Will Crosby lead Canada to a second-straight gold medal in Sochi?   We've taken a look at the US Olympic hockey roster ad nauseum already, and there's still a month to go until the Opening Ceremonies. On Tuesday, the other 11 nations competing for hockey gold in Sochi announced their 25-man rosters, finally giving us […]

The 2014 World Junior Hockey Championships have concluded, with Finland winning their first gold medal since 1998 over archrival Sweden. As today's gold medal contest was getting underway, the IIHF announced their annual positional awards and the media's tournament all-star team. This year's games featured a number of upsets, including Czech Republic stealing a game on […]

Sample size. It's a fun phrase thrown around by many, but consistently remembered by few. It's meaning is often dismissed in the heat of a short international tournament, where the future of a nation's hockey program is put under the microscope and then forgotten altogether. In the wake of yesterday's big announcement from USA Hockey and […]

With the Winter Classic and the much anticiapted announcement of the United States roster for the 2014 Winter Olympics just a few days away, Puck Drunk Love decided it was time to get into the prediction game. In this edition of Faceoff with Steve and Mike, discuss their projections for who will be representing the Yanks […]

As the Americans cruised to an 8-0 win over Germany, their third consecutive victory at the 2014 World Junior Hockey Championships, it was easy to forecast a happy ending including a glorious rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner by players proudly displaying some fresh gold around their necks. Two days ahead of their annual meeting with […]

Canadian hockey fans are becoming accustomed to disappointment from the kids. Cause for concern is rearing its head a little early this year. In 2012, it was a heart-breaking comeback that fell short in a 6-5 semifinal loss to Russia, not before failing to show up for the first two periods and falling behind 6-1 […]

The two teams left to watch on the first day of the World Junior Hockey Championships yesterday, Slovakia and Finland, got underway today and quickly joined the other realistic medal contenders in the win column. Slovakia took on a Germany team fresh off yesterday's 7-2 beating at the hands of the Canadians and dispatched them […]

Though many of the matchups are often lop-sided, Boxing Day often serves as a cautionary tale for most of the world hockey superpowers as World Junior Hockey Championship action gets underway.  Teams that were thrown together just a few weeks prior, and finalized just days before preliminary action was set to begin, often need more […]

  Happy Holidays, folks! Though neither of us quite resembles a hulking man in a red suit, we've compiled a list of players who have been naughty and nice so far this NHL season. Here again are two of your favorite Puck Drunk Love writers,

In overtime of their November 12 game against the Buffalo Sabres, Jonathan Quick suffered a Grade 2 groin strain, and was expected to miss six-to-eight weeks. Despite struggling to regain his 2012 playoff form, his absence was considered a potentially devastating one just a few months after trading away Jonathan Bernier. The Kings, who sat […]

Hello and welcome to another installment of Faceoff with Steve and Mike, where two of your favorite writers pick apart what's eating the hockey world alive. In this edition, we take a deeper look at everyone who's gone berserk over Brad Marchand's taunting of the Vancover Canucks. Mike Salerno: The hockey community is up in arms over […]

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Few scribes around the country are better at chasing a story to the very end than some of the beat reporters in New York. In fact, the Big Apple is full of diligent journalists who not only possess the ability to hammer the subject of their story into submission, but to fabricate the entire story […]

There are few better ways to follow up a rookie campaign in which you are named a finalist for the Calder Trophy and are a contributing member to a Stanley Cup championship team. But Brandon Saad has been doing his best to find a way. And now he's got a trip to Sochi, Russia in […]

When you're able to make Mike Milbury, the famously abrasive hockey analyst, a sympathetic figure over the course of a 90-minute documentary, well, you've certainly accomplished something. Unfortunately for ESPN and Kevin Connolly, in the latest installment of their 30 for 30 series profiling former Islanders owner and professional con artist John Spano, that's just […]