The FBI has offered to help a Chicago businessman try to find the puck Patrick Kane scored the Stanley Cup winning goal with last year. Kane scored in overtime to beat the Flyers in Game 6 at Philadelphia in June. The puck has been missing ever since. "The people who are doing this are doing it on their own time," FBI spokesman Ross Rice said. "They feel they are a part of history."

The Sabres will announce a purchase agreement by billionaire Terry Pegula by the end of the week, according to multiple sources. Progress of Buffalo's impending sale was updated at the NHL's Board of Governors meeting at All-Star Weekend. Once the agreement is announced, the sale is expected to close within a month, according to sources.

The NHL is investigating what could be an explosive lawsuit filed by minor league player Jason Bailey against the Ducks. Bailey is alleging he was subject to systemic and repeated abuse while in the team's farm system because he is Jewish. The suit, filed Jan. 25 in California, refers to a period of time when Bailey, the 63rd overall pick in the 2005 draft, was playing with the ECHL Bakersfield Condors, then a farm team of the Ducks. Among the allegations in documents obtained by ESPN.com, Bakersfield coach Martin Raymond and assistant coach Mark Pederson repeatedly made racial slurs referring to Bailey's Jewish faith. Raymond, who remains the team's head coach according to the Condor's website, allegedly told Bailey that Raymond's ex-wife was Jewish "and that she was a 'bitch' for taking all of his money."

A frustrated Maple Leafs fan won't be doing time or have to pay a fine for throwing waffles on the ice at a game. He will still face a lifetime ban from Air Canada Centre. Joe Robb, a stonemason from Oakville, Ontario, was charged with mischief to property after making his soft, thawed breakfast-food protest at a 6-3 loss Dec. 20 at Air Canada Centre against the Thrashers.

The owners of the Atlanta Thrashers claim to have lost more than $130 million since 2005 and at least another $50 million on the plummeting value of the franchise because of a bitter dispute that ruined their plans to sell the team. The ownership group, known as Atlanta Spirit, revealed their financial woes in a lawsuit against one of the city's most prominent law firms. The lawsuit filed in Fulton County Superior Court claims the owners have been negotiating to sell the Thrashers over the last six years, only to be thwarted by a contentious split with Boston-based co-owner Steve Belkin. That legal tussle was finally settled in December when his shares were bought out.

Mike Danton says he wants to return to the NHL more than five years after he was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder in the U.S., according to an Associated Press report on Thursday.