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Hope still remains that touted Russian prospect Kirill Petrov may still join the Islanders this season. Though Petrov's KHL team, Ak Bars, took the ice for their season opener yesterday, Petrov was not in the lineup according to NYI Point Blank's Chr...

As promised, with the ink drying on Ilya Kovalchuk's new $100 million mega-deal, the blog is back to examine some of the implications of the never-ending fiasco. We start overseas. Did the KHL just get KO'd? This was easily the Kontinental Hock...

By 5 p.m. ET today we'll finally have a verdict from the NHL regarding Ilya Kovalchuk's latest contract. While the ruling will bring closure to this chapter of the seemingly endless saga of Kovalchuk's free agency, the fallout will just be beginning....

FDR famously said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Well, yesterday's developments in the NHL may have altered the spelling slightly to F-E-H-R. The hockey media responded to reports that former MLBPA leader Donald Fehr will soon t...

The local press has a little more on the Ilya Kovalchuk development from yesterday. Mark Everson of the New York Post points out that the window may be closing for NHL teams to reach a deal with the Russian LW, as the KHL starts up play Sept. 8. Kova...