GLENS FALLS — Hockey, you guys. It’s happening, and we’re here to see it. The NHL may have canceled the Winter Classic today, but despite all the upheaval there, the best hockey league in the world right now might just be the AHL. (We’re sure the KHL would argue, but whatever.) The Phantoms enter tonight’s…
(SB Nation) — The NHL made its first official offer to the NHL Players’ Association on Friday, and it essentially amounts to a slap in the face. The offer, as reported by RDS, would drastically trim the players’ share of hockey-related revenue from the current 57 percent to 46 percent. Players would also have to…
Gary Bettman’s salary during the NHL’s canceled 2004-05 season was $3.7 million. In 2010-11, according to the NHL’s recent tax filings shared Monday by Sports Business Journal, Bettman’s more than doubled to $8 million. In that same time, the NHL’s total annual revenue grew to $2.9 billion, with that number reaching $3.2 billion for the…
Matt Read and Rangers forward Carl Hagelin have already made a nice transition to Sweden’s second-tier league, Allsvenskan, with Södertälje SK. Will another member of the Atlantic Division join them? Flyers defenseman Nicklas Grossmann, a native of Sweden who played his junior hockey with SSK in the early 2000s, has left the Philly area and…
Claude Giroux is sick of sitting around. Speaking in Ottawa today, where he’s spent the last several weeks skating and training near family and friends, the Best Player In The World™ expressed impatience with the ongoing NHL lockout, doubt that it will end any time soon and reluctance about waiting it out while other players…
The Flyers have a problem on defense, and some of our friends up in Ottawa are ready to dish off one of their problems in an attempt to fix it. If you’re Paul Holmgren, would you look into a trade for aging defenseman Sergei Gonchar? Sens blog Silver Seven made the case this morning: –…
The Nashville Predators have matched Shea Weber’s 14-year, $110 million offer sheet. The team just announced the news via their website, complete with a bad ass photo of general manager David Poile crossing his arms and staring into the camera. They’ll hold a news conference on Monday. In the most important hockey transaction in franchise…
The Flyers have a problem on defense, and some of our friends up in Ottawa are ready to dish off one of their problems in an attempt to fix it. If you’re Paul Holmgren, would you look into a trade for aging defenseman Sergei Gonchar? Sens blog Silver Seven made the case this morning: –…
It’s 1:00 in the morning and I was about to fall asleep. You likely were too. That or you’re already asleep and won’t see this until a reasonable hour. In that case, well … no, this isn’t a drill. Paul Holmgren’s burning the midnight oil, and he’s reportedly offered Predators defenseman Shea Weber a massive…
Yet again, Ilya Bryzgalov has opened up to the Russian media. In an interview with Sovetsky Sport’s Pavel Lysenkov, brought to a North American audience via a translation at Puck Daddy, Bryzgalov says that he’ll play in Russia in the event of an NHL lockout this fall. He didn’t do that in 2004-05 and regrets…