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How a 14-year-old girl made NHL video game history
Thanks to the outrage and persistence of a 14-year-old girl from Buffalo, N.Y., female hockey players will appear for the first time in EA Sports' NHL video game series. Lexi Peters, 14, would often...
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Puck Headlines: Kes-lurking Ovechkin; Devils deny bankruptcy
Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • Our first Kes-lurk of the...
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Watch the EA Sports ‘NHL 12′ launch party livestream
Tuesday's release of EA Sports' NHL 12 has been anticipated for quite some time among gamers. The excitement typically begins in late spring with the release of the first screenshots and builds...
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Puck Daddy Season Preview 2011-12: Florida Panthers
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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Sharp pain: Chicago’s Patrick Sharp has emergency appendectomy
When he hurt his knee last season, Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Sharp rushed back from injury because the team's offense stunk and they were playing .500 hockey in a playoff race. Expect no such...
View ArticleVideo: Wayne Gretzky shows you how tricks shots are done
We've all seen the crazy trick shot videos that go viral on the Internet like Michael Vick throwing a football out of a stadium or Kobe Bryant leaping over an on-coming car or Evan Longoria saving a...
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‘Superbad’ writer’s hockey comedy ‘Goon’ gets distribution deal
The last hockey comedy to grace U.S. multiplexes was … "The Love Guru." They're still using high-concentrated bleach to get the stench out of certain theaters. Ah, but the future is bright for puck...
View ArticleOh dear, St. Louis Blues really did go with ‘Don’t Stop Believin”
It's an odd time for the NHL and music. You have Winnipeg Jets fans begging the League not to inflict the scourge of Nickelback on them. You have Boyz II Men, Darryl Hall and G. Love waiting to submit...
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Rangers assure that Sean Avery doesn’t intend to beat up NY Post
The New York Post's acerbic Page Six reported on Tuesday that New York Rangers winger Sean Avery and his Estée Lauder model girlfriend Hilary Rhoda broke up this summer. And lest anyone believe that...
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Should NHL suspensions focus on the games or the fines?
The NHL's supplemental discipline apparatus (great punk band name right there) got a makeover this year, with Colin Campbell stepping aside as suspension czar in favor of Brendan Shanahan, who doesn't...
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Jay Feaster discovers Jarome Iginla’s curse is tough to break
I often wonder if Vancouver Canucks fans are unaware of just what a blessing the Sedin twins are. A superstar winger that comes with his very own superstar center -- with whom he shares a brain? Yeah,...
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Wild goalie Josh Harding’s mask honors hockey’s tragedies
On the evening of Sept. 7, Todd Miska of Miska Designs received a text message from Minnesota Wild goaltender Josh Harding, whose mask Miska was designing for the 2011-12 NHL season. According to...
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Puck Headlines: Dallas Stars bankruptcy; Winnipeg honors Rypien
Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • Anze Kopitar and Mike...
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Legalities of Dustin Byfuglien’s ‘boating while intoxicated’
Winnipeg Jets defenseman Dustin Byfuglien is likely to face criminal charges from his "boating while intoxicated" incident from Aug. 31, according to ESPN. Then it's up to a judge to decide whether to...
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Puck Daddy Season Preview 2011-12: Los Angeles Kings
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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Flyers drop hammer on player tweets during ‘business hours’
It's always a little depressing when NHL teams undervalue the relationships their players build through social media, muzzling them with draconian rules against its use. But to each franchise its own....
View ArticleJeremy Roenick: Philadelphia fans are ‘crazy, crazy S.O.Bs’
NHL Awards host Jay Mohr has a show on Wednesday nights on FUEL TV called "Master Debaters", which we imagine is a subtle reference to fishing. (It's also not this show or this show.) The program is...
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Tavares, Marchand, Schenn and Myers nearing pre-camp deals
NHL training camps begin on Friday with hey-look-who-got-fat day player physicals, following their first official days back on the ice this weekend. The clock is ticking for restricted free agents...
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The Devils and Mr. Brodeur
One of the greatest things about fantasy hockey — besides player drafts with cold beer, just like the WHA in the 1970s — is that it's a constant struggle between the partialities of a fan and the...
View ArticlePuck Daddy’s Hockey Rumors Live Chat!
What are the major storylines entering NHL training camps? How much are players like Drew Doughty, Luke Schenn, Tyler Myers and John Tavares really worth? Please join us beginning at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m....
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