Columbus Blue Jackets

Nobody's likely to confuse Ron Tugnutt with Ralph Nader, but the Columbus goaltender did play a small part in last November's U.S. presidential election. Tugnutt, a Scarborough, Ont., native, was touted in several...

Punch Line

In 1997 Peter Karmanos, owner of the Hartford Whalers, announced his intention to move his NHL team, preferably to Columbus, Ohio. He was so intent on taking the Whalers to Columbus that he excitedly talked up the...

The NHL has two new teams (the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Minnesota Wild), two groundbreaking coaches (the Blackhawks' Alpo Suhonen and the Penguins' Ivan Hlinka, the first European head men) and a new director of...

John D'Amico, who was the NHL supervisor during the No Goal II controversy in the Flyers-Sabers playoff series last month, found a hole in a net before three games of the subsequent Devils-Maple Leafs series. The...