SEATTLE — The city of Vancouver erupted in violence after the Canucks lost Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals to the Boston Bruins. Fires broke out, riots and looting spread, and hundreds were either hurt or arrested in the melee. The Vancouver Police Department gave the Bruins a police escort to get them to [...]
US Olympic Hockey Star Ryan Kesler Will Be Cover Player For NHL 2K11
March 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
The Wii-only hockey game gets the charismatic Kesler to grace the cover.
Local artist Brian Fox taking part in NHL Winter Classic
Jan. 1, 2010 5 Comments
Wait till you see this
NHL ’10 chooses Penguins to win the 2010 Cup
Oct. 1, 2009 Leave a Comment
I’d be hesitant to bank on this one.
2009 Stanley Cup finals schedule
May 29, 2009 Leave a Comment
In a rematch of last year’s finals, the Detroit Red Wings and the Pittsburgh Penguins are slated to face off for the Stanley Cup. Last week, the NHL said the Cup finals wouldn’t begin until June 5, but the series was moved up six days, after the conference finals lasted only four and five games, [...]
NHL ’10 to include first person fighting
May 14, 2009 Leave a Comment
Ever want to be actually in the fight? EA goes all out for physicality with NHL ’10.
Mats Sundin to become NHL’s highest paid player?
July 2, 2008 1 Comment
Canadian Press reports that the Vancouver Canucks have offered Mats Sundin a two-year contract worth $20 million. Number 13 has spent the last 13 years of his 18-year career with the Toronto Maple Leafs, a team with which he’s set countless club records. Should Sundin accept the deal, he would become the league’s highest-paid player, [...]
Ice hockey at Wrigley
May 29, 2008 Leave a Comment
According to Comcast SportsNet, the Chicago Blackhawks and Detroit Red Wings are scheduled to play in next year’s NHL Winter Classic at Wrigley Field. Yep, outdoor hockey. Last year, a league-record 71,217 fans showed up at Ralph Wilson Stadium to watch the Sabres beat the Penguins 2-1 in a snowy outdoor contest. Chicago’s Soldier Field [...]
2008 top NHL prospects
May 11, 2008 2 Comments
There is no doubt that the NHL has gotten better and better the last couple years with the emergence of the young superstars, Sidney Crosby, Alexander Ovechkin and Evgeni Malkin. But it doesn’t end there. The league is filled with young players that will make this sport very exciting for years to come. Here are [...]
Flyers advance to Conference finals
May 4, 2008 Leave a Comment
The Flyers advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals last night for the first time since 2004 with a 6-4 victory over the Canadiens in Montreal. After losing the first game of the series in OT, the Flyers rebounded by winning four straight and taking the series in five games. After never trailing in any game [...]
Carey Price to start for Habs in Game 5
May 2, 2008 Leave a Comment
Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price, who was benched in Game 4 due to not stopping the puck from going in the goal nearly enough, will be back for Game 5 on Saturday night. “He deserves a second shot,” Canadiens coach Guy Carbonneau told the Canadian Press. “I think in the last few days he had [...]
Marty Biron is on fire
April 29, 2008 Leave a Comment
The Flyers are riding a scorching hot goaltender right now in Marty Biron. His glove is catching everything. His poke checks are timely. And he is entering Pat Burrell elite status. Indeed, he is "completely awesome." Heading into the third period last night, the Flyers led 3-0 and it seemed they only needed to kill [...]
Refs are under fire in NHL playoffs
April 15, 2008 2 Comments
The first round of the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs is officially heating up, and not just on the ice rinks. Internet chat rooms on sports web-pages everywhere are ablaze with criticism of the NHL referees and the job they’ve done thus far officiating the first 2 to 3 games of each eight opening-round match-ups. Fans [...]
NHL Eastern Conference playoff preview
April 9, 2008 3 Comments
After an extremely exciting final push for the playoffs, the NHL season has concluded! The die is cast for opening round match-ups between the 16 teams that have made the grade, and both conferences have eight strong clubs seeded to vie for the greatest prize in all of sports. Before we get into the specific [...]
NHL Draft selection party
April 8, 2008 Leave a Comment
Last night, the VS Network held a primetime special to conduct the 2008 NHL Entry Draft Lottery, which determines the sequence teams will select in at the summer’s draft. The program filled around ten or fifteen minutes of airtime by name-dropping former 1st-overall picks, chatting at a table with the general managers of the five [...]
Crosby is nice, but give me Ovechkin
April 4, 2008 8 Comments
The sky of the modern NHL shines brightly with many young stars. Players like Evgeni Malkin, Patrick Kane, Paul Stastny, Pavel Datsyuk, and Jordan Staal are some of the fresh faces that hockey fans are getting to know via highlight reel footage on their local sports news program. Amidst all of these burgeoning studs, there’s [...]
The new and “improved” NHL?
March 6, 2008 4 Comments
It’s been a rough time to be an NHL ice hockey fan since the turn of the century. Although hockey has always been the fourth of four major sports in America in terms of popularity, the hockey-following minority has always displayed a tremendous devotion to their sport. The past decade has seen our league’s rapid [...]