With the latest CBA’s introduction of a salary cap, the NHL hasn’t been quite the same since.  The salary cap brings  a new dimension, another layer of complexity, to building a team that couldn’t have been dreamed of in a pre-cap era.  Today, deals are made sometimes strictly for cap relief.  In other words, teams will actually give away talent for free just so that they can... 

STLtoday.com reports that Blues’ defenseman Barret Jackman has been placed on the injury reserve after spraining his ankle in their 4-2 loss to Atlanta last night.  The Blues’ 1999 1st round pick has 2 assists in the three games they’ve played this season, and will be out for at least 7 days.  Read More →

Some of you may have seen this, most of you haven’t.  There is a blogger in Dallas, who claims to be hockey.  He goes by the name Razor.  On the 29th of September, the Dallas Donker made this guarantee.  In case Donk Razor ever decides to take down his page, which I would if I completely humiliated myself and removed all credibility I had with a donk-ass guarantee and decided not to man-up... 

  The Arizona Republic reports that the Czech Republic C Robert Lang has signed a one year contract with the Phoenix Coyotes – terms not disclosed.  Read More →

  Sportsnet reports that Balsillie has now updated his proposal to keep the team in Phoenix for the remainder of this season.  Read More →

Phil Kessel knows a thing or two about scoring goals Days leading up to this year’s entry draft, there was immense speculation about Phil Kessel being traded to the Leafs for Kaberle.  Mostly due to a mechanism in Kaberle’s contract that allowed Toronto to move him within a specific window of time during the summer.  Speculation intensified  Read More →

Kopitar displaying the type of dirty skils he can lay on goalies, is expected to get 40 goals this season   Everyone has a breakout season.  Everyone.  For Crosby, it was his rookie season with 102 points.  For Joe Thornton, it was in the ‘02-’03 season(his 6th) when he upgraded from 68 points to 101.  The following players below are players who I feel have not yet met their true... 

if you're happy about the attention you've created and you know it, raise your hand.. Aside from the Phoenix court case, this past summer has been filled with speculation on Heatley’s new destination.  Yesterday, Wayne Scanlan of the Ottawa Citizen reported that Heatley going to the New York Rangers not only makes sense, but could be just days away.  And get this, Marc Staal is involved. ...