Jamie's Hockey Blog

Does anyone else suspect that Gary Bettman can no longer distinguish reality from illusion in this hall of mirrors we call the National Hockey League? Consider his current train of ... Read More

NHL players routinely launch each other's heads into the boards. It happens almost every night, and on a busy evening you might see it half a dozen times if you ... Read More

Successful hockey teams are fun to watch, but not much fun to read about. All that harmony, smiling faces, everything unfolding as it should... Yawn. A great hockey story needs losing, ... Read More

The NHL's worst team is on a five-game losing streak. It would be more surprising if they didn't fire the coach. Even Glen Hanlon himself (right) knew the jig was up. ... Read More

"It's amazing that a player of that caliber and some of the things that he's accomplished and this is the only way to find a place for the player to ... Read More

Metro Nashville has finally reached an arena lease agreement with the group that wants to buy the Predators. (It's not the deal reported by The Hockey News earlier this month.) ... Read More

At first glance it looks like an impossible task: An all-time global all-star team will be announced during an IIHF gala in Quebec City when the world championship tournament is held ... Read More

In case this comes as a surprise to anyone: Teenaged boys are obsessed with sex, and when they spend all their time playing sports together, the hi-jinks can take a ... Read More

Any man who trades a first-round draft pick for Ladislav Nagy is no hockey genius. But plenty of teams would gladly take the record compiled by the Dallas Stars since ... Read More

After a respectable rookie season and forgetable sophomore year, Mike Richards has taken the great leap forward. At the age of 22, Richards looks like the prototype of an all-purpose NHL ... Read More

The Hockey Hall of Fame is a better place after Monday's induction ceremony added a quartet of players for the ages: Ron Francis "I watched my dad working up in the steel ... Read More

Friday night's game in Chicago marks the halfway point of an odyssey that will bring Steve Williamson to 30 NHL games in 30 cities in 30 nights. Williamson took off from ... Read More

On Wednesday, Mike Modano (right) broke Phil Housley's record for most NHL points by an American-born player, and he did it in style: "I think it was fitting that ... Read More

The deal is done, and the Nashville Predators are safe until 2011. Time to exhale and rejoice for Tennessee hockey fans, all 13,983 of them (assuming you believe the numbers ... Read More

New Jersey: 5-7-2 with Martin Brodeur sporting a motley .888 save percentage. Those couldn't have been empty seats taking up half the new Newark arena. They must have been ghosts, the ... Read More

When the Edmonton Oilers snatched Dustin Penner from Anaheim last summer (after a failed $50 million play for Buffalo's Thomas Vanek), Ottawa took notice. Fearing next year's free agent vultures, the ... Read More

It wasn’t so long ago that the NHL’s Central Division could have been called the Doormat Division. But the Blues and Blue Jackets are resurgent, and this year’s Blackhawks are ... Read More

Thursday was an unofficial day of worship for goaltenders: it marked 48 years since Jacques Plante donned his face mask. Plante was not the first goalie to cover up - ... Read More

It was supposed to be the downfall of hockey. In the end, it was just a bunch of folks betting on football. Those folks were associated with the NHL, so ... Read More

The Montreal Canadiens were reportedly spurned by several stars during last summer's free agent shopping spree, and it looks like future recruiting drives won't be any easier. An NHL player ... Read More