Chris Chelios

I know money isn’t really a thing to ESPN. $400 million a year certainly sounds like a lot of cheese, but it’s not really anything more than just an accounting number to them. So I shouldn’t be surprised that they don’t put much effort into…

Auston Matthews is one of the greatest American players in the history of the NHL.Image: Getty ImagesThe NHL’s most prestigious individual award was first handed out in 1924. Calvin Coolidge just became President of the United States. It…

Trevor Zegras (second from left) is held back during a scuffle.Photo: Getty ImagesThe appeal of hockey, to an ever-shrinking insular fanbase that gets more and more shrouded by a new one (though not big enough), is that it’s not the other…

It’s a perfect time to bring back best-on-best international competition outside of the Olympics.Illustration: Getty ImagesNow that it’s official and the NHL players won’t be going to the Olympics, some disappointment is understandable. The…

Candace ParkerPhoto: APAs big of a sports town as Chicago is, we’ve never really had the hometown kid lead a team to glory. Dick Butkus was about as close as we got, and that was 60 years ago. Isiah Thomas and Dwyane Wade ended up being…