A longtime NHLer is hanging up his skates, but is staying in the game. On Thursday, Tampa Bay Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois announced that the team has hired former Lightning forward Pierre-Edouard Bellemare as the organization’s new player development specialist.
The second-highest scoring French-born player in NHL history has hung up his skates. According to an announcement from the NHL, forward Pierre-Édouard Bellemare has retired from professional hockey.
The NHL has had an interesting new millennium. It was a league sans a salary cap when the 2000s started… and then the owners locked the players out for an entire season.
The French men’s hockey team lost their qualifying game against Germany 5-1 on Tuesday, knocking them out of the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics and putting end to the international career of arguably their most accomplished hockey player of all time.
France has announced its first six players for the 2026 Winter Olympics, highlighted by a pair of players with NHL experience. Forwards Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, Alexandre Texier and Jordann Perret, as well as defenders Yohann Auvitu, Jules Boscq and Hugo Gallet, were the first players to have confirmed their paritcipation for next winter.
Derek Ryan’s journey to the NHL is one of the most unexpected in league history. He wasn’t drafted. His 18 and 19-year-old years were spent on the last-place Spokane Chiefs in the Western Hockey League.
Former NHL veteran Pierre-Edouard Bellemare, who was recently on a PTO with the Colorado Avalanche and who played over 700 NHL games, has gone to Europe.
Despite an improbable 10-year NHL career, it appears that former Philadelphia Flyers fan favorite forward Pierre-Edouard Bellemare has reached the end of his journey in the best hockey league on the planet.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Pierre Edouard Bellemare is fighting for an opportunity to continue his hockey career. But you wouldn’t think that much was on the line when approaching him.
With NHL training camps getting underway in a few days, several players have signed professional tryouts (PTOs) across the NHL, including some veteran names.
The NHL has the 2024-25 trade deadline and other important dates set, with the last day players can swap teams and be playoff eligible for March 7th. And much like other years, the time to hit zero for trades will be 1:00 PM MST.
Technically hockey is still being played for one more day, as Development Camp for the Colorado Avalanche continues on Friday, but this next story is very much an off-season one, so be warned.
Today, we step away from hockey for a moment and focus on something much more important, food. During a trip to Seattle last season, William Karlsson and Jonathan Marchessault visited former VGK Pierre-Edouard Bellemare’s house and joined Hannah Bellemare’s YouTube cooking show.
The Seattle Kraken activated forward Pierre-Edouard Bellemare off Injured Reserve Tuesday, according to Roots Sports reporter Scott Malone. The Kraken forward has been out since Dec.