Tag Archives: NHL

Being a sports fan Sunday afternoon offered a huge array of choices. On one channel the NFL was playing the Pro Bowl, an all-star football game that doesn't allow blitzing and looks like a bunch of pe...

Dripping with sarcasm, somebody tweeted yesterday: "It's great for the fans of the Vegas Golden Knights; they've waited a long time for this.'' Hahaha! A first-year NHL expansion franchise, the Knight...

Are the Leafs using Matthews the right way? Is Babcock using his roster properly? These are the headlines right below another headline. Babcock bites back at critics; they hired me to decide. Ah yes, ...

By no means will Rene Bourque or Mason Raymond or Ben Scrivens wow the Canadian hockey fan in the men's Olympic hockey tournament, but this team is growing on me. As a hockey fan, I was disappointed t...

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...