Players on Committee Favor Fast Approval on Head Checks
By JEFF Z. KLEIN
The five players on the N.H.L. competition committee on Wednesday endorsed fast-track approval to suspend players who initiate blind-side head checks.
The five players on the N.H.L. competition committee on Wednesday endorsed fast-track approval to suspend players who initiate blind-side head checks.
Three Washington Capitals players described their visits to a chiropractor arrested on drug charges as nothing more than routine treatments.
Washington Capitals players on Wednesday described their visits to a chiropractor arrested on drug charges as nothing more than routine treatments.
Douglas Owen Nagel, who was arrested Tuesday on charges of distributing illegal performance-enhancing drugs, has seen several of the team’s players for routine chiropractic services.
Jason Spezza said Monday that the N.H.L. Players’ Association was looking to make a counterproposal to the rule drafted by general managers earlier this month.
At a showing of the Islanders-Rangers game at the Theater at Madison Square Garden the impact of hockey in 3-D was clear.
After a stirring men’s hockey tournament in Vancouver, the N.H.L. may decide not to participate in the Sochi Games in 2014.