Stan Bowman News & Stories

Connor McDavid isn't just happily re-signing with the Edmonton Oilers right now. The big question is why.

The Oilers still have the two best forwards on earth. But this summer, they targeted a different type of depth forward.

You'll never guess what went wrong in Game 3. ... Oh, you guessed very easily? Hmm. Seems like that's its own problem.

We sure are getting a lot of interesting info, and lots of good hockey already, from the teams in this postseason.

How much does St. Louis think Dylan Holloway and Philip Broberg are going to help them?

You had questions, and Ryan Lambert has answers. It's a summer edition of the EP Rinkside mailbag, looking which teams improved the most, the potential for another lockout,

If you're trying to be bad, trading good players is smart. What's hard to understand about that?

Takes on Russia, Chicago, the Calder, Rasmus Ristolainen, faceoff wins, and Jake DeBrusk.

The Los Angeles Kings are actually very good again.

You're in Take Town, a regular feature on EP Rinkside in which senior columnist Ryan Lambert looks at a handful of leading storylines from around the league, offering his take on each one.

Gary Bettman and Bill Daly addressed the Chicago Blackhawks' sexual abuse investigation. It was insensitive at best and embarrassing at worst.

Winnipeg Jets general manager Kevin Cheveldayoff has been cleared by the NHL of any wrongdoing in the Chicago Blackhawks sexual assault scandal stemming from a 2010 incident, and won't face supplementary discipline.

Kevin Weekes is reporting that the Florida Panthers are set to make a change at head coach after yesterday's findings in the Brock & Jenner report on sexual assault allegations stemming from a 2010 incident revealed Joel Quenneville's complicity and involvement in a coverup.

Dimitri Filipovic starts the show by talking about Kyle Beach's bravery, and the cowardice within the Chicago Blackhawks organization. Then Jack Fraser joins the show to look at teams that have overperformed or underperformed based on our preseason expectations.

Not exactly a banner week for the National Hockey League. All the headlines are ugly and things are almost certainly going to get worse before they get better. Ryan Lambert has takes from around the NHL, the Blackhawks included.

The Chicago Blackhawks are off to an historically bad start, and there's no way out of this mess for head coach Jeremy Colliton and general manager Stan Bowman.

The Chicago Blackhawks made the findings of the Jenner & Block investigation public Tuesday afternoon. Stan Bowman resigned and the team was fined as the report confirmed that senior leadership knew about the sexual allegations from John Doe in 2010 and covered them up anyway.

Without their first-round pick, the Chicago Blackhawks need to turn their season around and they need to do it post-haste.

It's another edition of Take Town from EP Rinkside senior columnist Ryan Lambert, this one looking at Nick Suzuki and Mattias Ekholm's new deals, Vitali Kravtsov's trade demand, Brady Tkachuk's contract impasse, and distinct kicking motions.

After Chicago general manager Stan Bowman's auspiciously aggressive off-season, one has to ask... is this team actually any good?

Say what you want about what the Chicago Blackhawks were last season, but it’s clear that the team is attempting to accelerate its rebuild by bringing in a load of high-priced players this offseason and compete for the playoffs in 2021-22...

I’ve thought about writing this for a few days. For nearly a week, I’ve had a pit in my stomach, I have been physically ill and most of all, disappointed. Watching the end of the first round of the draft Friday night hurt, a lot.

NHL commissioner Gary Bettman and deputy commissioner Bill Daly gave their annual state of the league press conference ahead of Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final. He touched on the Olympics, the officiating and the Chicago Blackhawks. It didn't go well.

J.D. Burke and his team of writers are going to grade transactions as they occur in the lead-up to the 2020-21 trade deadline, on April 12th.

The Chicago Blackhawks acquired Brett Connolly, Henrik Borgström, Riley Stillman, and a seventh-round pick from the Florida Panthers for Lucas Carlsson and Lucas Wallmark. J.D. Burke has more on this substantial manoeuver.