Each year around this time, Buffalo Sabres equipment manager Dave Williams submits a proposed budget to ownership for the next NHL season. Typically, he can be confident that the cost to ensure players have all the sticks, skates and protective gear they need for an 82-game schedule will be 3%-6% higher than it was the
Over the past 15 years, NHL teams that ponied up some high-priced packages to land sought-after players at the trade deadline were left with buyer’s remorse. Here are six of those trades on the Regret-O-Meter. Advertisement By Jared Clinton, Features Writer Blues Bother St. Louis Blues: Ryan Miller, 2013-14 (with Steve Ott from Buffalo for
As a boy in Darien, Conn., Spencer Knight did not think it got cooler than seeing Henrik Lundqvist play goalie for the New York Rangers. It had nothing to do with Lundqvist’s performance. Knight loved Lundqvist’s equipment. “Red and blue. TPS,” Knight recalled with a smile of Lundqvist’s pads. “He always had cool masks.” Knight