Ice Hockey News

Minnesota Wild winger Matt Cooke hits 1,000 career NHL games and despite that success he will always be on of the most hated players in hockey.

A little less than a year after signing his first professional contract, Cloverdale's Tyler Wotherspoon is in the National Hockey League .

Greg Westlake scored the game's only goal while Corbin Watson made seven saves for his second straight shutout Tuesday as Canada defeated the Czech Republic 1-0 in sledge hockey at the Sochi Paralympics.

Surging across the ice as chants of "Ro-ssi-ya! Ro-ssi-ya!" from raucous Russian fans filled the venue, Joshua Sweeney felt the rush of adrenaline he used to experience as a soldier.

Through all the bumps and bruises he's gotten from crunching hits and 90 blocked shots this season, Kimmo Timonen remains motivated by one thing: the Stanley Cup.

Writing about hockey a while back, I mentioned one of the all-time greats who was raised in the Beach - Reginald Joseph "Hooley" Smith.

Martin St. Louis is not happy. The Tampa Bay Lightning winger, current holder of the NHL's Art Ross trophy, is said to have requested a trade after initially being left off the roster of the victorious Canadian men's Olympic team.

With tensions running high over Crimea, a fledgling Russian team on Tuesday go head to head with defending champions the United States in a sledge hockey clash at the Sochi Paralympics.

Oxford Hawks gave title-chasing visitors Slough a scare before falling to a 4-1 defeat in the Investec Western Conference on Saturday.

Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of the rock band Kiss have put down their instruments, wiped away the face paint and unveiled their own arena football franchise, promising to pair the niche sport with the pyrotechnic theatre of their concerts.

Monday's game between the Dallas Stars and Columbus Blue Jackets has been postponed after Stars' forward Rich Peverley suffered a medical emergency while on the bench early in the first period.

At this time of year over the past decade or so, various Sudbury and area girls high school teams have travelled to the provincial hockey championships as front and center medal contenders.

Bobby Hill, left, and his father Robert Hill, both goalies, congratulate the other team after winning a goal medal in the Unified Floor Hockey event during the Special Olympics Alaska Winter Games at East High School on Sunday, March 9, 2014.

On the day after the NHL trade deadline, it seemed perfectly fitting that Butch Goring was hanging around Rexall Place in his current duties as the New York Islanders TV colourman.

Rumour has it - and when the source is hockey insider extraordinaire Bob McKenzie , it's hardly mere industry gossip anymore - that George Stroumboulopoulos is the new face, the new 'tude, of Hockey Night in Canada .

Fans filed into the First Niagara Center and took their seats shortly before the players took the ice - for the morning skate.

The Buffalo Sabres head west to Calgary, Alberta, Canada for a match-up against the Flames on Tuesday, March 18th; game time is 9 p.m. ET.

The Hawks, who already have made history this season with a franchise-high 21-game win streak, honored that legacy with a 4-1 win against the Vancouver Giants before 9,609 fans at the Moda Center.

It has been so cold around here this winter that Katia Pashkevitch went to Russia to warm up.

While the rest of the Washington Capitals enjoyed a day off Sunday morning, Evgeny Kuznetsov took his first skate after signing his entry-level NHL contract and said he's ready to jump into the lineup whenever Coach Adam Oates will have him.