Hockey

For the next two weeks we’re running a daily series of our conversations on the red carpet at the ESPYs. This is the seventh in the series. On the day Mike Modano was named to the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, he stopped for a brief interview with Outsports at the ESPYs. The NHL's former […]

Bettman offers his verbal support for the group aiming to end homophobia in the NHL, though he avoids using the word "gay"

From our friends at Puck Buddys comes a nice little story about Bobby and Jon and their date at a Dallas Stars NHL game. Bobby, 23, is a huge Stars fan and he realized his dating relationship with Jon was going well when he agreed to attend a game. “I was so excited for him […]

The San Jose Sharks have rejected a request by a lesbian Sharks fan that the team join the growing list of pro-sports teams to create an ‘It Gets Better’ video. Gloria Nieto made the request over the summer. From the San Jose Mercury-News: In turning her down, the team said it received requests to get […]

New York Rangers hockey player Sean Avery was arrested in Los Angeles on a misdemeanor charge that he shoved a Los Angeles police officer. From the L.A. Times: Authorities responded about 1 a.m. to a neighbor’s complaint about loud music at Avery’s Hollywood Hills home, police said. New York Rangers hockey player Sean Avery was […]

Brendan Burke’s family has a long history in hockey and the NHL. He added to it.

There are few moments in sports with the excitement of a game 7 in hockey. With hard hits and goals at such a premium, every pass, every check takes on such importance that tension in the arena is hard to match anywhere else. When you add in suspensions, illegal season-ending hits, biting, and six games […]

We won’t be seeing this scene again this year After the Blackhawks-Canucks game, I started wondering what's a worse way to get knocked out of the playoffs: 1) Lose four straight games or…2) lose three, then come back from the dead to win three, then lose Game 7…in overtime? You gotta feel badly for the […]

Two gay Vancouver Canucks fans are causing an Internet stir by dressing as the “Hockey Luvin Homos.” They go by the monikers Henrietta and Daniella, spoofing the Canucks’ Sedin twins, Henrik and Daniel. The Homos got on TV during last night's Los Angeles Kings vs. Canucks game, when they were shown behind the Vancouver bench […]

Cole Burkhalter has been named the inaugural recipient of the Brendan Burke Internship in the hockey operations department of USA Hockey, the sport’s amateur governing body, based in Colorado Springs, Colo. Burkhalter grew up playing hockey in Knoxville, Tenn., but was forced to shift his attention from player to hockey operations at the age of […]

As Kyle Beach was being harassed with anti-gay slurs for reporting sexual assault to the Blackhawks, players got caught on camera doing this.

Jonathan Toews Patrick Kane scored on a bizarre goal four minutes into overtime to give the Chicago Blackhawks a 4-3 win over the Philadelphia Flyers and the team's first Stanley Cup title since 1961. The Blackhawks won the thrilling series, 4-2, in which there were two overtime games. Kane's goal was strange because he seemed […]

Here’s a Stanley Cup final that no one saw at the start of the playoffs — the Philadelphia Flyers vs. the Chicago Blackhawks. But it’s a reality after the Flyers beat the Montreal Canadiens in five games, a day after the Blackhawks swept the San Jose Sharks. This is an intriguing final from a historical […]

Hottest player? Jimmy says it’s this guy. Editor's note: Mikey writes the awesome blog HockeyKidMn and lives in Minnesota. Jimmy did an amazing job blogging during the Olympics from the Frozen North. Both also play hockey, and they have teamed up to write an NHL preview. It's a great complement to Joe's NHL guide, which […]

Liberia is a West African country that has a tropical climate, no electricity grid and where half of the people live on less than $1 a day. It also a place where the concept of ice hockey is totally foreign. Which is why it’s strange that among the most coveted items are NHL jerseys. Bonnie […]

Despite there being about 80 million more Americans than in 1980, the number of people who watched Canada beat the United States in overtime for the Olympic gold medal on Sunday was 20% below the number who watched the U.S.-Soviet Union semifinal game in Lake Placid, and even 15% below the U.S.-Finland gold-medal game that […]

We're trying out a new feature on Outsports for the U.S.-Canada gold medal hockey game: Chat with other readers! Check back here at 2:30pmET for pregame chatting with other Outsporters, and then watch the game while chatting with them! You can set an email reminder for the chat after the jump. We’re trying out a […]

Congratulations to Team Canada for its stirring, pulsating, dramatic 3-2 overtime win over the U.S. to win the Olympic hockey gold. The game winner was scored by Sidney Crosby, who beat the superb Ryan Miller in goal. It was hockey at its best. I had no real rooting interest, but was glad when the U.S. […]

So, I asked our Canadian correspondent Jimmy D. and Hockey Kid in Minnesota, Mikey, to write a point-counterpoint to the gold medal U.S.-Canada hockey game. Jimmy was game, but Mikey unfortunately was too busy. So then I asked Jimmy to write as if he was interviewing Mikey. He obliged, but I told him what he […]

OK. I’m not the biggest hockey fan, as previously mentioned in article written by Jim, but even I know when someone does something dumb. Canada won the gold medal for the third straight Olympics in women's hockey, beating the U.S., 2-0. That's awesome. But then the women lost all common sense. Members of the team […]