A season preview piece a week into the new season? Yeah, why not? Hockey is back and its back until June people. Spoiled we are! In the case of the 2024-25 Boston Bruins, one can lean on the eternal words of Gord Downie; “So the chemistry’s set”. That needs to be the team’s hope as the Bruins […]
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Bobby Hull has been widely regarded as one of the greatest hockey players of all time. Unfortunately as generations pass, legends of before become lesser known among the newer fans of hockey who have never seen them play and only hear the stories of beforehand . It’s what have you done lately not what was
The legendary Golden Jet: Bobby Hull Read More »
This past spring saw some good news – sort of – for Lokomotiv Yarovslavl. The club from the banks upper Volga, best known for the tragedy of September 7th, 2011, made its return to the Gagarin Cup Finals for the first time since the KHL’s inaugural season of 2008-09. On that earlier occasion Lokomotiv were
Edmonton Oilers Connections Help Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Lead the KHL Early Read More »
Welcome back hockey fans! Welcome to Week 6 of our news from around the world of hockey and around the league. We have lots to get to, so let’s jump right in. Thoughts? Questions? Suggestions? Then remember to tune in each week to get all the latest news in the world of hockey. For more
THE CAT’S Weekly Update – October 9, 2024 Read More »
Welcome back hockey fans! Welcome to Week 5 of our news from around the world of hockey and around the league. We have lots to get to, so let’s jump right in. Thoughts? Questions? Suggestions? Then remember to tune in each week to get all the latest news in the world of hockey. For more
THE CAT’S Weekly Update – October 2, 2024 Read More »
We’re about three weeks into the 2024-25 KHL season at this point, which means that the big picture, though still very blurry, is starting to sharpen up a little bit – especially for those teams that are off to inauspicious starts… And NHL pre-season preparations are also in full swing now, meaning that players without
Arrival and Departure in the KH Read More »
At some point in the quite-near future, two major individual records are going to fall in Russia’s KHL, and they’re going to fall to the same man. Vadim Shipachyov (or Shipachev) is 37 now, and his last couple of seasons at Ak Bars have seen a fairly significant drop-off in his once-prodigious point totals. This
Vadim Shipachyov Closes in on Some Major KHL Records Read More »
Welcome back hockey fans! Welcome to Week 3 of our news from around the world of hockey and around the league. We have lots to get to, so let’s jump right in. Thoughts? Questions? Suggestions? Then remember to tune in each week to get all the latest news in the world of hockey. For more
THE CAT’S Weekly Update – September 18, 2024 Read More »
Back in 2017, the IIHF World Championship was held in Paris and Cologne. As I was working in Cologne at the time, I took the opportunity and sacrificed 3 weeks of my annual leave to work as a volunteer at the World Championships. I applied to the transportation service and was soon accepted. Our job
How I met Wladislaw Alexandrowitsch Tretjak (Both in English & German) Read More »
Welcome back hockey fans! Welcome to Week 2 of our news from around the world of hockey and around the league. We have lots to get to, so let’s jump right in. Thoughts? Questions? Suggestions? Then remember to tune in each week to get all the latest news in the world of hockey. For more
THE CAT’S Weekly Update – September 11, 2024 Read More »