Blittner’s Blue Line: Joey Raats’ Story Of Survival Hockeyology by Matthew Blittner - August 11, 2025August 11, 20250 Webster’s Dictionary defines “Perseverance” as “continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition.” What the dictionary doesn’t do is include a photo of an actual instance of perseverance. For that, they need look no further than Joey Raats, a now 29-year-old defenseman who, on May 26, 2022,
Blittner’s Blue Line: The Evolution Of The Role Of NHL Player Agents Hockeyology by Matthew Blittner - August 6, 2025August 6, 20250 Education! Education! Education! Today’s NHL players are younger, stronger, faster, more skilled and more complex than ever before. As such, their agents, who are their handlers, Guardian Angels, Fairy Godparents and more, all rolled into one, have to be more focused and on top of things than ever before. With how
Blittner’s Blue Line: Hockey Canada Trial Fallout Hockeyology by Matthew Blittner - July 29, 2025July 29, 20250 It’s a slippery slope from here. For those of you confused by that statement, I’m referring to the not-guilty verdict handed down late last week in the Hockey Canada Trial. There are lots of opinions about what happened and rightly so, but we’re not going to get into those too much.
TOMáš TATAR AND NHLPA GOALS & DREAMS DONATE 25 SETS OF HOCKEY EQUIPMENT Hockeyology by Russ_Cohen - July 23, 2025July 23, 20250 TORONTO, Canada/Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovakia (July 23, 2025) – The National Hockey League Players’ Association announced today that Tomáš Tatar and NHLPA Goals & Dreams have donated 25 complete sets of new hockey equipment through the players’ charitable program to the Pavol Demitra Primary and Kindergarten School. In a moment that brought full-circle a childhood memory of first meeting NHL
Blittner’s Blue Line: There’s A New Don In Town Hockeyology by Matthew Blittner - July 8, 2025July 8, 20250 Welcome to NEW JERSEY DEVILS Hockey! Sorry, didn’t mean to rip off Larry Hirsch’s famous Devils’ radio introduction, but there’s a new broadcaster in Jersey and we needed an appropriate welcome. Don La Greca, who has been the New York Rangers’ backup radio play-by-play broadcaster for years and was a longtime
Blittner’s Blue Line: Let The Offseason Chaos Begin Hockeyology by Matthew Blittner - June 23, 2025June 23, 20250 The Stanley Cup Final only just ended a week ago. The Draft is right around the corner, as is the onset of Free Agency. But if you thought that meant things would be quiet for a couple days, guess again. We’ve already seen five noteworthy trades go down, with more sure
Sneak Peek: HAPPY GILMORE 2 Entertainment by Russ_Cohen - June 20, 2025June 20, 20250 On Netflix July 25, 2025 DIRECTOR: Kyle Newacheck WRITERS: Tim Herlihy & Adam Sandler PRODUCERS: Adam Sandler, Tim Herlihy, Jack Giarraputo, Robert Simonds EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Judit Maull, Kevin Grady, Dennis Dugan, Barry Bernardi, David Bausch, Dan Bulla CAST: Adam Sandler, Julie Bowen, Chris McDonald, Benny Safdie, Ben Stiller, Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, John Daly, Haley
Florida Will Empty the Tank in Game Six Hockeyology by Russ_Cohen - June 17, 2025June 17, 20250 The Florida Panthers are on the cusp of repeating. That’s hard to do. They know how injured Matthew Tkachuk is. Paul Maurice can say he’s playing better, but for how long? I think the Panthers will put in a massive push in this game. I think they learned from last
The Easton Cowan Conundrum Hockeyology by Russ Cohen - June 3, 2025June 3, 20250 Easton Cowan’s junior career is over. He’s 20, and this past September, he was hoping to make the jump to the Toronto Maple Leafs. He had a mature take. He told us where his game was at. “Yeah, I think I could play anywhere in the lineup. I feel like
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
