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On Saturday, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced that the league is ready to seriously examine the role of fighting.
“We will have a good candid discussion,” Bettman said Saturday after a board of governors meeting. “We are not going to have any immediate knee-jerk reactions. We’re going to have to study things before we make changes — if we decide to make changes.
MONTREAL — Sidney Crosby isn’t even suiting up for Sunday’s all-star game but the Pittsburgh Penguins captain is attending the festivities anyway, thus avoiding missing a regular-season game as punishment for being a no-show.
Detroit Red Wings veterans Nicklas Lidstrom and Pavel Datsyuk, who opted to skip the game, were not so fortunate.
Both will miss the Red Wings next game Tuesday night in Columbus under an NHL rule adopted Continue reading ‘Wings pair punished for all-star skip’
MONTREAL — Montreal Canadiens winger Alex Kovalev and San Jose Sharks centre Joe Thornton have been named team captains for the 57th NHL All-Star Game in the Bell Centre Sunday.
Kovalev, who has 12 goals and 21 assists this season, will play a starring role Saturday night during the 2009 Honda/NHL SuperSkills when he represents the hometown Canadiens in the Scotiabank NHL Fan Fav Breakaway Challenge. He then will don the captain???s Continue reading ‘Kovalev, Thornton get all-star ‘C’s’
PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby expects to play in the NHL all-star game Sunday in Montreal despite having a sore left knee.
Crosby sat out a game Friday because of the knee injury, and was struck twice on the left arm by pucks during a 2-1 loss to Carolina on Tuesday night. He played nearly 26 minutes before being checked by a doctor to make sure there he wasn’t injured.
Crosby, 21, set a record by Continue reading ‘Crosby set for all-star game’
BROSSARD, Que. — Goaltender Carey Price says it is sheer coincidence that the new, flaming red pads he wore in practice on Monday go perfectly with the NHL Eastern Conference all-star team uniform.
“They have the Habs logo — they just happen to match really well,” said Price, one of four Canadiens that ballot box-stuffing Montreal fans voted onto the starting lineup for the all-star game on Sunday at the Bell Centre. “I’ll wear them Continue reading ‘Price ready for all-star game’
ST. PAUL, Minn. — When Marian Gaborik undergoes hip surgery on Monday, his highlight-filled and injury plagued career with the Minnesota Wild could be going right with him.
The star winger will have surgery on his left hip that will keep him out a minimum of 10 weeks, the team said Friday.
The last original member of the Wild, Gaborik is in the final year of his contract and previously turned down offers from the Continue reading ‘Wild star Gaborik out 10 weeks’
NEW YORK — Former Norris Trophy winners Scott Niedermayer, Nicklas Lidstrom and Chris Pronger are in a tight battle for a spot in the NHL all-star game starting lineup.
As of Tuesday morning, Anaheim’s Niedermayer was slightly ahead of Detroit’s Lidstrom and Ducks teammate Pronger for the second-highest voting total among Western Conference defencemen.
Chicago’s Brian Campbell has all but locked up the other spot Continue reading ‘All-star battle for starting lineup’
NEW YORK — Chicago Blackhawks forwards Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews own comfortable leads in voting for the NHL all-star game while races for the other Western Conference starting spots remain open.
As of 7 a.m. Wednesday morning, Kane led all Western Conference players with 595,351 votes, followed by Toews’ 500,214.
Anaheim Ducks centre Ryan Getzlaf held the third starting forward spot with 402,369 votes, but Continue reading ‘‘Hawks duo earning all-star respect’
MONTREAL — Goaltending coach Roland Melanson had a surprise for the Montreal Canadiens at practice on Thursday — a two-time Olympic gold medallist filling in for sick goalie Carey Price.
That much-decorated athlete was Kim St-Pierre, surely the first woman ever to take the ice with the Canadiens.
St-Pierre did not look out of place as she and back-up goaltender Jaroslav Halak faced NHL shots in a succession Continue reading ‘Female star St-Pierre visits Habs crease’
