Phil Housley

Team USA won the gold medal at the World Junior Hockey Championships on Saturday, riding two goals by Southern California native Rocco Grimaldi and another strong goaltending effort by Ducks prospect John Gibson to a 3-1 victory over defending champion...

Miracle in Ufa? Well, something along those lines. Not only did the U.S. beat Canada in the semifinals at the World Junior Hockey Championships, it did so in devastating fashion, with a 5-1 victory in Ufa, Russia. Team USA will play defending champion...

The NHL and the players association met for more than three hours Sunday morning in New York to discuss aspects of the proposed collective-bargaining agreement the league had presented to the union late Thursday, but the sides parted without holding a...

Team USA goaltender John Gibson, who was chosen by the Ducks in the second round of the 2011 entry draft, stopped 28 shots but he and his teammates lost to Russia, 2-1, on Friday in a preliminary-round game at the World Junior Championships. Winnipeg...

The NHL and NHL Players’ Assn. have not had recent contact and nothing new is planned, NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said on Monday. The league on Friday filed a class-action suit in U.S. District Court in New York alleging the union’s...

The Whalers Monday night completed the biggest trade in their history when they sent Ron Francis, Ulf Samuelsson and Grant Jennings to the Pittsburgh Penguins for John Cullen, Zarley Zalapski and Jeff Parker. General manager Ed Johnston, who had served...

For Brian Sutter, Saturday night's game against the Calgary Flames, his second game as the Blackhawks' coach, was a bummer of a business trip and not a sentimental journey. The 4-0 loss came in his home province of Alberta and against the team that fired...

Eric Daze returned Friday night after missing the season's first 15 games because of back surgery. But with 1 minute 26 seconds to play in regulation, another Blackhawks left wing, Chris Simon, stole the show to keep his former team from stealing the...

It's a fear. Not a "shaking in your skates, paralyzed" type of fear. But a fear nonetheless. That's how Jocelyn Thibault explains the Blackhawks' success against the class of the NHL the last few seasons and their most bitter rival, the Detroit Red...

As the Blackhawks boarded their charter flight to Chicago on Monday night, they thought not of the three out of four points they collected in two games in Florida, but of the fourth point they thought they should have had. "This feels like a loss,"...

The way things have been going the last week for the Blackhawks, it would have been easy to just chalk it up to bad luck and get ready for the San Jose Sharks Sunday at the United Center. Down two goals on the road is not the recipe for success in the...

If you're a general manager rebuilding a hockey team, signing a 38-year-old free-agent right wing and picking up a 37-year-old defenseman in the waiver draft is not the conventional way to go. But the evidence from the first four weeks of the season...