The preliminary round of the 2012 IIHF World Championship concluded Tuesday with no shortage of interesting story-lines and upsets.

If rebuilding a hockey team correctly was easy, with a clear cut template, then we would not see as many teams with Stanley Cup droughts or no cups at all for that matter.

The IIHF World Championships kicked off this past week with plenty of story lines going into this edition of the tournament.

Whether through trades, transfers, free agency, promotion, or demotion professional athletes in team sports are constantly moving.

For almost every hockey game ever played, competitive or non competitive, indoor or outdoor, on skates or off skates the goal of the players, however many of them are playing is to win.

While the player who will be joining the Montreal Canadiens remains a mystery the position they will pick in has revealed itself.

Yakupov? Grigorenko? Forsberg? Murray? These are the names that have been on the minds of Montreal Canadiens’ fans for the better part of this past season.

Last summer the Montreal Canadiens signed goaltender Peter Budaj to a 2 year 2.3 million dollar contract. The ideology behind this move

With 9 games left in the regular season it is becoming more and more apparent that the Montreal Canadiens will not be in a playoff spot come early April.