The NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Committee has selected the 16 teams that will be participating in the 2009 NCAA Division I Men’s Ice Hockey Championship.

The NCAA 2009 Men Division I Frozen Four brackets were announced this morning on ESPN2 at 11:30 am. The rebroadcast of the selection show will be tonight at 11:30 PM or catch it on ESPN360. This year’s Number One seed is Boston University. A big surprise this year is the defending champion Boston College did not make the field. So, a new champion will be crowned.

On Monday, NY Rangers President and General Manager Glen Sather announced that Tom Renney, the Blueshirts' head coach since 2004, has been relieved of his coaching duties. Assistant coach Perry Pearn was also relieved of his duties.

With all the travel, one has to wonder why incidents like this don't happen more often. Five people were injured when the Albany River Rats minor-league hockey team bus rolled over last night.

Tampa Bay Lightning has fired its coach Barry Melrose and has elevated Rick Tocche to the position of interim head coach.

Bringing in a new coach rarely solves problems, regardless of when it is done. This is the conclusion of a study from Mid Sweden University about hiring and firing coaches in the Swedish Elite Series ice-hockey league during the period 1975/76-2005/06.

Featuring the new BOK Center arena and many holdover players, the Tulsa Oilers open their 2008-09 Central Hockey League season on Oct. 17 at Oklahoma City. The Oilers travel to Corpus Christi the following night before returning home for their BOK Center opener on Oct. 25 against the Blazers.

No surprise the Tampa Bay Lightning selected Steve Stamkos with the No 1 pick in the 2008 NHL Draft.

Sports Art is all about creating products or craft items using the sports stars as an inspiration. When a person visits Disney land they find a store that sells T-shirts, mugs, caps and many other items with Disney characters on them. Similarly, in a sports store, we will find equipment and other fun items, which have sports art on them.

In the eighth-longest game in Stanley Cup history, Brenden Morrow scored the game-winner to send the Stars to the Western Conference Finals after a 2-1 4OT Game 6 win over the Sharks at American Airlines Center.

NBC sports has released the NHL Playoff Schedule for 2008. You can view the playoff schedule of NHL below.

A Canadian professional ice hockey centre, Blair Betts, underwent foot surgery Friday. His recovery will take about two or three weeks.