Heading up to Wednesday’s offer-sheet matching deadline, hockey pundits from TSN to some guy in his mom’s basement were all crying the same thing: “David Poile has no choice! He must match the Flyers’ offer sheet to Shea Weber! The Predators can’t lose both of their top defensemen in one off-season!” It was a gimmie. […]

A disclaimer: I was an Atlanta Thrashers fan. After watching eleven years of Don Waddell do God knows what (the Hossa trade? The Kovalchuk trade? come on now) with a hockey team has me paranoid regarding other teams’ general managers. When teams in markets that aren’t the biggest in the NHL do stupid stuff, it […]

Nail Yakupov, the Edmonton Oilers first round pick (and the first overall pick) in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft impressed sufficiently enough out of prospect camp to have a contract by the end. The Oilers released a press release today stating that Yakupov has been signed to a three-year entry level deal. In case you […]

  About a year and a half ago, hockey teams started putting sponsorship logos on their jerseys. The Detroit Red Wings began this disturbing trend with their Amway sponsorship, and fans weren’t happy. At all. Soon this disturbing trend spread to other, non-cash strapped Original Six teams like the Maple Leafs and the Chicago Blackhawks. […]

The Pittsburgh Penguins have fired their team doctor and the rest of the medical staff as of Friday. This might fall into the “delayed reaction” category of things. If you remember, Sidney Crosby’s concussion occurred during the 2011 Winter Classic courtsey of an elbow from Dave Steckel. Crosby was allowed to play in the Penguins’ […]

Under the cover of night is about the time one would expect an offer sheet deal to go down. No one likes to discuss offer sheets in the NHL. They’re often seen as poaching players, tempting them away from their rightful teams. General managers tend to stay away from them because it “paints them in […]

Shane Doan has always been more than vocal about the fact that he wants to stay put with the franchise that drafted him. The last member of the Coyotes who also played for the Winnipeg Jets, Doan is the team’s captain and centering force in the locker room. He’s beloved by the fans, and he […]

Breathe easy, hockey fans. Those of you who want to cling to your youth (such as yours truly) have dodged a bullet today. Teemu Selanne, the 42 year old forward who plays like a man half of his age, agreed to one more year with the Anaheim Ducks.

Alumni games are always fun. It’s great for fans to see the players of their youth lace up the skates again, and it’s a blast for the guys to go back out on the ice where they made their livlihoods, this time for fun. Franchises get to re-live the moments that made them great, and […]

Image courtesy of wild.nhl.com There were big teams in competition for Ryan Suter and Zach Parise, the two biggest free agents of the season. The Penguins, the Red Wings, the Chicago Blackhawks (specifically for Parise), even the Carolina Hurricanes were tossed about as probable destinations for the two players. Glamorous places, all. Filling Nicklas Lidstrom’s […]

The hit that Raffi Torres put on Marian Hossa during game three of the first round series between the Chicago Blackhawks and Phoenix Coyotes was unprecedented. The hit concussed Hossa and knocked him out for the rest of the Blackhawks’ time in the playoffs. It was high, it was malicious, and Director of Player Safety […]

Breathe easy, Devils and hockey fans. All is right with the world this Monday morning, as we awoke to the news that

People have their opinions whenever the annual Hockey Hall of Fame class is announced. There are annual favorites who get overlooked (Fred Shero and Pat Burns come to mind), as well as personal heroes that fans would love to see in the hall. No one’s ever 100% happy about the end result, but this year […]

In what seems to be the current trend in NHL trades, for the second time in two days brothers have been united in playing for the same team. While yesterday there was little surprise in Jordan Staal being traded to the Carolina Hurricanes to play with his brother Eric, few expected Luke and Brayden Schenn […]

It’s an annual tradition: the NHL Awards are held in Las Vegas, Twitter time lines everywhere explode with sarcasm, and then awards are handed out that no one agrees with. This year, however, the awards were generally spot-in and the sarcasm was left mostly for Nickelback and whoever the poor guy was that wrote the […]