The Globe and Mail - Eric Duhatschek Columns

Big-name veterans have time on their side

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

No, it's not your imagination.The gap between Labour Day and the official opening of NHL training camps is almost three full weeks this year, the longest in recent memory - and there are a couple of reasons for it, beyond the fact the holiday falls so early this year.

Sundin set to return to Toronto ... for a charity game

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

Mats Sundin may play his last game at the Air Canada Centre next Friday night, but it won't be as a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs.Sundin decided yesterday to participate in the Festival Cup, a charity hockey game featuring current NHL stars and Hollywood celebrities that will be staged at the ACC next Friday, to support Right To Play, an international humanitarian organization.

Pandering to U.S. teams

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:44 EDT

Eric Duhatschek ponders the growing wait until training camp in his weekly notebook

Sundin to make temporary return

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:35 EDT

Free-agent centre will play in charity game, but has 'no answer as yet' on whether he'll play in the NHL this season, Eric Duhatschek reports

World junior tournament Alberta bound

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

Canada's appetite for the world junior hockey tournament - an event the rest of the hockey-playing world tends to blithely ignore - seems voracious and never-ending.How else to explain that yesterday, Hockey Canada announced that a joint bid from Calgary and Edmonton received the nod to play host to the 2012 world junior tournament, defeating what president Bob Nicholson described as a ''very attractive'' bid from Toronto.

Sakic decides to give it one more go-round

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:36 EDT

This is the third year in a row he's signed a one-year deal, largely as a favour to the Avalanche

Sakic decides to give it one more go-round

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

There are many ways to examine Joe Sakic's decision to return to the Colorado Avalanche for his 20th NHL season, but let's consider it purely in terms of dollars, even if Sakic didn't.

Sakic returning to Avalanche

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:33 EDT

Joe Sakic signs a one-year contract and will return for a 20th NHL season

Bertuzzi eager to prove he can shine in spotlight

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00 EDT

They filed into the Ed Whalen Media Lounge early yesterday afternoon, the five newest members of the Calgary Flames, the ones charged with helping to lift the team out of the middle of the NHL pack where it has resided these three postlockout seasons.