Michael Frolik News

After the Phoenix Coyotes eliminated the Blackhawks from the playoffs, Patrick Sharp and Duncan Keith committed to play for Team Canada in this spring's IIHF World Championships.

Nov. 25, 2011: Sunrise, FL, USA; Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Pavel Kubina checks Florida Panthers right wing Jack Skille into the boards during the second period at the BankAtlantic Center.

To say that the 2011-2012 season was a career year for Viktor Stalberg would be an understatment.

Slovakia grabbed their ticket into the world ice hockey championship's title-decider with a tight 3-1 semi-final win over former compatriots Czech Republic here on Saturday.

The 2011-12 NHL season is a distant memory for the Chicago Blackhawks , but some members of the organization were still in action at the 2012 IIHF World Championships.

Sharp and Keith are playing for Canada while Stalberg, Hjalmarsson and Kruger are on Team Sweden and Michael Frolik is with the Czech Republic Joey Crabb of the U.S. collides with Canada's Duncan Keith during their 2012 IIHF ice hockey World Championship game in Helsinki.

With their teammates spread far and wide after the jarring first-round exit in the playoffs, six Blackhawks have chosen to play on.

When you look in the system and at the current NHL roster who is valuable to other teams? That is the first question you have to ask, so you get the most in return.

Michael Frolik began the playoffs like the rest of us well maybe from a better seat in the stadium, but he was stuck watching the Chicago Blackhawks make heroic comebacks in Game 1 and Game 2 in Phoenix.A Frolik got a chance to play thanks to Andrew Shaw running threw the very theatrical PhoenixA CoyotesA goalie Mike Smith in Game 2.A Frolik being ... (more)