According to the NHL, the Hart Memorial Trophy is awarded “to the player adjudged to be the most valuable to his team.”
A question arises. What constitutes value?
MVP awards are voted on...
The NHL’s nation-based tournament is not the Olympics, and it isn’t really an all-star game either. Instead of the typical all-star format used by nearly every other professional sports league, the NHL opted to create the 4 Nations Face-Off, featuring teams of players from Canada, the United States, Finland and Sweden.
No one wants to be picked last for their middle school dodgeball team.
Even if you’re an NHL all star, you don’t want to be drafted last.
After years of simply dividing the all stars by their respective divisions — Atlantic, Metropolitan, Central and Pacific — to play in a four-team bracket to decide the winning team, the NHL decided to mix up the format and return to a draft format.
Following yesterday's breakdown of the Eastern Conference, Belle Fraser takes a look at the playoff series in the West for a follow-up edition of Off the Post.
Despite the uncertainty over when the next National Hockey League season will be played, debate over the best center in the NHL has spurred columnist Chad Jones to state the case for Pittsburgh Penguin Sidney Crosby.
