There's more to this summer's free agent market than Daniel Briere and Chris Drury. Keith Tkachuk is out there, ready to lead your team to the promised land. Sheldon Souray ... Read More

Plenty of NHL cities have attendance issues. But for a self-proclaimed "Hockeytown" it's embarrassing to show empty seats during the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The Red Wings didn't sell out when ... Read More

Sportwriters and media analysts have been mocking the NHL's broadcast strategy since the league left ESPN for the cable TV hinterlands of Versus. But nothing better illustrates the folly of ... Read More

Emboldened by a perfect 8-for-8 record in round one, the About Hockey brain trust discards conventional wisdom and goes against the big-name goalies in round two. The predictions: EASTERN CONFERENCE Buffalo (1) ... Read More

No other time of the hockey season delivers as much crushing disappointment as the opening round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The losers, many of whom dreamed of playing in ... Read More

An NHL exec once mused that a big, expensive free agent signing will often get you a nice press conference, a few press clippings, and not much else. You could ... Read More

Sean Hill wins this year's NHL Bad Timing Award, having been nailed for flunking his drug test just hours before the Islanders played (and lost) their biggest (and last) game ... Read More

"Thrashers are quitters, losers, frauds, underachievers, gutless, prideless, clueless, brainless, heartless, directionless..." So says one furious fan, as quoted by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The disappointment is turning to wrath in Atlanta, ... Read More

Nobody plays like the 1995 New Jersey Devils anymore. But negative hockey - the game plan that snuffs out scoring chances, strangles opponents and puts fans to sleep - is ... Read More

A few thoughts, as the 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs approach the midway point of the opening round. Was that the Philadelphia Flyers who showed up in Detroit, cleverly disguised as the ... Read More

A scroll through the "Related Blogs" page (the link is to your right) will confirm just how crowded the online hockey community has become, with many accomplished and insightful bloggers ... Read More

Which town most craves a Stanley Cup championship? It's hard to argue with the case for Buffalo after reading SI.com's profile of a city and its long-suffering fans. Buffalo leads ... Read More

With Vancouver and Dallas needing close to two-and-a-half games to decide a winner on Wednesday night, the griping about endless overtime has started up again. For some, 78 minutes of ... Read More

As our good friend Bud Next Door points out in a previous post, the About.com hockey brain trust had little success picking winners in the 2006 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Taking our ... Read More

The Europeans still can't keep up, and women's hockey struggles to find a consistent audience. But the Canada-USA rivalry is going strong. Canada reclaimed the World Women's Hockey Championship on Tuesday ... Read More

$600 million buys a lot, but it can't buy Sidney Crosby on a Saturday night, as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation discovered Tuesday: The CBC is furious over the National Hockey League's ... Read More

The NHL has released the complete game schedule for the opening round of the 2007 Stanley Cup Playoffs, with network television coverage indicated. And here's how the contenders match up. Eastern Conference: (1) ... Read More

These days, just about every record set in the NHL comes with an asterisk or a qualifier or an argument about why it's not as legitimate as the old record. ... Read More

The Carolina Hurricanes muddled along, expecting to catch fire any day. The Edmonton Oilers never looked good, and ended up in total freefall. So both Stanley Cup Finalists from 2006 ... Read More

Times are tough in New York if this is the best the tabloids can come up with for a scandal. "If (the Rangers) called and said they're sorry, that would be ... Read More

The US women's team is still stinging from its Olympic disappointment of 2006. But the Americans are the reigning champions of women's hockey, having dethroned Canada in 2005. They would ... Read More

NBC's new hockey analyst waded deeper into the media waters last weekend, when he declared that the Detroit Red Wings have no chance of signing Pavel Datsyuk to a new ... Read More

It was a good weekend for the New Jersey Devils. They beat the Flyers and Bruins and regained first place in the Atlantic Division. "With wins in four of their ... Read More

It's no surprise that the NHL rejected Vladislav Tretiak's proposal for a 35th anniversary Canada-Russia series. But the idea got a lot of media attention, mostly because there just isn't ... Read More