Tag Archives: NHL

An Oct. 8 hockey game will likely be meaningless to both the Calgary Flames and Los Angeles Kings come spring when NHL teams are battling for playoff positions. However, Tuesday's battle at the Saddle...

OK, NHL, I'm on board with adding more teams to the Stanley Cup playoffs in the form of wild-card games. The league brought in the term "wild card" when it moved to making the playoffs divisional-base...

It's time for my obligatory Stanley Cup prediction. I want to pick the Tampa Bay Lightning but I feel that's the easiest thing to say. A great team will achieve greatness. OK, thanks. But there is onl...

It's why you listen to the Green Zone. The biggest guests are always on the show. Jamie Nye's conversation with National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman includes discussion of Olympic particip...

Something may be wrong with the Winnipeg Jets. Or maybe it's just geography. One by one the big names are falling in the NHL: Marner, Point, Tkachuk. The restricted free agents are re-signing with the...

Auston Matthews is facing a charge of disorderly conduct following a May incident in Scottsdale, Ariz. The legal process has to play itself out, but his alleged actions have generated the typical reac...

Like it or not, Auston Matthews, pro athletes are going to be judged because they're in the public eye, much like politicians and entertainers. For every athlete like Antonio Brown, the NFL receiver w...

We are nicely into the NHL exhibition season, and I can honestly say that between the Hockeyville game in the Maritimes and the regional games, I've seen enough. I get this way every year at this time...

The NHL is headed for the abyss. The dark, time-consuming, boring, momentum- and excitement-sapping abyss of too much video. While other leagues, like the CFL, have successfully reduced the amount of ...

Wednesday's news from the sports broadcasting world points to why NHL owners like commissioner Gary Bettman. Lance Hornby of the Toronto Sun referred to the news as "big name summer cuts." That was hi...