Reports circulating around the internet claim that Finnish center Olli Jokinen is close to signing a deal with Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League. While Dinamo Minsk is yet to comment on the situation, Jokinen’s agent, Todd Diamond, vehemently…
With the completion of regular season games today, the NHL released the final schedule for the first round of the playoffs. A complete breakdown of first round matchups as well as the dates and times of each game can be…
Playoffs are merely two weeks away with about seven games remaining on the regular season schedule for most franchises. Still, a lot can happen in seven games. As the season winds down and teams gear up for playoffs, here are…
Actor Kiefer Sutherland has done a lot in his storied Hollywood career, but wearing a dress on national television certainly seems like a first. Sutherland, who currently stars as action hero Jack Bauer on the hit television series 24, came…
Phoenix Coyote’s owner Jerry Moyes has agreed to sell the team to the National Hockey League. The team, who filed for bankruptcy, has gone through a bitter battle for ownership. Moyes originally intended to sell the team to Jim Balsillie…
The Detroit Red Wings have arguable been the most successful franchise in the NHL since the lockout and the formation of the “new” salary-cap era. This past summer, however, the once invincible-looking Red Wings seemingly took a huge step back…
High expectations for the San Jose Sharks in the regular season often leads to brutal disappointment in the post season, or at least that’s been the trend the last several years. Last year, the Sharks trounced the competition and strode…
There may be no other team in the NHL more eager to start the current season than the Tampa Bay Lightning. Instability in ownership and coaching dogged this team for a great deal of the season while relentless trade rumors…
The Boston Bruins were the best team in the Eastern Conference at the end of the regular season last year, but things didn’t pan out in the post-season like they had hoped with a second-round exit at the hands of…
The New York Rangers made several bold off-season moves that could only be taken to mean “We want the Cup and we’d prefer it sooner rather than later.” By shipping off highly paid, underachieving forward Scott Gomez to Montreal, the…