Kasperi Kapanen is still catching the NHL off guard as the Oilers forward is discovering what he can do when staring at the ...

Miikka Kiprusoff needed to stop just 12 shots for an easy shutout, and four Finland players scored in a 4-0 win over the Czech Republic in the World Cup of Hockey opener yesterday in Helsinki.

Saku Koivu of the Montreal Canadiens and Niko Kapanen of the Dallas Stars scored for Finland. Jukka Hentunen, who plays in Switzerland, and Mikko Eloranta, one of only two players on the team who ...

77 – FORWARD, NIKO KAPANEN Niko Kapanen was about as consistent and reliable of a two-way center as possible, tossing in a formidable offensive output in his four seasons with the Dallas Stars.

European-based players Mikko Eloranta (Switzerland's HC Fribourg-Gotteron) and Jukka Hentunen (Finland's TPS Turku) scored for Finland, while Dallas Stars forward Niko Kapanen added a goal and an ...

You never blame a goaltender. But tonight he really rebounded well." Niko Kapanen scored his first goal and set up another. Owen Nolan, Mathias Tjarnqvist and Daniel Carcillo also scored for the ...

The Finns rested most of their American-based stars but NHL players Niko Kapanen, of Dallas Stars, and Saku Koivu, of Montreal Canadiens, scored in the Finns' 2-0 win.

ATLANTA - The Atlanta Thrashers signed center Niko Kapanen to a multiyear contract on Thursday. Kapanen, who earned the league minimum $450,000 last season with Dallas, was acquired by the ...