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Hitchcock-once a coach always a coach
Ken Hitchcock is half the man he used to be, staying in fighting trim through his recent work with Crossfit–a vigourous workout regime, along with learning how to eat right–but it’s as much about the...
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Will Darryl Sutter surface in LA as head coach?
With Terry Murray getting fired in Los Angeles Monday, one win from 500 as an NHL head coach in Washington, Florida, Philadelphia and SoCal, you have to wonder if interim guy John Stevens is only...
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Ryan Nugent-Hopkins Vs. Gabriel Landeskog For The Calder Trophy As The NHL’s...
It’s been a good year, on the whole, for the players selected early at the NHL’s 2011 Entry Draft, and perhaps it isn’t a surprise to see the first two picks from that draft – the Oilers’ Ryan...
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The Disposable Coach
When it comes to head coaches, there’s a culture in the NHL: a culture of disposability. Take Ken Hitchcock, the favourite to win this year’s Jack Adams award as the NHL’s coach of the year (this is...
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The Hockey News predicts the Oilers will finish 13th in the West in 2012-13
Will the additions of Nail Yakupov and Justin Schultz push the Edmonton Oilers into a playoff spot in 2012-13? According to The Hockey News, the answer to that question is no: they released their...
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Matty’s Short Shifts: Los Angeles Kings up-and-comer Tyler Toffoli made Simon...
- The Los Angeles Kings sent Simon Gagne on his way because they have Tyler Toffoli lighting it up in Manchester. Gagne didn’t ask for a trade, but Kings GM Dean Lombardi did him a huge favour dealing...
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St. Louis defenceman Wade Redden is back where he belongs
When he was embarrassingly exiled to the American League for 2 1/2 years to play for the Connecticut Whale in Hartford, Wade Redden was pretty much like everybody else down there except for that...
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Dan Boyle would be very attractive to a Stanley Cup contender or anybody else
Dan Boyle’s name keeps coming up at the trade deadline. He’s a power-play point guy, puck-mover, competitive — but he also turns 37 in July and will make $6.6 million next season. He’d be excellent in...
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Former Edmonton Oilers assistant coach Wayne Fleming dies of brain cancer
Wayne Fleming was hockey’s Norm, the guy who walks into the bar in Cheers every day and everybody says hello. Everybody knew Wayne Fleming, everybody loved him, everybody was glad to see him, give him...
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Hall, Eberle and RNH — sweet Edmonton Oilers music
Edmonton Oilers coach Ralph Krueger tried to fake out his St. Louis Blues counterpart Ken Hitchcock having his Young Guns — Taylor Hall, Jordan Eberle and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins — saddle up with other...
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Vancouver Canucks should have paid part of Roberto Luongo’s contract to deal him
Not sure why the Vancouver Canucks were so upset about the Toronto Maple Leafs telling them they wanted Vancouver to eat a percentage of Roberto Luongo’s contract. The Buffalo Sabres are doing it for...
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Jay Bouwmeester was always going to wind up with the St. Louis Blues
The St. Louis Blues’ pursuit of defenceman Jay Bouwmeester has never been a secret. At the NHL awards ceremony in Las Vegas last June, Blues head coach Ken Hitchcock had accolades for Bouwmeester when...
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Will NHL coaches ever find the hard-working, game-in-game-out Dustin Penner?
Every time I think of Los Angeles Kings power forward Dustin Penner squandering his size and talent, I think of his comeback being, “Yeah, but I have two Stanley Cup rings, I’ve made almost $25 million...
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Edmonton Oilers GM Craig MacTavish scouting role players in the playoffs
The most damning quote from Edmonton Oilers’ GM Craig MacTavish at his season-ending presser this week was his opinion of the role players offensive ability. “The best thing they were going to be was a...
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Ken Hitchcock weighs in on Magnus Paajarvi, David Perron, and the...
The view from St. Louis Ken Hitchcock may have been in Europe when the other shoe finally dropped on the David Perron-Magnus Paajarvi trade, but that doesn’t mean he didn’t have plenty of input on the...
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Ken Hitchcock has never forgotten where it all started, here in Edmonton
It’s a cliche, but home really is where the heart is, which is why hockey fans can again chew on Ken Hitchcock’s insights in the second “Lunch With Hitch” to raise money for The Brick Sport...
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Olympic team coach Ken Hitchcock is big Dallas Eakins fan
At a luncheon Friday, St. Louis Blues’ coach Ken Hitchcock stopped just short of yelling gimme an E, gimme an A, gimme a K, gimme an I, gimme an N, gimme an S when cheerleading for new Edmonton Oilers’...
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Hitchcocked by Sound & Fury: Review
2 stars Stage 44, Rutherford School This meandering parody-homage to the work of film director Alfred Hitchcock has the laboured feel of an overly long school assembly skit. It isn’t a good sign when...
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Ralph Krueger back working with Canadian Olympic team
After three Olympics as the Swiss national team coach trying to find ways to beat his home country, the Manitoba-born Ralph Krueger was wearing Team Canada colours Sunday after officially being...
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Remember: Edmonton Oilers’ acquisition of David Perron came courtesy St....
While it appears the Edmonton Oilers high-jacked David Perron from the St. Louis Blues when they traded for him this summer, offering up a much-lesser Magnus Paajarvi and a second-round pick, the Blues...
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