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Stanley Cup Final Scoreboard Watch: Puck Luck

San Jose held on after a wild opening to win Game 5 and bring the series back to the Shark Tank. Can they work the same magic for Game 6?

Stanley Cup Playoff Final Scoreboard Watch: Second Chances

The Penguins and Sharks face each other tonight for Game 2. The Penguins will have a second chance to dominate, while the Sharks will have a second chance to show they belong here.

NHL Playoffs Scoreboard Watch: Endangered Species

It's almost time for Pittsburgh residents to go all Jacques Cousteau and view the Penguins in their natural habitat - the golf course.

NHL Playoffs Scoreboard Watch: Nostradamus Edition

Even the Great Prognosticator couldn't help us predicts what's going to happen in these games...

NHL Playoffs Scoreboard Watch: Shark Stank

After shredding the Blues in a 4-0 victory in Game 2, can San Jose build on that momentum for Game 3?

NHL Playoffs Scoreboard Watch: Blue Blooded

The Blues and Sharks square off tonight for Game 2 of the WCF in a match that probably won't make you burst a blood vessel.

NHL Playoff Scoreboard Watch: This Is The Beginnending

As Round 2 begins, Round 1 ends.

NHL Playoffs 2nd Round Predictions: WIIM Picks 'Em

The first round is history, the 2nd has already started. Let's get prognosticating!

Playoff Scoreboard Watch: Everyone Loses Tonight

Is there a way for all 4 teams to end tonight with losses?

Winging it in Motown Facebook Live AMA: Episode One

Hey all. In addition to our series of Winging it in Motown Radio, we're going to be utilizing a feature on Facebook which basically posts a live feed right from your device. Kyle will be the one taking care of these. Today we tried it for the first time, and

NHL Playoffs Scoreboard Watch: Bizarro Dopplegänger Edition

What is this crazy alternate hockey realm we've entered where bad teams keep winning?

Playoff Scoreboard Watch: Nothing Else To Live For

Time to bandwagon-up to another city's squad... It will help kill the pain.

Playoff Scoreboard Watch: Grab Your Brooms!

Three teams look to get a strangle-hold on their series, while the Caps get ready to sweep up some Philly filth...

Playoff Scoreboard Watch: Game 3 Tripleheaderness

If you say "playoffs" three times while staring in the mirror tonight, Claude Julien will appear behind you.

Playoff Scoreboard Watch Part Deux: Scoreboardier

You thought it was dead, but it's back for more...

Scoreboard Watch Returns: Playoff Edition

As if you're doing anything else on a Thursday night during the Playoffs...

The Red Wings Bandwagon Cheat Sheet

Welcome to the Detroit Red Wings Bandwagon! (Note: you’ll have to walk, though, the wheel is too young for the Red Wings to be interested in using during the playoffs) If you’ve decided to cheer for our boys in red this spring, well, I guess you didn’t

Non-hockey Fan Etiquette Guide During the Stanley Cup Playoffs

Because, apparently, these people exist.

Red Wings Week Ahead: Spooky Week

The Wings survived a brutal Western Canada road trip that looked like it was going to be disastrous with an overtime win over Vancouver on Saturday night. I wouldn't call earning three out of a possible six points on the road against three Western Conference bubble teams a "successful" trip

Super Awesome WIIM Traverse City Meetup!

Hey folks, As most of you know, Michelle and I are in attendance doing coverage for training camp, and we thought it would be a really neat idea to meet up, socialize, and put names to the faces! Since it's tough to coordinate with everyone individually, we figured it would

2015 Red Wings Training Camp Primer

Training camp is set to take place Friday, September 18th thru Monday, September 21st in Traverse City, Michigan at Centre Ice Arena

How Jack Adams Cost the Detroit Red Wings the 1942 Stanley Cup

Commenter ahtrap asked in the Victoria Cougars post and in the end-of-August WIIM Radio Mailbag about the story I referenced when I made the comment that Jack Adams single-handedly cost the Detroit Red Wings a Stanley Cup. Obviously, Adams has a storied and colorful history with the Red Wings, but

The National Women's Hockey League Has Arrived

News broke in April about the formation of a new hockey league, set to drop the puck in October temporally alongside the NHL. It wasn't another one of your local beer leagues creating a new division or another professional league set up to compete with the NHL or become another

WIIM's BOLD Predictions Redux: Choosing the Winner

Every year we see tons of preseason predictions go by the wayside in the hockey blogosphere. Long-forgotten hot takes get swept under the rug by writers who will pretend they never made such goofy claims. Fortunately, with the magic of screenshots, lots of them get hilariously called out for saying

WIIM 2015 Stanley Cup Playoff Bracket Challenge Results: You're Kidding Me

I won the Stanley Cup. Well, actually, no, I didn't, and considering the filthy mitts (not in a good way) of those pesky Chicago Blackhawks got to touch that glorious silver chalice because of some stupid technicalities like "winning a seven-game series" and "winning four series in a row," I