Brendan Shanahan, the vice president of player safety for the National Hockey League, came down with his latest ruling, suspending Nashville Predators forward Jordin Tootoo two games for his hit on Buffalo Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller during Saturday night’s 3-2 loss to the Sabres. Tootoo was given a five minute major for charging and [...]
The National Hockey League under commissioner Gary Bettman has been anything but boring. The league expanded from 24 teams to 30 since he took over in 1993. We’ve seen teams leave hockey hungry areas like Winnipeg (the Jets moved to Phoenix), Hartford (the Whalers headed to Carolina and became the Hurricanes), Minnesota (the North [...]
The Toronto Maple Leafs have had a tough stretch recently. They lost a pair of games in their home and home series with the streaking Boston Bruins, who are 14-0-1 in their last fifteen games and haven’t lost a game in regulation since the end of October. That included a 4-1 victory on Saturday night [...]
For thirteen years, Matthew Barnaby had a pretty influential say in what happened in his career. He had a choice when it came to his contract being up as to where he would end up playing, whether he’d stay where he was or seek the greener pastures of another club that may be offering more [...]
Matthew Barnaby was a pest, an agitator, a royal pain in the keister for opposing teams during his career in the National Hockey League. Barnaby played thirteen seasons in the NHL, covering 834 regular season contests and an additional 62 playoff games during stops with seven different teams in his career. Barnaby’s career took [...]
It’s been just a little more than three weeks since Ryan Miller was steamrolled by Boston’s Milan Lucic and ended up on injured reserve with a concussion. Miller missed eight games for the Sabres, who scuffled to a 3-4-1 mark in his absence. Following a 4-1 loss to Detroit Friday night where Buffalo looked flatter [...]
The Boston Bruins haven’t lost a regulation game in over a month. They went 12-0-1 in the month of November, the only defeat a shootout loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Black Friday. The Toronto Maple Leafs have been battling with the Bruins for first place in the Northeast Division, but have had little [...]
The Montreal Canadiens have been awaiting the return of stalwart defenseman Andrei Markov to their lineup. Markov has been out of action since November of 2010 after he sustained a knee injury that required surgery following a knee on knee collision with Carolina Hurricanes forward Eric Staal. He would miss the rest of the season [...]
The Toronto Maple Leafs were a team that was rolling along early in the season before a spate of injuries took their toll on the young club. It all started when starting netminder James Reimer went down with what the team termed “whiplash” when he was belted by Montreal forward Brian Gionta in a game [...]
Forbes magazine today released the franchise values of the 30 NHL clubs, and the Toronto Maple Leafs, despite not winning a Cup since 1967, head the list at a value of $332 million. The Leafs value has nearly tripled since 1997-98 when the club was worth 119 million dollars. More impressively from a business standpoint, [...]
The National Hockey League season isn’t even two months old, but some teams are failing to meet expectations. There are teams who have done far better than expected, and others that expected to be playoff contenders that are struggling to win games at all. We saw some big money get handed out to free agents. [...]
The Toronto Maple Leafs are doing their best to get a quick start to the 2011-12 National Hockey League season. After slow starts the past few years doomed the team from making the playoffs (which they’ve missed every since since the 2003-04 season), the Leafs would inevitably get hot in the second half and fall [...]
