This week’s podcast breaks down all four playoff series going on in the NHL, looks at three teams competing on the fringe of the American League playoff picture and looks at the Chiefs and 49ers as they try and get back to the Super Bowl.
Of the three first-round playoff sweeps in the East, none was more unexpected than the Heat’s dismantling of the Pacers. Read how it happened and what it means.
The first round of the NHL playoffs came to a premature end on Friday night. All eight series concluded in five or six games. With no need for a Game 7 this weekend, the league has moved the start of the second round ahead to Saturday night. Here’s a few thoughts on the end of […]
The Notebook Nine, the weekly podcast of TheSportsNotebook.com, is on top of the action in the NHL and NBA playoffs. This week’s show looks at the following… CLICK HERE TO LISTEN *The city of Boston has become renowned (or infamous, depending on your point of view) for racking up championships with the Patriots and Red […]
I’ve never been a believer in the Vegas Golden Knights, but they keep winning playoff rounds I don’t expect them too. It was true in 2018 when they knocked off San Jose and Winnipeg, both 100-plus point teams, en route to the Stanley Cup Finals. And it was true again this year when I picked […]
The long-awaited NBA postseason tips off this afternoon in the Orlando bubble. This is a league that is noted for the relative lack of drama in the early playoff rounds. In the NHL or MLB, big favorites go down routinely. Not so in pro hoops and a big reason is that—for whatever reason—homecourt advantage seems […]
In a tumultuous week for sports, this week’s edition of The Notebook Nine starts off with a look at the new landscape of college football and speculates what the future might be hold. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN Find out why spring football might make sense as a long-term solution for conferences like the MAC, but […]
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 […]