Posts Tagged ‘NHL’

…but seemingly, neither is a Little League World Series, NCAA Championship, Hobey Baker, and Stanley Cup.
While watching the New York Rangers take on the Pittsburgh Penguins Monday evening on Versus, my friend Laurel wanted to look up Rangers rookie Michael Del Zotto’s exact age, so I pulled up the Rangers website on the good ol’ [...]

Wednesday evening, former Boston University captain and rookie New York Rangers defenseman Matt Gilroy was outskated by Chicago Blackhawks right wing Dustin Byfuglien (a last name more difficult than my own) to allow the game-winning goal in overtime.
Thursday morning, Gilroy was summarily dismissed  by the Rangers and assigned to the AHL’s Hartford Wolf Pack.
And Saturday [...]

Note from 10/16/09: In this piece, I mention at the end that a bunch of my favorite players were picked up by the ECHL’s Charlotte Checkers. Two days after I posted that, nearly everyone was either released or put on injured reserve. So the whole last three paragraphs of this piece no longer makes sense. [...]

Readers of …On Being a Sports Girl are quite familiar with the reoccurring feature, “The Everyone’s Favorite Goalie Watch,” a series I began to follow the fledgling professional career of everyone’s favorite recent Boston University goaltender, John Curry.  While Curry will always be one of my favorite college hockey players, and I will never give [...]

Since a large chunk of my favorite college hockey players have now embarked on the professional portions of their careers, I present to you the first edition of “The Alumni Association,” a regular look at what some of the memorable college hockey players of the past five years are up to now.
Marblehead to Lynnfield, [...]