The teams have been selected for the All-Star weekend and the battles lines have been drawn. Daniel Alfredsson and Zdeno Chara were drawn as captains and the crowd on hand for the selection in Ottawa was digging it every step of the way. Chara won the first selection and went with Detroit’s Pavel Datsyuk for [...]
The Toronto Maple Leafs have locked John-Michael Liles in for four more seasons, signing him to a contract extension worth $15.5 million. Liles would’ve been an unrestricted free agent come summer, but the deal keeps in T-Dot where he wanted to be all along. “Some guys choose to go the unrestricted route but it’s a [...]
Let’s face it: Alex Ovechkin is not the same player he was was piling up 50 goal seasons years ago. His performance in the 2009-2010 season was the boldest sign with the superstar wandering off track with a 32 goal season. That may sound impressive for some, but for the Great Eight those digits have [...]
Washington Capitals forward Alex Ovechkin has been suspended three games after his hit on Zbynek Michalek on Sunday. You can check out the hit here. The hit took place early in the second period and Ovechkin did not receive a penalty on the play after he left his feet to thump Michalek in the head. The suspension [...]
Pittsburgh Penguins forward Sidney Crosby is currently being treated by Robert S. Bray, a former U. S. college goaltender and current neurological spine specialist. 30 years after graduating, Bray is the founding director of Diagnostic and Interventional Spinal Care in California. He is considered a pioneer in spinal microsurgery and has apparently performed over 9,000 [...]
Jaromir Jagr has been happy with the way things have gone for him in Philadelphia this season and is ready to lace the skates for another season. If the Flyers sign him, he’ll be playing as a 40-year-old. “You really wouldn’t know it, the way he trains and practices,” Flyers head coach Peter Laviolette said. [...]
The Washington Capitals have announced that defenceman Mike Green will be out another four to six weeks after abdominal surgery. He has played in just 10 of 43 games this season after suffering his first setback in the form of a strained groin muscle that cost him 23 games from November to January. Upon his [...]
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