Ice Hockey News

Tomoko Sakagami delivered pizza to finance her ice hockey dreams but cheese crust pepperonis will be the last thing on her mind when she takes to the ice as part of the Japanese women's team at the Sochi Olympics.

Fans cheer prior to the start of game 2 of the NHL Western Conference quarter-final at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on May 3, 2013.

An NHL season that nearly never was will be remembered as one that set the course for a bright new future in a seminal year bookended by a deal that secured a decade of labor peace and a multi-billion TV agreement.

President Barack Obama named openly gay athletes to the delegation that will represent the U.S. next year at opening and closing ceremonies for the Winter Olympics in Sochi, sending a clear signal to Russia about its treatment of gays and lesbians.

There's the ghost of a prime minister lurking somewhere between the words of Stephen J. Harper's gorgeously bound, deeply researched and impressively illustrated and footnoted hockey history.

Former NHL bench boss Kevin Dineen speaks at Tuesday's news conference in Calgary, where he was named the head coach of Canada's Olympic women's hockey team.

Mark DeMontis is the founder and president of Courage Canada Hockey for the Blind, a national charitable organization which aims to help visually-impaired students get out on the ice.

His family - father John and uncle Roy Henderson - owns the junior A Langley Rivermen and his cousins Bobby and Taylor run the team, with the former serving as coach and general manager while Taylor runs the off-ice portion of the team.

General manager Steve Yzerman and head coach Mike Babcock lead a star-studded roster after winning gold at the 2010 Vancouver Games on Sidney Crosby's overtime goal against the United States.

Canada's Drew Doughty waves a Canadian flag after the men's ice hockey medal ceremony at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010.

It's the first international coaching job for Dineen, who served as head coach of the NHL's Florida Panthers for just over two seasons until he was fired last month.

Members of the Virden Oil Capitals were reluctant at first about the video, but got into the swing of things.

The resignation late last week of head coach Dan Church hit the Canadian women's hockey team "like a bomb," three-time Olympic gold-medallist Caroline Ouellette wrote in her blog on the weekend.

Matt Bradley of the Valley West Hawks tallied five goals and three assists in two games in Kelowna last weekend.

The NHL was right to suspend Boston's Shawn Thornton 15 games for his premeditated assault Dec. 7 on Pittsburgh defenseman Brooks Orpik, though it should have suspended Pittsburgh forward James Neal more than five games for kneeing Boston's Brad Marchand in the head in the same game on a play that had nothing to do with hockey, civility or sense.

Dan Church of Toronto abruptly resigned last week because he felt there was a lack of confidence in his ability to coach Canada to an Olympic gold medal in February.

Tickets are available for the RedHawks' New Year's Eve exhibition against the USA Under-18 National Team at Steve "Coach" Cady Arena.

Ottawa Senators team captain Daniel Alfredsson acknowledges two young fans who show their appreciation for his team coming back after the NHL hockey lockout ended at training camp in Ottawa, Jan.13, 2013.

The resignation late last week of head coach Dan Church hit the Canadian women's hockey team "like a bomb," three-time Olympic gold-medallist Caroline Ouellette wrote in her blog on the weekend.

Milan Lucic faced the media on Monday morning after a video surfaced on YouTube Saturday of the Boston Bruins forward being involved in a fight at a Vancouver nightclub.