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The 10 best NHL All-Star Game momentsThe 2024 NHL All-Star game is this weekend. Every year, there is seemingly a new memorable moment for fans and players to look back on. Last year it was headlined by performances from stars like Connor McDavid, Matthew Tkachuk, and Elias Petterson. Let’s take a look at some of the best moments from ...

Corey Perry is the curse we’d all hoped he’d beWe, as fans, almost never get one over on the villains in our various sports. Of course, they’re out there, we’re up here, so the natural dynamic of the whole relationship is that we’re losers. That’s understood....

The NHL finally gets its era-shifting Final with Lightning vs. AvsHockey being what it is, mostly weird and random, rarely throws up the two best teams in the NHL’s showpiece, the Stanley Cup Final. Sometimes we get close, and most seasons it’s actually hard to decipher who are clearly the best teams. With shootouts and overtime goofiness affecting the standings, ...

What is it, you would say, Donald Fehr does here?

You knew it was trouble as soon as the NHLPA announced it would put out the results of their investigation into the union’s handling of Kyle Beach on a Friday. It’s surprising that organizations haven’t figured out that everyone sees through a Friday newsdump. That suspicion only grew exponentially ...

It was a Hockey Men weekend

The appeal of hockey, to an ever-shrinking insular fanbase that gets more and more shrouded by a new one (though not big enough), is that it’s not the other three sports. There are good reasons for that, we all love our cults. And then there are bad reasons for that, grounded in racism and sexism, h...

Jon Lester just gave more of a s–t than you

Sadly, the, “You’re not winning this game,” term used to describe a transcendent performance from an athlete that just seems a Herculean or galactic level of defiance and denial has been co-opted by Bill Simmons. Which means it’s become as cartoonish as he has....

Seems like old times, eh Leafs?

By now you know the key points. The Toronto Maple Leafs haven’t won the Stanley Cup since 1967, haven’t been to the Final since then either, haven’t beaten the Canadiens in a series since their ’67 title clash, won their first division title since 2000 this season (thanks to being in the all-Canadia...

The Panthers got a finish lesson

It sounds stupid to almost everyone who loosely followed the Panthers-Lightning Game 4 yesterday, considering that the Cats gave up six goals and lost by four. But for most of the game, especially in the first period, Florida kicked the absolute shit out of the Lightning. They relentlessly attacked ...

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Marian Hossa May Be Done, And That's Pretty Convenient For The Blackhawks

Chicago Blackhawks winger Marian Hossa announced this morning that he will not play in the 2017-18 season because of a skin condition and the effects of medication he takes to treat it. The Blackhawks are losing a still-very-capable veteran player, and it may mark an abrupt end to Hossa’s hall of fa...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Wed Jun 21 2017

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....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Wed Oct 19 2016

Marian Hossa will play in tonight's Game 4 of the Stanley Cup final. Guess he's recovered from that mysterious "upper body injury" that kept him out of Game 3. [Chicago Sun-Times]...

by Dom Cosentino|

|Wed Jun 19 2013

NHL Suspends Raffi Torres 25 Games For Hit On Marian Hossa

Earlier today the NHL announced that Raffi Torres will be suspended for 25 games for this violent hit on Marian Hossa....

by Sean Newell|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Marian Hossa Was Stretchered Off The Ice After This Brutal Hit From Raffi Torres [UPDATE]

In a Stanley Cup playoffs on pace to smash records for game misconducts, it appears its most dangerous hit to date will be one that escaped on-ice punishment. In the first period of tonight's Game Three, Coyotes enforcer Raffi Torres left his feet to hit the Blackhawks' Marian Hossa; Hossa was un...

by Timothy Burke|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

NHL's Horrible CBA Comes Back To Bite Them In The Ass

After years of the NHL screwing fans, a few owners are now trying to screw the league. No one weeps for Gary Bettman, because turnabout is foul play....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Chicago Blackhawks To Lose The Next 12 Stanley Cup Finals

Marian Hossa (who is 30) just signed a 12-year contract with the Chicago Blackhawks, after allegedly turning down a 10-year deal from the Red Wings. This guy really knows how not to pick 'em. [NHL.com]...

by Dashiell Bennett|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Don't Ask Marian Hossa For Stock Market Advice

The dogpile on Marian Hossa has been sufficient and thorough. The Wings beat Hossa's Penguins last year. Then the Penguins beat Hossa's Red Wings. Goat cheese....

by Matt Sussman|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

How Does Marian Hossa Feel About His Choice Right Now?

The best subplot of the Stanley Cup Finals is the tale of Marian Hossa, who turned down a long-term deal from Pittsburgh after last year's Final to join up with the team that vanquished him and his Pengiuns. I bet he didn't expect to run into those guys again....

by Dashiell Bennett|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

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