NHL: National Hockey League

By By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Scott Upshall scored with 3 minutes 4 seconds left in the third period Saturday night and the Philadelphia Flyers advanced to the Eastern Conference finals with a 6-4 victory over the Montreal Canadiens.

By KOP11TAR Rob Blake played 13 seasons with the Kings, he left to play 4 seasons with the Avalanche where he won a Stanley Cup, a dream most hockey players have, he knew that the Kings wouldn't achieve that, and wow isn't he a P.O.S. for signing with another team, I'm sure 9/10 of you would have done the same i...

 PA - Goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury is 23. He began last season as the youngest starting goaltender in the NHL. Whitney is 25 and has yet to reap the benefits of ...

 - The 29-year-old has registered seven goals and nine assists in 32 games with the Chicago Blackhawks and Philadelphia Flyers over his career. ... Canucks sign Mark Cullen National Post Canucks Sign Mark Cullen hockeyfights.com all 27 news articles

By timot andariese Over the last 18 seasons, Jagr has been one of the NHL's most exciting players. Early in his career he was a complement to the Mario Lemieux with the Penguins, where he played from 1990-91 until 2000-01. He won two Cups (1990-91, 1991-92) with Pittsburgh and one MVP with the Caps.

By Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- The Canucks acquired right wing Steve Bernier from the Buffalo Sabres on Friday for a third-round pick in the 2009 NHL draft and a ...

Canucks sign Cullen - 13WHAM-TV

Canucks’ Linden retires after 19 seasons - Officialsportsbetting.com

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By Eric Kuzmiak The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported today that the Penguins' attempt to fill the remaining holes in their roster may stretch across the Atlantic Ocean to include Finnish forward Janne Pesonen. Jattaa Ajaa Pingviini" (Let's Go Penguins!)  

By PJ Swenson(noreply@blogger.com) A report on Rob Blake is available from SJsharks.com here, and a video interview with radio broadcaster Dan Rusanowsky and San Jose Sharks general manager Doug Wilson is available here. Update] Rob Blake leaves Kings, signs with San Jose Sharks - Los Angeles Times.

By PJ Swenson(noreply@blogger.com) The NHL Salary Cap rose from $50.3 million to $56.7 million this season, with a salary floor of $40.7 million ($1.7M over the post-lockout NHL Salary Cap in 2005-06). According to estimates from NHLScap, with 19 NHL roster players under contract the Sharks currently sit at a cap hit of $54,950,...

 - The most notable was the Detroit Red Wings signing Marian Hossa to a one-year, $7.4 million contract. Hossa was considered among the best forwards available ...

 - The Colorado Avalanche picked up affordable grit and experience in former Toronto Maple Leaf forward Darcy Tucker with a two-year contract worth $2.25 ...

Avalanche Sign Raycroft, Coyotes Land Sauer and Fedoruk. - Spector's

 - New Jersey Devils GM Lou Lamoriello brought in two blasts from his team's past in former Devils Brian Rolston and Bobby Holik to shore up his depth at ...

By PJ Swenson(noreply@blogger.com) SHARKS SIGN DEFENSEMAN ROB BLAKE FOR 1 YEAR - PHOTO JON SWENSON LOS ANGELES KINGS CAPTAIN ROB BLAKE SCORED 31PTS IN 71GP LAST SEASON Update7] Pat Brisson's timeline of events with Rob Blake and the Los Angeles Kings is available via Inside the Kings here.

People are forgetting how much adversity this team faced before Hossa even arrived --- Fleury and Crosby's ankle injuries to name a few. The Pens core of Sid, Gen o, Staal, Whitney, Orpik, Letang, and Fleury is enough young talent to make them dangerous for years to come. A powerplay featuri...

By Yahoo! Sports - NHL - Toronto Maple Leafs News In a perplexing stance that saw the franchise leading scorer refuse to play for the Leafs at $7 million a season, the Montreal Canadiens at $8 million and the Vancouver Canucks, who wanted to make him the NHL's highest paid player, the unrestricted free agent put his career on hold at age 37.

 Canada - The 27-year old played 46 games for the Buffalo Sabres and marked one goal and seven assists. In eight seasons with the Sabres, Kalinin has 145 points in ...

