The Vancouver Canucks announced today via their official website and social media outlets that General Manager Mike Gillis has agreed terms to a contract extension. Gillis joined the club in April 2008 and has led the Canucks to success ever since, most recently with two consecutive presidents’ trophy wins, with the grand prize of ...
What is wrong with the Philadelphia Flyers can be summed up in one word: everything. The Flyers have been out coached, out played and out hustled by the New Jersey Devils, who now hold a 3-1 series lead and have Philadelphia on the brink of elimination. So what exactly happened to the team we saw ...
The NHL announced Monday that Philadelphia Flyers star and leading playoff point scorer Claude Giroux will be suspended one game for his hit on New Jersey’s Dainius Zubrus Sunday night. The hit that has the hockey world talking came at the end of a shift in which Claude Giroux appeared very frustrated over a missed ...
Trade rumors always make for interesting water cooler conversation, and give the media something to talk about as the NHL approaches the dog days of summer. The Edmonton Oilers won the draft lottery this year and the right to select first overall at the NHL entry draft. They’ve selected first the past two years in ...
The Edmonton Oilers season ended April 7th, and a month later we are still no closer to knowing who will open the 2012/13 season as the Oilers bench boss then we were after game #82. With Tom Renney sitting in limbo, Steve Tambellini and Oilers management are taking their time in making a decision on his future. Tambellini first told Renney to ...
On paper, it was a tight come-from-behind win in Game 4 for the New Jersey Devils. After Philadelphia jumped out to a quick 2-0 lead in the first period, New Jersey managed to take the lead in the second before adding an empty-net goal in the third to win it, 4-2. A close comeback win, ...
It wasn’t supposed to end like this for the St. Louis Blues. After a stellar regular season in which the Blues finished second overall in the league, few expected the Blues to not reach the Stanley Cup Finals this season. With outstanding goaltending, balanced scoring, and a renewed dedication to defense, the Blues were supposed ...
Jim Neveau, Managing Editor Glendale, Arizona – Over the course of three years, the Phoenix Coyotes have been the subject of bankruptcy hearings, relocation chatter, and general sniping from all areas of the hockey world. Fans throughout Canada and the US have both blasted commissioner Gary Bettman and company for going to such great lengths ...
If you were to take an average hockey fan from the end of the 2009 NHL season and tell them that Alexander Ovechkin, who was then coming fresh off of back-to-back Hart Trophy victories as NHL MVP, would be routinely playing less minutes per night in the playoffs than his team’s third line, that hockey ...
Regardless of whether they return to the lineup in Game 5 or ever this season, the Russian Left Winger Alexander Radulov and the Belarussian Left Winger Andrei Kostitsyn have cemented the decline of the NHL’s Russian contingent into obscurity. Or at least that’s the thesis being pushed by some of the hockey media’s most serious ...
