Ice surface put down for NHL hockey at T-Mobile Arena — PHOTOS
Las Vegas’ NHL expansion team doesn’t have a nickname yet, but at least it has a place to skate after T-Mobile Arena rink is frozen and lined. ......
View ArticleTour T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas: A Puck Daddy Photo Blog
LAS VEGAS -- T-Mobile Arena sits on the Las Vegas strip surrounded by hotels. For now it's hosting special events like WWE this past weekend, MMA fights, concerts and is on the verge of getting a brand...
View ArticleNHL coming to Las Vegas; new team to start play in 2017
LAS VEGAS — The NHL is making a big bet on Las Vegas. The league will expand to Las Vegas for the 2017-18 season after awarding its 31st franchise to billionaire businessman Bill Foley on Wednesday....
View ArticleLas Vegas awarded NHL expansion franchise for 2017-2018 season
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The NHL is making a big bet on Las Vegas. The league will expand to Las Vegas for the 2017-18 season after awarding its 31st franchise to billionaire businessman Bill Foley on...
View ArticleHockey in Vegas: NHL to add team in Sin City
(AP) - A person with direct knowledge of the NHL's decision says the league has settled on Las Vegas as its choice for expansion, provided organizers can come up with a $500 million fee. The person...
View ArticleFrom Student to Teacher at USA Hockey Arena (USA Hockey Inc)
(Source: USA Hockey Inc) Jacque Lupinacci-Mooney grew up skating at USA Hockey Arena. Now, she takes strides on the same sheets of ice, showing aspiring hockey players and figure skaters how to fly...
View ArticleESSEX COUNTY EXECUTIVE DIVINCENZO ANNOUNCES MODERNIZATION OF ESSEX COUNTY...
West Orange, NJ - Essex County Executive Joseph N. DiVincenzo, Jr. announced that a $2.8 million project to modernize Rink 1 in Essex County Codey Arena was underway on Tuesday, May 2. The new...
View ArticleDeveloping hockey (International Ice Hockey Federation)
(Source: International Ice Hockey Federation) VIERUMAKI - Some steps away from the ice rink at the Sport Institute of Finland in Vierumaki other programs of the 2016 IIHF Women's High-Performance Camp...
View ArticleLas Vegas residents seem happy to get NHL team
Jason Zucker learned how to play hockey in a casino. Growing up in Las Vegas, the Minnesota Wild forward would drive to a rink located about 20 minutes off the popular strip where you have to walk past...
View ArticleA bijou for France (International Ice Hockey Federation)
(Source: International Ice Hockey Federation) CERGY-PONTOISE, France - The Women's Olympic Qualification tournament was the international debut for Aren'Ice, the new venue in Cergy-Pontoise outside of...
View ArticleGirls’ Day in NZ (International Ice Hockey Federation)
(Source: International Ice Hockey Federation) AUCKLAND - It was a success. The World Girls' Ice Hockey Weekend started in New Zealand and gave newcomers a taste of the ice and brought back former...
View ArticleNHL 17 looks to recapture the series’ glory days
This is a big year for fans of EA Sports’ NHL series. Although EA has released two NHL titles on current-generation consoles, it feels like now is when the company is ready to truly get in gear on the...
View Article'This is our kid. He’s from our state': Arizona hockey beaming with pride...
TORONTO — Ron Filion was trying to run a hockey practice, but the Toronto Maple Leafs game kept getting in the way. “Coach Ron! Coach Ron!” the kids shouted when they skated onto the ice Wednesday...
View ArticleNHL is ‘eager to avoid’ expansion to Canada?
Quebec City was one of only two cities to submit bids for an NHL expansion franchise last week, which means it’s time for major Canadian newspapers to explain why the League’s inherent bias against the...
View ArticleOYO Sports Launches New Hockey Rinks for all 30 National Hockey League Teams...
BOSTON, Nov. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- OYO Sports, the leading manufacturer of licensed sports minifigures across the major U.S. sports leagues, today announced new additions to its expanding line of...
View ArticleWhat A Mostly Black Hockey Club For Kids Tells Us About The Sport's Future
Neal Henderson couldn’t find a place to teach his son to play hockey. A native of St. Croix who fell in love with the sport while growing up in Canada, he relocated to the suburbs of Washington, D.C.,...
View ArticleBoswell: Hockey and history – a few inconvenient facts about the 'NHL 100...
Take a bow Gary Bettman, Eugene Melnyk and Jim Watson. You overcame certain practical and pecuniary challenges, finally figuring out the ultimate Canadian no-brainer: how to combine hockey and history...
View ArticleAuston Matthews vindicates NHL expansion efforts in U.S.
BUFFALO, NY – One of the more important games in Toronto Maple Leafs history, as far as myth-building goes, didn’t actually involve the Maple Leafs. Or maybe it did. Auston Matthews honestly can’t...
View ArticleMiami Ice: Kendall teen Randy Hernandez on unlikely path to hockey stardom
There were no frozen ponds in Randy Hernandez’s neighborhood. No pickup hockey games. He didn’t own skates. His family never watched NHL games on TV. And he was more familiar with Super Mario Brothers...
View ArticleAP source: NHL settles on Las Vegas for expansion
A person with direct knowledge of the NHL's decision says the league has settled on Las Vegas as its choice for expansion, provided organizers can come up with a $500 million fee. The person spoke...
View ArticleNHL is stacking deck for Vegas expansion team to be great
WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Now that the NHL’s expedition to be the first major pro sports league to have a franchise in Las Vegas is taking shape, the question begs to be asked: Will the Vegas Golden Knights...
