When your National Hockey League franchise misses the playoffs for a third straight season and its American Hockey League affiliate loses in the second round of the playoffs, it’s natural to presume that changes are coming. So it’s not all that surprising that Calgary Flames general manager Jay Feaster has been active, via trades and ...
The Carolina Hurricanes further bolstered their offense Thursday afternoon, signing former 40-goal scorer Alex Semin to a 1-year deal. The contract will pay him $7 million for the 2012-13 season. View this tweet at twitter.com After weeks of speculation and a longer stay on the free agent market than anticipated, Carolina signed the Russian native ...
Last month, I documented some of the NHL’s best late round picks of the 2000, 2001, and 2002 NHL Entry Draft. Players such as Henrik Lundqvist, Kevin Bieksa, and Brooks Laich were just some of the names that made it out of the late rounds of the NHL Draft and established themselves at the professional ...
The Pittsburgh Penguins’ home sellout streak spans five seasons and two arenas. They’ve got the highest local television ratings of any team in the NHL or NBA. They’ve spent to the salary cap ceiling in each of the last five years and the franchise’s value has more than doubled since ownership last changed hands in ...
The phrase “Nero fiddles while Rome burns” may not be historically accurate. Still, the meaning is familiar to most… that someone in power to deal with an issue has chosen to occupy himself with other, less urgent matters. Followers the Maple Leafs might see Burke in the role of ‘Nero’, and the fortunes of the ...
Pennsylvania residents will have another option to watch professional hockey in their home state when the Federal Hockey League sets up shop in the city of Williamsport this fall. The new team will be known as the Williamsport Outlaws and come to Pennsylvania from New Jersey, where they were called the New Jersey Outlaws. The ...
Oh how things can change in the span of a year. At this time in 2011 the Florida Panthers were on a spending spree, handing out lucrative contracts to the likes of Tomas Fleischman and Tomas Kopecky as well as acquiring Brian Campbell from the Blackhawks and Kris Versteeg from the Flyers in an attempt ...
The NHL trade landscape is easily the most prominent off-ice hockey topic. Arm-chair GM’s cast hypothetical trades into the blogosphere on a daily basis; some onlookers watch intently – even hopefully – while others see it as a pointless venture, at best. Then there are the “insiders” – big-time hockey pundits like Pierre Lebrun, Darren ...
