The Hockey News rated this November 10, 1996 bout between Philadelphia’s Ron Hextall and Toronto’s Felix Potvin as the best goalie fight of all time. Hextall, who was quite a hothead, was involved in several fights during his 13-year career in the NHL. Currently he’s employed as the VP and assistant GM of the Los [...]

I’m sure Gretzky’s endorsements have declined a fair amount since he played, but there’s probably still a whack of companies who want number 99′s name on their wares because he maintains a certain mystique. After all, he is Gretzky. Bigalow Tea recognized this. Green tea’s good for you. Probably even better than beer, although there’s [...]

Congratulations to Joe Sakic, Mats Sundin, Pavel Bure, and Adam Oates for their induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame, the shrine in Toronto that houses photos, plaques, artifacts, and memories of players who once played  the sport that has become extinct and remembered by oldtimers who think back to a time, like last year, [...]

No need for any words here, except that I think this clip is fantastic. Thanks a lot to Beatnik for sending  it over.

The Los Angeles Kings are new Stanley Cup champions with their one-sided 6-1 win over the New Jersey Devils, but it was a side plot that will make for fine conversation all summer. It was unfortunate the entire episode happened in the first place. One major penalty and the suspense of a big game six was sucked out like air from [...]

Scott Mellanby has been hired by the Habs as director of player personnel, and as I have no idea if this will prove to be a good move or not, all I can say is this former player played 21 years in the NHL, with Philadelphia, Edmonton, Florida, Toronto, St. Louis, and Atlanta, and during [...]

It’s taken the Los Angeles Kings only nine games to remove the Vancouver Canucks and St. Louis Blues from the playoff picture, and when is it going to get hard for them? If they keep going like this, the major studios will come calling. I’ve decided that I’m hoping the Kings go all the way. They’re the one NHL [...]

The second round opener went on Friday night, with Ray Whitney scoring the winning goal in overtime, and the Phoenix Coyotes win game 1 in their series against Nashville. Andrei Kostitsyn scored one of the Predator goals, assisted by another ex-Hab Francis Bouillon. And Ray Whitney, overtime hero, is a fine example of what a good [...]

And there goes Canada’s last hope. The Sens lose 2-1 to New York in game 7. Milan Michalek should be made to change numbers. He missed three or four great chances from about 15 feet out during the Sens’ torrid charge with about six minutes remaining, and he reminded no one of the Rocket, Gordie Howe, [...]

We’re in Redding, California, three hours up the road from San Francisco, and while at the City by the Bay, we of course visited Alcatraz. Darth had asked me to put Scott Gomez there, and so I did. Hey, whatever you guys want, I’m here to please. Here’s Gomez’ mug shot. I’m hope everybody’s happy now. In other [...]