PITTSBURGH — For NHL fans, the sight of Lyle Odelein in his hospital bed would have been unimaginable. One of the toughest players in the league during the 1990s and 2000s, Odelein, only 49 ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Hockey fans remember longtime defenseman Lyle Odelein as a tough player who wasn't afraid to drop the gloves. Odelein spent most of his career with the Montreal Canadiens ...

Lyle Odelein, whose career spanned two decades, was playing golf with friends in Phoenix, Arizona, when he went into tall grass to retrieve a ball. That's when a 'jumping cactus' - a part of the ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Broken jaw. Busted knee. Broken nose. Through his 19-year career in the NHL, former Penguin Lyle Odelein was well-acquainted with pain. But none of it compared to what he went ...

Better than a Martin Brodeur shutout, sweeter than a Krzysztof Oliwa game-winning goal, was the sight of Lyle Odelein walking around the Devils’ dressing room after last night’s 3-0 win over ...

A former NHL player developed a life-threatening infection after a spiky cactus pierced his leg, according to news reports. Fifty-year-old Lyle Odelein, who retired from the NHL in 2006 after a ...

Devils defenseman Lyle Odelein has two goals in the last two games. The rest of the Devils also have two. That just isn’t enough. The Devils’ scoring slump landed them a 2-2 tie last night ...

PITTSBURGH -- Veterans continue to march to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Defenseman Lyle Odelein, who has played in more than 1,000 NHL games with seven teams, signed with the Penguins on Friday.

Denis Savard can relate to Lyle Odelein. The Blackhawks’ assistant coach played with the team’s newest defenseman when the Montreal Canadiens won the Stanley Cup in 1993. But, in Savard’s ...

The Columbus Blue Jackets have signed unrestricted free agent Lyle Odelein, 31. Columbus chose the veteran defenceman in last Friday's expansion draft. "Signing Lyle Odelein was a major priority ...

Two hours after Lyle Odelein got the word that he had been traded from Columbus to the Blackhawks, he was contemplating what a difference a day had made in his career and what a difference a year ...