“Dead”-line, dud-line. Call it what you want but one thing was clear on Wednesday: There was no way in hell that TSN and Rogers Sportsnet should have devoted eight-hour chunks of their schedules to devote to the NHL’s trade deadline. Say what you want about the number of trades made or the number of players [...]
With the NHL dropping the puck for the stretch run of their season – after stupidly taking off time for the Olympics – I have a good question for Commissioner Gary Bettman: Were you watching the men’s ice hockey tournament? Because if he was, he might have noticed that the Olympic set of rules is [...]
Team Canada’s ice hockey team had better thank their lucky stars for two things: That Roberto Luongo is currently better than Martin Brodeur and that they lost to the U.S. in the preliminary round.
Luongo’s play in net has far surpassed that of Canada’s apparent No. 1 goalie and now the whole country is reaping the [...]
It wasn’t exactly a sequel to the Miracle on Ice, but Sunday night’s game had a familiar story line. A young and plucky American ice hockey squad faced a juggernaut rival in a big Olympic moment. The USA, despite having the odds stacked against them, pulled out a win over the overwhelming favourite. Sure, winning [...]
In case you didn’t notice by the endless commercials, promos and posters everywhere for the Winter Games, the Vancouver Olympics kicked off last night while the NHL packs up their league to sit around idle for two whole weeks in the middle of what should be the start to their stretch run.
Why would a league [...]
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any worse for the few fans of the Atlanta Thrashers, they went out and did something completely idiotic: They traded Ilya Kovalchuk.
And not only did they trade the best player that their franchise has ever had, they gave him away for next to nothing. Here is who and [...]
Brian Burke made a huge splash in the NHL trade market on Sunday by shipping off almost a third of his 29th ranked team in a couple of moves that brought back some big names. While landing Dion Phaneuf from the Calgary Flames is the biggest name, his second deal of the day may have [...]
There were some big developments in the sporting world yesterday, but maybe nothing bigger than something that happened at a minor ice hockey tournament. For the first time in six years, Canada didn’t win the World Junior Hockey Championship.
Yes, even on their home soil (it actually takes place in Canada every two years because no [...]
The Winter Olympic Games are just around the corner and that means the NHL will stop working and send its best players to out to represent their countries. The other 90% or so, they get a two week break with maybe a practice or two in the middle of the season. While I’m sure many [...]
I haven’t written a “Why the NHL is dumb” post recently and this will have to be your fix since the league hasn’t really dropped the ball that badly so far this season. But there was two instances of a player being completely brain-dead during last night’s slate of games and one of them actually [...]
