Lost in the wake of last year's lockout was not only the 2013 Winter Classic, but also HBO's Emmy Award-winning series, 24/7: Road to the Winter Classic. Luckily though for hockey fans, it returns this year, beginning Saturday, December 14. HBO had this to say in a press release earlier today: For the first time, […]

Saturday night's game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Boston Bruins was, politely worded, a gong show. These two teams don't care much for each other, and that was more than evident in how the game was played. You expect the big hits, but you'd rather see a clean game. That didn't happen Saturday night. The […]

Welcome to this year's 10th edition of Hockey Fights of the Week. This installment is a bit marred by the renewed debate over fighting after the Thornton-Orpik debacle. While that incident was horrible, it's important to remember that it wasn't a fight and it doesn't really belong in the same conversation as the scraps below.  With […]

  Biggest Story The Bruins/Penguins game on Saturday night had the makings of being an excellent hockey game.  Instead, the game was marred by vicious and suspendable plays by James Neal and Shawn Thornton.  The whole thing got started when Brooks Orpik delivered a clean hit on Loui Eriksson.  The Bruins were enraged with the […]

The NHL is planning to raise the salary cap for the 2014-15 season. While nothing has been officially announced, TSN's Bob McKenzie reports that the new cap should be around $70 million and that the league will unveil their cap projections to the NHL Board of Governors next week.  NHL govs likely to get (14-15) cap […]

Shawn Thornton assaulted Brooks Orpik in an incident which might be described as the worst moment of the 2013-14 NHL season. Thornton jumped Orpik from behind, threw him to the ice and then punched him in the head multiple times. Orpik had to be taken off on a stretcher. http://youtube.com/watch?v=GuVq-TZ7AJM?rel=0 Earlier in the game Orpik knocked […]

Ryan Miller is tired of all of the talk surrounding his future with the Buffalo Sabres. Over the last several months and even the last two seasons, those in charge of the Sabres have painted several different pictures regarding Miller's future with the club. At one point it appears Miller is destined to be traded […]

UPDATE: It looks like Rinne's return to strenuous activity is still on target for two weeks from now. 

The St. Louis Blues posted plenty of memorable highlights from their 5-1 win over the New York Islanders on Thursday night. Despite all of the goals and big saves, the best moment of the night won't show up in the boxscore. The biggest takeaway was a shot that never even happened.  Patrik Berglund wound up for […]

So… there's still a goaltending controversy in New York, right?  Not so fast, said the New York Rangers on Wednesday, as they

It's been several months since Ilya Kovalchuk shocked the hockey world and abruptly announced his retirement from the NHL. Since then Kovalchuk has played in the KHL and we've only mentioned him in passing. So, how are things going for Kovalchuk? Pretty well. In a report seen on NJ.com, Kovalchuk revealed that it "feels better" […]

Few scribes around the country are better at chasing a story to the very end than some of the beat reporters in New York. In fact, the Big Apple is full of diligent journalists who not only possess the ability to hammer the subject of their story into submission, but to fabricate the entire story […]

In Monday night's back and forth game between the New Jersey Devils and Montreal Canadiens, each team had a little to cheer for, such as when Michael Ryder scored in the third period to knot the game at two apiece. One of probably 10 Devils fans in the whole building decided to have the nerve […]

It's Monday. The holiday weekend is over and everyone is headed back to work. Don't be depressed. Cheer yourself up with some of the best hockey fights from over the Thanksgiving holiday. While we're at it, let's all give thanks for the great sport of hockey. 5. Tom Sestito (VAN) vs Chris Neil (OTT) – Nov […]

12 Stats for November — Evgeni Malkin led all scorers with 25 points in November, Including 21 assists, which are the most assists in one month since some guy named Wayne Gretzky did it in 1996. — Chicago scored 55 goals in 15 games in November, the most in the NHL. They average 3.67 goals […]