If the sports pages are anything to go by, the NHL's weekend in London left no impression on the Brits. As of Sunday night, a pair of games between Anaheim ... Read More

Now the hard part begins for the NHL. The league surprised just about everyone Friday by taking Steve Downie to the woodshed for a good hiding. Downie's 20-game suspension for what ... Read More

Cam Ward, Thomas Vanek, Jason Blake, Chris Drury, Dany Heatley - all of them will be major players in this year's Eastern Conference race. No doubt about it. But what ... Read More

So that was quite a pasting Steve Downie laid on Dean McAmmond the other night. (YouTube evidence here) Anyone who followed Downie’s junior career could not have been surprised. As ... Read More

Attention Niklas Backstrom, Valtteri Filppula, Dustin Penner, Patrick Marleau, Markus Naslund and anybody in Denver with a set of goalie gear: The hockey world is watching you! Any one of ... Read More

Considering the many issues facing professional hockey these days, aren't you glad the NHL put all its brain power to work to resolve the uniform crisis? If you didn't know there ... Read More

Here's a quick look at what the coming season looks like. From opening night in London to the 2008 trade deadline to next summer's free agent fire sale, we've compiled ... Read More

Having feasted on the novelty of 2003's Heritage Classic, the NHL is headed back outdoors. As expected, the Buffalo Sabres and Pittsburgh Penguins will skate at 80,000 seat Bills Stadium ... Read More

Mark Bell is a dangerous man, a drunk driver. He’ll pay for it with a six-month prison term at the end of this season. But the NHL has imposed additional ... Read More

Over 200 players are selected at the NHL Entry Draft every year. But most will never play an NHL game, and most of the rest will have short careers. We looked ... Read More

A bold headline, perhaps. But so what? It's not as if the fantasy league cops will show up at my door and confiscate the computer if (when) it turns out ... Read More

If you're looking for turning points in NHL history, you can place one of them at the end of the Me Decade. That's when teams decided that white boards and ... Read More

Most sports mascots are designed by marketing departments or consultants, and exist only to distract children and extract more money from adults. But a few mascots have authentic roots, and ... Read More