268 posts tagged turco

Filed under: General NHL, Wings, Stars, Western, NHL Live Blogging While Dallas may have shown some life in Game Four at home, the Stars are going to have to find a way to win a pair of games on the road in Detroit in order to turn this thing around.

Will officiating ever change? Or do we need video replay for everything? I'm a video replay proponent. After a life of playing, watching, coaching, writing, broadcasting and complaining about sports, I have come to the conclusion that there isn't anyone, anywhere, who can officiate any sporting event properly, at any time.  Can't be done.

The Dallas News's Mike Heika says that the NHL's taken their interpretation of the supposed no-goal call against Red Wings forward Tomas Holmstrom a step further--by acutally suggesting that the NHL's current goaltender interference penalty includes violations of goaltender airspace:...

Here are the morning papers for the four remaining playoff teams: Pittsburgh (2) versus Philadelphia (6): The Penguins realized how tough it was to play against a desperate Philadelphia squad last night, writes Dave Molinari. A sloppy first period was the Penguins' downfall last night, writes Gene Collier.

Marty Turco Forget all the extraneous points and strategies in terms of the Dallas Stars' game 5 in Detroit Saturday. Saturday is about Marty Turco. He needs to be perfect. We're talking shutout. Every ounce of weight and burden should be on Turco's shoulders because he's going to be the only Star that can arguably single-handedly take this series to a game 6.

There are points in a series where the storylines tend to become repetitious--not in a good way or a bad way, per se, more like, "We all know what's going on and what the teams want to do." That's become...

The Vancouver Sun's Cam Cole decided to get to the bottom of the Tomas Holmstrom incident by asking NHL vice-president of hockey operations/disciplinarian Colin Campbell about the bizarre ruling that the Detroit Red Wings forward was violating Marty Turco's airspace,...

The Globe and Mail's Eric Duhatschek discussed Red Wings forward Tomas Holmstrom's tools of his net-front trade in less than flattering terms, suggesting that Marty Turco's suggestion that Holmstrom's the "weakest strongest" man in the game is dead-on: May 16,...

A few "national" analysts weighed in on the state of the Wings-Stars series on Thursday: TSN posted clips of Dave Tippett and Steve Ott's off-day press conferences via a 43-second clip (the Dallas News posted a clip of the Ott/Tippett...

The Detroit Red Wings didn't practice today, so there's a modicum of Wings-related information today. The Associated Press's Larry Lage snagged a few quotes from the Wings as they arrived at Metro Airport: May 15, Associated Press: The Red Wings...