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SPOKANE, Wash. -- Months after a basement flood for some South Hill families, they are still in a state of devastation. The destruction came during a rain storm, causing their
How long must a team suffer? How long has a team suffered? This is the fourth of several posts looking into the playoff droughts of 30 of the 32 active NHL franchises to figure out what went wrong and how it ended. This post covers Minnesota, Montreal, Nashville, the New York Islanders, and the New York Rangers.
Photo by Len Redkoles/NHLI via Getty Images Mythbusters was a rather popular show about people taking myths and determining whether they were actually true or not through experimentation. Among its contributions is this brilliant line by one of the hosts, Adam Savage: “Failure is always an option.” Savage has explained that it is more than a cute line. It described the show’s approach to the scientific method. That it is possible that whatever you try will not work and one must know that. This tagline is also the best way I can charitably sum up the mindset of every pessimistic sports...
Trading professional hockey for a career as a Rome, New York firefighter is working well for Tim Sestito. Particularly for athletes, life can appear to move quicker than for people in other professions. For Sestito, grinding out a career in hockey for 13 seasons went in what seemed in a flash. Training camps, regular seasons, playoffs (including the 2012 Stanley Cup Finals with the New Jersey Devils), off-season workouts, the battle for a roster spot was a continuous competitive cycle. Since skating his last season in the Russian-based Kontinental Hockey League with Dinamo Riga in Latvia ...
Photo by Andy Marlin/NHLI via Getty Images After about ten months - 310 days to be exact - the New Jersey Devils played their first game of meaningful ice hockey against an opponent. The opponent was the Boston Bruins, who last played a game on August 31 in the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs. How would the game begin between two teams who have been inactive for at least four months and had no preseason games to get ready? It would go absolutely poorly for the New Jersey Devils. The Devils played like it was a training camp scrimmage. The Bruins played like it was an actual NHL game. It is fro...