Sizing up the ‘Yotes deadline haul
Pacific Division notebook: You can just imagine the thought process in the Colorado Avalanche dressing room, the players wondering how they could have left Wojtek Wolski all alone on the ice, jus...
Pacific Division notebook: You can just imagine the thought process in the Colorado Avalanche dressing room, the players wondering how they could have left Wojtek Wolski all alone on the ice, jus...
Northwest Division notebook: Calgary may have found some offensive confidence just in time for a playoff push. The Flames, who averaged 2.51 goals per game (27th in the NHL) entering Tuesda...
HPT Power rankings (Week 22): The Olympics are over, the trade deadline has passed, and what we're left with is an NHL that ... looks mostly like the one we remembered. Minus Sidn...
Atlantic Division notebook: Sidney Crosby is used to being simultaneously loved and hated. Arguably the best hockey player on the planet, Crosby hears cat calls in 29 of 30 NHL arenas. The only c...
Northeast Division notebook: Starting an NHL game for the first time since Feb. 2, Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas collected his first win on Thursday night since a shootout victory at San Jo...
First Star: Mikael Samuelsson, Vancouver Canucks - Samuelsson potted all three of his goals in the second period to get the Canucks within one heading into the third and added an assist on Daniel Sedin's...
First Star: Alexander Frolov, Los Angeles Kings - On a night where the Kings didn't get much resistance, Frolov was absolutely dominant. His slapshot powerplay goal in the first period put the Kings up...
HPT Power rankings (Week 22): The Olympics are over, the trade deadline has passed, and what we're left with is an NHL that ... looks mostly like the one we remembered. Minus Sidney...
As you may have noticed, the Three Stars were notably absent on Saturday and Sunday. This is because we will be lumping them into one big group on Monday, with the Weekend Warrior edition of the...
First Star: Jordan Staal, Pittsburgh Penguins - When you outshoot an opponent 55-16, you'd better win and that's just what Jordan Staal allowed the Pens to do. Saving Marc-Andre Fleury's skin after Fleury...
Timing was everything for Taylor Beck. The Nashville Predators' draft pick waited until he had a national stage to have the best game of his career. On Jan. 17, the 18-year-old from Niagara Falls,...
Another NHL prospect is headed to the Kontinental Hockey League. On Saturday the Phoenix Coyotes loaned struggling forward Viktor Tikhonov to CSKA Moscow of the Russian-based league for the...
Viktor Stalberg turned heads earlier this fall for the Toronto Maple Leafs. After a strong rookie tournament in early September, the 23-year-old forward continued his momentum in training camp and...
NHL Central Scouting, which analyzes and rates prospects for the the league's annual entry drat, has released its preliminary rankings for the top junior hockey players from across the globe. On Tuesday,...
Anaheim Ducks prospect Luca Sbisa is back with the Western Hockey League's Lethbridge Hurricanes, but the jury is out for just how long. Sbisa, a defenseman, was assigned to the Alberta-based junior...
The reaction to Canada’s loss to the United States has not fallen from its rank as the No. 1 topic of Canadian conversations just yet. I just answered a Facebook message that started like this:...
This is the first year that Olympic hockey won't be played on an Olympic-sized sheet of ice, and it's for the better – as fun as the bigger sheet seems on paper, there are zero actual benefits for...
We all have our little joys in life. It may be casual Friday for you, or the bear claw you get every Wednesday at lunch. For me, it was "skill day" at hockey practice. Everyone wins at skill...
I’ll admit, I get annoyed when I see guys over-celebrate a goal. “Act like you’ve done it before” was a mantra I lived by in both junior and pro hockey. Every time I...
A hockey team, like any workplace, is made up of a huge number of relationships. Players have to get along with other players, who have to get along with their coaches, who have to get along with their...
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