There are still eight players from the 2011 draft competing for opening night roster spots as the NHL preseason wraps up this weekend. It is always a tough ask to try and make an NHL roster in a draft year,

The Minnesota Wild enter the 2011-12 NHL season after another offseason of re-building and re-jigging of their roster. The franchise went through a similar process after the 2008-09 season when the franchise’s only coach at the time, Jacques Lemaire, resigned.

We start our look ahead at the 2011-12 NHL season with a couple of ‘quick looks’ at the two conferences and how they are likely to shape up over the next seven months of ice hockey. Here we look at

We start our look ahead at the 2011-12 NHL season with a couple of ‘quick looks’ at the two conferences and how they are likely to shape up over the next seven months of ice hockey. Firstly, we look at

NHL Senior Vice President for Player Safety Brendan Shanahan hasn’t been in the job long, but he appears to be making a statement already. This week has seen two significant suspensions following violations of the new boarding rule.

After a period of dominance at the beginning of the ‘new NHL’, the Ottawa Senators are in full re-build mode.

The NHL has announced that it wants a decision on the new alignment for the 2012-13 season by December 2011. The re-alignment has become necessary because of the return of the Winnipeg Jets. As an interim season, the Jets will

2010-11 was a near perfect season for the Vancouver Canucks, but they will be looking for just one more victory this time around. Vancouver came so close to winning the first Stanley Cup in the 40-year franchise history last season,

September is always a slightly strange time in the calender of avid NHL fans. After the buzz of the offseason has warn off and a slow August, there is an excitement and anticipation surrounding the prospect of hockey once again.

Every season there are a couple of teams that take that next step and make the playoffs. The obvious example from 2010/11 is Tampa Bay, after they underwent a large scale re-tool during the offseason. 2011/12 will not be any