Hockey players, especially goaltenders, have pre-game rituals. Some are more unusual than others. But no one had a stranger ritual than form...

Want to to talk some hockey and have a good laugh all at the same time? Talk to Dennis Hull. A fine player in his own right, Dennis was al...

One of the game's greatest forwards and one of the game's greatest goalies grew up in the same family home. Phil, the older of the...

Pierre Pilote was one of the most outstanding defensemen of his time. In the days before Bobby Orr redefined how defensemen played the gam...

Born in Sokolce, Czechoslovakia, Stan Mikita was the first Czechoslovakian-born player in the NHL. Born Stanislaus Gvoth, he was adopted...

Charlie Gardiner was Chicago's first hockey superstar. He led them to the top of the league and eventually their first Stanley Cup in ...

Earl Seibert was born on December 7, 1911. He is the son of Hall of Famer Oliver Seibert. In 1931 Siebert was traded from Springfield of t...

Doug Bentley only weighed in at an amazing 145 pounds, but his speed, anticipation and heart made up for any shortcomings his diminutive s...

He took over from Bobby Hull as the Blackhawks 50 goal scorer. At the same time he took over from Keith Magnuson as the Hawks enforcer and...

Without doubt, Keith Magnuson is one of the most memorable Chicago defensemen of all time. Keith Magnuson was born on April 27, 1947, in...

It is said that everyone gets 15 minutes of fame. Bill Mosienko only had 21 seconds. Bill Mosienko holds an amazing NHL record that like...

Not many sources reporting it, but former NHLer Lou Jankowski died on Saturday . He was 78. Jankowski played 130 NHL games with the Red W...

One of the most exciting players of any era in National Hockey League was Max Bentley. He was nicknamed "The Dipsy Doodle Dandy"...

It is believed that Fred Saskamoose was the first full blooded Native Indian to play in the National Hockey League. It was fitting that ...

Eddie Belfour will always be remembered in two ways. 1) As one of hockey's all time great goaltenders, and 2) as a prickly personal...

Denis Savard is one of the most electrifying players in the history of hockey, and almost certainly the most exciting of his era. That is ...

Long before he joined the NHL, Bobby Hull was labeled a sure-fire NHL player. And he didn't disappoint anyone. Although he didn'...

Chris Chelios was a skating contradiction. On one hand he was no-nonsense S.O.B but on the other he was a sentimental sap. Chelios ha...

Ron Murphy was a useful utility forward for nearly 900 NHL games. He was a Stanley Cup champion (1961) and a Memorial Cup champion (1952)....

Keith Carney was an honest, basic defenseman who made up for a lack of foot speed with his uncanny ability to take the shortest path to th...

Who was the first Russian born player in the history of the National Hockey League? Here's a hint: it is not one of more modern Soviet p...

For 10 seasons and over 400 NHL games Art Wiebe quietly patrolled the Chicago Blackhawks blue line. More often than not he and Earli Seibe...

World War II commitments depleted a lot of NHL rosters during the early 1940s. That opened up jobs for minor league players as fill-ins. ...