Cards On Ice

You may or may not be aware of a book coming out this fall.  “The Ovechkin Project:  A Behind the Scenes Look at the Most Dangerous Player on the Ice””, wirtten by Damien Cox and Gare Joyce is an unauthorized biography of Alexander Ovechkin.
The Caps and Ted Leonsis are not thrilled with the book, especially [...]

Pats fans won’t have to change their cheers too much this season – in all likelihood, the best player on their team will still be named “Jordan”.  And he’ll still be undersized.  Jordan Weal is likely to shoulder the title of top offensive threat that Jordan Eberle held previously.  Weal was drafted by the Los [...]

Carter Ashton, a first round pick of the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2009, joined the Regina Pats partway through the 2008-09 WHL season, after being traded from the Lethbridge Hurricanes.  He is primed for a big season in the WHL, provided he doesn’t sneak himself a job at Lightning training camp in a few days.  [...]

Going into the 2010-11 season, things are looking a little bit tough for the Regina Pats.  They missed the playoffs last season, and are entering this season minus two of the best players in recent history (Jordan Eberle and Colten Teubert).  In order to make up some ground in the WHL, the Pats will need [...]

Last night, I found myself with a few free hours, so I went ahead and checked out a few of the scrimmages at the Regina Pats traning camp.  This year, the Pats are holding their camp at the new Co-Operators Center in the city.  Everything is right close to the Brandt Center, its easy to [...]

Clarke MacArthur spent last season with the Atlanta Thrashers and Buffalo Sabres.  He was arbitration-eligible in the off-season, and received a stunning award of $2.4 million per season from the arbitrator.  Not surprisingly, the Thrashers (who must have gone in low-balling) walked away from the award, making MacArthur an unrestricted free agent.  Today, MacArthur has [...]

Twitter is full of random awesomeness.  today, your little bit of awesomeness comes from Mike Sundheim, the PR guy for the Carolina Hurricanes.
“Calling players to update personal profiles for guide. Many switching “person I’d like to meet” away from a certain golfer”

The NHL is heading into treacherous territory.  By now, everyone has heard that the league has rejected the contract that Ilya Kovalchuk signed with the New Jersey Devils.  Now, the NHL seems like they are going to use the precedent that the arbitrator has set to go back and look at some of the other [...]

Just a short while ago, Antti Niemi was the conquering hero in Chicago.  A promising young goalie who helped the team to a Stanley Cup victory.
Today, it appears that he is an unrestricted free agent, as the buzz on Twitter is that the team will not pick up his arbitration award.  Niemi was awarded a [...]