In what seemed an inevitability, the Islanders are not going to play six games at the refurbished Nassau Coliseum next season, NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly wrote in an email to The Post on Tuesday night. This comes despite a clause in the lease agreement between developer Bruce Ratner and the county that promises four […]
Read MorePITTSBURGH — By coach Peter Laviolette’s math, the Nashville Predators have been pretty good for all but 10 minutes of the Stanley Cup Final. It’s not much. Unless you’re playing the Penguins. Then it’s too much. Way too much. The defending Stanley Cup champions needed just over three minutes at the start of the third […]
Read MoreNo one is more frustrated with the referees in the Stanley Cup Finals than Carrie Underwood. Underwood, who is married to Nashville Predators captain Mike Fisher, went on an anguished Twitter spree Wednesday night protesting the officiating in her team’s crucial Game 2 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. The 34-year-old country star first tweeted her dismay […]
Read MoreThe postseason is a time for folk heroes, so enter Jake Guentzel. The Penguins rookie forward had played just 40 NHL games before these playoffs, but he has emerged with a historic run to lead the league with 12 postseason goals. That has been highlighted by consecutive game-winning tallies in Games 1 and 2 of […]
Read MoreNASHVILLE, Tenn. — Pekka Rinne and the Predators are hard to beat on their own ice this postseason, and now they have added their biggest piece of franchise history yet. A victory in the Stanley Cup final, in front of their raucous, catfish-throwing fans. The embattled Rinne made 27 saves. Roman Josi and Frederick Gaudreau […]
Read MoreThere can be no more meaningful endorsement of Ilya Kovalchuk than the fact the people who knew him best as a teammate or member of their organizations before he left for the KHL four years ago are interested in acquiring the dynamic 34-year-old winger from the Devils as he prepares to return to the NHL. […]
Read MoreThe Stanley Cup Final has some bad blood brewing — or is that bad breath? Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby tried to brush off the halitosis high jinks after being accused by Nashville Predators standout/provocateur P.K. Subban of insulting Subban’s breath during a face-to-face meeting in a feisty Game 3. But Crosby is not amused. […]
Read MoreThe lone Ranger who needed offseason surgery turned out to be Jesper Fast. The team announced Monday that the winger underwent a successful labral repair of his left hip. The recovery is expected to be five months, meaning Fast won’t be back until November, missing all of training camp and about the first month of […]
Read MoreNASHVILLE, Tenn. — Frederick Gaudreau sure is doing his best to earn his own locker with the Predators with a Stanley Cup Final debut for the ages. And with Pekka Rinne turning in his best performance in this series, the Predators are going back to Pittsburgh having tied up the defending champs at 2-2, turning […]
Read MoreAmong the many things Justin Bieber has been criticized for over the years is his tendency to show an allegiance to a wide variety of sports teams. Bieber has been spotted at sporting events wearing the jersey of a usually good team, leading many to call him a bandwagoner or frontrunner. Most recently, the Biebs […]
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