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Pavel Datsyuk Header Goal Waived Off

With the NHL lockout underway, many players have sought other avenues to continue to play and collect a paycheck. Pavel Datsyuk is one of those players, joining CSKA Moscow of the KHL. Making his season debut last night, Pavel Datsyuk…

NHL Announces Skills Competition Events

The most exciting part of the NHL All-Star weekend isn’t the game itself. It’s Saturday night where the skills competition takes place. Besides the playoffs and the Olympic tournament, it is perhaps the third-most thing I look forward to in…

Just Like Hockey Moms, Wives Disapprove of Fighting

It looks like Bridgestone Arena isn’t the only place to find beautiful and famous hockey WAGs. In this clip from the KHL, former Sabres and Thrashers star Max Afinogenov drops the gloves with former Sabre/Capital/Blue Jacket Jiri Novetny with wife/former…

KHL team’s plane crashes, kills 43

A plane carrying the Lokamotiv Yaroslavl hockey team of the KHL crashed on Wednesday, killing 43 passengers and injuring another two according to multiple reports from major media outlets. According to the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry, the Yak-42 crashed immediately…

NHL/KHL Agree to Respect Contracts

Monday evening, the National Hockey League and Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League signed a formal agree to respect each other’s contracts. The agreement will only allow free agents to jump from one league to the other. The agreement will put to an end…

Kovalchuk saga to end in 48-hours or less

The summer-long Ilya Kovalchuk saga will be decided in 48-hours or less according to recent reports that state that Ilya Kovalchuk’s agent, Yuri Nikolaev, has given the NHL 48 hours to come up with a solution for his client or…

KHL Entices Kovalchuk

With the outlandish offer by the New Jersey Devils to All Star forward Ilya Kovalchuk still being decided upon to be fair and right, the Kontinetal Hockey League of Russia offered their own package to Kovalchuk. What is it you…

Demitra to Russia

Speedy forward Pavol Demitra will be hopping ponds this year to play with Yaroslavl of Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League. Demitra had shoulder surgery that took him our for the majority of the season last year with the Vancouver Canucks. In…