The NHL playoffs are set to begin for real. We’ve watched the top four teams in each conference play a round-robin against each other for seeding. We’ve watched eight other teams play their way in through a best-of-five preliminary round. Now, at 3 PM ET today, the puck drops on a traditional best-of-seven series in […]
On Friday night it looked like the worm might finally be ready to turn for the Toronto Maple Leafs. A franchise that has endured heartbreak after heartbreak since their last Stanley Cup in 1967 was poised to turn the tables. They had made a stunning rally from 3-0 down to Columbus in Game 4 of […]
Two years ago the Winnipeg Jets were on the rise. In the spring of 2018 they won a big seven-game series against the Nashville Predators, a battle between two of the top teams in hockey. Winnipeg had a rising star at goalie in Connor Hellebuyck. Both the present and the future were looking bright. READ […]
This week’s edition of The Notebook Nine podcast looks at the following… CLICK HERE TO LISTEN *The NHL playoffs, from Carolina’s sweep of the New York Rangers to the seven other series that are careening to potential Game 5s over the weekend. Montreal and Chicago each aim for upsets in the 5 vs. 12 matchups […]
Henrik Lundqvist has given the New York Rangers some great moments in his career, most notably leading the team to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2014. But the 37-year-old goalie, his standing in New York already teetering, may have finally given up the ghost. The Carolina Hurricanes beat Lundqvist in the first two games of […]
The long-awaited arrival of the NHL playoffs gets here in Saturday. There will be 24 teams congregated in two hub cities in Canada to settle the Stanley Cup. The top eight teams (four per conference) will get a bye and simply play amongst each other for a week to decide seeding. The other sixteen teams […]
Tune into a fun discussion of the 2020 baseball season. Dan Flaherty, owner of TheSportsNotebook is joined by Steve Rhoads and Michael Edwards to discuss the following… LISTEN TO THE 2020 MLB PREVIEW PODCAST *How hot is the seat for Dodgers’ manager Dave Roberts? Should it be hot? *Are there any viable challengers to the […]
Thursday, July 9, 2020 Sports is finally on the way back! Two weeks from tonight, major league baseball begins their 60-game schedule. Six days later, on July 30, the NBA will play out eight more regular season games inside the Orlando “bubble” before moving into the postseason by mid-August. The NHL will start its 24-team […]
The Pittsburgh Steelers have lost two in a row, including the gut-wrenching Sunday Night loss at home to the Chargers. The Baltimore Ravens have won three straight. And an AFC North race that looked all but settled in favor of Pittsburgh is now a dogfight with four games to play. The Steelers are 7-4-1, the […]
The Rams and Saints might be the NFL’s best, but the league’s most compelling regular season storyline is the battle between the Chiefs and Chargers in the AFC West. The winner is in position to grab the #1 seed and be just two home wins from the Super Bowl. The runner-up is staring at three […]
The NHL season is still in the “taking shape” part of its schedule, and TheSportsNotebook will continue to see it that way through the New Year. The January 1 Winter Classic—Chicago and Boston playing under Touchdown Jesus in South Bend—is a good benchmark to use for when the regular season needs to pick it up […]
For those of us who love football in the Midwest, from Saturdays in the Big Ten to November weeknights in the MAC, the season has been effectively reduced to two big games. One of them you know about–the anticipated Michigan-Ohio State game on November 24. Another one you may not–Buffalo and Northern Illinois are on […]
