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Puck Headlines: Hornqvist fined; Lecavalier talks Subban
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. • Many have claimed to see...
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Trending Topics: Let’s get serious about NHL player safety
Trending Topics is a new column that looks at the week in hockey according to Twitter. If you're only going to comment to say how stupid Twitter is, why not just go have a good cry for the slow, sad...
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Friday’s Three Stars: Knuble factors in for Caps; dirty Burrows hit?
No. 1 Star: Mike Knuble, Washington Capitals After having their nine-game winning streak snapped on Wednesday, the Capitals looked to start a new one with a 3-0 shutout of the New Jersey Devils....
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Do Maple Leafs have enough left in tank for final playoff push?
The major storyline for tonight's Toronto Maple Leafs game is the return of Tomas Kaberle to the ACC in a Boston Bruins sweater. Expect a video tribute. Expect the appropriate amounts of cheering and...
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Pass or Fail: ECHL Gwinnett Gladiators Margaritaville jerseys
"Pink in the Rink" has become a minor league hockey tradition, as the ice is tinted to raise awareness for charity fundraisers. But when combined with Margaritaville night? It looks like the world's...
View ArticleVideo: Niklas Kronwall shovels Patrick Eaves to Wings bench
How hard does Nashville Predators defenseman Shea Weber shoot the puck? Hard enough to have almost toppled Zdeno Chara at the NHL All-Star skills competition. Hard enough to have ripped a puck through...
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Saturday’s Three Stars: Pavelski, Perry shine; Couture injured
No. 1 Star: Joe Pavelski, San Jose Sharks The St. Louis Blues peppered Antti Niemi with 45 shots; alas, none of them were by Joe Pavelski. The Sharks forward tallied two goals and added an assist in...
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Dominik Hasek wants ‘one more year’ in the KHL
If he were to ever play in the NHL again, Dominik Hasek would find himself alongside Gordie Howe and Chris Chelios in the top three of the oldest players to ever have played in the league. In Buffalo...
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Did the NHL consider goalies in new concussion protocol?
Last week at the GM Meetings in Boca Raton, NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman announced that the League was implementing a new medical protocol for concussion diagnosis: Any player suspected of having a...
View ArticleVideo: Soon-to-be suspended Matt Cooke elbows McDonagh in head
It only took Pittsburgh Penguins forward Matt Cooke a little over a month to find himself in hot water yet again. Early in the third period of today's game against the New York Rangers, Cooke landed an...
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Sunday’s Three Stars: Tricks for Geoffrion, Subban; Perry OT hero
No. 1 Star: Blake Geoffrion, Nashville Predators Geoffrion recorded his first NHL hat trick during a 4-3 come-from-behind win over the Buffalo Sabres. Down 3-1 late in the third period, Geoffrion...
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Happy 20th anniversary, Ron Tugnutt’s 70-save game vs. Bruins
Two things we know about Ron Tugnutt: One of the greatest names in hockey history, and a member of some truly terrible hockey teams during his 16-season NHL career. Like, for example, the 1990-91...
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What We Learned: Matt Cooke gives NHL chance for big ban
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...
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Capitals rest Ovechkin for nationally televised game vs. Flyers
It's long been suspected that the decrease in Alex Ovechkin's goal productivity this year has either been due to injury or a different mindset about the value of the regular season, after the...
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Craig Anderson agrees to spend 4 years in Ottawa goalie graveyard
Since 2003-04, the Ottawa Senators have had six different goalies lead them in games started each season. Some were quick fixes (Dominik Hasek, Alex Auld), others were "solutions" to their goaltending...
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Listen To Puck Daddy Radio for Matt Cooke debate, playoff talk
It's a Monday edition of Puck Daddy Radio, and we're chatting about the following and much more: • Special Guest Star: It's possible we may be speaking with Milan Lucic of the Boston Bruins in the...
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Puck Headlines: Players rant on Cooke; Big 10 hockey coming
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. • As Lambert pointed out...
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Stat Nerd: What gets playoff bubble teams into NHL postseason?
(Ed. Note: Typically found on Sunday, Stat Nerd is where we occasionally obsess over hockey numbers like a Dungeon Master obsessing over the level of his warrior elf. Here's Matt Barr, formerly of...
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Canucks lose Manny Malhotra for season and postseason
The worst case scenario for the Vancouver Canucks and center Manny Malhotra for this season is now a reality: Following an initial procedure and continued treatment it has been determined through...
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Is Matt Cooke’s 10-game, 1st-round playoff suspension enough?
The NHL's suspension of Pittsburgh Penguins winger Matt Cooke for an elbow delivered to the head of New York Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh kowtows to popular opinion, smacks of a "makeup call" for...
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