Niedermayer on Ducks' struggles, NHLPA mess
E.J. Hradek...the most decorated skaters in hockey history. He has been a key contributor to four Stanley Cup champions, as well as gold medal squads at the World Junior Championships, World Championships, World Cup of...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 13, 2009
Happy times nearing in KHL-NHL relationship?
Pierre LeBrun...different status, National team level competitions, including Olympic Games and World Championships, club level competitions and the future of the European-based Champions Hockey League. The two sides reached an understanding of the need...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 12, 2009You vented ... I'm answering
Pierre LeBrun...them metamorphose (just in time) into a team that took fewer chances and played smarter, playoff-style hockey. But they had to go down 3-1 in the first-round series before they figured it...
Blog Entry | Conversation | November 03, 2009Scoring? Cooking? Stamkos a master of both lately
Pierre LeBrun...in nine games at this past year's world championship in Switzerland, where Stamkos helped lead Canada to...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 23, 2009Penguins find defensive answer in Jay McKee
Pierre LeBrunIt was back in June at the NHL awards in Las Vegas when your humble hockey hack ran into Pittsburgh Penguins GM Ray Shero after the show. It didn't take long before...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 12, 2009Islanders phenom may be worth the hype
Matt Kalman...customary gold medal at the World Junior Championship. "He was a big part...his craft in the Western Hockey League at the time, while...
Blog Entry | Conversation | October 10, 2009Burnside & LeBrun: Our Top 10 lists ... rookies, sophomores and players with something to prove
ESPN.comScott Burnside: 10 rookies/sophomores to watch this season We all know about John Tavares on Long Island. Watching the No. 1 pick from this past June'...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 30, 2009My not-so-wide-awake report from Helsinki: GM Sexton earning right to stay with Panthers
Pierre LeBrun...all-too-familiar smell of hockey equipment. Near the elevators was...day (I covered the 2003 world championships here six years ago). In...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 29, 2009Despite Kadri craze, Leafs did the right thing
E.J. Hradek...star back to the Ontario Hockey League's London Knights for...strong Knights team to a championship? Those are some significant goals...Canada at the Under-20 (World Junior) championships in December/January...
Blog Entry | Conversation | September 28, 2009
Friends, and enemies, will be made in 2010
Pierre LeBrun...against Chicago Blackhawks teammate Patrick Sharp in the world championships and the Team Canada forward's warning Kane...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 26, 2009Green and Robidas: Two defensemen on different paths, but their Olympic goal is the same
Pierre LeBrun...week at the Canadian Olympic hockey camp, and beyond, in their...s team at the 2001 world championship in Hannover, Germany, a team...
Blog Entry | Conversation | August 26, 2009Latest rumblings: Radulov's Russian dilemma, Biron's future and who needs D
Pierre LeBrun...blueliner Shea Weber at the world championships in Switzerland in April, apparently...retribution from the people running hockey in his mother country when...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 03, 2009'Captain Canada' Ryan Smyth receives Olympic orientation camp invite, and rightfully so
Pierre LeBrun...junior gold medal, a 2002 Olympic gold medal, 2003 and 2004 world championship gold medals and a 2004 World Cup of Hockey championship. All told, he has played 85 games at the national level...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 02, 2009Our early (real early) Team Canada picks
Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrunHockey Canada released its 46-player roster for its Olympic orientation camp in August. But we asked our...
Blog Entry | Conversation | July 02, 2009Hitchcock returns to Games, Canada's invite list could reach 44 players
Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrun...game. Two years later, Hitchcock was also part of the staff when Canada won the World Cup of Hockey championship. He was back again in 2006, rooming with assistant coach Wayne Fleming, when the Canadians...
Blog Entry | Conversation | June 25, 2009
