After Norway, Germany, and Slovenia won their qualification tournament over the weekend, the field for the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea is set. The tournament will follow the same format as Vancouver 2010 and Sochi 2014, a 12-team tournament with…
The 2018 Winter Olympics are still 523 days away, but come Sunday evening the field for the men’s hockey tournament will be finalized. This weekend is the Men’s Final Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Oslo, Norway; Riga, Latvia, and Minsk, Belarus.…
An upcoming documentary getting ready to hit the film festival circuit chronicles the one of the most fascinating roles in sports and the struggles men face on and off the ice. Ice Guardians is directed by Brett Harvey and dives…
A spokesman for the new NHL franchise in Las Vegas confirmed to NHL.com that the nicknames Desert Knights, Golden Knights, and Silver Knights have all been trademarked – signaling that the newest NHL club could have one of those names.…
While many of you are getting your fantasy football draft boards ready, Yahoo made some significant changes for the upcoming fantasy hockey season that will have an affect on everyone who plays. As highlighted by NHL.com Fantasy Insider Pete Jensen, over…
Well, that didn’t take long. While he didn’t score in their season-opening 2-1 overtime loss against Traktor Chelyabinsk Tuesday night, 33 seconds is all that was needed for Pavel Datsyuk to break open the scoring in Thursday’s game against Salavat Yulaev…
We really don’t know what’s going on a half-world away in the KHL, but from what we’ve seen over the last couple weeks it hasn’t been good. About 10 days ago, Damir Ryspayev of Barys Astana lost it on the rink…
Yesterday while researching the Winter Classic post, I was browsing SportsLogos to figure out what era the Blackhawks and Blues logos to be used in the Winter Classic came from. Under their Latest Updates section I saw an unfamiliar San…
Yesterday at Busch Stadium, the NHL made it official that St. Louis will host Chicago in the 2017 Bridgestone Winter Classic. Several dignitaries were on hand including NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, St. Louis Cardinals president Bill DeWitt III, Blues chairman Tom Stillman, Blues president and…
It’s been five months since we last reported on the condition of Don Henderson, the linesmen who suffered a concussion at the hands of Dennis Wideman. And over the course of that time his condition hasn’t gotten any better. Three…