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A Cup of Joe In the Morning – Oilers Will Reportedly Keep Pick

Posted by Joseph Casciaro under Morning Joe on Jun 16, 2012

On Friday, reports emerged that the Edmonton Oilers will not trade their No. 1 overall pick for next week’s NHL Entry Draft. Of course, this means that the Oilers will indeed select first for the third straight season.

Fans in Edmonton have obvious reason for optimism. A young core of Taylor Hall, Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, Jordan Eberle and say for example, Nail Yakupov, would make any fanbase giddy over the possibilities that lie ahead.

But at what point does landing a top pick year after year, or even a top-five pick, become old?

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A Cup of Joe In the Morning – 2013 Futures

Posted by Joseph Casciaro under Morning Joe on Jun 14, 2012

Your odds-on favourites to win the Stanley Cup in 2013 right now

With a hockey fan’s version of the Stanley Cup Hangover slowing us down right now, it’s hard to find much of anything from this past season that we haven’t covered here already.

But it’s never too early to start looking ahead to next season, and what the odds look like for who will be crowned 2013 Stanley Cup champions one year from now.

Here are those odds, as updated as I could find them:

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A Cup of Joe In the Morning – Will We Remember Quick?

Posted by Joseph Casciaro under Morning Joe on Jun 13, 2012

A fair amount of attention has been given to the Los Angeles Kings’ post-season domination this Spring, including multiple Cup of Joe posts here at Backhand Shelf. Obviously, with those posts came the frequent mention of the historic Playoffs that goaltender Jonathan Quick enjoyed.

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A Cup of Joe In the Morning – One Memorable Run, Or the Beginning of Something?

Posted by Joseph Casciaro under Morning Joe on Jun 12, 2012

What are the chances we see these guys doing this again within the next few years?

One of the downsides to this generation of social media and extreme immediacy is that more and more, it seems we are losing the ability to soak up the moment, the here and now. Instead, we must always be thinking about what the moment means for the future.

It’s no different in sports, where instead of being able to bask in the Kings’ Cup celebration for a while, a lot of us are already looking forward to what the future hold for Los Angeles’ finally triumphant hockey team.

Was their Cup clinching victory the end of a historic and truly memorable Playoff run, or was it merely the beginning of an era of Kings’ contention?

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A Cup of Joe In the Morning – Do You Buy That Pressure Is On Kings?

Posted by Joseph Casciaro under Morning Joe, Playoffs! on Jun 11, 2012

It’s a funny thing in sports, the whole talk of “pressure” and “momentum” and how they shift from team to team.

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A Cup of Joe In the Morning – Imagine A Stanley Cup Final Game Ending Like This

Posted by Joseph Casciaro under Morning Joe on Jun 08, 2012

With the Stanley Cup Final taking a couple of days off and given the fact that a team associated with the Maple Leafs was playing for something, I was vaguely following Game 3 of the Calder Cup Final between Toronto and Norfolk on Thursday night.

In case you haven’t heard, the game ended in the most bizarre, most heart-breaking and most Maple Leafs way ever.

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A Cup of Joe In the Morning – Game 5′s The Better Storyline

Posted by Joseph Casciaro under Morning Joe, Playoffs! on Jun 07, 2012

Yesterday, I discussed the feeling shared by many hockey fans without a rooting interest in this series that I hoped it just ended on Wednesday night. Adam Henrique put those plans on hold with yet another big goal from the rookie in these Playoffs, and that’s okay, because Game 5 has the better story lines anyway.

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