By Mike Miccoli, Special to NHL Trade Deadline
In a day that many hockey fans circle on their calendar each year, the trade deadline is the final opportunity for NHL clubs to shake up their rosters and build (or rebuild) for the upcoming games leading into the playoffs. There are plenty of names and rumors floating [...]
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 [...]
With only two Edmonton players at the Olympics (Dennis Grebeshkov, Russia and Lubomir Visnovsky, Slovakia), the rest of the team can take a much needed break from their disaster of a season. But most of them shouldn’t get too comfortable. The Oilers sit dead last in the league, and with the trade deadline coming just [...]
With just under a month until the official NHL Trade Deadline, all of the speculations involving one of the biggest players on the market, Ilya Kovalchuk, came to a dramatic conclusions.
John Kincade, yesterday during his radio show, made two decelerations that he seems to feel are as close to fact as they could be: Ilya Kovalchuk will be moved before the Olympic roster freeze, and Kari Lehtonen is the goalie Waddell is shopping. There has been some speculation amongst Thrasher fans about who the odd [...]
Olli Jokinen appears to be the next flickering Flame on his way to a new team.
Are the New York Islanders going to make a huge splash by the trade deadline to land Atlanta Thrasher superstar Ilya Kovalchuk?
It’s been a slow road back to recovery for the Flyers who, after starting 12-5-1, went on a disastrous streak of 3-13-1 sending them on a free-fall from the heights of the Eastern Conference back to the league basement. With three road wins in a row in front of Michael Leighton of all goalies, they have pulled themselves back to an even 18-18-2, but have they completely recovered?
Has the Brett Favre syndrome permeated into the NHL?
Last year scrappy veteran Claude Lemieux decided that after a five-and-a-half-year absence he wished to attempt a comeback in the NHL. It was a success, if you consider only 18 games played with one assist a success.
At the beginning the this year’s preseason, 41-year-old Theoren Fleury made [...]
Quebec born, French speaking, 12th overall, highly skilled All-Star wing-man Alex Tanguay is precisely the man Tampa Bay wants to lock down. And after four weeks of communication between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Tanguay’s camp, the deal has been given the okay pending a physical examination taking place tomorrow.
