Puck Daddy party at Foley’s NY tonight! The Puck Daddy crew returns to the site of some of our more, ahem, infamous gatherings as Foley’s NY hosts a Viewing Party on Thursday night, beginning at 6 p.m. ET!  Also, Puck Daddy editor Greg Wyshynski will be there, sellin’ and signin’ his new book TAKE YOUR EYE OFF THE PUCK: How to Watch Hockey By Knowing Where to Look, which is available now … [Read more...]

Yahoo Fantasy Hockey: Why James Reimer is a stud, Radim Vrbata is a dud It’s mid-November – a time in which winter has not yet hit some regions of North America. But some fantasy studs have been stuck in a goal-scoring deep freeze all season long. [Play Yahoo Daily Fantasy and get a 100% deposit bonus with your first deposit] Ryan Getzlaf finally scored his first goal of the season on … [Read more...]

NHL Three Stars: Scheifele powers Jets; Kuznetsov wins it for Capitals No. 1 Star: Mark Scheifele, Winnipeg Jets Scheifele opened the scoring with a power play tally and ensured the two points for the Jets with an insurance marker late in the third during a 4-1 win over the Vancouver Canucks. He’d add a assist for his first multi-point game of the season as the Jets snapped a six-game losing … [Read more...]

What you need to know about the new NHL All-Star Tournament format The NHL announced its new All-Star Game format Wednesday with a heavy emphasis on 3-on-3 play.  The league’s skills competition will remain – a fan favorite every year – but in order to spice up the game itself, the NHL has created a different type game play style to breathe life into the mid-season contest with three … [Read more...]

NHL changes All-Star Game to 3-on-3 tourney The NHL officially announced Wednesday that it is making significant changes to the format of the league's annual All-Star Game starting with this year's game on Jan. 31 in Nashville. The biggest difference is that the All-Star Game won't be a game at all. Instead it will be a three-game 3-on-3 tournament pitting the best players from each division … [Read more...]

LA Kings suspend prospect Patrik Bartosak amid domestic assault charges The Los Angeles Kings have suspended minor league goaltender Patrik Bartosak, who is facing 12 domestic-related charges after allegedly physically abusing and threatening his girlfriend. “This morning our Club suspended Patrik Bartosak for his actions resulting in his arrest in Manchester, NH on November 16. We take … [Read more...]

Price at practice; Bylsma's influence; paying head coaches (Puck Headlines) Here are your Puck Headlines: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. Have a link you want to submit? Email us at [email protected]. • The Columbus Blue Jackets gameday posters are pretty impressive. Check … [Read more...]

Penguins' Olli Maatta hospitalized overnight after being hit into bench door (Video) Penguins defenseman Olli Maatta remains hospitalized the morning after he was shoved into an open door by Nino Niederreiter during Tuesday night’s win over the Minnesota Wild.  According to the Post-Gazette’s Dave Molinari, the Penguins team physician is scheduled for surgery with another patient Wednesday, … [Read more...]

Swiss side SC Bern fires head coach Guy Boucher One week after Guy Boucher announced he wouldn’t return to Swiss side SC Bern next season, the team fired him following four straight defeats and a ninth-place standing in the National League A table. Boucher said last week that the reason he chose not to seek an extension was so he could return home to Canada and care for his ailing mother … [Read more...]

NHL All-Star Game scraps format, is now 3-on-3 divisional tournament It’s been long rumored that the NHL All-Star Game was going to undergo its every-few-years makeover, with a 3-on-3 format being implemented next January in Nashville.  Well, the details are spilling out courtesy of TSN’s Bob McKenzie, and the NHL is basically blowing up the current framework of the All-Star Game. No more … [Read more...]