2018-08-28 09:35
There are numerous NHL and franchise milestones that could and should be reached in the 2018/19 season by some of the league's star players. We'll take a look at some of the achievements whi… Read More
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2018-08-20 23:08
The St. Louis Blues were one of the most active NHL teams during the offseason with several player moves under their belt. However, once the season faces off in October the success of those… Read More
2018-08-20 23:08
The St. Louis Blues were one of the most active NHL teams during the offseason with several player moves under their belt. However, once the season faces off in October the success of those… Read More
2018-08-14 09:19
Detroit Red Wings captain Henrik Zetterberg is possibly facing retirement as the 37-year-old Swedish forward is dealing with a health issue. It's possible that Zetterberg won't be able to su… Read More
2018-08-07 11:17
The Buffalo Sabres have been one of the NHL's doormats for the past several seasons, but general manager Jason Botterill is doing his best to change that. The Sabres finished dead last in th… Read More
2018-07-31 13:12
Perhaps one of the least known facts about Jarome Iginla is that his full name is Jarome Arthur-Leigh Adekunle Tig Junior Elvis Iginla. But one of the best known facts about him is that he w… Read More
2018-07-24 12:28
It looks like Jaromir Jagr's amazing NHL career has quietly come to a dead end as the 46-year-old forward currently recovers from a serious knee injury. Jagr became an unrestricted free agen… Read More
2018-07-24 12:28
It looks like Jaromir Jagr’s amazing NHL career has quietly come to a dead end as the 46-year-old forward currently recovers from a serious knee injury. Jagr became an unrestricted fr… Read More
2018-07-17 10:03
Most of the talk in the NHL offseason has centred around free agent John Tavares' decision to leave the New York Islanders and sign a long-term deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs. However, th… Read More
2018-07-17 10:03
Most of the talk in the NHL offseason has centred around free agent John Tavares’ decision to leave the New York Islanders and sign a long-term deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Howe… Read More
2018-07-10 10:54
With all the excitement of NHL free agency and the recent spate of trades, many fans may have missed the announcement of this year's Hockey Hall of Fame inductees. For those of you who may n… Read More
2018-07-03 11:33
The Toronto Maple Leafs landed the biggest available unrestricted free agent this summer by signing 27-year-old centre John Tavares to a seven-year $77 million contract. Tavares was drafted… Read More
2018-06-26 09:09
The NHL draft has come and gone for another year with few surprises in the first round. Let's recap the top 31 picks for 2018.1- As expected, the Buffalo Sabres selected 18-year-old Rasmus D… Read More
2018-06-22 09:52
The NHL held its annual awards ceremony in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 20th with Taylor Hall of the New Jersey Devils taking home the Hart Memorial trophy as the league's most valuable player… Read More
2018-06-11 14:57
Alexander Ovechkin tackled the 2017/18 NHL playoffs like a man on a mission and ultimately achieved it by leading the Washington Capitals to the franchise's first Stanley Cup since entering… Read More
2018-06-05 10:46
With the NHL playoffs being in full gear over the past several weeks fans may have missed out on all the front office changes that have taken place since the regular season ended. Let's go o… Read More
2018-05-28 23:58
With the Stanley Cup final between the expansion Golden Vegas Knights and the Washington Capitals set to begin on Monday, May 28thuntil Wednesday. June 13th at the latest, now is a great tim… Read More
2018-05-24 10:54
This is the last chapter of the season for the Cinderella-story Vegas Golden Knights as the first year NHL expansion team will be going toe to toe with the Washington Capitals in the Stanley… Read More
2018-05-14 23:37
It may be hard to believe, but the Washington Capitals are competing in their first Eastern Conference Final in the past 20 years and have made the final four for just the third time in fran… Read More
2018-05-08 10:02
The Cinderella story of the Vegas Golden Knights continues to grow as the NHL expansion franchise is half way to the Stanley Cup. After the most impressive first-year regular-season performa… Read More
