File this under "too good to be true." The New York Rangers have interviewed Mark Messier for their head coaching position. No, seriously. They have interviewed someone with no coaching experience to lead their team deeper into the playoffs than John Tortorella did.  Why Messier? Well, besides the fact that he's such a great leader […]

Your eyes will not be able to un-see the majesty of Don Cherry this time. His suits are a collective Rorschach test of terribleness, but never before has Cherry been this disconcerting.

It seems like every year the NHL leaks something on accident. Usually it's clothing designs, like what the conference or Stanley Cup champion gear looks like. A few years ago they leaked the NHL Award Winners via t-shirts on NHL.com, because who doesn't want to commemorate Alex Ovechkin's Hart Trophy with a tacky shirt that […]

  There's been controversy about goaltending in the CHL for quite a while – namely, why can't Canada crank out top goaltending prospects a la NCAA hockey? In the midst of the Ontario Hockey League holding a workshop to figure out what to do about the issue at the junior level, the Canadian Hockey League […]

With their hearbreaking 2OT loss to the Chicago Blackhawks, the Los Angeles Kings' defense of the Stanley Cup came to an end. Kings fans were crushed, but leave it up to the masterminds at the Los Angeles Kings Twitter account to diffuse the situation with humor. No word on if the Penguins took them up […]

Sure, there is a lot of speculation that Sergei Gonchar will return to the KHL to play for his old team, Metallurg Magnitogorsk (and proof of returning Stalinism Mike Keenan). Those rumors haven't deterred the Dallas Stars from dipping into the deep end of the veteran free agent pool, however. They have traded a conditional […]

I feel for the Hurricanes and their fans right now. They were expecting a new and exciting new uniform to be revealed today, and instead they got rec league garb. I fully understand the 'Canes wanting to go with a sleek new look – the Tampa Bay Lightning did to great success a few seasons […]

As I mentioned on Twitter the other night, forgive me for expecting the Conference Finals series to have better hockey than the quarterfinals. So far neither series has even been a series – it's been one team plowing over the other. The Chicago Blackhawks have been overwhelming the Los Angeles Kings, and the Boston Bruins […]

Sure, he's just been signed to a two-year extension, and sure, you're a television station that's covering your local team as they get to the Western Conference Finals. But why let things like that get in the way of facts? Or, even more drastic, spelling names correctly? This isn't Brad Doty, but KTLA comes close. […]

I'm not a big celeb-watcher (I prefer not to stalk people, personally), but if you are – well, LA Kings games during the post-season is where you need to be. Justin Bieber, Tom Cruise, Retta (!) – all of them have caught a playoff game or two this postseason. Game 7 against the San Jose […]

This is interesting. Usually, after a team comes back from a two-game deficit to advance to the next playoff round it's called momentum. If you do it with back-to-back shut out wins, you should get an extra dose of it, right? The Rangers defeated the Washington Capitals in the quarterfinals in a series turn-around that […]

As if the New York Rangers' 4-1 series loss in the Eastern Conference Semi-finals to the Boston Bruins wasn't bad enough, Rangers fans will have something pretty big to worry about over this off-season. No, not worries about Brad Richards and Rick Nash. Not worries about coaching and if that contributed to an offense that […]

We've all heard that expression "boy, he'd like to have that one back." I'm pretty sure that applies to Tuukka Rask here. In Thursday night's game, with the Bruins up 2-0, Rask moves to his left, slips somehow, and allows a Carl Haglin barely-there shot to roll on by: http://youtube.com/watch?v=hfx_rQ0-7Zc There's so much to love/hate […]

Wow. This is more than a little awkward. As a hockey player and as a captain, I always assumed it would be impossible to criticize Ottawa Senators captain Daniel Alfredsson. He's the prototypical perfect hockey player, a great team guy… and he just completely threw his whole squad under the bus. When asked in a […]

We've all seen Field of Dreams, or at least heard the line "if you build it, they will come." In the movie's case, it was referring to a baseball diamond in the middle of a corn field. In this example's case, it involves a winning hockey team in the middle of Ohio. Same difference. The […]