Hockey Page 594 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
The Blackhawks Are Hot As Hell
We’re nearly a fifth of the way through the season (already!), and while the Canadiens have the best record, and the Rangers the best goal differential, there is no team hotter than the Chicago Blackhawks. It’s a bit of a surprise, given their roster turnover and the number of unproven young players...
It's Been A While Since The NHL Had A Rookie Who Could Score Like This
If the 2015 NHL draft was a two-headed hype monster—McDavid and Eichel as a clear 1A and 1B—maybe it’s not to early to start thinking of 2016 not as merely the Auston Matthews draft, but as draft that brought us Matthews and Patrik Laine. The Winnipeg Jets rookie now leads the league in goals....
Devils Beat Hurricanes In Hockey Game
In what was no doubt a thrill for the 12,179 in attendance in Newark who for nearly three hours had little idea what was transpiring outside, the Devils topped the Carolina Hurricanes in a shootout for a 3-2 win....
Wayne Simmonds Ends Hockey Fight With A Single Punch
Here’s some sports....
Very Good Dog Drops Puck, Yes He Does, Yes He Does
On “Military Appreciation Night” in Anaheim before Ducks-Flames, the ceremonial puck drop was conducted by Corporal Nero, a bomb-sniffing dog stationed at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. Who dropped a good puck? Who? Who?...
The Canucks And Maple Leafs Fought A Lot Last Night
The Vancouver Canucks and Toronto Maple Leafs spent most of the third period hitting, grabbing, shoving, and fighting each other Saturday. The anger eventually boiled over into a line brawl....
I Have No Idea How Braden Holtby Didn't Allow A Goal Here
The Capitals beat the Jets 3-2 thanks to Jay Beagle’s goal of his own faceoff win with 30 seconds left, but the star was goalie Braden Holtby, who made 43 saves. Four or five of them came on this one sequence:...
Craig Anderson Posts Shutout In Emotional Return After Wife's Cancer Diagnosis
There is, I think, something universal to be taken from Senators goalie Craig Anderson’s return to the team after a truncated personal leave to be with his wife Nicholle, who was recently diagnosed with cancer: When life gets hard, you can always lose yourself in your passion, or your work, and idea...
Ben Bishop Is Short A Few Teeth After Taking A Hard Shot To The Face
Hockey players tend to be dentally challenged, but goalies usually manage to retain most of their chompers. Not so much with Ben Bishop. The Tampa Bay Lightning goalie took a Peter Holland zinger to the face and lost his two front teeth this evening despite having a mask for protection....
Capitals Player Daniel Winnik Lost A Chunk Of His Ear Blocking A Shot
If you don’t want to see a hockey player lose a chunk of his ear, don’t watch this video, because it features a hockey player losing a chunk of his ear. It’s not graphic, but Daniel Winnik does end it with less total ears than he started with....
Jimmy Howard Basically Won A Game By Himself
If you were stuck in one of those obstructed-view seats at MSG last night and couldn’t see either net, it probably looked to you like the Rangers dominated the Red Wings. Well I hate to be the one to break this to you (honestly I’m surprised you didn’t find out before now, or even pick up on the myr...
Patrik Laine Is Also A Very Good Hockey Teen
Auston Matthews’s four-goal explosion in his very first game was the most impressive showing by a rookie so far this season, but he’s not the only precocious youngster scoring bundles of goals. Finnish winger Patrik Laine was picked by the Jets right behind Matthews, and the two hockey teens met ton...
Canucks Fans Bail Out Anthem Singer After His Mic Cuts Out
Affable old blues man Jim Byrnes was in Vancouver last night to sing “The Star Spangled Banner” and “O Canada” before a game between the Blues and the Canucks, but everything went wrong right as he reached the end of the first song....
Marian Hossa Scores His 500th Goal
Marian Hossa had a long time to think about this. He finished last year stuck on 499 goals, and if he didn’t spend the entire offseason imagining the precise circumstances of his milestone goal, he knew he wanted a goalie to be involved....
Dmitry Orlov Flipped Matt Duchene
It is not often we start the morning blog march with a hip check. But, as T.J. Oshie mused of Dmitry Orlov’s hit that sent Matt Duchene tumbling helmet-over-skates, “that was one of the cooler hits that I’ve ever seen.”...
Phil Kessel Endures The Penguins' Media Day
The Pittsburgh Penguins filmed winger Phil Kessel as he went through the responsibilities of the team’s media day, and it’s a delight. I especially related to the part where Kessel swore after being told that he had to participate in social media....
Vancouver Canucks Score On Themselves
The image above might be a tenuous representation of hockey, but that’s because it’s Vancouver Canucks hockey, baby....
Wojtek Wolski Broke His Neck After Sliding Into The Boards In A KHL Game
Metallurg Magnitogorsk forward Wojtek Wolski injured his neck during Thursday’s KHL game against Barys Astana, and left the ice on a stretcher....