Son of the Great One: Skating in Gretzky's Shadow
629283
At 15 and in only his second season of competitive hockey, Ty Gretzky is far from the budding hockey superstar that his father, Wayne, was at the same age.
427464
At an age when most players are casting one eye toward retirement, Minnesota Wild netminder Niklas Backstrom is looking to make the most his a long-awaited first opportunity in the NHL.
195330
It was a good night to be an unknown, unheralded, unheard-of player in the NHL.
70626
The sequence began in a comical fashion. The tallest player in NHL history, having just lost his redwood-length Warrior stick, was shuffling along the Bell Centre ice, bent over like the hunchback of Notre Dame. Zdeno Chara, his arms dangling and palms facing out, first shadowed Alexei Kovalev, then dogged Sheldon Souray.
456572
It has long been the National Hockey League Players&#39; Association position that it&#39;s the league&#39;s owners that are driving the lockout bus, that commissioner Gary Bettman has staked his reputation
146731
Stainless steel holds Bob Goodenow&#39;s left cheek together, a 24-gauge badge of honour earned the old-fashioned way: on the ice, in a game, from an opponent&#39;s high stick.
505270
Ice hockey legend Wayne Gretzky has admitted he has no solution to offer which might help end the current NHL lockout. The &#39;Great One&#39;, now part-owner of the Phoenix Coyotes, and says he can see both sides of the dispute between team owners and players.
653828
Getting the puck past two-time Vezina Trophy winner Martin Brodeur usually requires traffic in front of the net, a well-placed shot through a screen, a lucky deflection or a slick move by the shooter.
86553
ANAHEIM, California  - When Wayne Gretzky was traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in 1988, the NHL saw the move as a major breakthrough in its ambitious expansion dreams into non-traditional markets.
763981
Wayne Gretzky is an ice hockey god to  millions of Canadians but even the "Great One" is unable to  offer a solution to the labor dispute now threatening to wipe  out the entire NHL season.
107597
Jim Kelley wondered how some South Buffalo kid with unpretentious dreams of covering hockey for his hometown paper could ever have anything in common with such legends as Ray Bourque, Paul Coffey and Larry Murphy.
125789
He is the two-time reigning VÃ©zina Trophy winner, a three-time Stanley Cup champion, an Olympic gold medal winner. In a year when the majority of World Cup teams are wishing
363256
Drafted by a Capitals franchise with so little success, Alex Ovechkin arrived from Russia with much fanfare and has quickly become Washingtonâs pied piper of hockey.
560508
The NHL, as Marc Savard calls it, is now a special-teams league. So it's no coincidence that yesterday at Ristuccia Arena, as the hours ticked away until tomorrow's season opener against the Florida Panthers, the Bruins spent much of practice working on man-up and man-down situations.
292749
Unless the Lords of the Boards discover hockey's answer to Drano or Liquid-Plumr to cure what clogs the game's neutral zone, never again will we see the 1,000-point likes of Ray Bourque, Paul Coffey, and Larry Murphy working a National Hockey League blue line. Their work over the last quarter-century, rewarded last Monday night by their induction into Hockey's Hall ...
177631
TORONTO -- The goaltending issue? The search for a red-hot backstop? Panic in the pipes?
527303
Christopher Bowman, a two-time U.S. figure skating champion, spent years struggling with drug use. His longtime coach recalls the athlete's talent and his "dark side."