It has finally come! The 2012 NHL playoffs! The most exciting (yes I’m probably quite bias) games in major league sports. The season was full of surprises, let downs, and everything in between. We had teams make it to the playoffs that “shouldn’t have”, and teams that “should have” missed the mark entirely.
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Bloom’s Blog: News From Around the League
Sidney Crosby’s return has apparently been worth the wait. Crosby has 25 points in 15 games, a point-per-game ratio of 1.666, his best ratio in his career. But why has Crosby’s return been so successful? Continue reading
Bloom’s Blog: Trade Deadline Moves
Here are a few expected moves for some teams around the NHL.
Philadelphia needed to pick up a defenseman for the playoffs. I expect with the trades they made to pick up Niklas Grossman and Pavel Kubina from the Stars and Bolts respectively, they’re pretty much done with their moves this season.
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Bloom’s Blog: Top 5 Fantasy Hockey Players All-Time
Fantasy sports, a new-age instrument designed to give the responsibilities of managing a professional sports team to any man, woman, or child with internet access. The very interesting thing I have always thought about fantasy sports is the question, “what if we could somehow draft players from different era’s to see how they could play together?”. Well lucky for the more hockey-minded reader, I have compiled a short list of the all-time best fantasy players.
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Bloom’s Blog: Every Team In A Nutshell
As we come up on the halfway point of the season, the Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins are leading the league in their respective conferences.
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Bloom’s Blog: Changes in the NHL
When the Winnipeg Jets joined the NHL from Atlanta, everyone knew this would bring about some sort of divisional or conference change in the league.
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Bloom’s Blog: Week 2 Thoughts
What a great season we have so far. Partly because my favorite team is 7-0-0. But mostly because there have been so many amazing surprises of teams and players. Phil Kessel is leading the league in points and goals. James Neal is also on a hot streak with 8 goals and is single-handedly keeping the Penguins afloat. Continue reading
Bloom’s Blog: NHL Season Predictions
I organized my predictions into two tiers. The first is ratings based solely on goals for/ goals against. The second is my closest prediction as to where the conferences will stand based on likely injuries, team strategy, ability to win close games, tangents basically.
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Bloom’s Blog: Steppin’ Up
Welcome to the first installment of Bloom’s Blog – your source for Hockey on 85% Sports. This week we’ll look at three players from each team who need to step it up next season.
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