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With the NHL trade deadline days away, rumors are spinning out of control after all trades remained frozen for the two-week olympic, leaving as little as 48 hours or so for teams to make any moves. And while no NHL club is in action, there is still plenty to discuss and many questions surrounding what [...]
Miami University–nestled a hard slap shot away from the Indiana border in Oxford, Ohio — is justifiably proud of its traditions — an academic pillar as one of the original eight “Public Ivy League” schools ; known as the “Cradle of Coaches” in football for producing Woody Hayes, Paul Brown, Weeb Ewbank, Sid Gilman, Ara Parseghian and Bo Shembechler, [...]
As the Olympic Games in Vancouver wrap up, the teams in the NHL have resumed practising in preparation for a hectic schedule and the final push to the playoffs. After a two-week break, it is time to shake off the rust and get back to work; for the first place Ottawa Senators, the New [...]
Andrew MacDonald receives a contract extension while Andy Sutton waits to see what will happen by March 3rd
By Rick Gethin
On the afternoon of December 28th, 2009, Chris Clark was getting himself ready to head to the Verizon Center for a game against the Carolina Hurricanes. He was then informed that he’d been traded, along with defenseman Milan Jurcina, to the Columbus Blue Jackets. You can almost imagine that his first reaction [...]
By Jon Gabrielle, Special to The Hockey Writers
Let the hype begin!
Unlike the Super Bowl, which has seemingly 48 days to hype it’s event, the IOC and NBC has less than 48 hours to dissect, analyze, pick apart and present hockey’s glorious showcase; the men’s Gold Medal game!
The United States of America versus Canada. Nothing more [...]
Cam Janssen is looking at a five game suspension for this late hit on Matt Bradley of the Washington Capitals during their last home game before the Olympic Break on February 13th:
As you can see, the hit was clearly late, regardless on intent to injure. Janssen explained the hit via his Twitter account (@camjanssen55). The [...]
Do not let all of the excitement about Team USA going up against host country Canada for the gold medal game over shadow the efforts of those heading into tomorrows bronze medal game.
Mikko Koivu is one of three members on the Minnesota Wild that are heading into Saturdays bronze medal game for the Winter Olympics, [...]
There have been rumors circulating in the past few months that Edmonton might be targeting former NHL superstar Jaromir Jagr. Recently at the Olympic games, Jagr stated that once his current contract with the KHL expires, he would be interested in returning to the National Hockey League, and the Oilers keep popping up as one [...]
