Category: Stan Fischler
Islanders and NHL News: Adjusted starts; $112M Draisaitl; remembering the Gaudreaus
Stan FischlerStill unfathomable. | Photo by Steven Ryan/NHLI via Getty Images Don’t print that schedule. It’s September and Islanders camp is so close you can smell the gloves. Islanders News Not sure how much this really affects your world, but there are half-hour adjustments to five Isl...
Read moreRangers missed playoffs in 1958-59 after questionable decision by coach
NHL.comLegendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday. This week, Fischler reveals how late in the 1958-59 season an unexpected postgame practice may have cost the New York Ranger...
Read moreHec Kilrea was Stanley Cup champion, World War II hero
The Hockey MavenLegendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday.This week Fischler turns back the calendar to 1943 and the heroic exploits of a former NHL star who became a multi-decorated...
Read moreRoss, Smythe ended bitter feud following 1939 Stanley Cup Final
Art RossLegendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday.This week, Fischler looks back 84 years when the NHL held its first best-of-7 Stanley Cup Final, pitting the Boston Bruins ag...
Read moreIslanders & NHL News: Dallas not dead yet
Jiggs McDonaldThis guy, we like, keep at a signable part. | Photo by Mike Stobe/NHLI via Getty Images We still don’t know who will face the Panthers in the Cup final. Not a ton happening yet in Islanders Country, and hwere we are still waiting to find out the other half ot eh NHL Cup final...
Read moreDevils' Cup win in 1995 not only time experts were wrong in playoffs
Stan FischlerLegendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers every Wednesday. This week, Fischler offers five unexpected Stanley Cup Playoff results from the past.
Read moreFlyers' 1974 Stanley Cup win among biggest upsets in NHL playoff history
Lorne ChabotLegendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday.
Read moreIslanders' Cup-winning goal photo from 1980 most special to Bennett
Stan FischlerLegendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday. This week, Fischler presents one of his favorite themes: A Picture Is Worth 100 Words. Highly-acclaimed hockey photographe...
Read moreHealy, Flatley were 'village clowns' on Islanders broadcasts in 1992-93
Stan FischlerLegendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday.This week Fischler goes back exactly 30 years when two New York Islanders moonlighted as comedians in a fun television featur...
Read moreBergeron shares many traits with Bruins legend Cowley
Bill CowleyLegendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday.This week Fischler presents his popular "Then And Now" feature, comparing a bygone star and a contemporary one. With the Bost...
Read moreSam LoPresti faced 83 shots in 1941 game for Black Hawks
Sam LoPrestiLegendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly column for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday.This week Fischler shares the story of goalie Sam LoPresti, who once faced 83 shots in an NHL game
Read moreRangers were nearly unbeatable playing on Christmas for two decades
Santa ClausLegendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday.The week -- with Christmas just days away -- Fischler tells a hockey-related Christmas story about how Santa Claus "gifted" t...
Read moreBruins won first NHL game played in United States in 1924
Frank CalderLegendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday.This week, Fischler turns the calendar back to the first NHL game played in the United States, 98 years ago.
Read moreChicago, Detroit expansion teams played 1926-27 'home' games in Canada
Fort ErieLegendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday. This week Fischler takes us back to the late 1920s during the National Hockey League's first major expansion. Although new f...
Read moreChicago, Detroit expansion teams played 1926-27 "home" games in Canada
Stan FischlerLegendary hockey reporter Stan Fischler writes a weekly scrapbook for NHL.com. Fischler, known as "The Hockey Maven," shares his humor and insight with readers each Wednesday. This week Fischler takes us back to the late 1920s during the National Hockey League's first major expansion. Although new f...
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