Colin Fleming

Joined: Dec 2, 2015

Colin Fleming's fiction appears in AGNI, Commentary, Boulevard, the VQR, and Cincinnati Review, and he also writes for Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Vice, and JazzTimes. He's the author of The Anglerfish Comedy Troupe: Stories from the Abyss, and a regular guest on NPR's Weekend Edition.

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Elite, unique impact-makers deserve Hockey Hall of Fame recognition over the compilers

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Despite changes in assessing defensive abilities, Selke Award still recognizes mastery

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Predators’ Bridgestone Arena offers a special kind of home ice advantage

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With a Hall-of-Fame resume, Tom Barrasso deserves enshrinement

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Penguins' Sidney Crosby continues climb on list of NHL's all-time best players

Sidney Crosby continues to find new ways to assert his influence over the game, and in doing so, the Pittsburgh Penguins' star is working his way up the register of the NHL's most elite.

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Orr and Esposito-led Bruins the most underachieving great team in NHL history

A star-studded team led by the likes of Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito, the Boston Bruins of the 1970s should have collected Stanley Cups. Instead, they achieved far less than they should have.

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Inspiring individual efforts from players who didn't win playoff hardware

For one magical playoff run, these players posted stats that seem almost impossible. While they didn't raise the Stanley Cup or any other hardware at the time, these players certainly made these postseasons ones to remember.

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Stocked with greats, 1987 Edmonton Oilers were the best-skating team in NHL history

When Wayne Gretzky is the fouth-fastest skater on a team, it's easy to give it the nod as one of the best-skating teams on NHL history. The 1987 Edmonton Oilers, stocked with players like Gretzky, Paul Coffey and Mark Messier, are that team.

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Despite coming up short of the Cup, the 1987 Flyers team was a runner-up for the ages

They weren't stacked with Hall of Famers, but the 1987 Philadelphia Flyers were a reslient squad that took the legendary Oilers dynasty to the limit.

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How the Islanders dynasty survived an attempted Penguins-based coup, 35 years ago

The juggernaut Islanders of the early 1980's almost weren't, thanks to an upstart Penguins team that almost dethroned the NHL's kings in 1982.

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Masked Robbery: Five goalies who committed serious postseason larceny

A goalie can steal a game, a hot one can steal an entire postseason series. J.S. Giguere and Jaroslav Halak are among the netminders who went down in hockey lore for their acts of Stanley Cup playoff thievery.

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The transformative effect of the Easter Epic between the Capitals and Islanders

The fabled Game 7 between the New York Islanders and Washington Capitals took four overtimes to decide, but the matchup had a lasting effect for one fan.