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The Carolina Hurricanes say they expect captain Eric Staal to be ready to start next season after suffering a scary-looking knee injury during an international tournament.

Reto Berra made 29 saves, and Nino Niederreiter, Julian Walker and Reto Suri scored to help Switzerland beat the United States 3-0 on Saturday in the world hockey semifinals.

The Memorial Cup is positively brimming with top NHL Draft prospects, including four of Grant Sonier's top 10 for the 2013 draft. What will scouts be looking for on junior hockey's big stage?

Blog | Conversation | May 16, 2013

Washington Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin will join Russia's team at the ice hockey world championships in Finland.

In case you were busy asking, "yeah, but when is Spoiled Only-Child Day?" here's what you missed in sports last weekend: Tiger Woods won his second career Players Championship and his fourth PGA Tour event this year, finishing the tournament at ...

Craig Custance looks back at the many accomplishments of Jim Nill during his time with the Wings and focuses on the job that lies ahead as the new GM of the Dallas Stars.

Blog | Conversation | April 30, 2013

Our guess is that a lot of folks will tag this series as an upset special. Part of that will be the fact the Red Wings rolled into their 22nd straight playoff tournament by winning four straight under trying circumstances after flirting with disastro...

Quinnipiac coach Rand Pecknold isn't certain he has the most talented team in college hockey. He does believe, however, he's got the best.

To paraphrase Chris Rock, desperation is the worst cologne. And when it comes to the post–NCAA tournament coaching carousel, the landscape of college basketball feels cloaked by a cloud of metaphysical Drakkar Noir. The absurd time crunch and c...

A decade after his first NHL season, defenseman Jay Bouwmeester is on the cusp of playing in his first NHL playoff tournament. At least the St. Louis Blues, the team that acquired the highly coveted left-handed shooting defenseman from the Calgary...

America loves an underdog, and so do college basketball fans who use Facebook and Twitter. Not surprisingly, Florida Gulf Coast University was the most mentioned team on both social media sites during the early rounds of the NCAA tournament, accordin...

The most perfect thing in sports looks like a pair of identical ant trails. It looks like the War of the Stick Figures. For 23 days -- from mid-March to early April -- we are under its spell wholly, happily and willingly. When it comes to crowning a sporting champion, the NCAA tournament bracket has no rival.

The NHL players' association, the league, the International Ice Hockey Federation, and the International Olympic Committee met last week in an attempt to decide whether professional players will be competing at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. And ...

Austria backed into the 2014 Sochi Olympics with a loss on Sunday, as reported here. Germany, which was ranked 10th heading into the qualifier, fails to make the 12-team tournament for the first time. What the groups will look like in Russia, lis...

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 ...

Craig Custance checks in with the NHL scouts in Ufa, Russia to see which players have impressed them most in the World Junior Championships.

Blog | Conversation | January 02, 2013