Max Pacioretty of the Montreal Canadiens is joining the Swiss A League during the NHL lockout, signing with Amrbi Piotta.

In the NHL stats community, plenty has been done to look at how well skaters scoring rates translate from one league to another, especially the most common NHL transition from its AHL farm teams....

He's not too many GM's favourite player, but Jeff Carter delivered tremendous value from the time he was drafted until today. He's our seventh overall pick in the 2003 Re-Draft series.

The 6th overall pick in 2003 belonged to the San Jose Sharks, who had gone through a terrible season which would change the league's power balance for many years. However, in our NHL Re-Draft, the 6th best value pick belonged to Brent Seabrook of the Chicago Blackhawks, who was awfully unheralded on draft day in 2003.

Not one player has had a better career since the 2003 NHL Entry Draft than Eric Staal, the franchise centre for the Carolina Hurricanes. So why exactly is he ranked 5th in terms of value in our 2003 NHL Re-Draft?

Dion Phaneuf was one of the most hotly discussed players to come from the 2003 NHL Entry Draft class. In our re-draft, he moves up five spots to 4th overall, despite his well-documented defensive issues.

In a re-evaluation of the 2003 NHL Draft class, it's become painfully obvious just how wrong Corey Perry's many critics were. The lanky, chippy, talented winger is our 3rd overall selection in the redux.

We look back to the 2003 NHL Entry Draft and see where the players rank today compared to back then. With the second overall pick, Ryan Getzlaf hears his name called much earlier than the 19th pick he claimed back in 2003.

UFA Season Part 1: Who Should Bergevin Pursue Among Forwards?

Hollywood's biggest stars this year were a group of Canadians, Americans, Slovenians and Russians who won hockey's most coveted prize for the first time in franchise history. In the process, they told the Philadelphia Flyers to suck it.