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... 

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... 

When the NHL implemented the new overtime rules starting in the ’05-’06 season I have to admit I was thrilled. I am not a fan of tie games and enjoy the excitement of sudden death. In fact, nearly every major sport has a system in place to avoid a tie. There are some exceptions of course, such as the NFL (but it rarely happens) and Japanese baseball. But in other sports they keep playing until... 

The salary cap was implemented in the NHL for a number of reasons.  First and foremost it is supposed to keep player salaries under control.  It has accomplished this pretty well with the highest paid salary, $10 million, remaining roughly the same over the last 3 years. The way the cap is structured the maximum salary this year could have been a little over $11 million but no team in the league... 

  “The NHL has no commitment to take part in the Olympics past the upcoming Winter Games in Vancouver in February, and commissioner Gary Bettman has intimated that it is likely that the Vancouver games will be the final Olympics which the NHL sends athletes. Bettman has stated he plans to discuss the issue with the Players Association following the the Vancouver Olymics to go over the advantages... 

  The only thing worse than getting called in to work 3am Monday morning, is getting called in to work 3am Monday morning to be fired.  Unfortunately for Paul Kelly, this is exactly what happened Aug 31st. This may seem like the craziest thing you’ve ever heard of.  Especially if you’re operating from the context of “hockey players make logical and great business decisions.”  Even I...