Dave Tippett News

The hits just keep coming. Brian Sutherby tweaked a groin in practice yesterday, and as we have seen before, it tightened up overnight.

Dave Tippett is the story tonight, even though he doesn't want to be. Tippett is such a non-nonsense guy when it comes to hockey that all he wants to do is coach every single game as if it's exactly the same.

The power play helped keep the Stars in the game Saturday, and eventually helped keep them out.

Dave Tippett knows his job won't be an easy one in Phoenix. But he also knows that it's a job that can have a happy ending.

Steve Ott said he'll probably be extra nice to Dave Tippett when he skates past the Phoenix Coyotes bench tonight.

David Schlemko and the Phoenix Coyotes made coach Dave Tippett's first game against his former club a memorable one.

Dave Tippett guided the Dallas Stars to five playoff appearances in six years - and then he got fired at the end of last season.

Like contestants on a game show, the Dallas Stars are finding that the questions get harder as the season goes on.

The 2009 Hockey Hall of Fame class, which features a star-studded cast of four players and one front office stalwart, was inducted Monday.

Continuing our long-running series with beat writers of future Vancouver opponents, we talked to Mike Heika of the Dallas Morning News in anticipation of the Canucks-Stars game Friday night.

Mike Modano just isn't used to this. Even in the later years of his career, he has been on the ice for most games.

"The story of this season has been the play of Craig Anderson and Ilya Bryzgalov in goal in Colorado and Phoenix.

"We heard all summer long how we're going to finish last, we're a terrible team.

Preface: Some of the pointa TMs totals given for teams may no longer be correct, as this article was written over the weekend and has just now been posted.

James Neal showed his teammates why crashing the net is so important on Wednesday night.

Moyes agrees to sell Coyotes to NHL Phoenix Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes has agreed to sell the bankrupt franchise to the NHL.

Still, with Frolov set to become an unrestricted free agent after this season, it is hard to imagine he has a long-term future in Los Angeles.

When he played, operating inside that pocket of pain five feet or so in front of the opposition net, prime deflecting real estate, absorbing cross-checks to the small of the back from brother-in-law Jeff Beukeboom and hanging tough as Craig Ludwig snapped sticks into kindling over his calves, Joe Nieuwendyk was hailed as a soldier, a warrior.

No one can deny the skill and domination by Wayne Gretzky on the ice, but behind the bench as head coach in Phoenix he was a bit of a joke.

San Jose Sharks goalie Evgeni Nabokov lays in the net after Dallas's Brenden Morrow scored in the fourth overtime period on a power play to end Game 6 on Sunday.