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At the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference this past winter, Toronto Maple Leafs general manager Brian Burke was asked to identify the best negotiator he'd worked with throughout his career. "Gary Bettman," he said. "There's smart — and t...

So what was it that made YOU finally lose your mind over the NHL lockout? For me, it was a charity hockey game in Atlantic City meant to raise money for Hurricane Sandy relief! Not that there was anything wrong with the Operation Hat Trick game or...

"It's just frustrating," Sidney Crosby told reporters last Monday. "You kind of hear the same things coming out of the meetings all the time ... it's almost to the point where you don't want to ask because you know you're going to get the same answer...

As Craig Custance and I discussed on our podcast Tuesday, The NHL Winter Classic feels like nothing so much as a wedding. There's almost a full year of build-up and planning, of finding vendors and making the most minute of arrangements. Check in at ...

"I think it is clear, and I say this perhaps as a matter of observation, and as a matter of fact: There is probably no worse major-league facility right now in North America than the Nassau Coliseum." - Gary Bettman, 2009 * * * During the NHL A...