The Minnesota home crowd for Saturday's Big Ten men's hockey title game between the Gophers and Michigan, foreshadowed as a sellout in Patrick Reusse's column late last week, delivered as advertised.

2004-05-15 04:00:00 PDT Calgary, Alberta-- Mike Rathje sat on a podium in front of cameras Friday sporting a black eye, the literal representation of the figurative black eye on the NHL that his coach ...

GRAND FORKS - Jayson Hajdu walked briskly through the hallway outside of the University of North Dakota men's hockey locker room Tuesday afternoon, Sept. 26, looking down at a clipboard in his hand.

The leaders on a hockey team — or any team for that matter — are usually the players who have been around the longest. In the case of the Gophers men’s hockey team, seniors Wyatt Smith, Reggie Berg, ...

Today the tension in pro sports surrounding race, hate speech and homophobia is palpable. Hockey is no exception. Too often we see headlines attached to the NHL because its players were caught using ...

Quite frankly, I couldn’t care less about hockey. I know it’s played on ice with a puck, a stick and a lot of fisticuffs, but beyond that, it’s just a bunch of big guys on skates. Small towns and ...

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The lawsuit doesn’t read nearly as well as the story, which laid bare the life of an NHL enforcer for all to see. The way John Branch wrote about Derek Boogaard in the New York Times should have been ...

With all the attention paid to hockey moms in the past couple of weeks, hockey dads are getting short shrift. That might not matter in Florida or Ohio or a lot of places considered swing states in the ...

The ‘glass is half full’ point of view for the Buffalo Sabres towards the weekend back-to-back with the arch-rival Toronto ...

The collective bargaining agreement has expired and the players are balking at the owners’ demand for a salary cap. A Major League Baseball strike is imminent. “I don’t want to see it,” said Whalers ...