Two notable trends have emerged over the past two weeks at old Mellon Arena in Pittsburgh: 1) The Penguins have started a long decent out of playoff position and, 2) In an attempt to energize his team, young captain Sidney...

Alexander Semin has emerged as a second-banana to Alex Ovechkin's top fiddle for a Capitals team that's rapidly on the rise. Still, that can't help explain why the Russian fights by throwing his arms around like a squid as...

This isn't quite the juggular splitting incident of past horrific hockey injuries, but it's a freaky one nonetheless. wiss winger Adrian Wichser found his nose on the wrong side of a skate in the semis of the IIHF...

The video on the left is an ad for the now annual NHL Winter Classic, the outdoor hockey game which pits two teams in a stadium traditionally used for football or, in the case of the 2009 game, for baseball. So how is the NHL...

After that whole sloppy seconds post above, that may seem hard to believe. But yes, it really is true, and there's even video proof of the events that lead us to that conclusion, right here to the left. In the video, as the...

Sean Avery is known as being a loudmouth enforcer, but he may have lost his shot to keep up the enforcer half of that equation. The Stars defenseman has been suspended indefinitely for the comments he made in this clip, in...

That's right, if ever we needed proof that sports are fickle, often bi-polar instruments of fate, here it is: Just a couple nights after ordering one of his sons to incite a riot on the ice, former goalie Patrick Roy had his...

Patrick Roy was always a feisty but respectable goalie, the kind of backstop who could win the Stanley Cup for his club and look honorable doing it. Evidently he's not that way as a coach ... or father. For the second time in...

You know what's even better than a good boxing match? A great boxing match on skates! Just like this one, between Calgary’s Eric Nystrom and Colorado's Ian LaPerriere. After all, hockey fights are often like boxing matches...

First things first: We have no idea where this video comes from. We have no idea whether it's real, or completely photo-shopped. We will say this, though: If it's a fake, it will make us more sad at society than anything that...

Mike Ribeiro is one of the more masterful possessors of the puck in the National Hockey League, a skill he showed in full flow during a shootout against the Kings. Not only did he score the goal of the night, he had the...

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...

Hurricanes winger Brandon Sutter entered the season as one of the brightest rookie prospects in the NHL. Less than a month into the season, he found himself dazed on the ice after one of the hardest hits you will ever see....

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....