No. 1 Star: Thomas Vanek, Buffalo Sabres
Vanek continued his torrid start with his eight career hat trick and two assists as the Sabres dispatched the Boston Bruins 7-4. Cody Hodgson and Jason Pominville each had a goal and two assists as the Sabres snapped a four-game losing streak. Vanek's...
No. 1 Star: Thomas Vanek, Buffalo Sabres
The Sabres defeated the Philadelphia Flyers, 5-2, and Vanek was in on every goal. He assisted on tallies by Steve Ott (power play), Tyler Myers (power play) and Cody Hodgson. He scored on the power play on a nifty deke move against Ilya Bryzgalov...
Cosmopolitan Magazine’s list of 2013’s Hottest Hockey Players is out, and once again Ricci Wuz Robbed.
OK, apparently, they actually limit the list to current players. Like Mike Green of the Washington Capitals and Mike Fisher of the Nashville Predators, who make the list again.
(When a...
The NHL and the NHLPA agreed to a new CBA well before the Jan. 11 quasi-deadline set forth by Commissioner Gary Bettman. That led to speculation that the 2013 season could be more than the 48 games many had predicted for the truncated campaign.
But according to Elliotte Friedman of CBC Sports...
THE VENT is a forum for rants, raves, pleas and laments from hockey fans across the world about the NHL lockout. It runs every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. If you've got a take on the lockout and need to let it out, email us at*[email protected], Subject: The Vent.
Following the lead of...
Time was when a Torontonian could round up a group of friends, make a reservation at popular local pub Real Sports, then head on down to take in the Leafs game while ingesting a half dozen tiny burgers.
It was a simpler time, before this frustrating NHL lockout made such an evening an...
When President Barack Obama previously opined on the NHL lockout, he was on "The Tonight Show" and told Jay Leno that "ya'll should be able to figure this out. Get this done."
"Ya'll" in that case being the NHL owners and players.
On Thursday, Obama was asked about the lockout again, because...
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NEW YORK -- The NHL Players' Association made a proposal Thursday it feels should lead to a quick resolution of the NHL lockout. Executive director Don Fehr said the sides were close.
But the owners not only rejected that proposal, they pulled key elements off the table -- the concept of...
Jaymes Hall is a 41-year-old resident of Lancaster, Pa. He rocks a thick goatee, dark-rimmed glasses and a well-worn hat, looking very much like a guy you'd expect to see sitting in the cheap seats at a hockey game.
Hall is, in fact, a hockey fan — of the Philadelphia Flyers — and a frustrated...
If you needed more confirmation that Donald Fehr has become a pest of Esa Tikkanen proportions for the National Hockey League, know this: Commissioner Gary Bettman requested on Wednesday that the NHL and the NHLPA take a two-week moratorium on negotiations, according to multiple sources...
Yes, indeed, despite the promise of impending labor Armageddon and a prolonged work-stoppage, your friends at Puck Daddy are previewing the 2012-13 NHL season (whenever the heck it starts). Why? Because this is the most important election in the history of all-time ever, and you need to know the...
Yes, indeed, despite the promise of impending labor Armageddon and a prolonged work-stoppage, your friends at Puck Daddy are previewing the 2012-13 NHL season (whenever the heck it starts). Why? Because this is the most important election in the history of all-time ever, and you need to know the...
Yes, indeed, despite the promise of impending labor Armageddon and a prolonged work-stoppage, your friends at Puck Daddy are previewing the 2012-13 NHL season (whenever the heck it starts). Why? Because this is the most important election in the history of all-time ever, and you need to know the...
"Be The Next Great Legend" was the tagline for NHL 12 a year ago. With NHL 13 being released in two weeks on Sept. 11, gamers will still be able to be that great legend, except this time around they'll have few new and interesting options.*Mario Lemieux, Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe were among...
New Jersey Devils star Ilya Kovalchuk holds out hope that there will not be a work stoppage that delays the 2012-13 NHL season — but time is running short.
"Right now the player union and club owners have absolutely different views of the future. If we are told the decision must be made...
On Thursday, we unveiled the player and team ratings for the Eastern Conference teams in NHL 13. For this year's edition, EA has changed the way they handed out the overall ratings for players, as well as teams.
How are the NHL 13 player ratings different from NHL 12?
EA: Last year, overall...
When EA Sports released NHL 09 its biggest innovation that year was the creation of the EA Sports Hockey League, an online component that allowed you and up to five friends to play as a team against either the CPU or other teams made up of players from all over the world.
For NHL 13, set to be...
"Welcome to Hell, kid."
I think most of us worked really hard to convince ourselves that the way the NHL and the NHLPA dragged their feet on labour negotiations this year might turn out to be a good thing. Maybe, some of us thought, the short turnaround will force them to be reasonable from...
Colby Armstrong had three problems entering the offseason.
First was that he was set to make $3 million next season, and wasn't exactly earning the wage because of problem No. 2: His injury issues which limited him to 79 games in the last two seasons, including a high-ankle sprain and a...