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Peter Mueller of the Phoenix Coyotes: Where Has He Gone?

Peter Mueller has just been sidelined by an undisclosed injury he suffered against the Dallas Stars on Friday night. He's questionable for tonight's game in Anaheim...

Written by Scott Weldon about 4 days ago 243 reads 4 comments
Guillaume Latendresse Traded to Wild; Canadiens Receive Benoit Pouliot

Yes, "the softy" has been moved to Minnesota for "the chicken." That's as far as my high school French, no doubt erroneously, will take me. Underachievers Benoit Pouliot and Guillaume Latendresse have been exchanged for each other...

Written by Scott Weldon about 9 days ago 309 reads 7 comments
Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics : Canada's Men's Hockey Team

It's a tough struggle to pare down the available Canadian players for the men's Olympic hockey team. Anyone you keep displaces three worthy candidates. I have placed an emphasis on speed and international/NHL playoff experience and success...

Written by Scott Weldon about 11 days ago 307 reads 0 comments
Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: US Men's Hockey Team

Zach Parise is the simplest pick on this US team destined to go to Vancouver for the Olympics. Who else will or should make up this team and how will they fare? Goaltenders This is the strongest ...

Written by Scott Weldon about 15 days ago 270 reads 9 comments
The Slovenian Sport: Anze Kopitar of the LA Kings Is Freakishly Good

Now, if you ask me who the leading scorer in the NHL is right now, I'd guess Alex Ovechkin or Sidney Crosby. I might think Evgeny Malkin or Pavel Datsyuk. There's an outside shot it's Zach Parise or Henrik Zetterburg...

Written by Scott Weldon about 22 days ago 353 reads 4 comments
NHL Halloween Horror Stories: Horrific Start for Six Teams

It's early days yet in the NHL regular season. Teams have played barely an eighth of their games so far. There are teams that are digging themselves a fairly deep grave...

Written by Scott Weldon about about 1 month ago 90 reads 2 comments
NHL: General Managers Trying To Tweak Lineups

I'm a big fan of general managers in hockey who are trying to get it done. I lived through the 80s in Calgary where there was a constant push to make the team better...

Written by Scott Weldon about about 1 month ago 85 reads 8 comments
Gretzky Passes Howe: Oct 15,1989

Twenty years ago in the Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton, Wayne Gretzky returned to play a hockey game. This wasn't his first return to the arena where he'd won four Stanley Cups...

Written by Scott Weldon about about 1 month ago 48 reads 7 comments
NHL Central Division 2009-10: Review and Preview

Central Division Last but not least is what was the best division in hockey last year. Chicago stepped forward to be among the league's elite last year. St Louis and Columbus made the playoffs...

Written by Scott Weldon about about 1 month ago 75 reads 0 comments
NHL Northeast Division 2009/2010: Review and Preview

he Northeast division had the second best winning percentage in the league last year at .561. Like the Northwest, they’re catering to some of the more rabid fan bases in hockey and so tend to spend and at times overspend every year...

Written by Scott Weldon about 2 months ago 52 reads 0 comments
NHL Atlantic Division: 2009/10 Review and Preview

Atlantic Division The Atlantic produced the Stanley Cup champion and four Eastern Conference playoff teams, yet only managed to have the third-best winning percentage in the league at .561...

Written by Scott Weldon about 2 months ago 114 reads 6 comments
NHL Pacific Division 2009-10: Review and Preview

Pacific Division The third weakest division in hockey last year was the Pacific Division. The .548 winning percentage was brought about by a decline from Dallas and no compensating improvement from LA or Phoenix...

Written by Scott Weldon about 2 months ago 198 reads 6 comments
Northwest Division 2009/10 : Review and Preview

The shortest offseason in pro-sports is over and here’s my look at how I think the Northwest division is going to fair this year. I’m looking at them in the order they finished last year...

Written by Scott Weldon about 2 months ago 117 reads 2 comments
Ovechkin and the Rest: NHL Southeast Division Preview

The shortest offseason in professional sports is over and it’s time to try to figure out what went on in the offseason and how it’ll effect what’s happening going forward in the NHL this year...

Written by Scott Weldon about 2 months ago 101 reads 2 comments
Habs Ask for a Fresh Deck: 2009-10 Preview

Montreal suffered through a year of exaggerated expectations. They snuck into the playoffs past a mediocre Florida team on the basis of having a better record against them in the regular season...

