So the Penguins deal away Colby Armstrong for Marian Hossa. Hossa is either acclaimed and reviled, depending on who you talk to. But universally, everyone wanted to see how he’d do on a line with Our Lord and Savior, Sidney Crosby.
FOOLS!

The St. Louis Blues rank at or near the bottom of the NHL in scoring and power play efficiency. That tends to happen when you have a roster clogged with stay-at-home defensemen and third- and fourth-line wingers whose best chance at scoring involves the opposing goaltender having a grand mal seizure.
One bright spot has been [...]

Since my colleague Weed is still working mightily to restrain himself from writing about the Wild to earn some handy cash, I’m picking up the torch today. The Wild’s big trade deadline move came in the form of Chris Simon. Yes, the same Chris Simon who received the longest suspension in NHL history earlier this [...]

BOSTON (MYFO) – On a day where over 25 deals were struck in efforts to make the playoffs or build for the future, one NHL team remained quiet all day long.  The Boston Bruins, currently hanging on to the 6th position in the Eastern Conference, kept the roster intact as the 3 PM zero hour [...]

To help explain this excitement / bafflement sandwich us Pens fans have been picking at for the past 24 hours, I’ve taken the liberty of combining sentences from the article in yesterday’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “Though Penguins not ruling anything out, major deal not likely at today’s NHL trade deadline“, with sentences from this morning’s article, [...]

On the night of Trade Deadline Day, which of the following three global personalities were least likely to be in Washington Capitals’ Owner Ted Leonsis’ Personal Box?
A) Commissioner Gary Bettman
B) The Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
C) Hextall454
D) Trick question: WE. WERE. ALL. THERE.

So the dust is starting to settle and another NHL trading deadline has come and gone. Woo-fucking-hoo. Sorry for the lack of enthusiasm, but other than a few “headliner” trades, in particular as time was running out (most notably, Campbell to San Jose; Huet, Fedorov and Cooke going to the Caps; Richards to the Stars [...]

What do the following guys have in common?
Jason York.  Stu Grimson.  Mark Ferner.  Magnus Nilsson.  Roman Oksuita.  Chris Gratton.  Mikael Renberg.  Daymon Langkow.  Ryan Johnson.  Dwayne Hay.  Johan Fransson.  Darryl Sydor.  Teppo Numminen.  Brent Johnson.  Tim Shishkanov.  Oh, and a truckload of “ future considerations.”
They’ve all had their lives altered by the trading juggernaut that is [...]

We try to be fair in spreading the hate around here. We hate because we love. Except Gary Bettman. He sucks.
But Scott Burnside? For the second time today, MYFO says Go fuck yourself.

I viewed Mats Sundin’s decision not to waive his no-trade clause as the kind of difficult but noble (if a bit irrational) act of franchise allegiance that sportswriters are constantly claiming doesn’t exist in pro sports anymore. Even though it’s a case of sentimentality over short-term financial sense (and possibly a draft pick or two), [...]