And Artem Anisimov.

Richards is arguably the signing of the season and I'm hoping that his presence will give us the push that the Blueshirts need to get into the playoffs and make a good go of it.

Set-up and NHL fantasy league on ESPN.

League name - Hockey RLFANS

password - superleague

draft is - Sunday 18th September 7.00pm

12 teams. All welcome.

Wade Belak has been found dead!!!!!

Apparently took his own life.

Thats 3 NHLers is just over 4 months.

Think the NHL need to takle a look at what is happening with the players mental welfare in what is at times a brutal contact sport particularly for the enforcer/fighters of which all 3 of these guys were.

Saw Belak play a few times whenever I was in Toronto and was lucky enough to see him ply his trade in the UK during the lock out year.

Such another sad loss

R.I.P Fella

R.I.P Wade Belak

More tragic news for ice hockey fans this off season with the plane crash in Russia today with the Lokomotiv KHL team on board.Over 40 people died including a few former nhl players.Vasicek,Skrastins,Demitra and Salei are said to be among the dead.

Tragic and awful news. Brad McCrimmon was the Coach and Hawks ex player Igor Korolev was assistant coach.

R.I.P

R.I.P

Boston Bruins have re-signed restricted free agent Brad Marchand to a two-year, $5 million contract

We're a few days into the pre season and i'm getting worried that there won't be any NHL on tv this year as the NHL have sold broadcasting rights for the next 5 years to somebody called AMI and they so far haven't got an agreement with anybody in this country to show games.I'm still hopeful ESPN can agree a price to show it or I will have to sign up for gamecentre online as I can't go without watching hockey.

Lets Go Bruins!

Got a link for Game Centre this side of the Atlantic?

I've not got it yet but if you go on nhl.com you can sign up for it on there.On the HF Boards forum there's a discussion about the european sign up for nhl gamecentre and some people are having problems with it so i'm waiting for the season to start before getting it so i know it works properly for us over here.

Who do you post as under HF Boards mate? I posted, then tried to re-register as my log in details didn't work and they told me I had to email so I did, never got a reply. Now I've just tried to log in and it's worked. I post under "EnglishRanger".

Not posted in a while,used to use DRG.I don't know if that still works as i just go on these days and look at what everybody else is posting.It's good that people from all over the world post on that site.I remember a couple of years ago having an argument with a frenchman about the premier league being the strongest football league in europe I might start posting again now the season has started.

Slightly off topic, anyone who bought NHL 12 played it recently since the 1.03 update? The game freezes when I try to load my season at 100% progress. Deleted the update and it works fine afterwards. Is this a common problem?