Ice Hockey News

About two million real Christmas trees will be sold in B.C. over the next two weeks.

In the grand scheme of things, perhaps a $5 billion deal for the rights to broadcast National Hockey League games is not a big talking point, not important or serious enough to take up space on the editorial pages of a newspaper.

Red Wings great Steve Yzerman, a winner of three Stanley Cups and a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, will participate in the 2013 Maple Leafs vs. Red Wings Alumni Showdown, the Wings announced today.

Getting to the Olympics is a dream very few people realize, but it's not just the athletes who work their butts off to get there.

Anaheim Ducks winger Corey Perry scored four goals in seven games at the Vancouver Olympics, and brings big-time offence to Team Canada.

USA Hockey announced Tuesday that Ogrean, 60, has signed a four-year contract extension to remain as the governing body's executive director USA Hockey announced Tuesday that Ogrean, 60, has signed a four-year contract extension to remain as the governing body's executive director "When we go to the Winter Olympics in South Korea in 2018, I will ... (more)

When the Anaheim Ducks play the Los Angeles Kings at Dodger Stadium, members of the Phoenix Coyotes ownership group will have an up-close view of the proceedings.

"No, it doesn't," said Hunt, an assistant coach with the Canadian team that prevailed Saturday in the final of the World Sledge Hockey Challenge in Toronto.

Great Britain's opening match at the International Ice Hockey Federation's Under-20 Men's World Championship in Dumfries was a bit of a beauty.

Though the New York Islanders will soon abandon Nassau Coliseum in favor of the Barclays Center in hipster Brooklyn, in the 1970s the team grew to be a hockey powerhouse and the pride of Long Island, culminating with the Islanders first Stanley Cup win in 1979-80.

Football It was announced Sunday that the University of Washington will be playing Brigham Young University at the Fight Hunger Bowl in San Francisco with a 6:30 p.m. start on Friday, Dec. 27. The Washington State University Cougars, meanwhile, are going to Albuquerque to play Colorado State in the New Mexico Bowl at 11 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 21.

Three consecutive weekends on the road against the top three teams in the B.C. Major Midget Hockey League didn't help the Cougars much in the standings.

Sledge hockey player Greg Westlake was part of the Canadian team that captured gold at the World Hockey Challenge this past weekend.

The Buffalo Sabres lost their 22nd game this weekend - falling 3-2 to the Canadiens in Montreal.

Vincent Massey's Austin Dobrescu forces his way past a Morden Thunder defender during Sunday's Victoria Inn High School Hockey Victoria Inn Division consolation final at the Optimist Arena on Sunday.

Lincolnshire's Georgie Twigg and Hannah Macleod helped England to bronze at the Women's Hockey World League Final in Argentina.

The Blackhawks snapped a season-high three-game losing streak with a dominating win over the Florida Panthers but they lost goalie Corey Crawford to a lower body injury in the process.

Nelson Mandela wanted the poorest of the country's poor to touch and feel a new game, what always had been a "white'' game, and he wanted the players on the bus to do the same.

An Olympic gold medal won by Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Games has sold at auction for $1,466,574, the highest price ever paid for a piece of Olympic memorabilia.

For what it's worth , this evening's contest is an EPL-Cup game. Irrelevant really, given that the top four are decided and Swindon aren't in there and neither are Sheffield, but there you go.