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Review: Tweaks to NHL 12 polish already solid game experience
In past years, EA Sports' only competition in the hockey videogame department was the NHL 2K series. With 2K going on hiatus this year, NHL 12 runs unopposed this year, ensuring that they will once...
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(Update) Mayor wants Canucks to kick in for riot costs
(UPDATE: Vancouver mayor Robertson clarified his comments via Twitter: "Media headline on me asking #Canucks to pay for riot not true. City is paying costs. We want to partner for future events.")...
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Bourne Blog: The hefty truth about player weight
When I first heard that Kyle Wellwood signed with the Winnipeg Jets - making him teammates with the (apparently) recently inflated Dustin Byfuglien - my first thought was "oh man, Down Goes Brown (Sean...
View ArticleEvgeni Malkin: ‘Terrible tragedy; we live through it together’
On Friday afternoon, we received a call from the Pittsburgh Penguins. Evgeni Malkin, overcome with emotions, wanted to say a few words to his fellow countrymen in his native Russian, grieving with them...
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Chatting with Pavel Datsyuk about Lokomotiv plane crash, his friend Ruslan...
The NHL Media Tour this year involved special events for non-North American media. The League cordially invited us to attend; due to previous engagements we were unable to. However, Sovetsky Sport's...
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Lokomotiv officials decide to not play 2011-12 KHL season
On Saturday, tens of thousands of mourners paid their respects to those lost in the tragic plane crash in Russia on Wednesday that took the lives of 43 people, including members of the Yaroslavl...
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Craig MacTavish’s surefire route back to the NHL
In 2004-05, after a stint as an assistant coach with the Washington Capitals, Randy Carlyle was brought in to coach the Vancouver Canucks' AHL affiliate Manitoba Moose. He did the job for one season,...
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Remembering two from the hockey family lost on 9/11
"A great tragedy has befallen my nation today" -(Ret.) Gen. Colin Powell, 9/11/01 (Ed. note: This was originally published September 11, 2009.) September 11, 2001 was day that affected not just...
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This is how Amway presents the Detroit Red Wings
Well, this brings it home: The Detroit Red Wings' "presenting sponsorship" deal with Amway has sparked ridicule from the opposition and rational rebuttals from the Motown faithful. What does...
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Puck Daddy Season Preview 2011-12: Detroit Red Wings
It's going to be another year of blockbusters and huge flops in the NHL. Which teams blew out their budgets for big name stars and gigantic special effects to score Michael Bay-levels of box office...
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The NHL on 9/11: How hockey reacted to tragedy
The morning of Sept. 11, 2001, the major concerns for the National Hockey League and its fans were as follows: The start of the preseason that Saturday; how the Canadiens would react to the recent...
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Puck Daddy Season Preview 2011-12: Edmonton Oilers
It's going to be another year of blockbusters and huge flops in the NHL. Which teams blew out their budgets for big name stars and gigantic special effects to score Michael Bay-levels of box office...
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Kings GM, players talk Doughty’s status for next season
The Los Angeles Kings held their annual Hockey Fest this weekend, and the party went on without Drew Doughty, still unsigned as a restricted free agent. But the Kings and their fans are more concerned...
View ArticleFight Videos: Erik Gudbranson, Dylan McIlrath in rookie battles
Erik Gudbranson is a 6-foot-4, 200-pound defenseman that Florida Panthers fans have been waiting on since he was drafted No. 3 overall in 2010. In the opening game of the Rookie Tournament in Coral...
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Gallery: Worldwide tributes to Lokomotiv plane crash victims
The plane crash last week that killed everyone on the roster and coaching staff of the KHL's Lokomotiv Yaroslavl sparked mourning worldwide for the family, friends and hockey heroes that were lost in...
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What We Learned: Fighting should be banned at rookie camps
Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each...
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Lokomotiv’s Alexander Galimov dies from plane crash injuries
Alexander Galimov, the only Lokomotiv's player to have survived the terrible crash on Sept. 7, passed away Monday morning. He is survived by his wife and a daughter. Andrei Alexeev, Head of the...
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‘C’ is for Callahan, captain and correct choice for Rangers
Captains who yell and scream in the locker room without backing it up on the ice are just hype men, the hockey equivalent of that dude who got paid to dance around the stage during Mighty Mighty...
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Puck Daddy chats with Zach Parise about his new contract, Devils’ chances,...
(Ed. Note: This interview took place before the New York Post's report on the Devils' financial status on Monday.) Zach Parise didn't need to take a vacation this summer. The New Jersey Devils forward...
View ArticleVideo: In which Jonathan Toews accidentally bodychecks a child
Chicago Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews a founding member of the Canadian Tire Hockey School and the NHL Junior Skills contest, in which some of the top youth hockey players in Canada will display...
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