Today in Hockey History: Sept. 4 Matthew Zator | September 4, 2025 Yesterday in Hockey History: Sept. 3 Tomorrow in Hockey History: Sept. 5 The Montreal Canadiens have made a bevy of moves on this date through the years. Also, the NHL…
Today in Hockey History: May 9 Matthew Zator | May 9, 2025 Today’s history lesson is full of great Stanley Cup Playoff memories, including exciting overtime goals, huge offensive performances, and big-time goaltending. Plus, a Hall of Famer and favorite in Motown…
Today in Hockey History: April 28 Matthew Zator | April 28, 2025 This date has given us a little bit of everything over the years, including some very late regular-season games as well as Stanley Cup Playoff milestones. Also, one of the…
Canadiens Have Great Opportunity With 5th and 26th Picks in 2024 NHL Draft Karine Hains | May 22, 2024 While the second-round series featuring the Edmonton Oilers and the Vancouver Canucks kept Canadians on the edge of their seats right up to the end of Game 7, Montreal Canadiens…
Coyotes’ History Filled With Bloodlines Richard Jelinek | November 29, 2023 For 106 years, the NHL has been a sport where familiarity becomes instant. Players build bonds with teammates, management builds relationships with players, and management from other teams. Each sport…
Who Wins a New Jersey Devils World Cup? Josh Reinitz | August 17, 2023 The days of Summit Series and Canada Cup best-on-best tournaments seem to have faded into distant memory. Even a World Cup of Hockey has not taken place since 2016. While…
Rangers Roster Benefitting From Brendan Lemieux’s Grit Adam Naclerio | March 24, 2021 Nobody dislikes Claude Lemieux — except for everyone who played against him. “Pepe” had a way of getting under the skin of his opponents like no one else. And the…
An Interview with Bobby Smith THW Archives | March 28, 2020 Originally written back in 2012, this chat with one of the game’s greats will be a very nice trip down memory lane for some of our older readers – we…
5 Biggest Villains in Red Wings History Jake Rivard | July 24, 2019 Every Detroit Red Wings fan knows their names. Some fill us with dread, and others awaken an anger we haven’t felt in years. Whether they’ve backstopped opposing nets or agitated…
Kotkaniemi the Latest Kindergarten Canadien Mike Ryan | October 14, 2018 When he donned the bleu-blanc-rouge on opening night of the 2018-19 season, Jesperi Kotkaniemi tied Claude Lemieux as the third-youngest Montreal Canadien in history, at 18 years, 89 days old.…
1994 Playoffs – We Need a Movie on This! Jeff Ponder | December 22, 2017 There are some good hockey movies out there. We were blessed with Slap Shot in 1977. We chuckled at the antics of the children in The Mighty Ducks in 1992.…
Brendan Lemieux Proving He Belongs Aaron Schmidtke | October 30, 2017 It is already apparent that general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff and the Winnipeg Jets won the trade that sent power forward Evander Kane to the Buffalo Sabres in February of 2015. The…