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When the NHL announced in early 1976 that its two worst teams, the Washington Capitals and Kansas City Scouts, would travel to Japan for a four-game exhibition series dubbed the Coca-Cola Bottlers' Cup, fans and media were baffled. The Capitals and the Scouts were both expansion teams, with a combined 46 wins, 236 losses and 38 ties in their first two seasons—stats made more dismal when considering seven of those wins were against each other. Yet lagging so hopelessly behind the rest of the NHL,...

Heartache, hockey and heavenly bodies - get ready for the new red-hot read from New York Times bestseller Rachel GibsonWhen money-bags Virgil Duffy leaves his widow a stash of cash and his beloved ice-hockey team in his will, team captain Ty 'Saint' Savage is furious. The Chinooks are set to win the biggest prize of the season, and a beautiful young ex-stripper taking over the reins is the last thing he needs. Even if Faith, former playmate of the year, is the sexiest woman he's ever laid on. So...

In February 2002, the greatest hockey teams this country could muster headed to Salt Lake City to compete in the Winter Olympics. Our men and women hoped to go all the way to the finals, but it had been fifty long years since the Canadians had won Olympic gold. In the past, they had come close – it was just that luck always seemed to be against them. This time, however, their chances to end the long drought were good. The women looked set for a medal – although the all-powerful American team st...

A fan's guide to the game's hottest players. Hockey historian Chris McDonell celebrates the current and past professional hockey superstars. The star players are arranged by the main hockey positions: centers, wingers, defensemen and goaltenders. For each position, he chooses the 15 greatest NHL players of all time plus the five best current players, from Jean Beliveau to Mats Sundin, Bobby Hull to Keith Tkachuk, Tim Horton to Scott Niedermayer and Jacques Plante to Martin Brodeur. Fans will...