2018-04-30 10:11
The Buffalo Sabres finally hit the NHL Draft Lottery jackpot on April 28th when they were awarded with the first overall pick at this summer's event on June 22-23 in Dallas, Texas. Buffalo h… Read More
2018-04-24 10:40
While NHL fans await the outcome of the first-round playoff series and the confirmed matchups for the second round, the league has kept them busy by announcing the trophy finalists. The majo… Read More
2018-04-16 20:17
The first week of the NHL playoffs has featured an explosion of goals and plenty of big hits as several of the series are off to a nasty start. In fact, there has already been a pair of susp… Read More
2018-04-10 18:14
After a gruelling 82-game schedule for each of the NHL's 31 teams we're finally down to the playoffs. However, it came down to the very last day of the season to figure out who's playing who… Read More
2018-04-02 10:55
With the Toronto Maple Leafs eventually having to sign their young players to new deals once their entry-level contracts expire there's been a lot of talk about how to go about it. In additi… Read More
2018-03-26 19:05
With the NHL's regular season winding down it appears that four of the league's original six clubs will be missing out on the postseason action this spring. The Toronto Maple Leafs and Bosto… Read More
2018-03-20 13:42
After finishing dead last in the NHL just two seasons ago, the Toronto Maple Leafs could very well enjoy their best regular season ever in 2017/18. As of March 18th the team was third in the… Read More
2018-03-12 12:04
There's no doubt the Vegas Knights have been the NHL's biggest surprise of the season and perhaps of all time. The team is already being hailed as the most successful expansion franchise in… Read More
2018-03-06 11:17
With the instant success of the Vegas Golden Knights this season it's understandable why the NHL is looking to expand once again. The best bet for the next expansion franchise is Seattle, Wa… Read More
2018-02-28 13:33
NHL rosters are now set until the end of the season with the passing of the 2017/18 trade deadline. It wasn't the busiest day in recent years, but several significant players were still on t… Read More
2018-02-19 23:51
With 30-year-old Austrian winger Michael Grabner being eligible for free agency in July, there's a good chance the New York Rangers will deal him by the Feb. 26thtrade deadline. If they do… Read More
2018-02-15 07:28
After going 10 games without a goal, Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby finally broke his slump on Feb. 11th with a pair of them in a 4-1 road win over the S. Louis Blues. They were j… Read More
2018-02-05 11:16
Boston Bruins' captain Zdeno Chara reached another impressive milestone in his illustrious NHL career on February 3rdwhen he appeared in his 1,400th regular-season NHL contest. The big blue… Read More
2018-01-29 12:03
With the NHL All Star weekend over the league now enters the stretch run with most teams having a busy time of it until the end of the regular season. With each club having a Christmas break… Read More
2018-01-23 12:34
With a current 16-game point streak of 12-0-4 the Boston Bruins are suddenly a legitimate contender for the President's Trophy, which will be handed out to the NHL's top team at the end of t… Read More
2018-01-21 12:35
Most NHL teams don't expect to get an elite NHL defenceman with a fifth round draft pick (131st overall) and the Dallas Stars were no exception when they took John Klingberg out of Sweden &n&hell…Read More
2018-01-11 12:48
By signing a new $30 million contract over six years with the Las Vegas Golden Knights, forward Jonathan Marchessault has earned himself a 667 per cent raise. The 27-year-old from Quebec Cit… Read More
2017-12-21 12:14
The Chris Neil era has ended in Ottawa as the Senators' forward officially announced he was hanging up his skates on December 15thafter 15 years with the NHL team. The 38-year-old from Flesh… Read More
2017-12-12 16:09
The Toronto Maple Leafs believed goaltender Frederik Andersen's slow start to the 2016/17 NHL season was due to an injury suffered prior to training camp. However, they became concerned when… Read More
2017-12-04 13:56
It's amazing how a five-game winning streak can turn around an NHL team's season. Just ask the Montreal Canadiens. The Habs had been struggling since the campaign faced off with seven losses… Read More
