We all know how tough hockey players are. Hell, Gregory Campbell broke his leg from blocking a shot during a penalty kill in the playoffs. This story adds another notch to the belt of hockey toughness lore.  Schenn was skating up to New Jersey's Dainius Zubrus to make a body check […]

Seeing a big Reebok logo on an NHL sweater is a pretty common sight. Those days may be coming to an end after a report from CBC.ca indicates that Adidas is considering placing their name on NHL uniforms.  Adidas, the parent company of Reebok since 2005 (the more you know!), is also considering extending their […]

Everyone is probably of tired of the "Ovechkin vs. Crosby" narrative that the NHL has been shoving down our throats for nearly a decade. I really think that their brain trust needs to come up with better ideas for the next great marketing rivalry. "How about this – how about instead of having Ovie play […]

[ The Bolshoy ice dome ] There is just something about the Olympic games in Sochi that has us excited. The first step was getting all of the rosters announced. That process was completed on Tuesday, so we wanted to take a quick look at  the rosters for all Olympic teams as well as the […]

Welcome to another installment of Hockey Fights of the Week. We hope you had a great holiday season. Now it's time to start 2014 with a bang. There weren't too many altercations to highlight since we last convened, but there were a couple which left the hockey world buzzing. 5. James Wright (WIN) vs Matt Fraser (BOS) […]

This week I’m going to take a look at some of the biggest point producing lines in the NHL this season.  The point totals are the combined total of all three players while on the ice together at even strength.  In order of total points: 1.  Patrick Sharp – Jonathan Toews – Marian Hossa, Chicago, […]

The 2014 World Junior Hockey Championships have concluded, with Finland winning their first gold medal since 1998 over archrival Sweden. As today's gold medal contest was getting underway, the IIHF announced their annual positional awards and the media's tournament all-star team. This year's games featured a number of upsets, including Czech Republic stealing a game on […]

As Steve Lepore noted last week, for some people 24/7 has jumped the shark for various reasons.  But in its third installment, the show finished just as strong as all the others. While it does seem some of the segments are tiresome, the access we get still brings us back. It is why Hard Knocks for example, […]

The Scott Burnside article on USA hockey was the biggest story this week. So of course Don Cherry was going to touch on it. And touch on it he did. Cherry, while not naming any names, accused Burnside and USA Today's Kevin Allen of ratting on Burke several times, while Ron MacLean tried to stick up for […]

Tim Hortons called on Sidney Crosby to star in their latest commercial for the upcoming Winter Olympics. As Crosby takes the ice, he's joined by waves of Canadians eager to join the game and help him to victory. Evidently, Canadians all come together for the Good Ol' Hockey Game.  http://youtube.com/watch?v=yXE_p_1Squg?rel=0 Too Many Men penalty, right?  […]

I believe that by now the comments made by Brian Burke during the Team USA selection process, as highlighted in Scott Burnside's piece, have been widely disseminated. They were blunt Burkian hyperbole at their best, but in this case it was hyperbole directed at a player that was read by everyone and their mother.  I […]

          After USA Hockey released its 25-man roster for the Sochi Olympics on Wednesday after the Winter Classic, many fans and pundits took to social media and various websites to lambaste the roster. The biggest cause for the vitriol was due to three players being left off of the roster: Bobby […]

Whooooo's that guy….. It's John-Michael! John-Michael Liles might not have Zooey Dechanel's bangs, but he's still the "new guy" on the Carolina Hurricanes. He even has the locker stall nameplate to prove it! Liles was acquired by the Hurricanes in a surprise move that sent Tim Gleason to Toronto. Liles got to take warm-ups with the Leafs before the Winter Classic, […]

Sample size. It's a fun phrase thrown around by many, but consistently remembered by few. It's meaning is often dismissed in the heat of a short international tournament, where the future of a nation's hockey program is put under the microscope and then forgotten altogether. In the wake of yesterday's big announcement from USA Hockey and […]

Photobombs are great. When photobombs go wrong? Even better. When the photobomb going bad is a Red Wings fan? Well… story via DailyMail