One of the constants in the NHL this season has been teams rapidly shuttling in and out of the first place position in the NHL. There have been many lead changes throughout the season so far. Even a team currently in 18th place by points - the Minnesota Wild were in first place overall in late November. At All Star break the first place overall team is the Detroit Red Wings....

If people didn’t know beforehand about the fishing line, I dare say they’d think that there was some sorcery afoot. Still, that was a pretty clever trick by Vladimir Tarasenko of Team Sergei Fedorov in the KHL Skills Competition. Totally unfair, but clever nonetheless. All in favor of abolishing every professional hockey All-Star game and replacing it with nothing...

from Larry Brooks of the NY Post, Evgeni Malkin’s dominance absent Sidney Crosby’s presence in Pittsburgh is reminiscent of the way Sergei Fedorov would take command in Detroit whenever Steve Yzerman was sidelined. Malkin, meanwhile, continues to be the league’s sneakiest dirtiest player, enabled by officials who continue to allow him to go scot-free for plays such as the...

The KHL All Star Game will be played this Saturday in Riga, Latvia. It is always interesting to see which players make the AHL All Star rosters as almost all of them have been seen in North America in the past. The game is West Conference against East Conference. Each team has a big name player as their captain. In the past it was Team Jaromir Jagr representing the East and Team...

from Adrian Dater of Sports Illustrated, Can you picture this? It’s 25 degrees outside on an early January night and the Detroit Red Wings are taking to the ice against the Colorado Avalanche under the silhouette of the Rocky Mountains. More than 76,000 fans are packed inside Sports Authority Field in Denver, including—brace yourselves—TIM TEBOW. One of the greatest...

Another year, another year's worth of fans tossing their money down the toilet in the name of personalized jerseys. To see all of the Jersey Fouls of 2011 and the years before them, head over to the posts linked up here. This year's crop featured some monumental FAILS, some sexual puns that landed with a thud and at least one Foul that aired on national television. As with...

Trade rumors have been a hot topic in Detroit so far this year, mainly because we have the money to pull off a massive deal that could all but guarantee us the cup. We all know about some of the great draft steals, trades, and free agent signings that brought players like Zetterberg, Hull, Hasek, Shanahan and Chelios to the Wings, but what about the deals that almost happened...

I completed my second trade with Fuji of The Chronicles Of Fuji. I had been setting some cards aside for him, and saw a handful of cards that interested me after looking through his trade bait. I sent some PC autos and relics his way - along with some 80s RCs - and in return added these four sweet hits to my collection.Donnie Edwards, a man after my own heart, as he was a great Chargers...

Game #18/19 LA Kings(8-6-3, 17th in NHL)vsAnaheim Ducks(6-8-3, 26th in NHL) Wednesday, 7:30pm, Staples CenterLos Angeles, CA Thursday, 7pm, Honda CenterAnaheim, CA BEST RUSSIAN TO PLAY FOR EITHER TEAM: This is the 2nd best photo of Alex Frolov and Sergei Fedorov playing against each other on the internet.This is the 1st. BEST OPPOSITION BLOGS:Battle of CaliforniaAnaheim...

It looks like the KHL bad boys Vityaz found another team to bully this season.  You may recall that until lately, Jaromir Jagr's former KHL team, Avangard Omsk, was the subject of Vityaz' misplaced violence. Avangard was on the receiving end of Vityaz' pseudo hockey players back in Jan. 2010. After that game Jagr said: "I want the KHL to promptly reconsider the...

Daniil Sobchenko, an up-and-coming hockey prospect, Team Russia player and recent San Jose Sharks draft pick, was killed in a plane crash on Wednesday. Sobchenko, 20, recently skated in the Sharks' rookie development camp in July, according to hockeysfuture.com. He was drafted in the 6th round, the 166th overall player taken. The San Jose Sharks said he was listed on the plane...

Here is today's lesson in international hockey marketing, courtesy of the KHL and its cheerleaders. The NHL has both Ice Girls and cheerleaders, but their marketing of these women is usually reserved for calendars and revealing outfits on the ice. The most sensational marketing of ice girls might be the Dallas Stars' annual "Lake Day" featuring girls in bikinis...

By KYLE BAUER Now some guys are getting desperate, or maybe not. The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) –born out of the Russian Super League– has mined European NHL talent for the past four seasons in an attempt to boost their notoriety and talent pool. So far, the crop has been mostly veteran defectors- Sergei Fedorov, Alexei Yashin, Viktor Kozlov, Jozef Stumpel, Marcel...

