When it comes to resources, the college athletics arms race has pushed NCAA teams way beyond the CHL — and it's not just the traditional powerhouses. Bemidji State has tremendous training facilities.

Former figure skating star and Olympian David Pelletier had been a skating coach with the Edmonton Oilers for 11 years, but is now joining the Dallas Stars as an assistant coach.

NHL fans likely feel like they are living in Bizarro World. For the past 30 years, labour negotiations between the NHL and NHLPA were as strained as a couple who had separated but still lived in the ...