There's a goaltending controversy in Buffalo. Or at very least a funny goaltending story, starring one of our favorite folk hero goalies of recent years -- Arturs Irbe. After Buffalo's Michal Neuvirth ...

Having an NHL-experienced goalie on your staff as the team’s goalie coach is a great thing to have, especially when you’ve got a host of young guys in net to coach. For the Washington Capitals, they ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Arturs Irbe was in the press box at the start of Tuesday’s game between the Sharks and Buffalo Sabres, nattily attired in a suit and bow tie. By the end of the second period, the ...

Arturs Irbe notched another victory at the HP Pavilion on Tuesday night. The former Sharks goalie was inducted into the San Jose Sports Hall of Fame, along with track legend Bruce Jenner, soccer ...

Capitals goalie coach Arturs Irbe can speak to Michal Neuvirth, Semyon Varlamov and Braden Holtby from experience. Nine years ago he teamed with Kevin Weekes in Carolina to lead the Hurricanes to ...

Arturs Irbe — the popular Latvian goaltender during the Sharks initial playoff run in 1994 — recalled Monday his initial reaction upon learning he would be the first hockey player in the San Jose ...

DETROIT – They were teenagers the first time their paths crossed on the way to the NHL. Nearly 20 years later, one of them is guaranteed to make history. Neither Czech-born Dominik Hasek nor Latvian ...

The Buffalo Sabres got their goaltender on Friday, now they’re in search of a goalie coach. According to John Vogl of The Buffalo News, Sabres’ coach Dan Bylsma told radio station WGR-AM 550 in ...

This series, which the Devils should now win, goes down as the defining example of the overruling supremacy of playoff goaltending. The momentum is all theirs as the Devils head to Raleigh for Game 5 ...

With at least two of the better young goaltenders in the league in Michal Neuvirth and Braden Holtby, the Washington Capitals are in an enviable position. General manager George McPhee said he’s in ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – The goalie equipment didn't exactly fit Arturs Irbe. What did were the familiar competitive emotions the 47-year-old once enjoyed during his NHL playing days. "Once a goalie, always a ...