The Detroit Red Wings have the 24th overall pick in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, and speculation is abounding about who exactly they will take with that first pick.  It’s pretty much gospel at this point, that if the Red Wings see something in a prospect, he must have the tools to succeed. The Wings are not impervious to getting some duds, but on the whole, they have an exceptional...

The Champion: Detroit Red WingsRoad to the Cup:Round 1 – 4-2 over 6) St. LouisRound 2 – 4-0 over 4) AnaheimRound 3 – 4-2 over 1) ColoradoRound 4 – 4-0 over 3) PhiladelphiaIn their own words: George Malik, Kukla’s Korner“The Detroit Red Wings' 1997 Stanley Cup win fulfilled expectations that the team had carried but failed to meet since 1995 and lifted a 42-year-old...

The Champion: Detroit Red WingsRoad to the Cup:Round 1 – 4-2 over 6) PhoenixRound 2 – 4-2 over 4) St. LouisRound 3 – 4-2 over 1) DallasRound 4 – 4-0 over 4) WashingtonIn their own words: George Malik, Kukla’s Korner“The Detroit Red Wings' 1998 Stanley Cup win wasn't as much a "win" as it was the fulfillment of a promise to truly celebrate the 97 Cup...

With the Red Wings’ season now officially ended, NHLHS Correspondent Christina Roberts looks at what this 2010-2011 team accomplished and what may be next. Sometimes it’s best not to look at the numbers. In the 2009 Stanley Cup Finals versus the Pittsburgh Penguins, Game Seven was at the Detroit Red Wings’ Joe Louis Arena. Red Wings fans clung to their numbers...

In three years, I’ve had the opportunity to see three playoff runs, two series wins, dueling hat tricks, Game 7 heroics and had the opportunity to be part of one of the best communities in sports. After three seasons of covering perhaps the most electric team hockey, though, my time as a member of the OnFrozenBlog team has come to an end. When I think back about what made covering...

For the second time in three years the Washington Capitals open the NHL postseason against the New York Rangers, an old Patrick division rival. Of the first five playoff series Alexander Ovechkin and the rebuilt Caps since first qualifying for the postseason together in 2008, four have come against old Patrick foes. Correspondingly, those bitter rivalries have been freshly renewed...

This comes from Yahoo sports' Puck Daddy blog.(http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Jaromir-Jagr-s-KHL-coach-wanted-to-fight-him-aft?urn=nhl-wp974) Never a dull moment in the KHL, it seems. During the seventh playoff game between Jaromir Jagr's Avangard Omsk and Sergei Fedorov's(notes) Metallurg Magnitogorsk, which Metallurg won to advance to the next round...

This comes from Yahoo sports' Puck Daddy blog.(http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Jaromir-Jagr-s-KHL-coach-wanted-to-fight-him-aft?urn=nhl-wp974) Never a dull moment in the KHL, it seems. During the seventh playoff game between Jaromir Jagr's Avangard Omsk and Sergei Fedorov's(notes) Metallurg Magnitogorsk, which Metallurg won to advance to the next...

Never a dull moment in the KHL, it seems. During the seventh playoff game between Jaromir Jagr's Avangard Omsk and Sergei Fedorov's Metallurg Magnitogorsk, which Metallurg won to advance to the next round to play Alexander Radulov's Salavat Yulaev, the news surfaced that Avangard fired their coach before the second period of that Game 7. Avangard claimed that this was...

Sergei Fedorov is not only the best NHL athlete to ever wear the jersey number 91, he is also the best professional athlete to ever wear number 91. Here are just a few of Fedorov's NHL highlights: 1,179 career NHL points 483 career NHL goals (47th all-time) 696 career NHL assists 120 points scored in 1993-94 NHL season 1993-94 Hart Memorial Trophy winner 0.94 points per game...

The IIHF’s website has become a de-facto promotional arm for the KHL, a European league whose ever-politically-motivated rivalry with the NHL may or may not have caused them to bake their radar guns a bit to ensure that Denis Kulyash broke Zdeno Chara’s fastest shot-ever record at the KHL’s All-Star Game. Today, IIHF.com’s Denis Gibbons allows KHL president...

I think the title says it all. What else needs to be said? The Mule has recorded his first regular season hat trick. He has recorded three playoff hat tricks, including one diring last post season against San Jose. He was actually credited initially with five goals in the first period, but they took one away from him and gave the goal to Filppula. Franzen is also now the first Red...