Category: Puck Blog
NHL AND NHLPA REACH DEAL ON COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT
REPOST (By TSN Staff, www.tsn.ca) After 113 days and a 16-hour negotiation marathon that wrapped up at 5am et on Sunday morning, a tentative deal on a new 10-year collective bargaining agreement has been reached between the National Hockey League and NHL Players’ Association. “Don Fehr and I are here to tell you that we have
Team USA caps stellar run with gold at World Juniors
REPOST (Original Article by Allan Muir, SI.com) At that moment, Rocco Grimaldi had to wonder if he ever was going to score. Without a goal through the first six games of the 2013 World Junior Championship, the Team USA winger had the puck and a clean angle on Swedish keeper Niklas Lundstrom midway through the
World junior championships: Andrey Makarov sits in familiar position atop BTN’s 3 Stars
No. 1 Star – Andrey Makarov, Team Russia Andrey Makarov began the game against the American team with an incredible toe save off of Paul Gaudreau and continued his strong play throughout the second and third periods, perfect on even strength and stopping 27 of 28 throughout the game to pace Russia to a victory
2012-13 World Junior Championships: Prospects To Watch
REPOSTED (Original Article by Missy Zielinski) With the National Hockey League (NHL) dismantling more than half of their regular season thus far due to the lockout, a few unexpected faces will make appearances at this year’s 2012-13 World Junior U-20 Championships (WJC) being hosted in Ufa, Russia. The tournament that begun early Wednesday morning and
Hockey Helps Signs Pekka Rinne
Hockey Helps is very happy and proud to announce that it has come to a multi-year exclusive endorsement agreement with Nashville Predators goalie Pekka Rinne! Rinne will serve as one of Hockey Helps’ player ambassadors and will be involved with a number of future initiatives. Hockey Helps is pleased to welcome Nashville Predators all-star goalie
Mikhail Grigorenko, Andrey Makarov Lead Russians into World Juniors
World Juniors: Russia – Junior Hockey News Tweet This Published: Wednesday, 19 Dec 2012 By: Michael Gosnell The Russians still remember the defeat in the gold medal game the Swedes handed to them. This time the Russians are hosting the Word Junior Championships and have the home-ice advantage that is so valuable. Despite losing explosive
Ottawa Senators defenseman David Rundblad taking steps in right direction
Via Allen Panzeri – Ottawa Citizen Even before he came to North America, David Rundblad already had some precious hockey souvenirs: sweaters from the two world junior championships he played in for his native Sweden, the puck from the first goal he scored in the Swedish Elite League, you get the idea. But the puck
Nikolai Khabibulin off to best start of long career
John Kreiser – NHL.com The surprising Edmonton Oilers have gotten a lot of attention because of young stars like Taylor Hall and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins. However, it’s 38-year-old goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin who’s been the biggest difference between the team that finished 30th in the standings in 2010-11 and the one that takes a Northwest Division-leading 9-4-2
Can Kaspars Daugavins stick with the Ottawa Senators permanently?
Via Silver Seven When Kaspars Daugavins was called up, the expectations were largely that he will get a few games until Daniel Alfredsson comes back. However, Daugavins has played well in his six games with Ottawa. He is responsible defensively and has been very useful on the penalty kill. He averages 1:46 of penalty kill