Bi-Weekly THW Editor's Choice

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June 02, 2017

The Editor's Choice stories from The Hockey Writers.

 

06/02/2017 edition:

By Jackie Spiegel on Jun 02, 2017 09:50 am

This past April, Kevin Westgarth stood in the visitor’s locker room at the Prudential Center grinning ear-to-ear. The former Los Angeles King had just wrapped up a charity ice hockey game with several former NHL...

By Tony Androck on Jun 02, 2017 09:35 am

The Syracuse Crunch finished off the Providence Bruins in five games in the Eastern Conference Finals last weekend to advance to the 2017 Calder Cup Finals, where they will face the Grand Rapids Griffins in a rematch of...

By David Petrie on Jun 02, 2017 09:20 am

Maple Leafs fans tuning into the Conference Finals saw some familiar faces. Once the scapegoats of Toronto’s struggles and run out of town by fans and the media, Jonathan Bernier, Dion Phaneuf and Phil Kessel each...

By Mark Scheig on Jun 02, 2017 09:05 am

It is the beginning of June. In the hockey world, that means two things. First, the Stanley Cup Final is ongoing. Both the Nashville Predators and Pittsburgh Penguins hope this June is their time. As for the other 29...

By Jeff Yerger on Jun 01, 2017 07:05 pm

Smashville has to feel duped. For the first two games of the franchise’s first Stanley Cup Final appearance, the Nashville Predators have looked nothing like the team they were a month ago. Up until now, the story...

By Shane Sander on Jun 01, 2017 02:17 pm

The 2010 NHL Entry Draft class is one of the better draft classes in recent memory. Over the past several years, the class yielded eight All-Star’s and the most American-born players in NHL history with 11,...

By Brady Smith on Jun 01, 2017 09:50 am

The NHL playoffs, where the calls are made up and points don’t matter. At least that’s how it has seemed at times since the puck dropped in Game 1 of this Stanley Cup Final. Pittsburgh has gone hours without...

By Jeff Seide on May 31, 2017 02:35 pm

NHL fans cheer and they boo. They celebrate game-winning goals and they mock chant opponents. They even have creative ways to suggest referees get glasses. But for a select few, it’s not enough to vocalize their support...

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