FORMER CANADIENS FIRST ROUND PICK JOINS CZECH EXTRALIGA CLUB

The Kadri-Binnington water-bottle incident has been closed, as far as the NHL in concerned. St. Louis Blues' goaltender Jordan Binnington was knocked out of game three following a collision in his net that included his own player Calle Rosen, and Nazem Kadri of the Colorado Avalanche. It has since been announced Binnington will miss the remainder of the series. While Kadri was doing a post-game interview, he mentioned that Binnington threw a water bottle at him.

It's pretty much the all anyone in the hockey world is talking about on Sunday. During game three of the second round series between the St. Louis Blues and Colorado Avalanche, Nazem Kadri was involved in a collision that knocked blues goaltender Jordan Binnington out of the game. We've since learned he won't return in this series.

Retired NHL referee Tim Peel has become very vocal on Twitter. Each night he tweets which officials are doing which playoff games. He will also provide his opinion on some controversial calls or non-calls. Earlier today, Peel posted a tweet offering to buy a beer for anyone going to tonight's...

Torts is one of the NHL's best active coaches despite not being employed by a team. The term 'active' is used because he is very much so even though he's currently an analyst for ESPN. He's said publicly he still wants to coach, and he's said it multiple times. With several NHL clubs in need of a head coach, Tortorella has to be near the top of the list with the likes of Barry Trotz, Claude Julien & to a lesser extent Pete Deboer.

Despite Connor McDavid putting on a dominating performance once again in the Edmonton Oilers' decisive 4-1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Sunday night, plenty of the chatter afterwards was regarding Milan Lucic. The massive Flames winger received a five-minute game misconduct late in the game for hitting goaltender Mike...

The buzz around Nazem Kadri & the vitriol he has received in the past week needs little introduction at this point. But stories like this often bring outside complications that require explanation, begrudgingly or otherwise. Figures from every corner of the hockey world voiced their support for Kadri & their contempt for those spewing racist & xenophobic hate in his direction. At this point, it's almost a formality. So when someone fails to deliver in this area, the dogpiling commences.

After sustaining a lower-body injury in Game 3 vs. the Minnesota Wild, Torey Krug is back & skating with his teammates at the Blues' morning skate, per a team release. The Blues are in a tough spot right now, down a starting goalie & two top-six defenseman. So Krug's return can't come soon enough. As mentioned in the team's release, Coach Berube has no timeline for Krug's release. The fact that he is skating is encouraging though.

When it comes to NHL players that can get a rise out of fans, Nazem Kadri of the Colorado Avalanche is near the top of the list. Kadri received racist messages and even death threats following game three of the Avs second round series against the St. Louis Blues after being involved in a collision with goaltender Jordan Binnington that knocked the netminder out of the series. Kadri says he fed off that hate going into game four, where he scored a hat trick (and added an assist) in a 6-3 win for Colorado.

The Battle of Alberta is a legendary, hate-filled rivalry. Stemming back to a deep seated history of the two cities, there is tons of bad blood here. However, with all the hatred boiling in this playoff series, there is at least one glimpse of love. They certainly got their money's...

During the third period of Tuesday's Game 4 between the New York Rangers and Carolina Hurricanes, Mika Zibanejad found himself without a stick. He hustled back to the bench, where the equipment guys were preoccupied with fixing Alexis Lafreniere's helmet from a wrestling match with Andrei Svechnikov. None of his teammates on the bench seemed to notice he was in need of a new twig, so Zibanejad just helped himself.

The Tampa Bay Lightning and Florida Panthers clashed in Game 3 at Amalie Arena on Sunday afternoon for the first of a back-to-back. It was an important game for the Panthers, who were looking to avoid going down 3-0 in the series. Florida made one lineup change going into Sunday's...

Although the team hasn't confirmed it, there have been numerous credible sources who have claimed Edmonton's Leon Draisaitl is currently playing through a high-ankle sprain. He apparently sustained the injury in Game 6 vs. LA. It makes his performance thus far all the more valiant. Video surfaced of a clip...

The Carolina Hurricanes are having considerable issues on the road in the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs, and people are noticing. The Canes are now 0-5 on the road in the first and second round and have lost two straight to the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden. Before coming to the Big Apple to play Carolina had taken a 2-0 series lead over the Rangers, and bragged about the "storm" that was coming to New York in their home arena. The picture that accompanied the tweet showed the Empire State Building, one of New York's most iconic landmarks, getting covered in clouds.

The Battle of Alberta's reputation has not disappointed thus far with one exception; one of the teams involved does not look like itself. While the Edmonton Oilers are firing on all cylinders, their territorial nemesis appears broken at its core. The Calgary Flames' dominance during the regular season combined with the championship acumen of their roster---Blake Coleman, Milan Lucic, Trevor Lewis, Tyler Toffoli, & Darryl Sutter---made for a serious contender for the Stanley Cup. At least, so we thought.

Despite a franchise record setting season that saw them win the President's Trophy, the Florida Panthers were swept in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs by their state rival, the Tampa Bay Lightning. The team had some coaching issues in late-October. Joel Quenneville stepped down as Head Coach...

Just when we thought the Carolina Hurricanes had successfully lulled us all to sleep with their stellar defensive play early in Game 3, the New York Rangers broke through. On a fantastic pass from Artemi Panarin, Mika Zibanejad wired a one-timer past Hurricanes' netminder Antti Raanta on the power play.

Well, twenty-one seconds but who's counting. Couldn't have drawn up a worse start for Calgary, though. One can only imagine what Darryl Sutter's thoughts were after the fact, but he kept it cool & offered that his team did the same.

Consequences have come about after nasty, racist messages were sent to Nazem Kadri of the Colorado Avalanche. During game three of the Avs' second round series against the St. Louis Blues, Kadri was involved in a collision with Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington that knocked the netminder out of the game and, as it was revealed later, the remainder of the series. The next day, Kadri's wife posted screenshots of several messages he had received that contained racism and violence. None of the names of the people who had sent the messages were covered in the screen shots that started being shared on social media. Now, one of the people who sent Kadri a message is paying the price.

Pittsburgh Penguins defenceman Juuso Riikola is leaving the National Hockey League this summer and is signing with IK Oskarshamn of the Swedish Hockey League for the 2022-23 season. "My four years in North America was a good time of life but I felt it was time for change and the...

Sunday's Game 3 between the Carolina Hurricanes and the New York Rangers ended with a bit of animosity. In the final moments of the game, Hurricanes' forward Max Domi appeared to cross-check Rangers' defenseman Ryan Lindgren. This drew quite the crowd of angry hockey players. Furthermore, Rangers' head coach Gerard...