NBC has reportedly renewed their contract with the NHL for the 2008-09 season............

The Washington Capitals have set another all-time record for local TV viewership during Game 6 of their first round series with the Philadelphia Flyers. The game received a .....

It seems as if the sale of the Tampa Bay Lightning to Hollywood mogul Oren Koules and OK Hockey will be completed after all. The sale was in jeopardy when French bank Societe Generale who agreed to lend to Koules was rocked by the largest trading scandal and fraud in bank history....This deal looks fishy to me. The fact that Koules and his partners needs to finance up to $100 million is a huge red flag.

You got to give this guy credit, whether you agree with him or not (is there anyone out there? lol). This is extremely innovative (who ever thought they would see something like this? I sure didn't) and shows us the power of Web 2.0, as some people like to call it. The NHL ought to find ways to encourage this. It allows fans a way to directly interact with their teams and the league. They can let the league know what they like and dislike....

I was surfing the net today and got a chance to read the latest edition of the NHL fanhouse at AOL fanhouse. Blogger Eric McErlain of the Off Wing Opinion website had a very weird but kind of interesting post on a guy named Darryl Parks. Parks is a die-hard Canucks fan who had an interesting solution to the Vancouver Cancuks GM dilemma:

A new report out of Edmonton contends that a new downtown arena will end up costing Alberta taxpayers untold millions. Former University of Illionois professor, and current University of Alberta professor Brad Humphreys told members of the Economics Society of Alberta the folly of trusting early building estimates, as building cost usually overrun by at least 30%. In Edmonton's case it would be even higher...

I came across this article in the Minnesota Star Tribune recently, complaining about the lack of national attention the Wild get. They didn't get to make an appearance on NBC this season. In fact, there weren't even any Wild games on the match-up list (which is pre-determined by the NHL) that NBC gets to pick from, as part of their flex-scheduling deal.

Did you know NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman spends about a third of the calendar year on the road? Did you know of his affinity of hot dogs on a toasty bun in Montreal? Or his love of Bud Light fresh from the tap? Or if you put a bowl of Hershey's Kisses near his face, he would gorge on them like a starved hyena would a carcass? (Well maybe that exaggerating a little...) Now you can!.....

The Vancouver Canucks announced the firing of GM Dave Nonis yesturday, ending his three-year tenure as General Manager. .......This is a horrible decision on the Canucks part. They're right to be indignant about missing the post-season for the second time in the last three years, but they're blaming the wrong guy..................

This still developing story out of South Florida is puzzling. If Jacques Martin's presence was so toxic as a coach, I wonder if it would be a good idea to keep him around as a GM. Ethan J. Skolnick of the Sun-Sentinel seems to concur. If he becomes GM, he may look for...

The Edmonton Oilers have reportedly signed rookie defenceman Tom Gilbert to a six year contract worth... Gilbert was a restricted free agent and the team would have been liable to lose him to an offer sheet...The Oilers were definitely smart in locking him up... this year's unrestricted free agent market is very weak.... it looks very unlikely that they will be able to bring the entire team back