Tag Archives: NHL

So the NHL, which didn't want to shut down during the Winter Olympics, has given half its teams this week off. The other half of the teams get next week off. And later in January the NHL takes a four-...

By the time someone talks about not firing their coach, they've already thought about firing their head coach. That is the case in Edmonton, where Peter Chiarelli has said he has no intention of firin...

Only two of Canada's seven NHL teams are having decent years-and it's easy to see why. The Winnipeg Jets and Toronto Maple Leafs each have a handful of very good players, some of whom could be conside...

TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs will pay tribute to Johnny Bower today at the Hall of Fame goaltenders' memorial service. Club president Brendan Shanahan will be among the speakers during the event ...

On the day the NHL honoured its 100th anniversary by scheduling an afternoon contest between Toronto and Carolina, there had been 503 Saskatchewan-born players who laced up skates in the world's best ...

Reading and hearing stories about the end of Derek Dorsett's NHL career brought back memories of Kindersley, his hometown. I left the west-central, Saskatchewan town five years before Dorsett was born...

Peter Chiarelli has had some influence on the NHL's wacky Western Conference standings. As the Edmonton Oilers' general manager, Chiarelli has dealt away the secondary scoring his team sorely lacks be...

Erik Karlsson and Drew Doughty are ensuring they aren't going to take a home town discount. Instead, they are talking big about their pending free agency in 18 months. Karlsson didn't pull a punch, sa...

There's a hockey rink in front of the Peace Tower! Isn't that where the Saskatchewan Roughriders traditionally practice, on Parliament Hill, when they visit Ottawa? Now it's flooded and boarded, compl...

Thank you to Ken Hitchcock of the Dallas Stars. Finally, someone gets it. The upper body / lower body injury designation that has become as hockey lingo as 'get the pucks in deep' and 'give it 110 per...