The Florida Panthers made it clear that they wanted to shake things up and turn over a new leaf. They've already replaced the coaching staff and they announced that just about any veteran on the roster was on the trading block. Chicago is the first team to take Florida up on its offer. The Panthers […]

Nazem Kadri will be the talk of the NHL after he was involved in two dirty plays against the Minnesota Wild on Wednesday night. The first came as he ran over goaltender Niklas Backstrom. As if that wasn't enough, he followed it up with a hit to the head of Mikael Granlund which forced the officials to […]

There are few better ways to follow up a rookie campaign in which you are named a finalist for the Calder Trophy and are a contributing member to a Stanley Cup championship team. But Brandon Saad has been doing his best to find a way. And now he's got a trip to Sochi, Russia in […]

Biggest Story of the week Kevin Dineen led the Florida Panthers to the playoffs two seasons ago.  This week he was fired along with his assistant coaches Craig Ramsay and Gord Murphy.  Replacing Dineen is Peter Horachek, who coached the Panthers’ AHL affiliate.  John  Madden and Brian Skrudland will be the new assistants.  This wasn’t […]

Won't someone think of the goalies! Today in a line brawl between the Providence Bruins and the Hartford Wolf Pack, goaltenders Malcom Subban and Scott Stajcer skated out to center ice. This, of course, happened: You'll notice some differences from other recent goalie fights. There were no visible punches to the back of the head, […]

Move over Perds, there's a new typo in town. The Columbus Blue Jackets sported their alternate uniforms on Saturday night and things went pretty well as the club cruised to a 5-2 victory over the New York Islanders. There was just one humorous problem.  As seen in this photo of Michael Chaput, the Columbus on […]

On Friday, Florida Panthers general manager Dale Tallon announced that head coach Kevin Dineen and assistants Craig Ramsey and Gord Murphy have been relieved of their duties. This was first reported by George Richards of the Miami Herald. Dineen and company have been on the job for just over two seasons, taking the helm at […]

Sometimes, it's fun to pick up on how NBCSN is doing. We don't write about it much as we (and by we, I mean both myself as someone who's covered the NHL on TV forever, and hockey fans in general) used to. I think part of it is the 10-year contract. We all know the […]

Is it just us, or has the start of this NHL season featured a ridiculous number of brutal and unnecessary hits to the head? You can add another one to the list as Florida's Jesse Winchester landed a flying elbow on Boston's Chris Kelly.  As awful as this hit is, it might be worse that […]

In the fine Chicago tradition of the Wrigley Field bleacher dwellers (Shane Victorino remembers you), Adam Pardy wound up with a beer shower tonight, but not before being checked through the glass and having his helmet ripped off by the beer thrower's husband. Witness the magic: The beer dump is fairly obvious here. No word […]

You go Nike! Keep on designing Olympic hockey jerseys that everyone hates. Sure, every single Olympic release thus far has been panned, with the Team Canada ones even drawing comparisons to Nazi-esque designs, but Nike continues to churn out unique international sweaters for the Sochi games that incorporate national flags. Some of them even turn […]

Martin Broduer would be willing to play for a new team if the New Jersey Devils aren't contenders late in the 2013-14 season. In an interview seen over on The Star-Ledger, Brodeur outlined that he'd be willing to waive his no-trade clause if the Devils were out of the playoff picture and if a contender […]

This might be our new favorite video of the young NHL season. Ryan McDonagh hitting Corey Perry into the New York bench was humorous enough as is, but the play reached epic proportions when it happened twice on the same shift. It's fairly rare a player is hit over the boards and into the bench, but […]

Everyone is still talking about the Ray Emery – Braden Holtby "fight" which occurred during a massive brawl between the Flyers and Capitals. It'd be easy to rank that incident as the best from last week due to the sheer spectacle of it all, but we've opted to go in a different direction. Which fight […]

Welcome back to another edition of the NHL Index. Below you'll find some of the biggest stories, hottest teams and best goals from the past week.  Biggest story of the week Semyon Varlamov was the talk of the NHL this week and not for his solid play so far this season.  The Colorado Avalanche goaltender […]