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... 

With Johan Franzen set to return to the Red Wings roster on February 5th, and Andreas Lilja sometime in the near future, Detroit will be forced to squeeze themselves underneath the cap ceiling. Tomas Holmstrom returned Tuesday night and had no problem being inserted into the roster with Justin Abdelkader being sent to Detroit’s AHL affiliate in Grand Rapids. However, with the return of Franzen,... 

On Monday, January 18th, the Bruins were slated to play a game against the Ottawa Senators at the TD Garden in Boston. The game was set for an unusual time, 1:00pm, because of the Martin Luther King holiday. Unfortunately apparently no one told the Bruins that because from net on out, they just didn’t bother showing up. One player did, that’s for sure. The ever annoying Sens captain Daniel Alfredsson.... 

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... 

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... 

For any NHL player lucky enough to be picked for his respective Olympic team it is considered a great honor, one that is not to be turned down.  Imagine the uproar if Sidney Crosby, Henrik Zetterberg, or Alexander Ovechkin decided they would rather have the time off.  I believe traveling home would become rather unpleasant. Therefore the matter is considered settled, they are playing and barring... 

“Take these broken wings…and learn to fly again” That’s right. From deep within the hellish bowels of 80s pop rock, I whipped out Mr. Mister. And my oh my are the Wings ever breaking. To go along with recently damaged Jonathan Ericsson and Darren Helm, Henrik Zetterberg suffered a separated shoulder Thursday night in a 3-0 victory against the Tampa Bay Lightning. Mattias Ohlund caught... 

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman recently released a statement announcing that the NHL’s 18 month suspension of Anaheim Ducks owner Henry Samueli was “regrettable”. This statement came after the news that a federal judge threw out the case that Samueli had lied to federal prosecutors over the investigation into whether or not he was involved in the backdating of stock options from a company...