Though many of the matchups are often lop-sided, Boxing Day often serves as a cautionary tale for most of the world hockey superpowers as World Junior Hockey Championship action gets underway.  Teams that were thrown together just a few weeks prior, and finalized just days before preliminary action was set to begin, often need more […]

Christmas is the season of giving. Perhaps it's for the best, then, that the Winnipeg Jets organization give their fans a break and pretend to try to do something about the situation that their team has found themselves in this holiday season. Maybe it's time for Claude Noel to have popped his last lozenge.  There's […]

While still comparitavely small to the NHL and Olympics, the World Junior Hockey Championship has grown in profile in the past five years in the United States. Between NHL Network's commitment to televising much of the tournament and providing an American spin on things, to the Americans growing more successful as that coverage has grown. […]

  Happy Holidays, folks! Though neither of us quite resembles a hulking man in a red suit, we've compiled a list of players who have been naughty and nice so far this NHL season. Here again are two of your favorite Puck Drunk Love writers,

         The Phoenix Coyotes found a new way to lose a hockey game.  The Coyotes took on the Buffalo Sabres on Monday night at the First Niagara Center. Sixty minutes of regulation couldn’t produce a winner so both teams went into an overtime period to award the extra point. Then things got […]

If you’ve been watching hockey the last few seasons, you know that the Edmonton Oilers have been an awful hockey club. Since losing the 2006 Stanley Cup Finals to the Carolina Hurricanes, the Oilers have failed to reach the playoffs. They’ve even won the draft lottery a few times and have been able to load […]

Happy Holidays from all of us at PDL! As you prepare to enjoy the holiday festivities, take a moment to reflect on what's important to you and what makes life special. For us, we love the great game of hockey and nearly everything associated with it aside from a few notable (Sorry Gary) exceptions.  We […]

  This week we’re going to take a look at some of the best rookies in the NHL this season and the usual assortment of other stuff.   Tomas Hertl, San Jose Sharks Hertl is the front-runner for rookie of the year but his chances took a major blow after he was injured in a […]

We love HBO's 24/7 because it offers us a new angle on the great game of hockey. The AHL's Charlotte Checkers took this notion and ran with it, strapping a camera on one of their officials during a game against the Rockford IceHogs. We've seen similar footage in the past from the AHL, but this […]

There is no question the first episode of 24/7 between the Wings/Leafs left us a little disappointed. After knocking it out of the park with the two previous installments, we thought maybe HBO lost its touch. Oh boy were we wrong. Episode two of this years installment was not just not better than last weeks […]

There were unlimited games of hockey played on every level this week. There were undoubtedly some really great plays, but for purposes unknown, we decided to celebrate some of the worst of the week. From diving to one ugly jersey, here are six of the worst things to come out of hockey this past week.  […]

I will say, that as a Blues fan, I'm far more partial to the Blues' holiday greetings, but the video produced by the Chicago Blackhawks is a close second. Video after the jump. The Hawks are hocking their holiday movie collection, with both awkward and amazing results. Marvel at Nick Leddy's oddly perfect Napoleon Dynamite!  […]

The saga surrounding Colorado Avalanche goaltender Semyon Varlamov’s assault case has finally drawn to an end. On Friday, the case was finally dismissed due to the fact that the prosecutors could not prove his guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. This was first reported by the NBC affiliate in Denver. Varlamov was free on $5,000 bond […]

Mason Raymond tried to pull off an ambitious spin-o-rama against the Phoenix Coyotes. It's safe to say things didn't go according to plan. As he backed in towards the Phoenix net, he first lost the puck and then lost his balance in what might be the most embarrassing play of the month.  Maybe this is […]

Pictured above is the result of stupidity. Not a sudden rage, but pre-meditated stupidity. Tom Wilson of the Washington Capitals lined Flyers forward Brayden Schenn up in his sites and steamrolled him into a boards that'd make a 12 year old playing NHL 14 proud: http://youtube.com/watch?v=89Ldu2k0oKU There's no room for that in the game. None. […]