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Executives at Molson Coors, the oldest and largest beer company in Canada, are not very happy with this whole NHL lockout thing. The brewing giant says the lockout is to blame for a sobering decline in beer sales.

Just seven years removed from the cancelled 2004-05 season, the NHL is moving perilously close to another major work stoppage. The regular season is still scheduled to begin October 11, just two weeks away, but the owners, who locked the players out earlier this month, have now decided to fully cancel the preseason. This does not bode well if you're a hockey fan.

It looks like we have another sport involved in another lockout on our hands. This time it's the NHL that is in talks about a new agreement between ownership and players.

'Dancing With the Stars' professional dancer, Cheryl Burke, has a new man. She was photographed last Wednesday, July 18) kissing and sipping cocktails with Toronto Maple Leafs hockey player, Joffrey Lupul. The couple reportedly met back in June when she hosted the 2012 NHL Awards.

Our mothers weren’t too keen on us playing sports when we were younger for a good reason — they were trying to keep all those balls out of our faces.

Nickelback are gearing up for their NHL Awards return and their first performance on the NHL’s Las Vegas Stage since the awards moved to Sin City in 2009. The band’s performance at the awards show 10 years ago was a moment that helped launch the group into becoming one of the best selling performers over the last decade.

Boston Bruins goalie Tim Thomas is considering taking a leave of absence from the ice, and even wrote in a Facebook message on Saturday that “hockey’s just not that important right now.”

It looks like our list of the 10 Hottest Sideline Reporters Not Named Erin Andrews missed one. Sarah Kustok, who patrols sidelines for CSN Chicago, possesses hotness so overwhelming that those she interviews can’t help but declare their love for her...

Created by British SCUBA instructors in 1954 as a training exercise for swimming with fins, underwater hockey (also called “Octopush”) is an aquatic team sport that resembles knock hockey, only on a much larger, much wetter scale. Though the paddle and puck are similar to those used in the table game, underwater hockey is a far more physical game.

So much for home ice advantage. The Boston Bruins defeated the Vancouver Canucks, 4-0, on the Canucks’ home ice Wednesday night to win the Stanley Cup, the first time the franchise has claimed hockey’s holy grail since 1972.

An assistant coach for the CHL Colorado Eagles became so irate over a referee’s actions during a game on Sunday that he stripped off his clothes and threw them onto the ice -- read more after the jump.