The final member of the 2010 IP Sports Inductee class was voted on by the fans. While the number of votes was tied on the forum, I did receive a couple of e-mail votes that swung in the favor of…
Alexander Mogilny, RW
Buffalo Sabres (1989-1995), Vancouver Canucks (1995-2000), New Jersey Devils (2000-01, 2005-06), Toronto Maple [...]

Pavel Bure, Right wing
Vancouver Canucks (1991/92-1997/98), Florida Panthers (1998/99-2001/02), New York Rangers (2001/02-2002/03)
With his lightning fast skills, Pavel Bure was not only a trailblazer on the ice, but was also a trailblazer off the ice. Bure was one of the first Russian players in the early 1990’s to defect from the (now) former Soviet country [...]

The Winter Games are a little beyond half-way over – these are a collection of random thoughts and observations through Sunday’s action – also, I’ve included a current Medal Count because there should be something of value within these ramblings.
Highs

 Shaun White — You don’t have to know anything at all about the Half pipe to [...]

Olympic Hockey
The 2010 Winter Olympics kicked over the weekend with a tremendouly boring opening ceremony. The city of Vancouver should have invested more money in making sure that they produces enough artifical snow instead of having some guy dressed up as Thor playing the violin in a canoe, while his “shadow” played 10 seconds ahead [...]

How do you improve a team that finished near the lower end of the NHL the previous year? You almost lose the team, lower your prices, and, with the morale up from fans who want a team to remain in Phoenix, raise the morale of the player (Shane Doan, with a team high 45 points), [...]

Canadian teams constantly have a team lower in the standing in the NHL every year. This year they have the Oilers and the Leafs… no surprise. For a long time Canada has not been at the top level of the NHL, and this year it looks as though they might have a chance, with the [...]

For long they have been criticized as not being good enough to be third liners, then second liners now first liners but with the NHL’s scoring leader on the Vancouver Canucks 1st line it is clearly visible that Henrik and Daniel Sedin are star players.  With 124 points in 52 games combined they are a [...]

February 13th is the magic day. It is when the Preliminary rounds for the Womens Ice hockey begin and the official start to the ice hockey events. February 28th is the date when it all will be decided. Now I do not follow womens ice hockey, so my input there is pretty much useless.
Now [...]

On Sunday afternoon, The Chicago Blackhawks visited Detroit in a regular season game. Many people are still talking about Marian Hossa going back on his word to return to Detroit, but on this day, I think people are more interested in one of the most awesome shootout attempts in a long while. I had to [...]

Here are a few highlights from the second half of 2009 in the NHL.
JULY 2009:
- This is Christmas in July for a lot of hockey fans as they wait for their teams to either jump into the free agent market or just sit around and complain about not having enough money to do so.
Some of [...]

As the 2000s come to a close let’s look back at the fantasy players who made the biggest impact in their respective sports.
I lead off with the fantasy football player of the decade since it is the most popular fantasy sport. I had a tough time deciding between Peyton Manning and LaDainian Tomlinson. They both [...]

With 2009 coming to a close and with 2010 bringing a new year of hockey highlights and moments, I thought it’d be a good idea to take a look back at some of the things that took place in the 2009 calendar year in the NHL.
It should be pointed out that the months of January-June [...]

Hey everyone, even though the NHL’s Olympic break is still a few months away, I decided to take mine before the new year hits.
First off, how awesome is the Western Conference? The West is stacked from top to bottom. Take a look at the standings and compare the points amongst teams in both conferences. Other [...]

Tyler Durden: i am ordering chinese for lunch and i’m going to eat it at my desk as a sort of middle finger to those around me.
Marc Bulger: nice
Tyler Durden: has anybody ever dropped some serious science at their desk and then about 2-3 seconds later had somebody come up to your desk to talk [...]

By Ryan Lester, LestersLegends.com
Need some help with your fantasy hockey team? You’ve come to the right place. Try these hot players on for size.
R.J. Umberger, C, Columbus Blue Jackets
R.J. has seven points (3 goals, 4 assists) last week with a +5 plus/minus rating. He netted a hat trick on November 30th. Umberger had one power play [...]

