NHL Awards Show to Celebrate League’s Top Players and Reveal Winners of Select Awards Hockeyology by Russ_Cohen - June 3, 2025June 3, 20250 NEW YORK (June 3, 2025) – The best players and coaches from the 2024-25 season will be celebrated in the 2025 NHL Awards, a one-hour special that will premiere on June 12, at 6 p.m. ET on TNT in the U.S. and Sportsnet in Canada, before Game 4 of the Stanley Cup Final. Produced by
Blittner’s Blue Line: A Cup Rematch For The Ages Hockeyology by Matthew Blittner - June 3, 2025June 3, 20250 They say the sequel is never as good as the original. Well, whoever coined that phrase clearly didn’t have the 2024-25 NHL Stanley Cup Final in mind. For just the 11th time since The NHL took full control of The Stanley Cup, there is a rematch in consecutive years. And
Blittner’s Blue Line: FINALLY, Team USA Wins Gold And The Islanders Get Their Man Hockeyology by Matthew Blittner - May 27, 2025May 27, 20250 “USA! USA! USA!” How apropos that on Memorial Day Weekend, Team USA ended its 92-year drought to win Gold at the IIHF Men’s Ice Hockey World Championship. Tage Thompson of the Buffalo Sabres, scored the overtime “Golden Goal” to give The USA its first championship at the event since 1933. And
Blittner’s Blue Line: Heartwrenching Moment And Third Round Preview Hockeyology by Matthew Blittner - May 20, 2025May 20, 20250 “That one’s for Dad!” Across the various broadcasts of Game Six, throughout the American Airlines Center and around the hockey world, that’s what everyone was thinking when Mark Scheifele scored the opening goal mere hours after his father, Brad Scheifele, unexpectedly passed away. Mark’s goal 5:28 into the second period gave
Blittner’s Blue Line: Don’t Touch The Officials Hockeyology by Matthew Blittner - May 13, 2025May 13, 20250 Under no circumstances should an NHL player EVER make physical contact with an on-ice official during the course of a game. About the only exception to this rule is after a game ends if a player wants to shake hands with the officials to say, “thank you.” Otherwise, it’s hands
Blittner’s Blue Line: Coming Together For A Cause, Plus Draft Lottery And More Hockeyology by Matthew Blittner - May 6, 2025May 6, 20250 “Come Together, right now” – The Beatles, Come Together, Abbey Road, 1969. For all the talk that hockey is a fierce, unrelenting sport with warrior types everywhere, it is also a community that comes together when one of its own needs them the most. Last year, NHL.com’s Brian Compton – one of
Time To Step Up For The Devils As Series Deficit Becomes 0-2 Hockeyology by Matthew Blittner - April 23, 2025April 23, 20250 "It's (the) playoffs,” Brett Pesce said after the conclusion of Game Two. “You do whatever you can to win. There's a reason why The Stanley Cup's the hardest trophy to win. (It) takes literally everything and everyone." Tuesday night at Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, the New Jersey Devils and
Tone Set For Devils And Hurricanes Hockeyology by Matthew Blittner - April 21, 2025April 21, 20250 Don’t panic! It’s just one game. The race to 16 wins and Lord Stanley’s fabled chalice is officially underway. However, the New Jersey Devils have already suffered their first setback. At Lenovo Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, the Devils started the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a whimper, falling victim at the
The Return of Dougie Hamilton Hockeyology by Matthew Blittner - April 17, 2025April 17, 20250 “He's baaaack!” Wednesday night, as the New Jersey Devils said goodbye to the regular season and prepared for the postseason, they welcomed a familiar face back into the fold. Dougie Hamilton, who had been out with a lower-body injury since being injured against the Dallas Stars on March 4th, returned to
Blittner’s Blue Line: Next Stop, Playoffs! Hockeyology by Matthew Blittner - April 15, 2025April 15, 20250 “This stop, Willoughby.” For as weird and wacky as episodes of The Twilight Zone generally were, they’ve got nothing on The NHL playoffs. This year’s postseason begins on Saturday, April 19, 2025. Most of the participating teams have been determined, although there’s still a couple fighting for spots. While we wait
