What you missed in NHL this week

The NHL season kicks off tonight with a handful of games involving teams we don't care one bit about. But that doesn't mean we still can't think about the bigger picture and try to predict who is going to walk away with all the 

One pulled punch after another, the fight game is dropping out of the NHL. Boston fan favorite Shawn Thornton finds himself punching the clock (and any willing opponent) in Sunrise, the NHL's sleepy south Florida town where hockey went to retire. The

This still doesn't make much sense to us, but well, here it is: Chris Pronger is an employee of the NHL's Department of Player Safety. Reportedly but Bob McKenzie is rarely wrong. It's official: Chris Pronger has been hired to 

The NHL season kicks off tonight with a handful of games involving teams we don't care one bit about. But that doesn't mean we still can't think about the bigger picture and try to predict who is going to walk away with all the 

19-year-old Andre Burakovsky has already scored his first NHL goal, and we're not even ten minutes old! Skating between Troy Brouwer and Marcus Johansson, Burakovsky continued his torrid pace from the preseason,