Alex Ovechkin put both hands to his head and screamed while he left the bench and skated into the thick of the Washington Capitals’ joyous celebration.

The National Hockey League kicked off 2014 with the biggest ice hockey bash ever on Wednesday, firing the opening salvo in a “shock-and-awe” campaign designed to turn casual fans into avid ones.

Concussion has become the elephant in the room with ice hockey, writes Michael Moynihan

ICE HOCKEY’S NHL in America is on the brink of becoming the first American sports league to lose an entire season due to a labour dispute.

Seconds after being hit by a puck as she watched an ice hockey game in Ohio, 13-year-old Brittanie Cecil held a jacket to her head to stop the bleeding and left the stadium.