With every year a postseason drought may end while another will start. Some teams continue to excel while others keep drowning in their sorrows. A team may gain another ring while another team goes ring-less. With the season half way over and Olympic hockey going full speed, teams will be looking to keep their Lord Stanley dreams alive. Therefore, a drought is inevitable for every team this year... 

Several reasons could be given as to why this NHL season just “feels” different.  The compressed schedule has teams playing back-to-back games more often with the obvious potential of burning out some players.  The rash of injuries, some of the more bizarre variety, has teams utilizing more creative coaching solutions including the heavier use of AHL call-ups.  Additionally, especially for... 

A rare occurrence happened last weekend, as the Toronto Maple Leafs did not play a game on Saturday, January 16th. I say this is a rare occurrence because in recent seasons it has pretty much been a given that the Maple Leafs would be playing in the prime-time slot on CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada. With the Leafs mired in a 5th losing season since the lockout that should see them miss the playoffs... 

Being a team captain in the NHL carries a number of duties.  Officially, captains (or alternate captains) are the only on ice players allowed to communicate with referees regarding interpretation of the rules.  This usually happens on plays when there is confusion, such as whether or not a puck crossed the goal line or if the puck goes out of play.  This is done mainly to ensure the refs are not... 

There is no nice way to put it. The National Hockey League is sharing a room with an elephant the size of Gibraltar and even if there were clear solutions neither the owners nor the PA have anyone in the driver’s seat with the fortitude to make tough decisions. It’s a case of a thousand cuts and if it doesn’t mean death it means a right proper castration at the alter of player safety. Over... 

A shocking controversy broke out in the National Hockey League this week as Vancouver Canucks’ forward Alex Burrows used a post-game media to accuse referee Stephane Auger of intentionally targeting him in a plot of revenge.  Burrows alleged that while warming up before the game versus Nashville, Auger approached him and told him that he would be penalized during the game for embarrassing Auger... 

As a Bruins fan, it is in my blood, in my DNA, in every fiber of my being, to hate the Montreal Canadiens. Decades of abuse, beat downs and ghosts of Habs past showing up at inopportune times, will do that to you. But tonight I am here to write about my admiration for them and for one of their players in particular, Georges Laraque. I was actually going to write about something quite different for... 

The Los Angeles Kings are full of young talent. That talent is finally coming together with consistent scoring and tough defense to contend in the Western Conference. Among the youthful look of this young talented team, a small young Swedish player named Oscar Moller (Captain of the Swedish Junior Team), is getting his chance to show why he was taken early in the 2nd round of the 2007 NHL entry...