With the Toronto Maple Leafs naming Auston Matthews their new captain, Vancouver Canucks fans are reminded of the "dark ages" when Mark Messier joined the team and unseated Trevor Linden as captain.

Reddit’s “ask me anything” Q&A sessions are great fun, especially for hockey. Sometimes they even have real live living legends online instead of hacks who can’t skate. The latest big hockey name to ...

To size up the ambitions of Vivendi Universal Chairman Jean-Marie Messier, one only has to look to the title of his 247-page autobiography published last year in France: “J6M.com.” The acronym in the ...

I’m not sure the NHL has a weirder annual award than the Mark Messier Leadership Award for “the player who exemplifies great leadership qualities to his team, on and off the ice during the regular ...

Sam Rosen’s call, citing the franchise that highlighted strange and bizarre events, accurately described the ending to the ...

Rangers legend Mark Messier can’t stand one trend in the NHL. Capitals winger Tom Wilson received a boarding penalty during the team’s 3-2 win over the Rangers on Saturday for a hit on center Jonny ...

More NHL: Scores | Standings | League Leaders | Odds | Injuries | Power Rankings It has been almost 20 years since the New York Rangers last won the Stanley Cup, 20 years since Mark Messier cemented ...

Before joining the new NHL on ESPN coverage team, the two crossed path during their 20-plus seasons in the league but never during the playoffs. Chelios and Messier only became close during the 1991 ...

In 1781, French astronomer Charles Messier published a catalog of 103 objects in the heavens. He was primarily interested in comets, but kept finding fuzzy smudges that did not move against the ...