Thurday night, Anaheim Duck’s Scott Neidermeyer handed his stick over the boards to give to a fan. It resulted in a small fight between fans. Enjoy.

Need some help with your fantasy hockey team? You’ve come to the right place. Try these hot players on for size.
Center
Brandon Sutter, Carolina Hurricanes
Sutter had five points (two goals, three assists) in four games (1.25 points per game) with a +3 plus/minus rating. He had three power play points, 13 shots on goal, and won [...]

Its an obvious fact that hockey is a ridiculously fast paced sport and things happen before you even know exactly what’s going on. Nonetheless, the hits that have occurred over the last week remain a “part of the game” because the NHL continues to allow it. On a nearly annual basis, the NHL’s 30 general [...]

The 2009-2010 NHL season is about a month in and there has been plenty of nothing going on. Ovechkin continues to dominate and some teams which SHOULD be bad and some who SHOULD be good, aren’t exactly starting the season that way. Two of those teams are meeting tonight but let’s get hockey back on [...]

Tailgate Crashers is going to be running a “Current Top Athlete Tourney”. It will be held in the same fashion as the NCAA Tourney – 64 athletes. The TGC staff will determine the 64 and arrange the seeds from the athletes picked by our readers. All voting will occur on the Inside [...]

As the resident puck head I figured I should throw some thoughts up about a fantastic game 7.
Just be warned, this probably won’t be too different from any other article you read about game 7.

Recent Trends in TTM
I’ve looked across the web to see what players have been signing and what players have been sending stuff back unsigned. The numbers following the info (1/2 for instance) show how many were signed and how many were sent. I tried to list how long they took if a date [...]

LestersLegends.com presents Lester’s Blue Line Specials Volume 23.
Need some help with your fantasy hockey team?  You’ve come to the right place.  Try these hot players on for size. 
Center
 T.J. Oshie, St. Louis Blues – T.J. has 11 points (4 goals, 7 assist) and a +4 rating in his last nine games (1.22 points per game).  He [...]

LestersLegends.com presents Lester’s Blue Line Specials Volume 22.
Need some help with your fantasy hockey team?  You’ve come to the right place.  Try these hot players on for size. 
Center
Sam Gagner, Edmonton – Sam has been on a tear with 14 points (8 goals, 6 assists) and a +6 rating i his last ten games (1.4 points [...]

LestersLegends.com presents Lester’s Blue Line Specials Volume 21.
Need some help with your fantasy hockey team?  You’ve come to the right place.  Try these hot players on for size. 
Center
David Backes, St. Louis – Backes has nine points (5 goals, 4 assists) and a +3 rating in his last six games (1.5 points per game).  He had 34 [...]

LestersLegends.com presents Lester’s Blue Line Specials Volume 20.
Need some help with your fantasy hockey team?  You’ve come to the right place.  Try these hot players on for size. 
Center
Craig Conroy, Calgary – Craig has been fire on ice scoring ten points (3 goals, 7 assists) with a + 7 rating in his last seven games (1.43 [...]

LestersLegends.com presents Lester’s Blue Line Specials Volume 18.
Need some help with your fantasy hockey team?  You’ve come to the right place.  Try these hot players on for size. 
Center
Matt Cullen, Carolina – Matt have five points (all goals) and a +4 rating in his last four games (1.25 points per game), including a Hat Trick on [...]

LestersLegends.com presents Lester’s Blue Line Specials Volume 17.
Need some help with your fantasy hockey team?  You’ve come to the right place.  Try these hot players on for size. 
Center
Matthew Lombardi, Calgary – Matthew has seven points (4 goals, 3 assists) and a +7 rating in his last four games (1.75 points per game). 

With Alex Rodriguez coming clean about steroids, some of the Tailgate Crashers staff look at the issue of steroids a little more in depth…

LestersLegends.com presents Lester’s Blue Line Specials Volume 16.
Need some help with your fantasy hockey team?  You’ve come to the right place.  Try these hot players on for size. 
Center
Steve Ott, Dallas – Ott has been on fire with 12 points (6 goals, 6 assists) and a +5 rating in his last eight games (1.5 points per [...]