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The NHL is trying to crackdown on unnecessary blows to the head.
The NHL's Senior Vice President and Director of Hockey Operations, Colin Campbell, had the following memo, obtained by TSN, posted in every NHL dressing room on Friday.
"Recently, we have had two (2) supplemental discipline incidents involving direct elbow blows to the head. This is a play that we have been trying to remove from our game for a number of years. In one case there was no injury and in the other incident the elbowed Player received a concus
General managers will have one extra day to make NHL trades. The league said yesterday it has pushed the trade deadline back to March 4. A high volume of games forced the switch. There are 12 games on the schedule March 3 and only two March 4. The league and NHL Players' Association agreed on the change.
Posted by
billy on 05/12/2008 - 05:10 AM
It is a bittersweet time for the Washington Capitals.
Just a few weeks after an unexpected and improbable playoff run ushered in the Alexander Ovechkin era of Capitals' hockey, the Olaf Kolzig era has come to an end.
Kolzig will not be returning to the team that drafted him in 1989. Instead, Kolzig's Capitals career seems to have ended with him watching the team lose to the Philadelphia Flyers in the Game 7 of their first round playoff series from the bench.
"For me, it was disappointing the way it ended,"
Posted by
billy on 04/22/2008 - 02:09 AM
PHILADELPHIA - Alex Ovechkin was stifled, shut down and almost silent in his first NHL playoff series.
The league's leading scorer played like an MVP right on time in Game 6.
Ovechkin truly was "Alexander the Great" with the Washington Capitals' season on the line and put them in prime position to win a Game 7 for only the second time in franchise history.
Held without a goal for four straight games, Ovechkin scored twice in the third period to lift the Capitals to a 4-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on
Posted by
billy on 04/21/2008 - 12:51 AM
VOORHEES, N.J. - Alex Ovechkin has at least one more game to play up to his "Alexander the Great" nickname.
The Philadelphia Flyers don't want to give the Capitals star forward any more chances to rediscover his scoring touch. That's why the Flyers are treating Monday night's Game 6 like a decisive seventh game: Win at home, advance to the next round, and not have to worry about Ovechkin having a breakout game Tuesday night in Washington.
"We've got two shots at it, but it's pretty close to a must win," Flyers
Posted by provopete on 11/17/2008 - 05:25 PMThe NHL is trying to crackdown on unnecessary blows to the head.