Tag Archives: NHL

Some in the NHL want to see more teams make the playoffs. When Seattle joins the league, it'll mean 16 of the 32 teams make a playoff. That should make sense with half the teams making the post-season...

The Seattle NHL franchise will hit the ice in 2021 and it'll be interesting to see what type of lineup they have on night one. They'll have the same rules in their expansion draft as the Vegas Golden ...

Poor Quebec City. No NHL team for you, despite your three-year-old, $400-million arena, hockey-crazed fans and old connections with pro leagues. Gary Bettman and his cronies wanted another U.S. franch...

William Nylander got a no-trade promise from the Toronto Maple Leafs. There's no such thing. This is pro sports, where there's lots of lying. After a lengthy holdout from his NHL team, Nylander signed...

Tom Wilson is getting a break from the NHL when he doesn't deserve one. Wilson had another late hit that left an opponent down on the ice in pain. Brett Seney was his victim this time as he passed the...

The last time the Buffalo Sabres won 10 straight games was during the 2006-07 season, which they ended by losing the Eastern Conference final series 4-1 to the Ottawa Senators. That was the last year ...

Former NHL referee Michael "Mick" McGeough will be removed from life support on Friday night, after he suffered a stroke and the damage was deemed "irreversible." The Regina-born retired official was ...

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers have fired head coach Todd McLellan and replaced him with Ken Hitchcock. Edmonton was languishing in sixth place in the Pacific Division with a 9-10-1 record entering it...

As always... the head coach is usually the first to go. It's the easiest thing in pro sports when things don't go well, fire the head coach because it's tougher to find a manager to manage mid-season ...

My November trips to Edmonton used to be via airplane, usually on the same flight as the Saskatchewan Roughriders, as they headed to Commonwealth Stadium for a CFL playoff game against the Eskimos. De...