Saturday’s Three Stars: Malkin’s 5-spot; Lucic, Cole Shanabans?
No. 1 Star: Evgeni Malkin, Pittsburgh Penguins Malkin tied a career high with five points as the Penguins steamrolled the Buffalo Sabres, 8-3. Malkin scored the third, fourth and seventh goals for the...
View ArticleSunday Comics: Ilya Bryzgalov, space cadet edition
The Sunday Comics are the best part of the newspaper, even if you're one of those losers that follows the adventures of Mark Trail. They arrive here on Puck Daddy each Sunday morning to make you spit...
View ArticleLucic hearing; Brendan Shanahan on NHL suspension criteria
In Saturday's 6-0 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers, forward Milan Lucic was given a major and was ejected for this hit from behind on Zac Rinaldo. The Flyers forward immediately entered into a...
View ArticleFort Wayne player slaps dude in face to instigate fight
On Saturday night, the Fort Wayne Komets defeated the Evansville IceMen, 7-4, in a rather spirited CHL affair — the last 24 seconds featured six fighting majors. One fight that didn't happen: Jesse...
View ArticleChildren’s entertainer Raffi wants you to mute Don Cherry
Don Cherry and Raffi (children's entertainer Cavoukian, not Torres) aren't so different. Both are Canadian icons whose words resound from coast to coast, albeit one as a demagogue, the other as a...
View ArticleVideo: Rene Bourque’s hit from behind injures Brent Seabrook
Scary scene from the Chicago Blackhawks' game against the Calgary Flames on Sunday night, as Rene Bourque sent Brent Seabrook's head into the glass and sent Seabrook out of the game with an "upper body...
View ArticleSunday’s Three Stars: Panthers’ OT thriller; Coach Q wins 600
No. 1 Star: Kris Versteeg, Florida Panthers Thrilling win for the Panthers, as Versteeg's 16th of the season at 3:08 of overtime gave Florida a 3-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes. Brian Campbell...
View ArticleVideo: The humongous big Ilya Bryzgalov/Star Trek mash-up
If you're anything like us, Ilya Bryzgalov's "HBO 24/7" speech about the universe has been reverberating through your head like a voice from the heavens; urging you to reconsider our place in the solar...
View ArticleWhat We Learned: The best general manager in the NHL
Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each...
View ArticleMaking sense of Randy Cunneyworth’s French kiss-off
Randy Cunneyworth has been called a lot of things in his NHL career, but we imagine "unilingual Anglophone" was a new one. He was promoted by the Montreal Canadiens to replace Jacques Martin on an...
View ArticleFantasy Hockey: Parise, Malkin rule; Corey Crawford overthrown
Dobber checks in every Monday to force-feed you the latest fantasy hockey trends. The founder of DobberHockey.com and a columnist for The Hockey News website, he long ago immersed himself into this...
View ArticleVideo: Jacob Markstrom likes to party; he likes, he likes to party
There are certain songs that will always win the battle between human willpower vs. the primal desire to shake one's booty to the beat. The Venga Boys' "We Like To Party" is one such song. C'mon:...
View ArticleMarek vs. Wyshynski Radio: Lazy nicknames; author Jason Farris
It's a Monday edition of Marek vs. Wyshynski beginning at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT, and we're talking about the following and more: Special Guest Stars: Cool one today - Jason Farris, the author of...
View ArticlePuck Daddy Reader Art Gallery 1: NHL Holiday Ornament
As we mentioned in introducing our NHL Holiday Ornament contest: Extra credit can be earned by actually turning concepts into physical ornaments for your holiday displays. As you can see, reader Katie...
View ArticleDespite Rinaldo’s defense, NHL suspends Milan Lucic 1 game
During the Boston Bruins' 6-0 rout of the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday afternoon, Milan Lucic was given a five-minute major for checking from behind and a game misconduct for this hit on Zac...
View ArticlePuck Headlines: Winter Classic rink revealed; Habs owner speaks
Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • Via Schuyler Baehman of...
View ArticlePuck Daddy’s 10 worst hockey decisions of 2011
(Ed. Note: Thus begins our two weeks of Year in Hockey 2011 coverage, featuring lists and jokes and more lists and occasional forays into serious topics and also jokes. And lists. Enjoy.) In 2011,...
View ArticlePuck Previews: B’s host Habs minus Lucic; Wild visit Canucks
Here are your Puck Previews: Spotlighting the key games in NHL action, news and views as well as general frivolity. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when the games are finished....
View ArticleBourque gets two games for check from behind on Seabrook
I'm Harrison Mooney of Puck Daddy's department of blogs devoted to looking at suspensions handed out by the National Hockey League's Department of Player Safety. Monday night, an incident occurred: One...
View ArticleJersey Fouls: Ducks fan’s live TV Foul during Boudreau chat
On Monday night, coach Bruce Boudreau was interviewed on VERSUS while the glass was being repaired in the Dallas Stars' arena. An Anaheim Ducks fan noticed the live camera shot, and began clowning...
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