0 comments by Laura Astorian on 1/21/2013
One or two games does not make a season — not even when your season's been truncated to 48 games. All fans and teams have heard about since the lockout ended is that it's important to start fast, that every point matters, and that letting two points slip away could be the difference between making […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 1/18/2013
The Red Wings suffered a huge blow with the retirement of Nicklas Lidstrom. Many fans of the Red Wings can't remember a time where he wasn't dominating their blue line, and now this season they'll be looking at Carlo Colaiacovo back there. Tomas Holmstrom is retiring officially on Tuesday, and while they will be captained […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 1/15/2013
As mentioned yesterday, both Wade Redden and Scott Gomez are widely expected to be bought out at the end of this season. Both players are being told to go home, sit, and get paid for it — the NHL's teams can't buyout injured players. While this is a smart strategy for the New York Rangers […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 1/14/2013
If you were to ask people who they felt would be the first two amnesty buyouts under the NHL's new CBA, they probably would have said Wade Redden and Scott Gomez. Apparently lots of folks have ESP, or at the very least have been alive and conscious the past couple of years, because who will […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 1/11/2013
The Canadian Rockies don't have nothin' on Winnipeg's latest molehill. Evander Kane, frequent focus of manufactured controversy (see: cash brick phone), is apparently up to no good again. His crime? Not reporting to Jets training camp… three days early. Seriously? This is what you have to cover, Winnipeg Sun? The new NHL season is starting […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 1/8/2013
As we all learned during the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs, NHL teams and their Twitter feeds are often sources of great amusement. They're also pretty protective of their teams from outsiders who might look at their sport with derision. Outsiders like the Dallas Cowboys, who apparently were cranky about missing the playoffs and wanted to […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 1/7/2013
After the retirement of Nicklas Lidstrom at the end of the 2011-2012 season, many hockey fans assumed that the next captain of the Detroit Red Wings would be one of two people: Henrik Zetterberg or Pavel Datsyuk. Both players have led their team and the NHL in class and ability for quite some time, and […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 1/2/2013
The NHL and NHLPA have been having serious talks the last two and a half days, giving many hope that they're working towards starting the 2013 NHL season some time soon. The latest they can go before calling the whole thing off is January 11th, so time is of the essence. January 19th as a […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 12/29/2012
The league and the NHLPA only have a few short weeks to sign the new CBA, or else the season is going to be wiped out,
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 12/24/2012
No, it's not a new season, but the NHLPA released their Happy Holidays video today, which I guess is as close to hockey as we're going to get this holiday season. Featuring luminaries such as Steven Stamkos, Alex Ovechkin, Claude Giroux, a very happy looking Jeff Skinner (who is, I guess, playing the part of […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 12/21/2012
Someone stick a fork in this year's NHL season. It's done. The NHL released a press statement today announcing the cancelation of all games through January 14th. Pretty much, that means that the next step will probably be axing the entire 2012-2013 season totally. The National Hockey League announced today the cancelation of the 2012-13 […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 12/20/2012
There's nothing more entertaining for an American hockey fan than getting into a "will the Stanley Cup return to Canada?" fight with a Canadian. Personally, I really don't care where it winds up if it doesn't end in St. Louis (which it hasn't, and probably won't this year either), but I do understand why the […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 12/17/2012
Listen, I know that the NHL's desperate to get the upper hand on the players. Their filing in federal court on Friday seeking to have the lockout deemed legal shows as much. One part of that filing that seemed to fly under the radar this weekend was the portion that asked that if the NHLPA […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 12/12/2012
It hasn't been easy for Ilya Bryzgalov in the KHL. He's been cut from Russia's Channel One Cup roster, and he hasn't been exactly blowing the goaltending thing out of the water either. In a league where goalies aren't known for being the best in the world, Bryz has a .907 SV% and a 2.41 […]
0 comments by Laura Astorian on 12/1/2012
Gary Bettman recently proposed that the members of the NHLPA and the owners meet without the commissioner and the head of the NHLPA, Donald Fehr. You know, to hash it out between the actual interested parties, not between the representatives of those parties. The players seem a bit hesitant about this, especially if all owners […]
