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He was only gone for just over six months, but Markus Naslund is back. The 36-year-old Swede has come out of retirement and is set to join his childhood friend Peter Forsberg, playing for their hometown team of MoDo of the Swedish Elite League (SEL). Naslund, who walked away from the final year of his contract with the New York Rangers in May and left behind $4 million US, will play the ...

Hate him or love him, Craig Anderson has been the story of the NHL this October. With dwindling expectations for the Colorado Avalanche coming into the season, general manager Greg Sherman initially brought Anderson in to add some goaltending depth to a team seriously lacking it but ultimately got a lot more than he bargained for. Literally. Anderson, who spent his last three seasons with the Florida Panthers, came to Colorado as ...

On Sept. 30, 2008, history was made when Roberto Luongo was named as the 12th team captain of the Vancouver Canucks, a bold move by upper management that made the Montreal-native the very first goaltender to be named captain by the organization and merely the seventh in NHL history. A bold move but perhaps more importantly, a publicity stunt. Ever since he was acquired from the Florida Panthers in 2006, Luongo ...