Goons are pretty much gone in the NHL. More and more teams are rolling four lines of forwards who can skate - and score. The days of having seldom-used tough guys on the fourth line just to throw ...

To preface: I am a dyed-in-the-wool (sweater) hockey fan. A true puckhead, who knows his Staals from his Stolls and his Lubomir Visnovskys from his Vitaly Vishnevskiys. So watching the first look at ...

The National Hockey League needs to step in and protect its players from unabashed cheap-shot artists like Washington Capitals right wing Tom Wilson. On Sunday, Wilson lined up an easy target in ...

Sometimes even hockey movies exaggerate for dramatic effect. Fortunately Auston Matthews is here to help discern the real from the Hollywood. The Toronto Maple Leafs center fact-checked some classic ...

Today in sports: A nasty hockey brawl at Madison Square Garden won't do much to ease concerns about fighting in hockey, fed-up fans of the Golden State Warriors turn a celebration into an evening of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Canada's Sam Bennett, left, fights with the United States' Brady Tkachuk during a 4 Nations Face-Off game in Montreal last weekend ...

When is a hockey game more than a hockey game? When a president places a pregame call to pump up the players, a prime minister offers postgame commentary, and monuments such as the Empire State ...