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For the first time ever, someone born in Louisiana has laced up the skates and played in a National Hockey League game.

A letter was sent to the player's associations of five professional sports on Thursday that encouraged pro athletes to essentially boycott Texas teams.

The top 10 highest-paid NHL players of all-time have collectively north of $1 billion in salary alone.

National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman calls it an important day for hockey fans.

The hockey world is doing what it can to help medical professionals with the equipment company Bauer stepping up in a big way.

The Carolina Hurricanes lost both of their goaltenders to injury Saturday night but have no fear, Zamboni driver/emergency goalie David Ayres was there.

Love him or hate him, he's done well for himself.

There have been many a first pitch blunders by star athletes from other sports, performers, musicians but rarely a second chance. Ovi was afforded that.

The numbers don't lie. Louisiana is a factory that cranks out professional athletes.

Watch Hannah Storm do something incredibly difficult

Las Vegas is getting a pro sports team. Hockey is headed to Sin City.

The Stanley Cup is already covered with names of Chicago Blackhawks, but this year's team added another cluster to the most coveted cup in sports.

The Los Angeles Kings beat the New York Rangers in Game 5 of the Stanley Cup Final to win the NHL title.

The Chicago Blackhawks win their second Stanley Cup in four seasons thanks in large part to...

Check out this video of Buffalo Sabres forward Steve Ott licking the visor of Jeff Halpern, of the Montreal Canadiens during a faceoff.

While hockey fans mourn the likely loss of another NHL season, they also will miss out on many potential hockey fights during this lockout. Perhaps they should turn to youth hockey players in Russia when looking for a brawl on ice.

This is video of a hockey contest on Sunday afternoon between the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Philadelphia Flyers. The in-state rivals look to be headed for a first-round playoff matchup, with home ice advantage still undecided, so the stakes were even high in this game.

This is video of an NHL brawl that took place on Monday night between the New York Rangers and the New Jersey Devils. New York's Stu Bickel, usually a defenseman, took the opening faceoff and dropped the gloves against New Jersey's Ryan Carter. Mike Rupp and Eric Boulton, and Brandon Prust and Cam Janssen also squared off.

Since they are right in the line of fire, hockey in-net cameras are designed to withstand a direct hit. Well, it looks like the designers didn’t consider the one-time shot of Joffrey Lupul, as the Toronto Maple Leaf right winger was able to shatter the net cam with a perfectly placed strike during his game against the Winnipeg Jets Wednesday night.

This was from a Pittsburgh Penguins/Washington Capitals NHL game, from Thursday, October 13. Arron Asham of the Penguins gets into a fight with the Capitals' Jay Beagle, and not only gets the better of him, but taunts him on his way back to the bench.