2017-11-27 03:26
The NHL has basically just passed the quarter mark of the 2017/18 season and there are certainly a few surprises so far. Taking a look at the standings as of November 26th, we find the Tampa… Read More
2017-11-21 18:59
Last year's race for the Calder Trophy as the NHL's best rookie was pretty close as the finalists were forwards Auston Matthews of the Toronto Maple Leafs and Patrik Laine of the Winnipeg Je… Read More
2017-11-14 13:24
Veteran goaltenders Roberto Luongo of the Florida Panthers and Braden Holtby of the Washington Capitals each climbed the NHL career milestone ladder with their performances last week along w… Read More
2017-11-07 18:33
The Colorado Avalanche, Nashville Predators and Ottawa Senators all got in on the action on November 5th when the first blockbuster trade of the 2017/18 season was made. It was no secret tha… Read More
2017-11-01 14:34
By starting the 2017/18 NHL campaign with a record of 0-10-1, the Arizona Coyotes made the league's record books for the worst start ever to a season. If there was any good news related to t… Read More
2017-10-23 19:08
As the NHL entered its third week of the season on October 23rd, the Los Angeles Kings remained the only unbeaten team in the league in regulation time. The Kings had racked up 13 points on… Read More
2017-10-16 23:06
Several NHL teams have gotten off to quick starts in the 2017/18 NHL season, but the most surprising of all is the Las Vegas Golden Knights. This is the club's inaugural campaign and the ros… Read More
2017-10-10 07:57
Russian sniper Alexander Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals has already won the Rocket Richard Trophy six times for leading the NHL in scoring and he looks determined to capture his seventh… Read More
2017-10-05 11:44
Several NHL teams made some last-second roster moves just before the NHL season faced off on October 4th. Here's an update on the biggest transactions. The Columbus Blue Jackets and 23-year… Read More
2017-09-26 11:50
With China hosting the Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022, the NHL figured the time was right to introduce the world's most populous nation to the world's best hockey league. The Vancouver C… Read More
2017-09-19 16:59
Ottawa Senators' forward Clarke MacArthur has failed his NHL medical at training camp, just five months after making a long-awaited comeback. The 32-year-old's career is in limbo once again… Read More
2017-09-11 18:27
The NHL introduced coaches' challenges for offsides a couple of years ago and this campaign the league will be introducing minor penalties for a failed challenge. The main reason for this is… Read More
2017-09-04 12:39
Forward Shane Doan of the Arizona Coyotes has decided to hang up the skates on his NHL career after more than two decades in the world’s best hockey league. The 40-year-old may not be… Read More
2017-08-28 20:00
Last season’s Hobey Baker Award winner Will Butcher announced on August 27th that he has decided to join the New Jersey Devils. The 22-year-old defenceman from Sun Prairie, Wisconsin… Read More
2017-08-21 10:36
The NHL announced a few months ago that the league wouldn’t be shutting down this season to allow its players to take part in the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. Comm… Read More
2017-08-15 10:27
Quebec City, Seattle and Portland are usually the three cities mentioned when it comes to further NHL expansion. However, Houston should probably be added to that short list. Houston is one… Read More
2017-08-08 12:48
Left-winger Dave Andreychuk of Hamilton, Ontario has finally been elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame after being a member of the Buffalo Sabres Hall of Fame since 2008. After years of not kn… Read More
2017-08-01 09:37
At the age of 38, defenceman Andrei Markov’s pro hockey career is winding down and he’s decided to finish it in the KHL. Markov was a free agent this summer, but the team he&rsqu&hell…Read More
2017-07-25 10:41
Considering Chicago Blackhawks’ forward Marian Hossa is now 38-years-old and will be sitting out the entire 2017/18 NHL season, many fans are wondering if they’ll ever see him pl… Read More
2017-07-17 17:05
