The calendar changing to August means many things for hockey fans. Fans are looking at the schedule plotting out what games of their favorite team they will attend. Players are returning to the gym and rink for conditioning and tryout…
Last month, Yahoo! Sports ranked the top 30 goalies in the NHL. The list accounts for the 30 number one goalies in the NHL, which means that every team was represented once and a few solid “back-up” netminders didn’t make…
Several weeks ago, the great folks over at Reebok sent us their brand new RBK 20K Pro elbow pads for review. With professional level protection, we put these bad boys to the test to see how they hold up. Design…
Load. Release. Velocity. That is the idea behind the new V-Series, or velocity series, from Easton Hockey. The new sticks, the V9 and V9E, are the “culmination of an insatiable curiosity, collaboration and courage. It is the ultimate expression for…
With the release of the NHL schedule for the 2013-14 season few weeks back, the Detroit Red Wings announced today when they will retire the number of long-time defenseman Nicklas Lidstrom With Lidstrom, who played for the Wings for all…
If you didn’t follow the IIHF World Championships over two months ago, let me refresh your memory. Sweden played Canada in the quarterfinals, and in that game Vancouver’s (and Sweden international) Alex Edler laid a knee-to-knee hit on Carolina (Canadian…
Former Toronto Maple Leafs center Mikhail Grabovski may be close to selecting a new team for the upcoming season. Grabovski was not a happy camper after learning that he had been bought out by the Leafs on July 4, making…
Lou Lamoriello didn’t need much time to figure out who would replace Ilya Kovalchuk and David Clarkson. And of the players remaining on the free agent market, he got one of the biggest fishes in the sea. A source told…
One of the more enigmatic free agents still remaining this summer is former Detroit Red Wings forward Damien Brunner, who played out a one-year deal with the team during last season’s lockout shortened schedule. The 27-year-old Brunner came into the…
For those fans who believed their country wouldn’t be represented by NHL players at the 2014 Olympics can be relieved to know that the NHL will take a break in February so the best players can compete in the Olympics.…