Pro Hockey

**brock** · 10-13-2016, 04:57 PM

if barry melrose would leave epsn, would they even mention hockey at all on there?

**Sir Artsdradamus** · 11-22-2016, 09:23 PM

Vegas Golden Knights is the new expansion team.

**Dirty Knowledge** · 12-07-2016, 05:56 AM

Cats two losses in OT back to back after being unbeaten in them. Still two total points but man...this team needs to shape up. Huby will save us don't be stupid!
But the way we fired Gallant was so Marlins esque I hate that shit.
We have out shot teams though last few games, great to see for once in a while.
Love my BIG CATZ man.

**check two** · 12-24-2016, 02:54 PM

Are the blue jackets the best team right now?

**Sir Artsdradamus** · 01-01-2017, 04:28 PM

they sure are playing like it. i was in columbus 2 weeks ago and watched them beat the kings in OT. Two nights later, they crushed the Penguins. I'm glad i wasn't able to make that game.

**check two** · 04-24-2017, 03:11 PM

**Sir Artsdradamus** · 04-27-2017, 08:28 PM

Crosby 2 - Ovechkin 1 through 2 periods of this series.

even if you're not a big hockey fan, you should be watching this series. it's history in the making.

**check two** · 05-08-2017, 11:44 PM

A long slump without a conference finals appearance has ended..

The Nashville Predators came into existence during the 1998-99 season, and things didn't start out so great. During the Predators' first five seasons, they finished each year with a points percentage below .500. Among teams that played in each season of that five-year span, the only ones with worse records than the Predators (.434) were the Lightning (.393) and the Islanders (.423).

In fact, the Predators’ playoff struggles included …

• Not winning a playoff series until 2011, the team's 12th season in the NHL.

• Posting five 100-point seasons and losing in the opening round in four of those years.

• Not winning a home playoff overtime game until 2016.

This was the Predators' fourth attempt to reach the conference finals. In each of the previous three instances in the second round, the Predators lost in five (in 2012 to the Coyotes), six (in 2011 to the Canucks) and seven games (in 2016 to the Sharks).

Entering this season, only the Islanders (1993) and Panthers (1996) had completed more seasons since their most recent conference finals appearance.

According to research by the Elias Sports Bureau, the 18 completed seasons before the Predators’ first conference finals appearance rank as the third-most before a franchise's first visit to the round before the Stanley Cup Final. The Arizona Coyotes played 32 seasons before the team reached the 2012 Western Conference Finals, and the Carolina Hurricanes played 23 seasons before they got to the 2002 Eastern Conference Finals.

The Coyotes (formerly the Winnipeg Jets) and Hurricanes (formerly the Hartford Whalers) each moved once before making a conference finals appearance.