Lach in the Crease
The Edmonton Oilers announced on Wednesday that they had locked up restricted free agent Leon Draisaitl to an eight-year deal worth $68 million. Drafted third overall by the Oilers back in 2014, the 21 year-old phenom from Germany will now earn $8.5 million per year until the 2024-25 season. 2017 has been a fantastic year […]
Long before he stepped on the ice in a Canucks uniform, Ryan Miller was a star in Vancouver. In hockey circles, Miller is far from an unknown. The East Lansing, Michigan native led the Buffalo Sabres to two consecutive Eastern Conference Finals in 2005-06 and 2006-07, won the Vezina Trophy in 2009-10 and has been […]
Ah, the seventies; a time when disco reigned, a sci-fi film called Star Wars premiered and the Philadelphia Flyers led the NHL into its roughest, toughest era. Hockey’s heyday of enforcers is long gone, but with a help of a game console you can bring it back to life. Old Time Hockey, a video game […]
The 2016-17 NHL season has finally come to an end, and it finished in almost identical fashion as the season before. The Penguins are Stanley Cup Champions and Sidney Crosby was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP. They once again faced a first-time finalist in the Nashville Predators, and won the series on […]
As we pass the quarter mark of the Canucks 2016-17 season, one fact has become very clear; Bo Horvat knows hockey. In the 2005-06 Canucks campaign, team captain Markus Naslund led the team in points with 79. The following year, Daniel Sedin won the club scoring title with 84 points while brother Henrik landed second […]
When Canucks fans are asked about college prospects, Adam Gaudette isn’t usually one of the first names you hear. But the way his 2016-17 campaign has started, the Braintree, Massachusetts native is certainly making a case for himself. The Canucks selected Gaudette in the fifth round (149th overall) of the 2015 NHL Draft, after a […]
For the sake of transparency, I’ve been a goaltender for the last decade; therefore I might be a little biased when it comes to my position’s role in hockey. Okay, more than a little biased. VERY biased. But it’s hard to disprove the importance of a great goalie when the Montreal Canadiens have hockey’s prime […]
Hi everybody! It’s been a while since I wrote an LITC Update, and that’s due to the fact that I’ve been incredibly busy. I recently started a new job (and quit my old one in the process), so my schedule has been a little hectic. But while it’s finally starting to calm down in that department, […]
The NHL regular season starts in just a couple short weeks, and as of now the Canucks remain an odd collective of older veterans, undeveloped prospects, guys whose best days remain in the AHL, and players brought here on a pro tryout contract and a prayer. Believe it or not, the Canucks are close to […]
Ladies and gentlemen, hockey is back. With all the excitement surrounding the World Cup of Hockey, obviously I have a bunch of stuff planned for the next couple weeks. A World Cup rankings article is coming out on the Oak Leaf website in the next couple days, and my LachTalksHockey videos make their season debut […]
Lach in the Crease