Ryan Nugent-Hopkins is not an easy name to forget. Even harder when you’ve actually seen him play a game. It’s not out of the ordinary to see the youngster with his name from shoulder-to-shoulder going end-to-end for the Red Deer Rebels in the WHL. Nugent-Hopkins really came into the hockey spotlight last June following the […]

Four franchises in the National Hockey League are celebrating milestone anniversaries during the 2010-11 season. Wittingly, they come in pairs. The youthful twosome – the Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild – will have a complete decade of NHL action under their belt come spring 2011, while the elder pair consisting of the Vancouver Canucks […]

Living 3982 miles away from your family can take a toll on a teenager and their family. That’s not the case for sharp-shooting Gabriel Landeskog and his family back home in Stockholm, Sweden, nor has it ever been ever since he left home at age 16 to suit up for the Kitchener Rangers of the […]

It was four years ago when the city of Anaheim bore witness to an injustice that would change their lives forever. In 2006, after 13 years in the National Hockey League, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim became the Anaheim Ducks. Fact: “A Mighty Duck” – “Mighty” = “A Duck.” Fact: A Duck is not mighty. […]

Under the direction of Ken Holland, the Detroit Red Wings have won eight Central Division titles, four President’s Trophies and three Stanley Cups; it’s fair to assume the man knows a thing or two about hockey. When asked about one of his former players – ex-Red Wing Sean Avery – in a 2008 interview with […]

If you believe that behavior is influenced by your environment, and specifically the opinions and attitudes that surround you, then the fact that the Philadelphia Flyers have consistently held the title as the dirtiest team in the league should come as no surprise. After joining the NHL in the league’s first mass expansion back 1967, […]

For as long as men and women have invested themselves in the triumphs of their sports heroes, they’ve had a special spot in their hearts for the ones who wear the “C.” These are the ones who, at the end of the day, shoulder the blame for every loss and accept the task of delivering […]

A little over a decade ago, the wonderful city known as Atlanta, Georgia stumbled into the National Hockey League. During the NHL’s so-called expansion phase of the late 20th century, the vibrancy of Georgia’s state capital seemed an appropriate locale to nest the league’s 28th franchise. As is generally the norm for a club with […]

I was still in journalism school the day a plane crashed in the Hudson River in early 2009. There was a class on New Media – I think the professor called it Journalism 2.0 – where my class taught about the internet and how it was revolutionizing journalism right in front of our eyes. We […]

Have siblings? Not me, not yet at least. So I’ll have to stick to living my life vicariously through New York Islanders center and long lost chum John Tavares. The reason I bring it up is because we’ve been going through a lot of changes lately, John and I. We sort of grew up together. […]