It's been a couple weeks

Well, a so-called soft launch of Hound Central 5.0 is about two weeks old. Thankfully, we've had NHL players and prospects filling rink...

NHL players reporting to rinks

From what I hear, NHL players are taking to rinks getting ready for the upcoming training camps. I read on Facebook yesterday that Buffalo...

Flashbacks 06.10

It's been nearly three weeks since the last installment of this summer space filler. How about a mixture of team and player reports from...

Flashbacks 04.29

You know, I rather enjoy compiling this weekly offseason feature. Each posting is a stroll down memory lane. Hopefully, you'll enjoy the...

Flashbacks 04.14

Now, I know most of you come here looking for tales of our hockey-hounding adventures. But, did you know there are hundreds of hounding repo...

Trade analysis

A few thoughts on the 22 NHL deadline-day deals that went down today: Most interesting Toronto gets G Olaf Kolzig , and D Jamie Heward and...

It all adds up

It's funny how deep a player's collection can extend. Take Pittsburgh goalie Mathieu Garon , for instance. From his days with the AH...

Don't delay

Only hours remain to enter January's Win this Auto contest -- this puck signed by Hall of Famer and Islander hero Denis Potvin . Really...

Certainly worthy

Besides crossing off the remaining names on the Florida Panthers team helmet, adding two distinctive players to the Team Canada jersey was t...

Willing to oblige

Once again, I must admit to some serious cherry-picking, primarily on the Team Canada jersey, when Colin and I headed out to hound the Flori...

Call them what you want

While most people I know call this a memorabilia card, Colin calls them "feely cards," because you can feel the swatch of jersey t...

Win this auto: Denis Potvin

Of all the duplicate autos that I've picked up, this official Team Canada puck -- signed by Hall of Fame defenseman Denis Potvin -- rep...

Perfect sense, I hope

Here's a bit of advice. If a team's television analyst is a Hall of Famer, like Denis Potvin is for the Florida Panthers, it's ...

Busy afternoon

In a perfect hounding world, I'd attend every morning session, especially those on Saturday mornings Time and time again, this window of...

Different looks

We're all familiar with the Florida Panthers logo, aren't we? Not the one with a palm tree and hockey stick crossed over a blazing s...

Thanks, Stiller

It's always nice whenever we score a hat trick of pucks from an NHL player. This time, it was Florida's Cory Stillman who signed th...

Waving the flag

Every so often, the luck of a schedule launches a run on a particular item. After adding four players from the Avalanche earlier this month,...

Can't say that I have

I'm curious. Have you ever seen Florida's Tomas Vokoun ever turn down a request for an autograph? I haven't. Ever. He is, by fa...

On the right side

It's rather early in the game for this project piece, but Florida's Tomas Vokoun , a fairly prolific signer ( nine-card boards don...

Taking it easy

Pound for pound, and player for player, the Florida Panthers are one of the best-signing teams in the National Hockey League. Granted, the t...