It’s no secret the NHL’s Carolina Hurricanes are up for sale, but the team’s fans are worried the franchise may be relocated elsewhere such as Quebec City or Seattle if it… Read More
2017-07-10 09:38
There’s been so much activity in the NHL over the past few weeks that it may have been easy to miss some of the more important announcements. The league handed out its annual awards in… Read More
2017-07-05 16:30
It didn’t take long for NHL teams to get into the free agent frenzy as numerous teams started tinkering with and fine tuning their rosters on July 1st. There were some big-name-players… Read More
2017-06-26 13:11
It was an extremely busy week for the NHL as the league released the 1,271-game 2017/18 schedule, announced its annual award winners and held both the Expansion and Entry Drafts. We’ll… Read More
2017-06-19 22:57
There were several NHL transactions before the league’s trade-freeze came into effect just before the expansion draft is announced on June 21st. The biggest deal took place on June 15t… Read More
2017-06-12 19:11
The Pittsburgh Penguins won their second straight Stanley Cup and captain Sidney Crosby won his second consecutive Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP with a 2-0 win over the Predators in… Read More
2017-06-05 10:10
The NHL will soon be holding its first expansion draft since June, 2000 when the Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild entered the league. With the 2017 draft being just a couple of weeks… Read More
2017-05-29 10:56
We’re down to the final two teams in the 2016/17 NHL playoffs as the Pittsburgh Penguins will be battling it out with the Nashville Predators for Lord Stanley’s Cup. The Penguins… Read More
2017-05-23 11:49
It’s never hard to tell when NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is in the house during league events as he’s always greeted by a chorus of boos. However, it’s a little hard to f… Read More
2017-05-15 11:48
They may not be chokers or losers, but whatever you want to call them, the Washington Capitals disappointed their fans once again during the 2016/17 NHL playoffs. They were eliminated at hom… Read More
2017-05-08 12:03
Pittsburgh Penguins right-winger Phil Kessel is proving that last season’s excellent playoff performance definitely wasn’t a fluke. Kessel arguably should have won the Conn Smyth… Read More
2017-05-01 12:10
This year’s NHL draft lottery in Toronto came and went on April 29th without much fanfare due to the fact there’s no clear number-one prospect this summer. The last two drafts ha… Read More
2017-04-25 09:05
The first round of the 2016/17 NHL playoffs have concluded with the Toronto Maple Leafs being both the last team to make the postseason and the last team to be eliminated in the first round… Read More
2017-04-17 10:42
With the first round of the NHL playoffs in full swing and all of the excitement surrounding them, some fans may have missed some important news at the conclusion of the regular season. We&r&hell…Read More
2017-04-10 23:57
After a grueling six-month schedule and a total of 1,230 games, the NHL playoff matchups are now set as the postseason faces off on Wednesday, April 12th. Sixteen teams will be squaring off… Read More
2017-04-03 23:56
It looks like the final NHL playoff positions likely won’t be confirmed until the last day of the 2016/17 season. Fans already know which eight teams will make the playoffs in the West… Read More
2017-03-27 08:07
It’s the end of an era for the Detroit Red Wings as the club’s 25-year playoff streak will come to an end this season and the team will play its last ever game at the Joe Louis A… Read More
2017-03-20 13:37
It appears the sands of time are running out on the Arizona Coyotes. The desert sand that is, as the NHL franchise may soon be saying adios to the city of Glendale and the state of Arizona… Read More
2017-03-13 09:36
Veteran NHL goaltenders took over the spotlight between March 2nd and 11th as several of them set new milestones. Sergei Bobrovsky of the Columbus Blue Jackets posted his third consecutive s… Read More
2017-03-06 10:46
While the NHL trade deadline is probably here to stay, it appears to be getting less dramatic year after year. Most clubs are beginning to figure out it doesn’t really make a lot of se… Read More
2017-02-27 16:05
While the Toronto Maple Leafs may be concerned about the backwards step taken by defenceman Morgan Rielly this season, they should be happy with the production they’re getting out of f… Read More
