toughness Stories - We Will Always Have Tempe
A New Section: Ben's Grandpa Joins Up
Editor's note: My grandpa has been an avid reader of Behind the Net since the day I started here, so it was interesting to me over Christmas vacation when he came up and asked if he could contribute to the site every once in awhile. I asked him when he first became interested in hockey stats...
In case you were worried about toughness and grit
No true enforcer? No Zeke? No problem. Just call Blair Jones and Chris Durno... Last night against the Chicago Blackhawks from Winnipeg, Jones sent Nick Boynton sprawling with a good left hand punch. This came on the heels of a questionable knee-to-knee hit by Boynton on Durno. Puck Daddy has...
The Mighty Oil, According to EA Sports
The greatest indicator of an NHL player’s ability has just been released, and it shows troubling news for the Oilers. I’m not talking about hockey pool guides, or the NHL awards show, or even discussing each player on an individual level with the GMs of all thirty teams. No, I’m looking at rankings...
Denver Broncos Hanging Tough, Building this Defense
We are beings of self-made souls. Every mind is a mason. Sometimes it is difficult to find examples of this, and easy to mistake the light of dawn for the setting of the sun. Giving up 30 points a game is a dim light indeed. And sometimes the confluence of people and events which point to this...
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