Image via totalprosports.com Professional sports team have PR departments. Usually, they’re meant to foster good will amongst the community and to get people’s butts in seats. Unfortunately, sometimes they have to play cover-up to their athletes’ questionable actions. Each professional sports league’s had a guy to goof up, not realizing that as a public entertainment figure […]

This wasn’t the greatest, most consistent season for Ilya Bryzgalov. The Russian netminder, playing in his first year with the Philadelphia Flyers, was a roller coaster ride unto himself during the regular season. He could go from dramatic highs of shut out streaks to miserable lows. The celebrity status given to him on HBO’s NHL […]

This is the RIGHT Glendale. Apologizies to the City of Glendale for me rushing through and previously posting Glendale, CA’s city seal. The City of Glendale isn’t exactly in the best of financial situations right now. Tax increases are coming, and public spending such as for police and other public services has been cut. It’s […]

There’s never a good time for a headshot to happen on the ice, and there’s never a good reason for it. The Philadelphia Flyers found that out the hard way as their top playoff scorer Claude Giroux has been suspended for an illegal hit to the head in last night’s loss to the New Jersey […]

Don Cherry’s nothing if not opinionated. I tend to have a habit of finding other things to watch when I’m watching him; most of what I’ve “heard” him say I’ve just read on the internet. He never ceases to amaze me, and this gem from last night’s Coach’s Corner is fantastic. Greg Wyshynski highlights it […]

I’m pretty sure most Eastern Conference teams would love to have a Jonathan Quick of their very own… or a Mike Smith, or a Pekka Rinne, or a Brian Elliott. Heck, a nice Cory Schneider would help any of the Eastern Conference teams out in a pinch. Quite frankly, the goaltending coming out of the […]

They can’t do anything without ticking people off; just the fact that they exist makes people uncomfortable. Who might I be referencing? Nickelback, of course! As Canadian as whatever passes for Canadian bacon on pizza, Nickelback has to somehow get lumped in with the NHL because that’s what they think people want. When you have […]

No one can ever dare accuse Anaheim Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau of being a shrinking violet. Loud, opinionated, and brash, he has a polarizing personality that is either love him or hate him (disclaimer: I tend to fall into the latter camp). He’s found recent employment, as fired and off-season coaches do, on CBC’s Hockey […]

There’s been a large to-do recently about discipline in the NHL, from Shea Weber’s fine to Matt Carkner and Carl Haglen’s suspensions. There’s no consistency in discipline, especially when so much of it is based off of whether someone is injured or not. There’s no punishing the intent, rather, there’s punishing of the outcome. The […]

In case you missed it, Claude Noel delivered the interview of the year. No, not to the Winnipeg Free Press, or to the Winnipeg Sun, or to the Globe and Mail (though that’s where it wound up). No, the Winnipeg Jets coach delivered it to one season ticket holder by the name of Chuck Duboff, […]

Granted, technically this hit on Henrik Zetterberg by Shea Weber wasn’t a traditional hit. It was more of a “I’m gonna fight you, Steve!” kind of move than anything else: http://youtube.com/watch?v= Z5l-zZ9ylXY[/youtube] The reaction on Twitter was immediate and universal: “What the hell was Weber thinking?” It didn’t seem to matter what team you were […]

I’m not the world’s biggest fan of Mike Milbury. Personally, I think he exists for the sole purpose of irritating Pierre McGuire and Jeremy Roenick, and he does an outstanding job at both. Admit it – you like to watch him annoy other people, especially McGuire and JR. You probably would have liked to have […]

There haven’t been any specific rumors of the Blue Jackets’ pending doom/relocation to Quebec City, but just in case you were getting worried about the franchise’s future: don’t. Despite the losses and despite the questionable front office of the team, Franklin County, Ohio has agreed on a purchase agreement that will enable the Blue Jackets […]

It hasn’t been a very pleasant three or four seasons for Phoenix Coyotes fans. The reason? It’s as plain as the empty seats in Jobing.com Arena on a weeknight game — relocation rumors have hovered over the team for so long it’s a miracle that fans haven’t been given Prozac as a game day giveaway. […]

  I’m not picking on the New York Islanders here, not in the least. I think that they’re young still, and need a bit of polishing, but they have some outstanding players on that team. Are they the Eastern Conference’s next version of the Blues? Probably not, but their rebuild seems to be plodding along […]