Peter Forsberg is buying about 4000 tickets for children to attend games of Modo during the upcoming SEL season. The article has a gallery of 64 pics of Forsberg if you are interested. Just click on the full screen icon on the bottom left of the pic at the top of the article

Hockey chicks are talented! check it out, it's worth it, i promise.

Varly at Hershey Park Arena in Hershey, PA on Monday 8/20/12 From twitter Shotgun, why aren't you stalking Varly in Hershey for us??

Landeskog playing in a charity game organized by Niklas Kronwall on Friday to raise money for the hockey team in Jarfalla, Sweden. Landy scored 2 goals. The pic is from here. Many more pics from the game are available at that link. Here's a blog post in Swedish for more on the game.

Varly with Russian hockey legends forward Boris Mayorov and an honored coach Viktor Tikhonov after they arrived in Samara from Moscow on 8/1/2012 with the WC trophy The former player and coach are now TV commentators. They will take part in Varly's WC celebration today, including the parade and the concert.

In addition to donating to one of the victim funds. My oldest son (6) decided to add a couple "tribalutes" to the Avs sticker on his hockey helmet for this coming Saturday. He cut out the ribbon himself (since I can't cut to save my soul). And I told him about Jessica, so with a little suggestion help, my wife found scrapbooking stickers to honor her in our own little way out here in Chicagoland (since there is NO way we can get out there). The finished product.

My 3 week old. Already hates the wings.

Varly training at Power Train Sports in Lancaster, PA on June 30th with KHL player Ainars Podzinsh

Matt Duchene with Erik Granqvist in LA today at Toyota Sports Center. Granqvist is the goalie coach for Farjestad in the SEL.

Red Wings get younger... and... well...