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The NHL has another Olympic meeting on tap for Friday as the parties involved try to continue to make progress.

Keep an eye on the Los Angeles Kings if and when the Calgary Flames and Jarome Iginla decide to begin divorce proceedings. While it's been widely (and accurately) reported that Boston and Pittsburgh have interest in the Flames captain should he be...

With the Olympics less than a year away, IOC inspectors are visiting Sochi again to check on preparations for the 2014 Winter Games.

NEW YORK -- Watching his Tampa Bay Lightning players go through their morning skate drills Thursday at Madison Square Garden, general manager Steve Yzerman was puzzled at first when this ESPN.com hockey writer wished him a happy third anniversary. ...

Lindy Ruff was fired Wednesday after almost 16 years behind the Buffalo Sabres' bench, but he likely had a clue this was coming. At least that's how fellow coach Ken Hitchcock felt when it happened to him. The St. Louis Blues coach calls it the pi...

Team USA and Team Canada will find out who fills out their respective Olympic preliminary groups for Sochi, Russia, after qualification tournaments wrap up across the pond Sunday. Olympic qualifying tournaments in Germany, Latvia and Denmark that ...

You wonder if Alexander Medvedev is at some point going to realize that silence is a better option. The KHL president's continued criticism of the NHL over the past week, in the wake of Russian star players having to leave his league and head back...

The Olympics are not part of this tentative collective bargaining agreement, but that certainly doesn't mean the NHL and the NHL Players' Association are ignoring the matter. The two parties agreed to leave the Olympics out of the CBA, a departure...

The IIHF world junior championship in Ufa, Russia, is taking center stage in the hockey world over the holidays even more than usual thanks to the NHL lockout. Hockey-starved fans in North America need a fix and finally got it with Canada and the ...

Let's look ahead to the moment when this abominable, revolting and shameful NHL lockout finally ends. Whether that's this season or next, who knows at this point? But either way, the road to win back the hearts of fans will be a long one. Wi...

Steve Fehr and Bill Daly touched based Tuesday in a short phone call, and I wonder if it wasn't for any reason other than to be able to tell us inquiring media types that they touched base for the first time since last Friday. I'm joking. Kind of....

If you're feeling down on your luck these days, and need a little pick-me-up, Mike Babcock's recently published book called Leave "No Doubt: A Credo for Chasing Your Dreams" is just what the doctor ordered. The 138-page book, which the Detroit Red...

My first thought after Hockey Canada announced Steve Yzerman was returning to run the 2014 Canadian Olympic hockey team? What his wife said to him after he told her he wanted to do this again. Which likely went along the lines of, "Are you freakin...

The word "superstar" hasn't been tossed in Rick Nash's direction too much lately. It may simply be a product of where he plays. But winning, not the limelight, is what ultimately drives the Columbus captain.

CHICAGO -- It is foolish, of course, to read too much into a training camp scrimmage, let alone the first day. But darn it if Duncan Keith didn't look like the Duncan Keith of old out there Saturday before a sold-out crowd at United Center as the ...

Three wins from a first-ever Stanley Cup for their beloved Vancouver Canucks, fans in these parts are displaying the kind of pride and passion that's at a feverish pitch for a market that had a loser mentality for years.