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I knew him before he was cool: Damon Severson
Hey everyone! Along with the Nerdy 30 posts that you have seen this season, another feature that you will see repeatedly this hockey season is a monthly Hipster Pickings post. The first of these came the night of the 2014 NHL entry draft and the purpose of these posts is to find the hidden gems […]
Week 8 of the Nerdy 30: Swatted Jackets and Thunderstruck
Everyone is stuffed, literally and figuratively, from the Thanksgiving holidays and we still haven’t seen a head coach get fired. As a result, you have to be reminded about the sweepstakes that are coming in this year’s entry draft with Connor McDavid, Jack Eichel and Noah Hanifan, especially considering that the draft lottery odds have […]
Week 7 of the Nerdy 30: Low on Oil (again) and a Lonely Island No More
Last week, I mentioned that it was amazing that no one seemed to be on the head coaching hot seat as we got closer to Thanksgiving. This week, we are at a different point in the NHL sack race, as Dallas Eakins and Randy Carlyle now seem to be going neck and neck. It got […]
Week 6 of the Nerdy 30: Falling Stars and Thunder Cats
As we inch closer into Thanksgiving, this is usually the time when you hear about head coaches being on the hot seat and possibly get fired. As a Caps fan, it has become tradition to see the head coach get fired and envisioning him getting the phone call as he is cooking the turkey feast, […]
Week 5 of the Nerdy 30: The Carolina Tropical Depressions and Hartley Magic
With five weeks of NHL hockey under wraps, every team has played 12 games or more this season. That means we have hit the second fourteenth mark of the season and we need to eliminate another team from our existence. The Carolina Hurricanes will be that team and they are probably the last of the […]
Week 4 of the Nerdy 30: Always fear Elliote Friedman!!!
We have finally entered the month of November and plenty of interesting narratives have been developing this hockey season. Minnesota has been dominating October and once again hit the top of this week’s rankings. San Jose, Boston and Chicago have hit various states of panic mode (don’t worry folks, they’re ok), along with Los Angeles […]
Week 3 of the Nerdy 30: Buffalo is the first weakest link
For this week’s version of the Nerdy 30, I am introducing a new gimmick that you will see throughout the season. Once every NHL team hits every one-fourteenth point of the season (so in other words, every 5 and a fraction’s worth of games), one team will be completely removed and (hopefully) ignored in the […]
Week 1 & 2 of The Nerdy 30: Elliote Friedman and Small Sample Sizes
Welcome to a new segment from the DC Sports Dork this hockey season: the Nerdy 30. For those that know me like a book, I hate doing anything that would make me a conformist and so it really does annoy me that I join every sports journalist in the United States and write a power […]
Has Jim Nill done enough to bring Dallas back to the top?
While the St. Louis Blues are a team that could start hitting panic buttons if they don’t meet their goals, the Dallas Stars look like the most exciting team to follow in their journey towards relevance, let alone a Stanley Cup championship. Within the span of two years, General Manager Jim Nill has changed this […]
Has St. Louis done enough to surpass the Kings and Blackhawks?
While Los Angeles are the Champions and Chicago have been the darlings of the NHL of in the last four years, there are a crop of Western Conference teams that are hoping to catch up to them. Outside of the Kings and Blackhawks, only Vancouver, San Jose and Phoenix have competed in the Western Conference […]
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