Fan throws banana peel at Flyers’ Wayne Simmonds
The Philadelphia Flyers and Detroit Red Wings played in a neutral site exhibition game Thursday night in London, Ontario. While the 4-3 win for the Red Wings was the result, the story was an apparent...
View ArticleVideo: Fu Man Drew workout with Drew Stafford
Fans of the Buffalo Sabres have plenty to be excited about this season. With new owner Terry Pegula willing to spend some serious coin, GM Darcy Regier has been able to make improvements everywhere,...
View ArticleTrending Topics: Jets can’t ‘White Out’ Thrashers past
Trending Topics is a column that looks at the week in hockey according to Twitter. If you're only going to comment to say how stupid Twitter is, why not just go have a good cry for the slow, sad death...
View ArticleVideo: KHL’s Vityaz continue their brawling ways
It looks like the KHL bad boys Vityaz found another team to bully this season. You may recall that until lately, Jaromir Jagr's former KHL team, Avangard Omsk, was the subject of Vityaz' misplaced...
View ArticleHey look, the Canucks have found another CBA loophole
Earlier this summer, the Vancouver Canucks invited NHL veteran Owen Nolan to training camp. The move made some sense, especially in light of the Stanley Cup Final, where it became clear the Canucks...
View ArticlePuck Headlines: Ovechkin wax figure; Campbell talks Shanahan
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. • Washington Capitals...
View ArticleVideos: Malik-like goal in Sweden, shootout trick in Slovakia
We all remember former New York Rangers defenseman Marek Malik's famous 15th-round shootout goal against the Washington Capitals in 2008 when he decided to spice things up and pull out the old "stick...
View ArticlePuck Daddy 2011-12 Season Preview: Pittsburgh Penguins
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...
View ArticleBack of Jimmy Howard’s mask to honor fallen Lokomotiv friends
As we saw last week, St. Louis Blues goaltender Jaroslav Halak changed the backplate of his mask this season to honor former Slovakian teammate Pavol Demitra, who was one of the 44 victims of the plane...
View ArticleVideo: Jaromir Jagr scores for Flyers in preseason debut
The last time Philadelphia Flyers forward Jaromir Jagr scored any sort of NHL goal was May 1, 2008 when he potted a pair against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Semifinal....
View ArticlePuck Daddy 2011-12 Season Preview: San Jose Sharks
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...
View ArticleWild’s Staubitz, Blue Jackets’ Wisniewski suspended pending hearing
The Brendan Shanahan Era as NHL czar of discipline is starting to give him work him bunches. Two days after he suspended Philadelphia Flyers forward Jody Shelley five preseason and five regular season...
View ArticleNew and improved Matt Cooke boards a guy
Matt Cooke has become public enemy number one over the past few NHL seasons for a handful of controversial bodychecks, most notably hits from the blindside and from behind. He was suspended twice last...
View ArticleVideo: David Aslin executes lacrosse goal en route to hat trick
When we last left the "lacrosse goal" in hockey, Minnesota Wild prospect Mikael Granlund pulled the move out during the semifinals of the IIHF World Championships against Russia in May picking the puck...
View ArticlePuck Daddy Season Preview 2011-12: St. Louis Blues
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...
View ArticleNHL suspends Sabres’ Brad Boyes two games for head check
While the announcement yesterday that Minnesota Wild forward Brad Staubitz and Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman James Wisniewski were suspended pending a hearing and review by NHL discipline czar...
View ArticleVideo: Todd Bertuzzi’s between-the-legs shootout goal
Todd Bertuzzi has established that he has some pretty dangerous hands (shut up, that's not what I'm talking about). Bertuzzi emerged as one of the league's most dangerous shootout specialists in...
View ArticleVideo: Swiss player helps former team with awful own-goal
An own-goal in hockey usually conjures images of pucks deflecting into the goal off of gloves or skates. Sometimes, they occur when a defensive player simply tries to do too much: Remember Nicklas...
View ArticleWhat We Learned: Can Brendan Shanahan handle tougher tests?
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...
View ArticleOwen Nolan: Cut by Canucks, considerable class act
Owen Nolan's tryout with the Vancouver Canucks, which ended Sunday, was an interesting mix of nostalgic hope and present-day practicality. Anyone that watched the Canucks get bullied by the Bruins like...
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