We apologize for the site being down

We would like to apologize to our readers for the site being down from about 7:00pm CST last night through 9:00am CST...

Cold Hard Rants: Getting Fat on Expansion Fees

Despite the seeming implausibility of it, the city of Toronto was filled with even more egotistical people than usual earlier this...

30 Teams in 30 Days: Montreal Canadiens

The Montreal Canadiens head into training camp in a few weeks with a radically different set of expectations from a year...

Meszaros dealt to Tampa Bay

From TSN: The Ottawa Senators finally resolved their contract dispute with defenceman Andrej Meszaros on Friday, trading the restricted free agent...

Building Through Free Agency

The Puck Stops Here has an interesting look at why a team can’t build (and win) through free agency. All told...

Empty Netters’ 5 Ideas to Change the NHL

Following up on the previous post, take a look at what Empty Netters would do to change the NHL. If you...

The Badgers 14-Year Old Recruit

Greg Wyshynski over at Puck Daddy takes a look the decision by the Wisconsin Badgers to accept a non-binding verbal agreement...

Website issues

Illegal Curve was down from about 7pm CST to 12am CST today because of a bandwidth problem.  We are addressing this...

The CCHA Goes to the Shootout

The shootout is coming to college hockey. FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. — The CCHA has become the first conference to official re-introduce...

Is Billy Tibbetts Cool Enough to Have His Own Urban Legend?

Sweater Ted has an interesting story about Billy Tibbetts’ quick demise and departure from the Pittsburgh Penguins. So with that background...