A variety of work by multimedia journalist Ryan McKenna
As the Toronto Maple Leafs question their goaltending situation after James Reimer went down in Monday’s 5-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers, all fingers pointed to the acquisition of Roberto Luongo. But do the Leafs have another option? The option of picking up a young goalie instead of a more experienced one like Luongo? more »
The National Hockey League lockout is over and the season starts Jan. 19. Slap Shot Radio has a 45 minute show geared to get you ready for the upcoming season. more »
As Sidney Crosby prepares to lead the Pittsburgh Penguins into the short season of 2013, the NHL lockout may have secretly been of benefit to him. more »
The lockout has finally ended and it is time to look ahead to the 2013 NHL season. How will the Montreal Canadiens fair out, what did they do in the summer to improve their team, will they contend this season? more »
The following is a profile on one of Prince Edward Island’s most successful hockey people, Doug MacLean: As Doug MacLean walked towards the Rogers Communications building at the corner of Mount Pleasant Road and Jarvis Street in his navy striped dress pants, he wore a serious look on his face. MacLean was ready to …
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When it was annouced in the summer that Montreal Canadiens Scott Gomez would wear #11 in the 2010-2011 NHL hockey season, I cringed. To be honest, I was very upset about this decision. more »
A lot of people may not have thought of Ilya Kovalchuk’s present situation to be anything like the Mats Sundin situation from a couple years ago, but I’m not like most people. The one word that links Kovalchuk and Sundin together? Saga. more »
Welcome back for our fourth episode of the 09-10 NHL season. This episode will feature a scary scene out of Florida involving Keith Ballard and goalie Tomas Vokoun, along with some Olympic news. Also featured in this week’s episode is the injury report and our Question of the Week. In the Question of the Week we talk about Alexander Ovechkin and did he receive a fair discipline for his hit on Tim Gleason earlier in the week. more »
After a long break, Slap Shot Radio is back for a brief episode today. We feature lots of Montreal Canadiens news, as they were very busy this week along with our Who’s Hot and Who’s Not featuring league leaders and a former Anaheim Mighty Duck. One thing that you should note that we didn’t get to record, is that Ales Hemsky is out for the season! More on that in the next episode! If you would like to become apart of our show next week please feel free to leave a comment or e-mail me at ryan.b.mckenna@gmail.com
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Welcome back for Episode 2 of this season!
In this episode we talk about a possible 7th Canadian NHL club coming to Quebec City, the Atlanta Thrashers paid tribute to a former teammates of theirs Dan Snyder and a ton of injury news especially coming from the Boston Bruins organization. Don’t forget to listen to our Question of the Week were we talk about Sergei Kostitsyn and his situation with the Montreal Canadiens.
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