Author: Patrick Hoffman
Patrick covers the NHL for Inside The Rink. He has previously covered the league for The Ultimate Hockey Fan Cave, WTP Sports, Sportsnet.ca, Kukla’s Korner, Spector’s Hockey, NHL Network Radio blog, TheHockeyNews.com, The Fourth Period, Stan Fischler’s “The Fischler Report”, as well as a slew of others.
Hockey Book Review – The Awesome Game: One Man’s Incredible, Globe-Crushing, Hockey Odyssey
If you have not already noticed, I love everything about the game of hockey. I love the teams, players, coaches, networks that cover it, analysts, and everything that has to do with our favorite sport. I hope that comes across in the articles that I have written for this site so far. One thing that […]
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Things Are Not Good in Calgary
The Calgary Flames underwent a few changes after missing the Stanley Cup playoffs last season. For starters, the franchise and former general manager Brad Treliving, who is now in the same position with the Toronto Maple Leafs, agreed to part ways. Craig Conry took Treliving’s place. The team also fired former head coach Darryl Sutter. […]
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Goaltending Continues to Be a Problem for the Oilers
It may be a new NHL season, but the Edmonton Oilers are already displaying the same problem that has plagued them repeatedly over the last few seasons. The Oilers are 1-4-0-1 through six games. This is a terrible start for a team that is supposed to contend for the Stanley Cup this season. If you […]
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Panarin’s New Shoot-First Mentality Helping Blueshirts In A Big Way
While the New York Rangers record of 3-2 might be a bit disappointing considering the quality of opponents they have played so far, there has been one player on the team that has dominated each and every game so far. That player is Artemi Panarin. Panarin, 31, currently (As of Monday, October 23rd) leads the team with […]
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Opinion: The Panthers Cannot Forget About Knight
During the regular season, the Florida Panthers goaltending is usually a mixed bag. The starter, Sergei Bobrovsky, is usually someone who is inconsistent. He will have games where he plays lights out and other games where you will wonder why the franchise is paying him so much money to be their starting goaltender. Their backups, […]
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Shesterkin Continues to Show How Valuable He Is to the Blueshirts’ Success
It may be early on in the 2023-24 NHL campaign, but the New York Rangers do not look bad under new head coach Peter Laviolette. As of this writing (Tuesday, October 17th), the team is 2-1, thanks to wins over the Buffalo Sabres and Arizona Coyotes. They should really be 3-0, but they dropped a game […]
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Kreider Off to Quick Start for Blueshirts
While the New York Rangers offense is still getting used to Peter Laviolette’s system and trying to find their offensive legs, one player seems to have already found the scoring touch. That would be veteran Chris Kreider. Kreider, 32, has four goals and one assist for five points in four games and already looks like […]
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Rangers win Easily Over the Sabres in Season Opener
Anytime a team can open their season on the road and win a hockey game is a good thing, no matter who it is against. It is even better if the team can do so in a convincing fashion. That is exactly what the New York Rangers did on Thursday night, October 12th, when they […]
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Stick Taps for Barry Melrose
It absolutely pains me to write this as I was a fan of this particular hockey personality for many years. In fact, every time I watched him, I would think about the 1990s when I would watch NHL 2Night on ESPN/ESPN 2. Whenever he spoke, my eyes and ears were glued to this particular hockey […]
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Can Korpisalo Lead the Senators to the Playoffs?
There are a lot of high expectations for the Ottawa Senators going into the season, and with good reason. For starters, this team can put the puck in the net. With the likes of Tim Stutzle, Brady Tkachuk, Claude Giroux, Drake Batherson, and newcomer Vladimir Tarasenko, the puck should have no problem going in the […]
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