Written by Scott Weldon about 2 months ago 121 reads 0 comments
Montreal Canadiens and the Karmic Curse of Irving Grundman

It was the summer of 1978 and the Montreal Canadiens were the greatest organization in hockey. Fresh from winning their third Stanley Cup in a row and their 21st Stanley Cup ever, they were arguably the best run organization in professional sports...

Written by Scott Weldon about 2 months ago 242 reads 6 comments
Abstaining in the Offseason: Six NHL Teams That Had No Action All Summer

Every year after the season is over twenty nine teams didn't win a stanley cup. Fans of those teams and even fans of the team that did win hope their organization, through scouting, guile ...

Written by Scott Weldon about 3 months ago 409 reads 9 comments
Down the Rabbit Hole: Maybe MLB Knows Why Balls Are Hopping Off Bats

When Mark McGwire first hit 70 home runs in a Major League Baseball season, it became apparent to everyone who was paying attention that something was wrong...

Written by Scott Weldon about 3 months ago 169 reads 2 comments
X-Cuse Me???

During the 1960s and 70s, a wide variety of alternative sports sprung up. They were variegated and tended to be non-competitive. Generally speaking they died out. I like to think they were out-competed by other sports...

Written by Scott Weldon about 3 months ago 48 reads 2 comments
Penny Pinching: Finding That Free Agent Bargain

Free agent frenzy has long since died. Most teams have filled their rosters. Some have gorged themselves to the point where they'll be hiding contracts in the AHL or buying out players before the season starts...

Written by Scott Weldon about 4 months ago 276 reads 8 comments
Gilbert Perreault: The Forgotten Frenchman

Gilbert Perreault came out of junior hockey a year ahead of Guy Lafleur and Marcell Dionne. He was a year older than those two all-time great French Canadian hockey players...

Written by Scott Weldon about 4 months ago 402 reads 11 comments
Stanley Cup Playoffs: A Grande Finale Indeed!

The Penguins managed to win the Stanley Cup against the odds on favourite. After getting swamped 5—0 in game five, they won two tight, critical games against a suddenly tired looking Detroit Red Wings team...

Written by Scott Weldon about 5 months ago 117 reads 4 comments
Stanley Cup Finals: Grande Finale ou Coup de Grace?

This has been a great playoff year. It's the best I can remember in quite some time. My memory is admittedly suspect, but I believe a lot of what's happened this year in the playoffs highlights the things that are right with the NHL...

Written by Scott Weldon about 6 months ago 211 reads 0 comments
Coyote Ugly: Bankruptcy in the Desert

The NHL is in huge financial distress and the Coyotes of Phoenix are the tip of the iceberg. After months of obfuscation the NHL has finally admitted there are problems in Phoenix...

Written by Scott Weldon about 6 months ago 371 reads 9 comments
Spring Classic: Division Finals

While I was watching the Winter Classic on New Year's Day and Detroit and Chicago played that beautifully executed up-tempo back and forth hockey game, all I could think was wouldn't this make a great Western Final...

Written by Scott Weldon about 6 months ago 61 reads 0 comments

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Scott Weldon Article Archive

Peter Mueller of the Phoenix Coyotes: Where Has He Gone?

Guillaume Latendresse Traded to Wild; Canadiens Receive Benoit Pouliot

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics : Canada's Men's Hockey Team

Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: US Men's Hockey Team

The Slovenian Sport: Anze Kopitar of the LA Kings Is Freakishly Good

NHL Halloween Horror Stories: Horrific Start for Six Teams

NHL: General Managers Trying To Tweak Lineups

Gretzky Passes Howe: Oct 15,1989

NHL Central Division 2009-10: Review and Preview

NHL Northeast Division 2009/2010: Review and Preview

NHL Atlantic Division: 2009/10 Review and Preview

NHL Pacific Division 2009-10: Review and Preview

Northwest Division 2009/10 : Review and Preview

Ovechkin and the Rest: NHL Southeast Division Preview

Habs Ask for a Fresh Deck: 2009-10 Preview

Montreal Canadiens and the Karmic Curse of Irving Grundman

Abstaining in the Offseason: Six NHL Teams That Had No Action All Summer

Down the Rabbit Hole: Maybe MLB Knows Why Balls Are Hopping Off Bats

X-Cuse Me???

Penny Pinching: Finding That Free Agent Bargain

Gilbert Perreault: The Forgotten Frenchman

Stanley Cup Playoffs: A Grande Finale Indeed!

Stanley Cup Finals: Grande Finale ou Coup de Grace?

Coyote Ugly: Bankruptcy in the Desert

Spring Classic: Division Finals

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