TORONTO -- The NHL Players' Association had hoped to have a new leader by now -- and for that leader's name to be Donald Fehr -- but there was no announcement Wednesday at the end of its executive board meetings.As it turns out, the NHLPA committee ...

The agent for Simon Gagne said Tuesday that nothing seemed imminent as far as a trade for his client."The Flyers have given us permission to talk to teams and we've been doing that, and they've been talking to teams, but at this point there's not ...

And on the third day, Jonathan Toews tried to catch his breath.The Chicago Blackhawks captain was almost at a loss for words as he described an emotional 48 hours in his native Winnipeg, where the Conn Smythe Trophy winner was feted Monday and ...

Plenty of unrestricted free agents not named Ilya Kovalchuk are still out there. I took some time to check in with the agents for a number of them Tuesday:Brendan Morrison I'm actually surprised the Caps let him go. He's a solid character player and ...

Now what for the Chicago Blackhawks?The team announced Monday that it would match San Jose's four-year, $14 million offer sheet for defenseman Niklas Hjalmarsson, a restricted free agent. That means someone else has to move for Chicago to meet ...

Naming Shea Weber captain was an obvious move by the Nashville Predators; but from this vantage point, it was also a very strategic one.Weber is entering the final season of a three-year contract that pays him $4.5 million annually, and the Preds ...

At noon ET on Thursday, Ilya Kovalchuk's free-agent odyssey officially hit the seven-day mark.Arguably the most valuable unrestricted free agent in NHL history -- especially when you account for age and talent (for years, the UFA minimum age was 32 ...

OK, the Ilya Kovalchuk story just keeps getting stranger and stranger.I woke up Wednesday morning to find an e-mail from a source saying the Los Angeles Kings were again talking to the unrestricted free-agent winger.This is the same Kings front ...

Bill Guerin was almost out the door and headed for a run when ESPN.com caught up with him Tuesday morning.There is no question about it: The 39-year-old winger wants to play another season."Oh, yeah. I had my workout this morning, and now I'm going ...

When you're having this much fun, why not drag it out another day, right?"Ilya Kovalchuk choices have been narrowed down, details to be finalized but no announcement tonight," Kovalchuk's agent, Jay Grossman, announced via Twitter on Monday ...