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Trending Topics: It’s only ever been Jarome Iginla and the Calgary Flames
Trending Topics is a 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 death...
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Why the NHLPA rejected NHL’s 2012-13 realignment plan
What we didn't know about the NHL's radical realignment plan, approved by the NHL Board of Governors last month and affecting everything from conference sizes to playoff format: That the National...
View ArticleVideo: Penguins lose Jordan Staal on Mike Rupp’s knee-on-knee hit
With 4:45 left their game against the New York Rangers on Friday night, the Pittsburgh Penguins witnessed just about the last thing they wanted to see right now: Center Jordan Staal in considerable...
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Friday’s Three Stars: Varlamov’s Chicago shutout; Fleury’s goal blooper
No. 1 Star: Semyon Varlamov, Colorado Avalanche The Avs played well in front of him, but a shutout in Chicago is a shutout in Chicago. Varlamov made 27 saves as Colorado defeated the Chicago...
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Vancouver Canucks return to Boston and can’t win no matter what happens
Perhaps it's the collision between politics and sports — in which elections are covered like trade deadline day and the "horse races" leading up to them are covered like game stories — that we're...
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Bruins, Canucks get chippy; suspensions coming for Lucic, Marchand?
There was no love lost between the Boston Bruins and Vancouver Canucks this afternoon in their rematch of the 2011 Stanley Cup Final that ended in a 4-3 win for the visitors. The opening four minutes...
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Video: Shane Doan’s buzzer beater earns him first NHL hat trick
Phoenix Coyotes captain Shane Doan had played 1,160 NHL games, all with the same franchise, heading into tonight's tilt against the New York Islanders. He's been an All-Star twice and scored 20-plus...
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Saturday’s Three Stars: Briere’s winning hatty; Doan, Iginla hit milestones
No. 1 Star: Danny Briere, Philadelphia Flyers It was a pretty memorable day for Briere. First, he engaged in his just his third career NHL fight, this one with Kyle Turris of the Ottawa Senators. Then...
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The fighter-scorer is as rare as the 40-goal scorer, and almost as valuable
While the waiving of Colton Orr may not have signified the end of the pure fighter, it certainly signified the beginning of the end. If Orr can't stick in Toronto, where I wouldn't be shocked to learn...
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Pittsburgh Penguins lose Jordan Staal, James Neal for weeks; panic time?
Perhaps no other team in the NHL is as accustomed to thriving without star players in the lineup than the Pittsburgh Penguins. After all: Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Jordan Staal have only played...
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While facing suspension, Bruins’ Brad Marchand makes self-defense claim on...
So is Brad Marchand a victim of circumstance or a dirty hitter? The Boston Bruins forward faces a phone hearing with NHL Department of Player Safety sheriff Brendan Shanahan on Monday for this hit on...
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The competitiveness of the Southeast Division is the surprise of the season’s...
Going into the 2011-12 season, most assumed that Southeast Division would be a two-horse race. Every member of the Puck Daddy staff predicted the Washington Capitals and Tampa Bay Lightning to finish...
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Incident between fans, Blue Jackets in penalty box delays Ducks game
It's not exactly rare to see fans get into with players who are in the penalty box during an NHL game. Not in the Tie Domi sense, but in the verbal abuse sense. It is rare, however, to see a situation...
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Sunday’s Three Stars: Perry tricks Jackets; more Datsyuk magic in OT
No. 1 Star: Corey Perry, Anaheim Ducks The Ducks won by three goals, and Corey Perry had a hat trick. Coincidence!? Probably, since Anaheim was playing the moribund Columbus Blue Jackets, but Perry's...
View ArticleBrad Marchand has flipped Canucks before, and will flip them again (Video)
In honor of the weekend's most memorable highlight and heartfelt defense of illegal actions, let's skate back to last June to relive the last time Brad Marchand sent a member of the Vancouver Canucks...
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What We Learned: Canucks vs. Bruins is both the best and worst of hockey
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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Blue Jackets fire coach Scott Arniel in the NHL’s least timely decision of...
Perhaps the most startling aspect of Scott Arniel's dismissal as Columbus Blue Jackets head coach, literally months after it should have happened, is that GM Scott Howson didn't follow him out the door...
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Kings’ Dustin Penner injures himself while eating a stack of delicious pancakes
Things an NHL player should do when his weight and conditioning are constant points of contention and ridicule: Hit the exercise bike, hire a personal trainer, impose some dietary restrictions. Things...
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Fan who threw banana at Flyers’ Simmonds fined $200, act deemed racism-free
On Sept. 22, 2011, Wayne Simmonds of the Philadelphia Flyers was in the middle of a shootout attempt during an exhibition game at the John Labatt Centre in London, Ont., when a fan threw a banana on...
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Marek Vs. Wyshynski Radio: Canucks vs. Bruins, NHL vs. NHLPA, Bobby Holik
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: NHL great and MvsW favorite Bobby Holik joins us to...
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