On Thursday of this week, Vancouver Canucks forward Todd Bertuzzi was charged by Crown authorities in Vancouver with the serious charge of assault causing bodily harm. The charge relates to an incident from earlier this year where Bertuzzi attacked Colorado Avalanche forward Steve Moore during a game in Vancouver and severely injured the Avalanche forward. Bertuzzi faces a court hearing on July 9 that will decide which court has jurisdication on this case and remains suspended by the National Hockey League. [Read More!]

Former NHL enforcer Bob Probert was arrested last week in Delray Beach, Florida after a scuffle with police that led to him being shocked multiple times with a Taser gun. Apparently Probert had parked his car in the wrong direction on a downtown street and was in a verbal jarring match with some other men. When police officers intervened, an enraged Probert refused to give up and had to be restrained by mutiple officers and with the use of multiple use of a Taser gun. Probert was charged with battery against a police officer, resisting arrest and other charges. Probert is best known for his years with the Detroit Red Wings where he showed the rare combination of a scoring touch and toughness of a fighter.

The Tampa Bay Lightning were already on top of the world, having won the Staley Cup championship earlier this week. And later in the same week in Toronto, they also took home a good chunk of the NHL awards. Forward Martin St. Louis has emerged as a bonafide NHL star taking home the Art Ross trophy for most points in the regular season, the Hart Trophy as the Most Valuable Player and a of course a Stanley Cup ring - this "triple crown" of hockey awards was last matched by Wayne Gretzky in 1987. [Read More!]

The gruelling NHL playoff season came to a conclusion last night. The Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Calgary Flames by a 2-1 score in game seven of their Stanley Cup finals. The Lightning got two goals from Ruslan Fedotenko and solid goaltending from Nikolai Khabibulin to defeat a dejected Flames team. The game was tight from the very start with few shots on goal and a lot of tense, defensive play. The Flames did not really show much of an offensive spark until the last ten minutes and by then it was too late. [Read More!]

The Calgary Flames have had quite a season. They finished 7th in the Western conference and have done much better in the playoffs than anyone expected. And the fans in Calgary deserve a lot of credit. The Flames hadn't made it past the first round since their last Stanley Cup victory in 1989, so the fans in Calgary are in uncharted territory. They have packed the Saddledome and Calgary streets after many of their playoff wins. One of the more amazing things of the playoffs happened during game 2 of the finals. The Saddledome had over 20,000 packed in for the game and hundreds had to be turned away. But the kicker of course is that the game wasn't even in Calgary, 20k people came to watch the game on the arena scoreboard! No matter what comes out of this series, it is quite clear that hockey fans in Calgary (and Canada in general) are probably more hockey crazy than anywhere in the world.