Your NHL Midseason Report

Ryan Getzlaf has the Ducks primed for a Stanley Cup run.

By Andy Dougherty (@AndyDougherty10)

On Sunday, Team Toews took down Team Foligno 17-12 in the NHL’s highest-scoring All-Star game ever. As the All-Star break wraps up, let’s take a look back at the best highlights from the first half of the year.

Goal of the Year

Sabres forward Tyler Ennis leapt past the Montreal Canadiens’ goal and put a blind backhand past Carey Price while falling down. ESPN listed this play third in its Top Ten Plays of 2014 in all of sports.

Bob Lobel: The Greatest Rivalry in Sports

By Bob Lobel (@boblobel)

There is no better rivalry in sports as we know them. 

This does not include croquet playing countries and riot causing English football.  They might as well be a world away and we don’t care about them now anyways. We are in the middle of our legend creating moments. What that means is simple the possibility of every moment of any game is fodder for all time legendary status that automatically becomes part of the cultural language.

For instance: “Too many men on the ice!”