By MapleLeafsUnofficial The Toronto Maple Leafs continue to fill out their roster for the 2008-09 season. Toronto announced Thursday that the club has acquired forward Mikhail Grabovski from the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for the rights to Greg Pateryn and a second-round draft pick in the 2010 draft. "Mikha...

Penguins sign Fleury to seven-year deal - National Post - Toronto Maple Leafs

TSN.ca  - Tampa, FL (Sports Network) - The Tampa Bay Lightning signed free agent center Wyatt Smith to a one-year, two-way contract on Thursday. ... Lightning sign Wyatt Smith Tampa Bay's 10 Montreal inks Denis to two-way deal Sports Network all 86 news articles

Lightning signs tough-guy David Koci - Lightning Strikes | tampabay.com

Lightning sign RW Vrbata - Sports Betting

more, Devils related… from Tom Gulitti of Fire & Ice, **From what I’ve been told, Brendan Shanahan’s agent Rick Curran received phone calls from several teams expressing interest in signing in the UFA left wing today. None of them were from the Devils. **The Rangers are still in the bid...

 Canada - Johnson spent the past six seasons with the St. Louis Blues after being claimed off waivers from the Florida Panthers, the team that drafted him. ... Leading shot blocker inked The Province all 3 news articles

Blues St. Louis Blues sign first-round picks TJ Oshie and Lars Eller - Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum

By noreply@blogger.com (PJ Swenson) TSN confirmed earlier this afternoon that free agent defenseman Brian Campbell signed an 8-year, $56.8 million contract with the Chicago Blackhawks. The Sharks acquired the 29-year old defenseman at the trade dealine along with a 7th round draft pick from the Buffalo Sabres for young po...

By Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Seeking to add experience to one of the NHL's youngest rosters, the Columbus Blue Jackets acquired winger Raffi Torres from the Edmonton Oilers ...

Edmonton Oilers - Sports Betting

Columbus deals for Torres, signs Commodore - sports.yahoo.com

Oilers Ship Torres to Columbus for Brule. - Spector's

By Sam Weinman Sean Avery, Mitch Fritz, Andrew Hutchinson, Jaromir Jagr, Darius Kasparaitis, Marek Malik, Paul Mara, Michal Rozsival, Brendan Shanahan, Martin Straka, Jason Strudwick, Steve Valiquette. Update, 12:32 p.m.: Reader Bill asks regarding Jaromir Jagr:

By noreply@blogger.com (The Falconer) But here are the facts. In the first season that Atlanta Spirit controlled the Thrashers franchise Atlanta spend OVER the salary cap. The cap was set at $39 million and Peter Bonrdra's performance bonuses pushed the Thrashers to $40.2 million. Your Atlanta Thrashers were #1 in the NHL in cap s...

 - Jun 27, 2008 Frisco, TX (Sports Network) - The Dallas Stars signed forward Loui Eriksson to a two-year contract worth $3.2 million on Friday. The 22-year-old Eriksson ...

Avery, Stars agree to a four-year, $15.5 million deal - TSN.ca

Stars sign D Daley to 3-year, $6.9M deal - Officialsportsbetting.com

Stars sign F Brunnstrom to 2-year deal - Officialsportsbetting.com

More news about Orpik courtesy of the Tribune Review. Today could bring developments involving on-going dialogue between the Penguins and representatives for defenseman Brooks Orpik. The sides are actively engaged in discussions aimed at keeping Orpik in Pittsburgh. He is one of 12 pla...

By The Falconer(noreply@blogger.com) Home run. I expect him in the opening night lineup as he is already in NHL condition and we need defensemen badly. Very skilled but also mean--potentially a smaller version of Chris Pronger. The Thrashers strongest decision the entire draft was simply hanging on to this pick and not trading d...

By Dubi But at Blueshirt Bulletin, we like to take things even further than that. It's not too difficult to add up all the NHL games played by each team's draftees, which adds an element of quality above the mere tally of NHL players, since the better players play more games in the long run. By that meas...

