Jim Craig, American Hero:

ESPN Classic profiles 1980 Olympic goaltender Jim Craig, a big reason for the "Miracle on Ice."

Outdoor NHL games in 2004? The NHL is evaluating a proposal that could see the battle of Alberta move outdoors to Commonwealth Stadium in 2004. Frank Brown, a spokesman for the league, confirmed Friday that they are considering the idea of having the Edmonton Oilers play the Calgary Flames at the 60,000-seat football stadium, but it would be premature to suggest the game is confirmed.

Mickey wants out of Anaheim: The Walt Disney Co., interested for several years in selling the Anaheim Angels and Anaheim Mighty Ducks, hired a New York Investment firm to search for buyers.

The NHL is judged to be teetering over the financial abyss: The NHL is considered to be the weakest major U.S. sports league by Moody's Investors Service, which anticipates a strike when the current labor deal expires in 2005.

''The NHL suffers from the wide-scale lack of profitability of its member teams,'' Neil Begley of Moody's said Thursday.

Kevin Stevens ... a power forward gone but not forgotten: Fox Sports Pittsburgh released word that former Penguins winger Kevin Stevens will work a handful of games as a color analyst in the Penguins’ radio booth this season.

You've been cheated Howard: Terry Frei wrote on the dumping of these statistical categories today.

Dumb statistics fall by the wayside: I had tried to sell an article to ESPN.com and the Hockey News about the stupidity of the new statistical categories. No one wanted it, but it looks like the NHL listened to me... Well, maybe they just saw that Robert Svehla led the league in hits last season, and realized something was dreadfully wrong.

"Four years after it introduced an expanded statistical package, the NHL is getting rid of six individual categories — hits, blocked shots, giveaways, takeaways, missed shots and zone time."

Got Daze in your pool? Time to look for temporary fixes...: The Canadian Press reports that all-star winger Eric Daze of the Chicago Blackhawks will undergo back surgery to repair a herniated disk Wednesday and will be out at least six weeks.

LCS's Western Conference Preview is now available.

Vancouver and Ottawa swap players: The Ottawa Senators traded defenseman Sami Salo to the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday for left wing Peter Schaefer.

The 25-year-old Schaefer, who signed a bonus-laden, two-year, $1.125 million deal with Ottawa, had 16 goals and 41 points in 33 games last season with TPS Turku of the Finnish Elite League. Schaefer has 75 points in 178 NHL games over three seasons, from 1998 to 2001, with Vancouver. He was the Canucks' third pick, 66th overall, in the 1995 draft.

Salo was Ottawa's ninth pick, 239 overall, in the 1996 draft. The native of Turku, Finland played four seasons with the Senators, with 19 goals and 50 assists in 195 games.