The Official National Hockey League Appreciation Thread

[sensei8]

5 hours ago, bushido_man96 said:

My understanding is that the WNBA is barely viable.

That’s quite sad because the WNBA players play their hearts out every game. There are some players that are beasts and could hang with the men with no problem.

The Las Vegas Aces are quite a good team, having won 2 WNBA Championships.

Unfortunately the WNBA, like Brian says, are barely viable. Crying shame!!

[KarateKen]

The NHL resumes on Feb. 25 with eight games. 

[KarateKen]

Sidney Crosby is expected to miss at least a month due to a lower body injury, so bad news for the Penguins.  The Penguins also made a trade for Sam Girard and a 2028 2nd round pick while the Avalanche received Brett Kulak. 

Eight games on the schedule today as the regular season resumes.  We will start to see how the long Olympic break impacts teams.  Sometimes a break like this helps teams get healthy and regroup and other times teams come out flat and struggle.  

 

[aurik]

On 2/22/2026 at 3:25 PM, sensei8 said:

Is there a WNHL hockey like the WNBA is for the women’s basketball?!?

Actually there is a PWHL (Professional Women's Hockey League) with eight teams (4 in the USA and 4 in Canada).  Many of the players on both the US and Canadian rosters came from the PWHL.  Speaking of their gold medal, the Mayor of Denver just invited them all to Denver for a proper celebration, since they declined their SOTU invitation.