By Menelaus 6.  UCLA - The Bruins have just 9 returning starters and maybe less than that if OB Ben Olson does not return from an injury suffered in the spring.  They do have an inexperienced O-line but were an injury ravaged team last year so they have more experience than you would think.  UCLA gets five Pa...

By Sean(noreply@blogger.com) Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review is reporting that Hossa is the number one free agent in the Penguins pool and that a deadline could be in place for him to accept any sort of deal, as early as after the NHL Draft next weekend. The deadline would help Shero make his next move with the ot...

By noreply@blogger.com (Lowetide) I always like to offer a disclaimer when talking about ranking prospects. Rita is one end of the scale, someone like Fernando Pisani is the other. Rita was much ballyhooed (don't see that word much anymore, I always thought it deserved better) as a prospect while Pisani couldn't get arreste...

By Eric Kuzmiak The Pittsburgh Penguins made one final visit to the Mellon Arena on Friday afternoon. It was a day which included locker cleaning and sparatic interviews with the press. Marian Hossa, Ryan Malone, and Brooks Orpik each enjoyed breakout seasons in their own repsective ways this year.

By noreply@blogger.com (mondesishouse) from 105.9 The X What started on April 11, 2008, finally came to an end on Wednesday night. The amazing emotional rollercoaster for Penguins fans known as the Stanley Cup Playoffs saw our boys come up one Chris Osgood kick save short of forcing a game seven against the mighty Red Wings. The loss...

35 seconds. Thats how long the Red Wings needed to hold off to win the most coveted prize in all of Hockey. 35 seconds turned into 3 overtime periods with a Ryan Malone goal. I must say, this was quite a game for the records books. I almost thought I was watching the Dallas Stars play the San Jose Shar...

Salutations once again hockey fans, thanks for stooping by The Crease today. Man what a game last night right? Let's delve right into it shall we? - *Game 4 Review:* - The Penguins came out with the fire from Game 3, no doubt. Hossa netted his first goal of the Finals and Detroit was definitely o...

The Hatcher Alert: Inspired by: The Philadelphia Flyers, The Pittsburgh Penguins, and the Montreal Canadians -Derian Hatcher is not allowed to touch any player under 25 with his stick or hands at any time. This will result in a 2 minute minor. -If the player happens to be a superstar the pena...

By ryebreadraz The Bruins rolled off five consecutive wins to move their record to 6-1, but the Bruins would be blown out in their next wo games versus Fullerton by scores of 7-1 and 13-2. The Bruins pushed their record to 11-5 when they took five of their next seven, but then got swept by Long Beach St. A loss to...

Greetings all,thanks for stopping by The Crease (watch those skates!), my inaugural NHL Connect blog. As a die hard Red Wings fan when I started this blog I tried to put all bias away, so with that in mind lets dive into Game 1 review and Game 2 preview. *_Thoughts on Game 1_* It seemed to me that t...

By Rich Hammond The next question was about acquiring a goalie, and whether the Kings would do it. Hextall said, ``If you slotted Hickey this year, he wouldn't go fourth. Last year, there were 10 or 12 guys who could have gone fourth. ... He reminds me a lot of (Lubomir Visnovsky).''

By Bubba the Kings Fan Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Oscar Moller Profile and Interview One of the bright stars in the Kings organization is Oscar Moller. Many draft experts had him pegged as a mid first-rounder but he fell to the Kings in the second round of the 2007 draft. One of the great aspects of Oscar is that he was a t...

Here is how the Canucks stand heading into the summer. UFA - Markus Naslund, Brendan Morrison, Aaron Miller, Trevor Linden, Byron Ritchie, Curtis Sanford, Mike Weaver, Brad Isbister, Brad Moran RFA - Marc Bernier, Mike Brown, Ryan Shannon, Rick Rypien, Nathan MacIver

By ESPN.com news services According to a report from The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Pittsburgh Penguins and Buffalo Sabres will play an outdoor game on Jan. 1, 2008 at Ralph Wilson Stadium, home of the NFL's Buffalo Bills.

Sabres re-sign C Paul Gaustad to $9.2 million deal - sports.yahoo.com

By chuqui Marty McSorley won't be back as the team's TV color analyst next season, the Sharks announced Thursday. As long as they don't bring back Pete Stemkowski...