I think that we can expect on Wednesday that there will be a very specific recommendation by the NHL general managers on the issue of head-shots in the game. ...more
When it comes to Matt Cooke's hit on Marc Savard and the head shot debate it has re-ignited, the bottom line is, 'Do you want to have a legal check that allows a player to take his shoulder and put it into another player's head?' The GM meetings will be an interesting forum for that one. ...more
The Nashville Predators decided not to trade Dan Hamhuis and instead they will focus on their playoff drive. With Denis Grebeshkov, Dustin Boyd, and Hamhuis in the lineup, the Predators are a much better team today than they were a few days ago. ...more
When you really think about it, Alexei Ponikarovsky is likely to be one of the bigger fish that moves between now and the trade deadline. The Pittsburgh Penguins are a centre-centric team with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. With 19 goals and 41 points on the season, Ponikarovksy is not an insignificant player that the Penguins have acquired. ...more
Alert one of the many Royal Canadian Mounted Police, real and otherwise, at the closing ceremonies of the Olympics. Sidney Crosby’s gear has gone missing. The man who scored Canada’s Golden Goal to win Olympic gold in Vancouver returned home without the stick and gloves he used to score them. Maybe his helmet, too, although no one is sure on that just yet. ...more
Alexander Ovechkin may have been knocked out of the Olympic hockey tournament, but he is not actually gone. Ovechkin has stayed in Vancouver and there is all sorts of speculation he is going to carry the Russian flag at the closing ceremonies. ...more
The simple fact of the matter is that Canada's players hit the panic button against Slovakia on Friday night. They had a 3-0 lead with less than nine minutes to go and even after the bad first goal by Lubomir Visnovsky, they still had a two goal lead to play with. ...more
Hockey Insider Bob McKenzie takes a look at the Russians performance against Canada, and what they might take away from the 2010 Winter Games after being knocked out of the tournament in the quarterfinals. ...more
I think you have to give full credit to Canada. What we've seen from start to finish is how difficult it's been for the so-called "superpowers" to play against the other teams and do well. You can only judge what you've got in front of you, and this was a success. ...more
With a loss to the United States on Sunday, Canada will face Germany in a qualification game on Tuesday. And if Canada were to win that game, they'll get a quarterfinal game with the Russians. So obviously, the loss is a significant one. ...more
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