View ArticleNHL settles on Las Vegas for expansion
The NHL is ready to roll the dice on Las Vegas. A person with direct knowledge of the NHL’s decision says the league has settled on Las Vegas as the home for its next expansion franchise, provided...
View ArticleFirst hockey game in Toronto history
We’re not sure if they used a boot heel for a puck, what they did for nets, boards and benches or whether the men watching doffed their top hats and shouted “hip, hip hooray” for a goal. No sepia-toned...
View ArticleIt’s the girls’ weekend! (International Ice Hockey Federation)
(Source: International Ice Hockey Federation) World Girls' Ice Hockey Weekend Welcome to the World Girls' Ice Hockey Weekend tracker on 8/9 October 2016. We keep you updated here with events in 40...
View ArticleGet ready for NCAA hockey tourney! All you need to know on Eichel, Hanifin...
Icon Sportswire/AP ImagesBoston University's Jack Eichel celebrates with the Hockey East championship trophy. The men's NCAA hockey tournament begins this weekend. Here are 50 thoughts to get you...
View ArticleHow the Washington Capitals turned in—and recovered from—the worst NHL season...
In Largo did Abe Pollin A stately pleasure-dome decree; It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! —Tom Dowling, The Washington Star. July 2, 1972. The late Abe Pollin...
View ArticleJones: Las Vegas' NHL arena is great, but Edmonton's will be the best on the...
It’s located on Frank Sinatra Blvd. between the New York New York Hotel & Casino and the Monte Carlo Resort & Casino. You can see part of it from the exit ramp from Interstate 15 but it mostly...
View ArticleWhat We’re Thankful For In Hockey, 2015
(Ed. Note: It’s Thanksgiving time in the U.S., a.k.a. “Real Thanksgiving”, which means it’s once again time to reflect on what we’re thankful for in the world of hockey. Here are some of our favorite...
View ArticleAs Ottawa Senators attempt to build new arena, Bruce Garrioch ranks the NHL's...
The big debate in Ottawa this week surrounded the future of the downtown arena at LeBreton Flats for the Senators. Both bidders for the valuable land just west of downtown have included an NHL arena in...
View ArticleOttawa's got game
It’s tempting to think about the city’s remarkable run of athletic achievement over the past year and conclude that we’re living through a Golden Age in Ottawa sports history. It might even be true: a...
View ArticleSkopje celebrates on ice (International Ice Hockey Federation)
(Source: International Ice Hockey Federation) SKOPJE - It was just before Christmas when FYR Macedonia's national team stepped out on the ice for its first pair of international exhibition games. The...
View ArticleA whole new world: 1967 expansion paved the way for modern NHL
Rangers coach Emile Francis was just coming off the practice rink atop old Madison Square Garden on 8th Ave. when he was summoned by team governor William Jennings. It was early in the 1965-66 season...
View ArticleHockey’s biggest stars on why scoring is down in the NHL
Just a slapshot away from the swank MGM Grand Casino a sudden blast of southerly wind on a sweltering Nevada Monday afternoon suddenly results in a huge cloud of rust-coloured dust consuming a sandy...
View ArticleLas Vegas gambling NHL will say yes to expansion
Just call it a sign of the times, Vegas style. On this steamy desert afternoon, sweaty construction workers continue to weld, rivet and hammer together the skeleton of the spectacular Las Vegas Arena,...
View ArticleFrom Sarajevo to Las Vegas (International Ice Hockey Federation)
(Source: International Ice Hockey Federation) Vaughn Karpan isn't the best-known former Canadian Olympic hockey player, but he's parlayed his special experiences into a long career in player...
View ArticleIce, Beer, Blood: Three Days of Pond Hockey's 'Field of Dreams'
It's January in Minnesota. You hear that and, if you're not from there, you think ungodly cold. Beautiful, frozen Land of 1000 Lakes type stuff. The kind of weather smarter people recommend you stay...
View ArticleEA is finally bringing the modern NHL into NHL 18
Dangle and deke like they do on TV EA Sports has been using its famous slogan, “It’s in the game,” for more than two decades now, touting how realistic its games supposedly are. But while the games may...
View ArticleYouth injection, Canadian hope: Top 10 storylines for the 2016-17 NHL season
Wayne Gretzky’s all-time NHL all-star team doesn’t include Wayne Gretzky. Does yours? Cue the debates about the identity of the league’s all-time greats, part of the NHL’s 100th anniversary...
View ArticleNHL's top 10 storylines for 2016-17 season
Wayne Gretzky’s all-time NHL all-star team doesn’t include Wayne Gretzky. Does yours? Cue the debates about the identity of the league’s all-time greats, part of the NHL’s 100th anniversary...
View ArticleThe Evolution Of Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs And The Bad Boy Family Through...
May 20 2016, 2:35 AM ET Share this article: The launch of VIBE was the definitive introduction of the power of Hip-Hop and culture to move the crowd. Before the Internet, before email, before social...
View ArticleHot Ice: With the NHL and NFL headed to Vegas, the desert is ablaze
The Westgate Sports SuperBook seats on a first-come, first-served basis so all of the primo real estate has been staked out well before dawn. Even the bar in the back is packed with oh-so-many hopefuls...
View ArticleAll In: Behind the scenes with the Golden Knights, Vegas's first major league...
The billionaire who delivered major league sports to Las Vegas rides in a black SUV with tinted windows and private security at the wheel, an ex-military man like himself. Outside, the sun sets on the...
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