The Four Nations Cup kicked off on Wednesday night with Team Canada hosting Team Sweden in Montreal, with Canada coming out on top 4-3 in overtime. After Canada largely dominated through the first 20 minutes, Sweden had long stretches of controlled play after that and it made for a wildly entertaining game. It didn’t take [...]
The NHL has reached its Four Nations Cup break. The regular season will resume on February 22nd, but there’s not much to talk about besides that tournament. In the good-news column, after some consternation as to Sidney Crosby’s availability for the tournament, he traveled to Montreal and took part in Team Canada’s first practice on [...]
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby left the team’s game on Tuesday night during the third period. He did return for the shootout, but that was his only appearance after leaving the ice. The Penguins provided an update on Wednesday which is of interest not only to the Penguins, but to Team Canada as the Four [...]
The injuries that the Columbus Blue Jackets have endured to their forward group has been extensive: Boone Jenner hasn’t played all season, Yegor Chinakhov hasn’t played since November, Sean Monahan is coming up on four weeks with his wrist problem, and yesterday it was revealed that breakout star Kirill Marchenko suffered a broken jaw after [...]
Okay there was a lot of significant injury/player news to come down on Wednesday so let’s get right to it. The first big note was the return of Los Angeles Kings defenceman Drew Doughty to the team’s lineup as they went into Florida to face the Panthers. It was Doughty’s first regular season game of [...]
There was a very interesting trade on Monday afternoon, if one nowhere near the size of the Mikko Rantanen trade from a few days ago. Injuries on the blue line have forced the New York Islanders to look outside the organization for some help, and they did that by acquiring Scott Perunovich from St. Louis [...]
With the news that defenceman Noah Dobson is week-to-week with a lower-body injury, the New York Islanders were short their best puck-moving defenceman and a power-play quarterback. The team is a ways out of the playoff race, but a sustained hot streak could get them within striking distance, so they decided to bolster their blue [...]
While the extent of the injury to New Jersey Devils goaltender Jacob Markstrom hasn’t been made official yet by the team, Kevin Weekes reported that it is not as serious as it looked, but that it is putting Markstrom’s participation in the Four Nations Cup in peril. That would indicate that it will likely be [...]
It was a definite good news/bad news situation for New Jersey as they hosted Boston on Wednesday night. The Devils managed a convincing 5-1 win over the Bruins, thanks in large part to a power play that came alive for three power play goals. The bad news was that goaltender Jacob Markstrom was injured early [...]
The NHL Department Player of Safety rendered their judgments on Edmonton’s Connor McDavid and Vancouver’s Tyler Myers after the incidents over the weekend at the end of the game that saw both players give cross-checks to the head of an opponent: Both players have been suspended for three games. Edmonton starts a six-game homestand on [...]
