NHL general managers are meeting this week, and one of the items expected to be discussed is the replay review system. It’s mostly working fine, the league’s power brokers seem to agree. But reviews ...

For almost a decade, Jill Saulnier was an energy line forward for the Canadian women’s national team, winning two Olympic medals and a world championship. Now she can add a new line to her resume: She ...

During the 1986 offseason, a very strange thing happened in the NHL: The league made a rule change that nobody got all that upset about. That was rare, even back then, because fans like to complain ...

A fight could be one of highlights of the season in most sports. Baseball fans can vividly remember Jose Ramirez and Tim Anderson squaring up, or Rougned Odor punching Jose Bautista. Hockey takes a ...

Hockey is chock-full of unusual rules — some written down in the official NHL rulebook, others left unspoken but just as firmly upheld. From picking up the stick of another player to leaving piles of ...

Earlier this week, Sportico broke the news that the Youngstown Phantoms, along with another team in the United States Hockey League (USHL), hired famed sports litigator Jeffrey Kessler of Winston & ...

International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) rules at the Olympics differ from the NHL in a few ways: Roster sizes are smaller in Olympic competition than in the NHL Fighting is not permitted in Olympic ...