The IR Report: Playoff Edition

In this weeks report we look at updates, players recently injured, the resulting suspensions, and more.

Alexander Radulov Returns to the Nashville Predators

The Nashville Predators went from being a dark horse, to Stanley Cup contender with the announcement the star forward Alexander Radulov is about to return to the NHL.

Ten Career Highlights of the Ottawa Senators Chris Phillips

Originally posted at: The Hockey Writers
Chris Phillips recently played in his 1,000^th career NHL game with the Ottawa Senators. In recognition of this accomplishment, let’s take a walk down memory lane and look back on ten career highlights from Chris Phillips.

A Potential Direction for the Nashville Predators

With the NHL trade deadline coming fast and Nashville’s two top defenders Shea Weber and Ryan Suter both with expiring contracts, questions and uncertainty as to the future of Nashville’s roster are abound. Here is one potential road the franchise may take.

Filatov Gets Opportunity on Ottawa’s Top Line with Spezza

Filatov takes a shot on Sens top line

Nikita Filatov skated on the top line for the Ottawa Senators tonight in Winnipeg with Colin Greening and star center Jason Spezza.

Filatov’s Future in Ottawa is Unclear

The Nikita Filatov experiment in Ottawa may be coming to an end sooner than expected.

Last Sunday Filatov and Ottawa Senators GM Bryan Murray had a meeting to discuss Filatov’s future. Filatov made it clear he would rather be in the NHL where he would be earning his $2.195M contract, or in the KHL where he could earn similar money, rather than be playing in the AHL where he makes $65,000

Doughty Contract Solution

Image courtesy of: TSN  Photography
Drew Doughty and Los Angeles Kings GM Dean Lombardi are currently locked in a bitter and stalemate contract with no solution in sight. Negotiations have stalled, and as training camp continues and the regular season approaches, the threat of Doughty missing regular season games looms. Either one side needs to bend, or another solution needs to be presented. Doughty is a restricted free agent, therefore, one possible solution could come in the form of an offer sheet from another team.  Such an offer to a player of Doughty’s caliber is without precedent and highly unlikely, since the contract would need to be very significant.

Off Season Review: Ottawa Senators

In Review: The 2010-2011 season began full of hope for the Sen's. Feeling confident that previous inadequacies were addressed with the addition of Gonchar on the back end and a healthy pascal leclaire. All hope quickly faded due to injuries and substandard goaltending and GM Brian Murry began a fire sale,

New Fantasy NHL

In 2004 the NHL missed an entire season due to a labor dispute. In 2005 the NHL came back better than ever, in what is still refereed to as the "New NHL". With new rules making the game faster and more offensively focused to win back fans. Since the return of the NHL in 2005 fantasy hockey has exploded! Internet websites and blogs have propelled fantasy hockey into the main stream. Office pools are common place,  and more and more keeper pools are starting to exist. With the emergence of fantasy hockey it is high time for fantasy hockey to take the next step in its evolution.