http://www.gongshowhockey.com/ Gongshow Hockey en-us Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:51:50 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly Gongshow Hockey News http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.gongshowhockey.com/images/logo.gif http://www.gongshowhockey.com/ http://www.gongshowhockey.com/News/article/sid=513/ This might come as no surprise to anybody here, but I just thought I'd shed light on the subject, as I see it possibly becoming a big problem for teams in the next couple of years. This would be the increased inflation of the salary cap, as well as player's salaries. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:51:50 GMT http://www.gongshowhockey.com/News/article/sid=512/ With NHL Entry Draft now complete we all know what time it is. Some off-season diehards would say the buyout and negotiation period and next Tuesday at noon we enter into the Free Agency period. Well that is all fun and dandy, many more of us also know this time of year as summer. Heading out on roadies to Montreal, or whatever cottage country you happen to be near. Fishing, drinking some brews, and for a vast majority cracking a new tin. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:42:33 GMT http://www.gongshowhockey.com/News/article/sid=511/ The 07/08 season came to a end last night, as the Red Wings downed the Penguins in game six of the Stanley Cup Finals. A game in which many people expected the momentum to be on the Penguins side, as the game progressed, it was clear that Detroit meant business, and were Cup thirsty. Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:18:49 GMT http://www.gongshowhockey.com/News/article/sid=510/ Detroit played the 3rd period like a team that wins Stanley Cups. They turned the momentum onto their side, scoring twice to take the lead from a Penguins’ team that had showed vulnerability in the clutch in Game 4 and were showing the same signs again. Detroit fans knew it. They have watched their Red Wings shut down other teams late in games all season, and especially in these Cup Finals against these Pittsburgh Penguins. But regardless of how much Detroit was possessing the puck or how huge the difference in shots was, Maxime Talbot affected the only stat that really matters when he banged home a loose puck with 34 seconds to play…..talk about a buzzkill. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:27:05 GMT http://www.gongshowhockey.com/News/article/sid=509/ Had to write a dramatic Monologue for drama, thought i picked a good topic, includes the cheers to hockey speech and a little bit of my own hockey memories this year after my first season in highschool. Tue, 03 Jun 2008 05:30:21 GMT http://www.gongshowhockey.com/News/article/sid=508/ The Pittsburgh Penguins will look to get back in the series on Saturday night by tying it up at two games. I don’t think that you can honestly say that they are back in series with it being 2-1 against the Detroit Red Wings. Think about it, if they lose Saturday night, then they will have to win 3 consecutive games against the Red Wings and two of those will be on the road in “HockeyTown”. At the end of the last game I said “Well folks, we have a series”. But, in retrospect, the series is still very much in the Red Wings favor. If the Penguins win tonight then it will be a different story, and truly will be a different series. Fri, 30 May 2008 17:13:24 GMT http://www.gongshowhockey.com/News/article/sid=507/ It looked more like a rock concert than a tailgate. This wasn't just the typical brand of pre-game celebration outside of Mellon Arena on Wednesday evening, the outdoor festivities were an event unto themselves. If you were fortunate enough to have a ticket to gain access inside the consecrated igloo, walking through the rows of chairs and laid out blankets gave you the sense that even though you were going into the game, you were missing something on the outside of the arena as well. But inside or outside, the ethereal sense of adrenaline was pervasive throughout the entire city; something big was going down. Like the clock on a bomb in a James Bond movie that shows the hundreths of seconds racing towards an eruption, or the last stand of a few remainig soldiers in a war flick. All the remaining hope, grit, love and passion that was left in the Pittsburgh faithful from a trying and wounding weekend was being expended for this game; our boys back at home ready to drive at Detroit with everything they had in a game that mathmatically wouldn't mean the end but psychologically would have been the hockey equivalent of being brain dead. Thu, 29 May 2008 21:24:52 GMT http://www.gongshowhockey.com/News/article/sid=506/ Saturday night Pittsburg will play Detroit in Game One of the 2008 NHL Playoffs. There is big hype around the Cole Harbour native Sid the Kid. Could he be the youngest Captain to ever win the Stanley Cup? Wed, 21 May 2008 05:35:35 GMT http://www.gongshowhockey.com/News/article/sid=505/ Braydon Coburn, arguably one of the better young players which the Flyer's team boasts, could possibly miss game 3 of the Pens/Flyers conference final. The reason is simple, he was hit in the face with a puck. Tue, 13 May 2008 14:26:11 GMT http://www.gongshowhockey.com/News/article/sid=504/ Since the last couple of weeks, there has been a excessive amount of openings for coaches in the NHL. Just recently the Toronto Maple Leafs fired Paul Maurice, and before then the Florida Panthers, Atlanta Thrashers, and Ottawa Senators were vacant in the ‘HC’position. Since the Maurice firing, the Colorado Avalanche fired Joel Quenneville, and it is rumored that San Jose might fire Ron Wilson aswell as the Tampa Bay Lightning and John Tortorella. Mon, 12 May 2008 20:29:20 GMT