“Unfortunately, with something like this, it’s going to pretty much be doom and gloom until a deal gets done. I don’t think there’s going to be a build up, like ‘things are going really well’. One day, we’re going to wake up and it will be over, I think. That’s how it happened last time.” — Ottawa Senators centre Jason Spezza, Sept. 14, 2012.
Ottawa Senators players Jason Spezza, Erik Karlsson, Zack Smith and Colin Greening have all taken a break from playing in Europe, lending to the general tone of optimism that the end of the NHL lockout could be near. Yet as has been the case throughout all the highs and lows of the four-month squabble between [...]
The Carleton Ravens men’s hockey team and the locked out NHL players still in Ottawa have a lot in common these days: neither one is going to be playing hockey games for awhile. Just the same, there’s a mutual benefit for them in practicing with each other this month. For the NHLers on the ice [...]
The old saying that “a picture is worth a thousand words” doesn’t do it justice.
DELINE, NWT – If you’re going to travel through Canada’s north, you’ve got to go in style.
Nobody wins from the NHL lockout, right? Guess again. In a wild case of beginner’s luck during the second intermission of Sunday’s Northern Lights Dream tour, an apprentice carpenter named Patrick Osmond won himself a $30,000 car for shooting the puck from centre ice through a tiny opening in a board placed across the net.
When Canadian North flight 444 from Edmonton touched down here into the snow-swept capital of the Northwest Territories at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, John Chabot finally allowed himself to take a deep breath.