ZSC Lions beat the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1 Tuesday in an exhibition game to win the Victoria Cup trophy. Lukas Grauwiler scored go-ahead goal with 5:16 to play, giving the Zurich club the trophy awarded to the New York Rangers for beating a Russian team before last season. Chicago hadn't lost to a European club since 1991. Read Original Post Here
The Phoenix Coyotes signed veteran center Robert Lang to a one-year contract Tuesday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Coyotes general manager Don Maloney said the 38-year-old Lang "provides another veteran presence for our team and is a proven scorer in the National Hockey League." Lang has 252 goals and 422 assists in 925 games in his 15-year NHL career along with 18 goals and 27… Read Original Post Here
Paul Kariya scored twice in the second period to lead the St. Louis Blues to a 6-0 victory over Swedish Elite League club Linkoping in a preseason game Tuesday. David Perron, Carlo Colaiacovo and Swedish stars Patrik Berglund and Alexander Steen also scored for the Blues, who will play the Detroit Red Wings in a two-game season-opening series in Stockholm's Globe Arena on Friday and Saturday. Read Original Post Here
The Columbus Blue Jackets have placed forward Fredrik Modin on injured reserve and made several other moves to reduce their roster to 23 players heading into Saturday's opener against Minnesota. General manager Scott Howson announced Tuesday that the veteran Modin, who has a knee injury, will start the year on IR. Read Original Post Here
Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby has practiced for the first time since injuring his groin during a preseason game Thursday in Columbus. Crosby took part in the Penguins' practice Tuesday and expects to play in the season opener Friday against New York Rangers. The Penguins will raise their Stanley Cup championship banner at Mellon Arena that night. Read Original Post Here
Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet is saying that 38-year-old Mats Sundin(notes) will announce that he’s going to hang up his skates today. He just got married in August so Sundin’s world has been changing a lot recently.
The longtime captain for the Toronto Maple Leafs had 564 goals and 1,349 points in 1,346 career NHL games. The future Hall of Famer also never played for a team in the U.S., spending time with the Quebec Nordiques and Vancouver Canucks as well.
Only a month ago, New York Newsday was reporting that the Canucks and New York Rangers were interested in getting Sundin to sign with them, even if it was just for the half year that he played for the Canucks last year. Sundin also apparently said he wasn’t planning on playing for Sweden in the 2010 Olympic Games.
Guess the Nordiques knew what they were doing when they drafted Sundin first overall way back in 1989
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When you’re a big-time NHL star, you’ve got to get used to a lot of groin overuse.
Sidney Crosby(notes), who became the youngest team captain in NHL history to lead his team to a Stanley Cup championship last spring, is apparently feeling things in the old abdominal area. The 22-year-old left an exhibition game against the Columbus Blue Jackets last Thursday with tightness in that particular area.
Crosby practiced yesterday but he’s saying that he’s not totally 100 percent. It’s looking possible that he’ll miss the season opener against the New York Rangers on Friday, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Not the way he wanted to start things off. And you can be sure the Penguins front office feels the same way.
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Former Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin is retiring from hockey after nearly two decades in the NHL. "It was a tough decision," Sundin said at a news conference at Stockholm's Grand Hotel on Wednesday. "It's sad to tell you today that my career as a pro hockey player is over." The 38-year-old Swede, who said he reached the decision this fall, played for the… Read Original Post Here
With the start of the regular season only days away, Zach Parise and Travis Zajac put a little urgency into their efforts after a poor outing, and it paid off. Parise and Zajac each had a goal and an assist and the New Jersey Devils defeated the New York Islanders 4-2 in the preseason finale for both teams Tuesday night.
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Forward Maxim Afinogenov and defenseman Mark Popovic, who played in the preseason with the Atlanta Thrashers on pro tryouts, have signed with the team. Afinogenov had one goal and an assist in three preseason games. The nine-year NHL veteran has 334 career points, including 134 goals, with the Buffalo Sabres. Read Original Post Here