2017-02-20 10:50
The past week in the NHL was quite eventful as it featured a couple of suspensions and milestones and the firing and hiring of a head coach. The Montreal Canadiens made the biggest splash ea… Read More
2017-02-14 13:59
The Las Vegas Golden Knights, the NHL’s newest expansion franchise, will soon get the green light to start making player deals and general manager George McPhee is looking forward to i… Read More
2017-02-06 10:32
Veteran head coach Ken Hitchcock was supposed to say goodbye to the St. Louis Blues and their fans by remaining behind the bench for the 2016/17 season, but those plans recently came to an a… Read More
2017-01-30 12:38
Part of the NHL’s 100thanniversary season was the league’s annual All-Star Game and Skills Competition which was held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on January 28-29. The N… Read More
2017-01-23 12:34
Swedish forward Rickard Rakell is sure making his NHL goals count for something as 27 per cent of the young man’s career tallies have been game-winners, including three in overtime. We… Read More
2017-01-17 12:32
The NHL is entering the second half of the 2016/17 season as most teams have reached the 41-game mark. There have been a few individual and team surprises over the first half and we’ll… Read More
2017-01-09 12:17
It was a case of “close but no cigar” for the Columbus Blue Jackets recently as their 16-game winning streak was snapped at the hands of the Washington Capitals. The Capitals han… Read More
2017-01-09 12:16
Other than a short three-day break it was business as usual for the NHL over the Christmas and New Year’s holiday. There were some newsworthy events such as the Columbus Blue Jackets e… Read More
2016-12-19 12:01
While forwards Patrik Laine of the Winnipeg Jets and Auston Matthews and Mitch Marner of Toronto may be getting all the attention when it comes to talk of the Calder Trophy, the best rookie… Read More
2016-12-12 13:44
With at least half a dozen rookies in the Toronto Maple Leafs’ lineup this season, it’s highly likely that one of the more skillful ones will break the franchise’s long sta… Read More
2016-12-05 12:13
There are dozens of NHL players making between one and four million dollars this season who will finish the campaign with 40 points or less. Therefore, 25-year-old Jonathan Marchessault of t… Read More
2016-11-28 20:27
Although Las Vegas was awarded an expansion franchise by the NHL several months ago, the Vegas Golden Knights more or less officially joined the league on November 22nd when the team’s… Read More
2016-11-21 14:57
The 2016/17 NHL schedule is approximately a week shorter than usual this season due to two factors. First, the season faced off several days later than usual due to the preseason World Cup o… Read More
2016-11-13 11:49
The 2016/17 NHL season got off to a high-scoring start over its first couple of weeks, but has settled down considerably since then. Although it may not seem like much, teams were scoring an… Read More
2016-11-07 04:14
When it comes to the age of NHL players, the league actually goes to extremes since there are those as young as 18 and as old as 44. In fact, Czech winger Jaromir Jagr of the Florida Panther… Read More
2016-10-31 10:52
Several NHL players entered the 2016/17 season with some lofty career milestones within their grasp and there’s a good chance they’ll all be achieved sometime during the campaign… Read More
2016-10-24 12:28
The Los Angeles Kings’ season got off to a dreadful start and it wasn’t just their early 0-3 record that had the team’s brass and fans concerned. The club lost their top go… Read More
2016-10-17 12:52
There have dozens of superstars in the NHL over the years but none of them, including Rocket Richard, Gordie Howe, Bobby Hull, Bobby Orr Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Sidney Crosby, Alexande… Read More
2016-10-11 08:02
Even though the Edmonton Oilers have had numerous top-10 draft picks over the past decade they’ve still managed to miss the NHL playoffs every season since 2005/06. In fact, the Oilers… Read More
2016-10-03 02:27
There will be several coaches on the hot seat once the puck drops on the 2016/17 NHL season as club owners will be expecting a lot from them. There will also be several other head coaches wh… Read More
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