For anyone who doubts the underground popularity of the NHL.com Front Page Pun Headlines... be sure you check out the "90s NHL.com Headlines" hashtag meme that was started Monday afternoon by Ryan Classic. The premise was simple... take your favorite NHL star from the 1990's and insert them into the format of a NHL.com Pun Headline that could grace the front page of NHL.com... if there were an NHL.com in the 1990's. 

Hasn't changed one bit!

The initial tweet from Ryan Classic of "Tricks are for Kidd" created quite the rush of great 90's-era pun headlines.

Even the folks over at NHL.com took notice of this latest episode of The 90s Are All That...

But as Owen Nolan taught us this past week... you can't live in the past forever. That's why it's time for the Eastern Conference Edition of the Pundays Playoffs... where your favorite NHL.com Pun Filled Headlines battle it out each week until a Pundays Champion is crowned. And the best part of all... you decide the winner!

Last week, we released the 8 best Western Conference Pun Headlines from the 2010-2011 NHL season. This week, it's the East's time to shine. We are doing this NHL Playoff style... there will be 8 Pun Headlines from the West and 8 from the East. Each week, you'll vote on your favorites and the ones with the most votes will continue on to the next round until we have 1 Pun Headline from each Conference. Then... they will battle it out in the ultimate Punday Cup Final.

What do you say? Are you ready to have at it?!?

Click here to check out and vote on the 8 best and worst NHL.com Eastern Conference pun headlines from the past season!!!

Well, we have reached the middle ground of the NHL off-season and with 66 days left until the start of the 2011-2012 regular season... there really isn't much to talk about in terms of the NHL.com pun-filled front page headlines. In fact, the summer is the time of year we here at The Royal Half take a little hiatus and say "see ya later" to the NHL.com pun headlines. 

You know, the constant work we do each week collecting the best and worst NHL.com pun headlines can take a toll on our old bones. We've really reached our limit. 

And since it's summer... sometimes we want to be relaxing on the couch with the AC on full blast... and sometimes we want to be at the beach soaking in the sun.

But, overall... I think a lot of people are worried that they'd have to go a whole summer without enjoying some sort of NHL.com pun headline related activity. And I'm here to put those concerns to rest.

That's right! We've decided to start a Pundays Playoff... where your favorite NHL.com Pun Filled Headlines battle it out each week until a Pundays Champion is crowned. And the best part of all... you decide the winner! 

We are doing this NHL Playoff style... there will be 8 Pun Headlines from the West and 8 from the East. Each week, you'll vote on your favorites and the ones with the most votes will continue on to the next round until we have 1 Pun Headline from the West and 1 from the East. Then... they will battle it out in the ultimate Punday Cup Final. 

This week we will start off in the Western Conference with 8 amazing NHL.com pun headlines that I feel are all contenders for the best Punday of the Year. 

Click here to check out and vote on the 8 best and worst NHL.com Western Conference pun headlines from the past season!!!

Even though there is no action on the ice for the next few months... the good folks at the NHL.com Pun Headline Writing Department isn't going to let that stop them from doing what they do best. In fact, the truest test of a talented pun headline writer is performing your magic during the off-season. There are no rookie sensations... no goalies on hot streaks...  no teams battling it out on the ice to inspire you. Nope, all there is from June until September is the sound of cash registers dinging as NHL GM's spend money like crazy for NHL talent. So if all I'm going to be able to see for the next 2 months are pun headlines about the crazy moves that NHL GM's make... then I'd say that'd be a fair trade. 

Click here for the Free Agent Frenzy Edition of Pundays!!!

Much like the Edmonton Oilers' trade for Ryan Smyth... the final edition of Pundays for the 2010-2011 NHL season might be better late than never. We aim to please here at The Royal Half, so compiling the best and the worst NHL.com pun headlines of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final was almost as fun as the series itself. But in the end, only one team can win. And for our friends in the city of Boston, there was only one word to describe the feeling. 

Click here for the final edition of Pundays for the 2010-2011 NHL Season!!!

Much like Manny Malhotra, Pundays has returned from near death just in time for the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Since we last left Pundays, so much has happened during the NHL Playoffs. The San Jose Sharks nearly lost a 3-0 lead, Tyler Seguin leapt to the front of the Conn Smythe voting for 2 games, and some team no one cares about moved to some place no one wants to be. And the craziest part about the last 3 weeks? Those weren't even the best things that flashed by.

I'd say these are easily the top 2 plays of the year.

Click here to check out the best and worst NHL.com pun headlines from the NHL playoffs!!!

The fans of the Boston Bruins and the Tampa Bay Lightning can finally understand what it feels like to be a fan of an NHL team that hasn't made the playoffs... because they are going to sit around for the next few days and watch every team play except for their own. The Eastern Conference Finals are all locked up. While in the West, the San Jose Sharks and Vancouver Canucks struggle to close out their series. But for serious fans of the NHL... watching the Canucks and Sharks choke in the playoffs is nothing new.

Click here to check out the best and worst NHL.com pun headlines from the 4th week of the NHL playoffs!!!

It's the first week of May and here in Los Angeles, it's nearly 90 degrees. But for the cities in which their NHL team is still playing hockey, it's even hotter. The 2nd round of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs began this past week and some may say that due to all the heated games being playing inside NHL arenas... the temperature is rising. 

Click here to check out the best and worst NHL.com pun headlines from the 3rd week of the NHL playoffs!!!

Sure, making it into the NHL Playoffs can be the most exciting part of a players career. But making it into the 2nd round is the truest test for the strength of an NHL franchise and its fans. The NHL season is long and when players report for training camp in September, everyone is working towards the goal of playing hockey deep into April and May. The season is over for the New York Rangers, Phoenix Coyotes and Anaheim Ducks... so there really is only one thing left to say amongst their fans and players...

Because it's still too cold out to golf. Except in Anaheim and Phoenix.

And for the other 13 teams that are still battling for position in the post-season? Well, in my opinion, this years NHL playoffs have never been better. 

Click here to check out the best and worst NHL.com pun headlines from the 2nd week of the NHL playoffs!!!

The 2010-2011 NHL Regular Season is now behind us and 16 lucky teams look forward to battling each other to the death over the next 2 months. For the fans of those 16 teams, this time of year is one of the most exciting... for the other 14 teams it's a time to think back to the past 6 months and wonder what your favorite team could have done better in order to earn a spot in the post-season.

Oh yeah, Carolina Hurricanes? Anything I can do, you can do better?
Oh I don't know... I might have actually shown up for your game against Tampa Bay. 

Click here to check out the last regular season best and worst NHL.com pun headlines from the past week!!!

Well, here we are. The final week of the 2010-2011 NHL season. We've come so far since that first week of hockey in October. Our favorite teams have lifted our hopes in November and subsequently crushed them in February. And now, with exactly 7 days left in the regular season and only 8 of the possible 16 teams having locked up a playoff spot... for the fans of the remaining franchises all you can do is hope and pray your team makes through this week so it can taste the sweet nectar of the post-season.

Click here to check out the final regular season edition of the best and worst NHL.com pun headlines from the past week!!!