"I got traded for a dollar, you know." Yes he did, and he still ended up as one of the most valuable forwards in the game. From the Stanley Cup ... Read More

'Tis the season dominated by college bowl games, NFL playoff races, NBA rivalries and spiked eggnog. But hockey fans know that for the next two weeks, the greatest show in ... Read More

When an NHL player goes to court to answer for his on-ice violence, the result is always the same: a media orgy and not much else. So it was in 2000, ... Read More

Sports writers don't always have long memories. When several Indiana Pacers climbed into the crowd to duke it out with a few spectators last month, some called it a new ... Read More

Todd Bertuzzi, Mike Danton and the NHL lockout help cast a pall over the hockey world in 2004. And as the lockout drags on, the sight of insufferable Bob Goodenow ... Read More

After cutting nine players yesterday, Canada has set its roster for the 2005 World Junior Hockey Championship. The lineup includes several players who would be playing in the NHL if ... Read More

Not all is going smoothly for the NHL players who found new places to play during the NHL lockout. TSN reports that Donald Brashear has been banned from a semi-pro league ... Read More

After today's meeting between the NHL and NHL Players' Association, we know that the league wants a salary cap and the players won't agree to it. Of course, that's where they ... Read More

While the rest of us wring hands and furrow brows over the NHL and its labor mess, Brett Hull can only laugh. Hull dropped by "Saturday Night Live" last weekend, talking ... Read More

The owner of the Ottawa Senators says there is only one way to end the NHL labor dispute. "There is one solution and that's what is being proposed by commissioner Bettman," ... Read More

Having made its proposal, the NHL Players' Association is revving up the public relations campaign. The players grabbed headlines with their offer of a 24 per cent pay cut, and ... Read More

It's probably not enough to get a deal done, but NHL players took everyone by surprise today when they offered to take a whopping 24 per cent pay cut. The one-time ... Read More

No one knows when NHL players might ever see the ice again. But when they do get back to business, they want to play a new version of the game. ... Read More

The NHL Players' Association will present its new proposal tomorrow in a meeting with commissioner Gary Bettman and the NHL bargaining team. According to several media reports, the principles of the ... Read More

To see the best hockey in the world this season, you might have to plan a Christmas vacation in Grand Forks, North Dakota or Thief River Falls, Minnesota. That's where you ... Read More

With the BALCO drug scandal dominating America's sports pages, the NHL has been quick to insist that it runs a clean league. Quoted in a New York Newsday article, commissioner Gary ... Read More

The European hockey life is good. Most leagues play about half as many games as the NHL, with several lengthy breaks to accomodate international schedules and restorative days at the ... Read More

The NHL and its players have agreed to talk. Now the question becomes, do they have the good sense, determination and creativity to find a solution? The NHL has accepted an ... Read More