr...

Shanny Retires. Hall of Fame Beckons
on Nov 17, 2009 in Detroit Red Wings New Jersey Devils Brendan Shanahan Gordie Howe Brendan Shanahan announced today what we all knew would happen after he "reconsidered" playing this season with New Jersey. He is retiring after twenty-one NHL seasons. (AP)“I would like to thank my family and all of the friends who...

Penguins Blueline Suffers Further Damage
on Nov 16, 2009 in Sergei Gonchar Alex Goligoski Brooks Orpik Deryk Engelland Kris Letang Ben Lovejoy Pittsburgh Penguins Nate Guenin Already missing Sergei Gonchar, Brooks Orpik and Kris Letang, the Pittsburgh Penguins will now play without the services of Alex Goligoski. "Go-go" will be out two to three weeks due to a "lower-body" injury. The Penguins received a bo...

Detroit's November: No Cinderella Story
on Nov 14, 2009 in Detroit Red Wings Jiri Hudler Mikael Samuelsson Marian Hossa Tomas Kopecky The Red Wings started the season by dropping their first two games to St. Louis in Sweden.  They finished October having lost seven games.  Although a slight exaggeration, this is a team that doesn't normally lose it's seventh gam...

Friday NHL Power Rankings
on Nov 13, 2009 in Frozen War Room Power Rankings In honor of our esteemed comrades at Frozen War Room, Hockey Plumber is proud to present the first in a new weekly feature: The Friday NHL Power Rankings. Parenthesis indicate last weeks ranking courtesy of the War Room.The Devils, Sharks,...

Two Long Seasons Too Much on Pens?
on Nov 12, 2009 in Detroit Red Wings Sergei Gonchar Brooks Orpik Kris Letang Max Talbot Pittsburgh Penguins Evgeni Malkin Tyler Kennedy The injuries continue to pile up for the defending champion Penguins.  After suffering their third consecutive defeat at the hands of the Boston Bruins on Tuesday, Pittsburgh found out that they will be without hit machine Brooks Orpik...

Alex Ovechkin ‘week-to-week’... How did this happen?
on Nov 3, 2009 in Alex Ovechkin Look at Hockey Plumbers last post.  Are we now the "Hockey Prophet"? Although he reads our blog everyday, this isn't an elaborate hoax put together by The Plumber and Ovi.(AP)—"The Washington Capitals say Alex Ovechkin(notes) is 'week-to-week'...

Ovechkin: Can Alexander the Gr8 surpass The Great One?
on Oct 30, 2009 in Kevin Stevens Keith Tkachuk Cam Neely Mario Lemieux Alexander Ovechkin Evgeni Malkin It's early in the 2009-10 season but two headlines seem to keep repeating: "(Insert star player name here) Out for x to x weeks." and "Ovechkin scores 2 in Caps Victory."Malkin, Gonchar, Kovalchuk, Booth, Franzen, etc... missing time with various ail...

Coyotes To Be Sold To the NHL?
on Oct 26, 2009 in Bill Daly Phoenix Coyotes Glendale Wayne Gretzky Jerry Moyes The Canadian Press reports that Phoenix Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes has agreed to sell the franchise to the NHL.The deal still must be approved by U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Redfield T. Baum. It is also reported that Wayne Gretzky, who has a US$2...