How do you know you're having a really, really bad day? Well, if you're a hockey player, your sign might be something like what happened to Toronto defenseman Mike Komisarek, who made a defensive sound play wrought of...

For the record, this goal never went in. Still, it was one of the more impressive efforts of the still early NHL season, with Dominic Moore refusing to let his lack of a stick keep him from making an honest attempt at an...

In case you forgot, Panthers forward Richard Zednick nearly died last year when he had this throat slashed open by a skate, spilling blood all over the ice. This year, his head is firmly re-attached and on straight, and he's...

The NHL season barely started a month ago, but Toronto's Mike Van Ryn has got to be ready to throw in the towel. Just weeks after being obliterated against a shattering board in Boston, Van Ryn was again the unwitting victim...

What you're about to see is easily the most canny, cut-throated and brilliant hockey move to be used in a shootout since, well, the invention of the shootout. Trying to sneak a shot by Devils goaltender and future Hall of...

Sure, it'll be hard to beat a full season's worth of brutal open ice hockey hits in front of us, but this knock between long time "Original Six" rivals Boston and Toronto has to be a serious contender for hit of the year....

It may seem like an odd time to start a professional sports season, and that's because it is, what with the NFL and MLB raging and college football in full swing as well. Still, the NHL got rolling on Thursday, with Canadian...

There's two quick ways to tell that this incredibly heartfelt scene is staged: 1) It co-stars Mike Myers, and 2) It shows Kanye West screaming "I love hockey!" Quite frankly, factor No. 2 is significantly more convincing,...

Toronto starting goalie Vesa Toskala is actually a fine netminder. He has a solid goals against average, occasionally comes through with one of those magical saves that can make a team's week, and has emerged as the Maple...

Well, those two things kind of go hand-in-hand, don't they? Who doesn't like nude photos!?! Evidently, the answer to that is ... Canadians. And they don't like subtlety, either; did they really have to name the puppet Kevin...

April 8, 1971. A date so long ago that TV was black and white. And hockey was still "Old Time", by which we mean that when they fought, they just kept fighting until someone died. A little like the way Iriquous indians used...