The Copper & Blue, an Edmonton Oilers community

The SM-Liiga playoffs are underway and Teemu Hartikainen is lighting the lamp.

I think it's safe to be perfectly honest now and admit that this was one of the least entertaining, least compelling, least competitive under-20s in recent memory.  Thank God the gold medal game...

'Tis the season to look forward to next year while lamenting the fact that this year's team is playing like so much garbage.  Fortunately, we've got some decent hockey players in the system, one...

While some were watching another perfunctory Oilers failure on an old rival's ice, I was watching a much different and much more enjoyable game.  For the first time all tournament, Canada was in...

First, an aside.  Remember how the other day, I was talking about how the IIHF needs to grow the game in places like Latvia and Austria in order to avoid future embarrassments like the ones we've...

While it's true that Canada thumped Switzerland in both international tourneys yesterday -- the Euro League selects defeated Davos HC 6-2, while the U20 side beat their Swiss counterparts 6-0 --...

Allow me to begin this quick look back at yesterday's games with a brief aside on the nature of competition in the World Juniors.  Put simply, Ryan Lambert is right and Bruce "saskhab" Peter is...