Perhaps the most disappointing part of the NHL lockout is the fact that monetary gain was put before everything else. There was zero effort to prepare for the Collective Bargaining Agreement to expire. There should have been negotiations long before the NHL and the NHLPA got together to discuss the future of hockey. Business Executives ...
Is there a chance that the city of Los Angeles will forget about the LA Kings? The LA Kings won the Stanley Cup for the first win last spring after all of the other Staples Center teams had been beaten out of their respective playoffs series. In winning the cup, it cemented Los Angeles status as ...
The language of hockey is rooted in both French and English Canadian and as well as Russian, with a little bit of Swedish mixed in occasionally. The American influences didn’t come until much later. For a newcomer or for hockey fans in Americans cities where the majority of the population couldn’t identify a hockey puck ...
Since unlike some sports, where each player is awarded with a ring or another type of momentum to symbolize that he or she was a apart of a team that achieved beyond other teams in the league, in hockey, the biggest prize is a shared one. It’s tradition that every player take the Stanley Cup ...
As long as NHL lockout negotiations has the NHL and the NHLPA fighting like an old married couple, there is no Coach’s Corner for Don Cherry to let people know that Cherry is upset about stuff Don Cherry doesn’t like. So, like people with strong opinions tend to do, Cherry took to twitter to express ...
With the little progress made to end the NHL lockout, the Ontario Hockey League will receive much more attention throughout the 2012-2013 season. Hockey fans will need their hockey fix from somewhere and the OHL is an especially attractive option. The Western conference clubs produce some of the purest hockey in the world. For a ...
According to ESPN The Magazine, the Toronto Maple Leafs are the worst sports team in North America. For the last ten years, ESPN Magazine has released its Ultimate Standings, a list that ranks every professional sports franchise in the NBA, MLB, NHL and NFL from 1st to 122nd. All of the major North American leagues. ...
Flow is the correct term for the hair of professional and amateur hockey hair. It is typically some variation of a mullet with a little extra grease, that typically appears beginning in junior hockey. Urban Dictionary explains it as “long, untamed hair usually capped with a hat with wings of hair flowing and curling up ...
The KHL’s Moscow Dynamo hockey club has announced that they would try to sign Alex Ovechkin if an NHL lockout occurs. The possibility of an NHL lockout becomes more of a reality with each passing day. Soon, many NHL players will start searching out alternative hockey options, if they haven’t already. Historically, Russia and Europe ...
A potential NHL expansion that would bring Hamilton its long awaited hockey team, is a Canadian urban myth. However, new study released Thursday finds that in next 20 years, Canada will experience a huge sports expansion. The report published by the Conference Board of Canada suggests that due to demographic and economic trends, Canada could ...
