Women's Hockey Notebook: Controversial coaching hires; NHL donates to Laing; Playoff dates Full house for @Hilary_Knight's autograph signing! 100+ people deep. Love it. pic.twitter.com/QuKosNAsgB— Caity Kauffman (@caitykauffman) January 30, 2016 LINE RUSHES 1. Coaching controversies. The Connecticut Whale of the NWHL have occupied a majority of the women's hockey headlines the past few days. … [Read more...]

NHL announces 2017 All-Star Game will take place in Los Angeles NASHVILLE – The NHL is going to California for the 2017 NHL All-Star Game. The league announced Saturday that they will have the 2017 event in Los Angeles, California at Staples Center. The move had been intimated some time. The NHL made the official announcement Saturday before the 2016 skills competition in Nashville. NHL … [Read more...]

Barry Trotz comes to Nashville's All-Star Game with NHL's best offense NASHVILLE – When Barry Trotz was hired to coach the Washington Capitals in the summer of 2014, young forward Evgeny Kuznetsov heard his new bench boss had trouble mining offense out of forwards – specifically young Russians.  The stigma came from Trotz’s time coaching Alexander Radulov with the Nashville Predators. The … [Read more...]

Masochistic goalies ready for cruelty of NHL All-Star Game NASHVILLE – In the rest of the NHL season, they’re the most valuable players on the ice. The difference between victory and defeat. Able to will mediocre teams into contention by their sheer talent and dominance. But at the NHL All-Star Game, goaltenders are props. They're co-stars. Hell, maybe even extras. They’re pylons in a relay … [Read more...]

We watched NHL All-Star Friday Night because you didn’t God bless PK Subban. About halfway through the third segment of “NHL All-Star Friday Night: Live in Music City” on NBCSN and Sportsnet — somehow, the title wasn't the clunkiest thing about this show — he felt the wave of absolute boredom getting up to his neck and tried like hell to save it. Roman Josi, like Preds teammates Pekka Rinne … [Read more...]

NHL All-Star Skills Competition players announced; who wins? Eastern Conference captains, Jaromir Jagr and John Tavares, and Western Conference captains, Patrick Kane and John Scott, have selected their challengers for the Honda NHL Skills Competition. The East appears to be in it to win it; whereas, the West might be leaning towards entertainment value (see: fastest skater). All the events … [Read more...]

Jaromir Jagr on health, his first All-Star Game, earning Stanley Cup NASHVILLE – If Jaromir Jagr had his way he wouldn’t be in Nashville for NHL All-Star Weekend, nor would he be in a tropical location soaking up some sunshine during the five-day break. Being the rink rat that he is, the soon-to-be 43-year old Jagr would prefer to spend his All-Star break in a rink in Florida working out, … [Read more...]

Best and worst of 2016 NHL All-Star Game merchandise (Photos) The 2016 NHL All-Star Game is blessed with being in Nashville. Not just for the food and the music and the fact that everything is in waking distance and doesn’t require anyone to get on stinky buses, but because the Nashville Predators have some damn fine team colors and, hence, the merchandise available for the game is pretty … [Read more...]

Torres on waivers; Wheeler opts out as ASG sub; Bettman on Seattle (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]. @NHL waiting on my orders captain!! pic.twitter.com/wLCodgYtDQ— … [Read more...]

Yahoo Fantasy Hockey: Why Joe Thornton is a stud, Tyler Johnson a dud Dobber launched his fantasy hockey website DobberHockey back in 2005 and has been Puck Daddy's resident fantasy hockey 'expert' since 2009. Ian Gooding has been the associate editor for DobberHockey since early 2015. Knowing that not all teams have played the same number of games, you can target and deploy players from … [Read more...]