Last Wednesday the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Phoenix Coyotes played a pre-season game in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Hockey fans in Winnipeg got a chance to see the two teams the city is probably most interested in, their former Jets, now Coyotes, and the Leafs, who were always a big ticket when they visited Winnipeg in [...]

Everyone is already well aware that Chicago Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz has died, passing away earlier today after a bout with cancer. As my comrade Raskolnikov put it so well in his post directly preceding to this one,  we here at MYFO offer our condolences to the Wirtz family and do not wish death on anyone.
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The Eulogy
 
Bill Wirtz did not exist as a human being to me. I saw his smug grin plastered on anything related to the Blackhawks, but I never knew his opinions. He rarely made public appearances or commented on the sorry state of his hockey team. Business decisions were firmly rooted in the twentieth century. For [...]

And you thought the Ducks and Kings had it bad.
In a move that continues a trend to export all hockey out of the state of California, the San Jose Sharks have agreed to send 5 players and 3 coaches to China for the upcoming season in hopes of strengthening the Asia Ice Hockey League (AIHL.)  [...]

None of the St. Louis Blues’ actual hockey players would probably rank among the game’s most feared enforcers. Long gone are the days when opponents would have to stare down both Tony Twist and Kelly Chase if they wanted to take a cheap shot at a skill player. These days, D.J. King is [...]

As we here at MYFO have covered before, the Tampa Bay Lightning are in the process of being sold to a group of investors including Doug MacLean and one of the producers of the “Saw” series. At the time I wrote that column, the news was less than twelve hours old. I began to wonder [...]

Who says the NHL isn’t sexy enough? Our readers out there of the fairer sex (and some of the guys…not that there’s anything wrong with that) would probably beg to differ. The gentlemen in the almost too-hot-for-MYFO photo you see above is Brent Burns,  a 22 year-old defenseman for the Minnesota Wild.

Earlier this month, the Penguins honored their season ticket holders by personally hand-delivering ticket packages to a number of random subscribers. Sidney Crosby lucked out and visited the home of one Alice Kilgore, who was so floored by the experience of meeting her hockey hero, she couldn’t help but make a gushing prediction about her [...]

Yesterday, for the first time in more than 30 years, a Canadian dollar was exactly equal to a U.S. dollar. Do you know what this means? That’s right–no more cheap lumber or PEI potatoes for us greedy Americans, and smug Canucks tipping their bewildered American hotel doorman in loonies and other funny money on their [...]

That’s it, we’ve had enough.
Two to four weeks? Ron Hainsey, let me introduce you to the Knaves of Toews.