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Puck Headlines: Detroit Winter Classic at 2 sites? Flyers/Leafs trade? Hit of...
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. • Your Great Aunt took in...
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Trending Topics: Why you shouldn’t care about All-Star snubs; Gauthier’s...
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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Sports hernia surgery likely to end Rick DiPietro’s season
In what's becoming too regular of an occurrence, New York Islanders goaltender Rick DiPietro will likely miss the rest of the season due to an injury. According to Newsday's Arthur Staple, the 30-year...
View ArticleBlackhawks’ Dan Carcillo done for season due to ACL surgery, wicked case of...
The Chicago Blackhawks announced the inevitable on Friday: Winger Dan Carcillo is done for the 2011-12 season because of an ACL injury. OK, a self-inflicted ACL injury, suffered in a successful attempt...
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Puck Previews: Lightning visit Caps; Mike Richards talks instigator
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...
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Friday’s Three Stars: Brouwer tricks Lightning; Hiller blanks Oilers
No. 1 Star: Troy Brouwer, Washington Capitals On the back of Brouwer's first NHL hat trick, the Capitals hung on for a 4-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning for their sixth straight win at Verizon...
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How Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper uses his love of hockey for...
There wasn't a single hockey-related story from 2011 I found more amusing than Prime Minister Stephen Harper's attempt to get tickets for the Winnipeg Jets home opener. The outcry over a report that...
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Ken ‘The Rat’ Linseman proud to be compared to Brad ‘The Rat’ Marchand of Bruins
Currently serving a 5-game suspension for low-bridging Sami Salo and generally considered one of the NHL's preeminent pests, Brad Marchand of the Boston Bruins has earned his share of nicknames. Among...
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That Luke Schenn for James van Riemsdyk trade isn’t looking very likely anymore
On Wednesday, Toronto Maple Leafs GM Brian Burke went on FAN 590 in Toronto and said that the team was working on a trade; he also said that he wouldn't be against "trading a 22-year-old of one...
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Rangers say Sean Avery didn’t spit on coach for disciplinary scratch in AHL
Sean Avery was a healthy scratch on Friday night for the AHL Connecticut Whale's game in Norfolk, and the New York Rangers told Katie Strang of ESPN that it was for "disciplinary reasons." And with...
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Daniel Alfredsson vs. Dion Phaneuf, NHL All-Star captains? Nicklas Lidstrom...
DETROIT -- Nicklas Lidstrom thinks the NHL should add another element to the Fantasy Draft and All-Star Game — rivalry. With the festivities in Ottawa this year, one captain should be the Senators'...
View ArticleIn absurd call, Sabres granted penalty shot after Islanders’ Streit stumbles...
Here's a very rare occurrence: a penalty shot awarded during a play that features no scoring chance whatsoever. With a minute and a half to go in Saturday night's game between the New York Islanders...
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Is Dane Byers’ illegal hit on Sharks’ Andrew Desjardins Shanaban-able ? (Video)
Another day, another ugly hit in the NHL. This one comes to us from Saturday's tilt between the San Jose Sharks and the Columbus Blue Jackets, as Jackets' winger Dane Byers stepped into Andrew...
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Saturday’s Three Stars: Bertuzzi scores twice in Wings’ win; Biron blanks Leafs
No. 1 Star: Todd Bertuzzi, Detroit Red Wings Todd Bertuzzi scored twice in this game -- once on a breakaway in the first period and again in the overtime frame as the Red Wings' edged the Chicago...
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Bob Murray’s kick in the butt currently working for the Ducks
After firing Randy Carlyle and Anaheim Ducks GM Bob Murray watched his team go 3-9-2 under Bruce Boudreau immediately after. His team was tailspinning down the Western Conference standings, so Murray...
View ArticleWatch 19-year-old Dominic Lammer’s sneaky lacrosse goal in Swiss league (Video)
There's that wonderful moment in hockey when you know the lacrosse shot* is coming. It's when the defenders are all a safe distance away, having left an attacking player alone behind the net. Then the...
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Ryan Ellis’s hipcheck on Flyers’ Wayne Simmonds is awesome; but was it clipping?
Ryan Ellis and Wayne Simmonds teamed up to treat us to one of the hits of the year Saturday night. Early in the second period, with the Nashville Predators leading the Philadelphia Flyers 1-0, Simmonds...
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How a punk band stepped up to rescue financially struggling hockey team
You may know Die Toten Hosen from such German punk hits as "Ich bin die Sehnsucht in dir" and "Zehn kleine Jägermeister". Although probably not. Here's how you'll know them, going forward: As the band...
View ArticleEvgeni Malkin enters Beast Mode vs. Tampa: Hat trick, 5 points, spectacular...
In the third period on Sunday, after the host Tampa Bay Lightning tied the Pittsburgh Penguins in the third period, Dominic Moore of the Bolts was seen saying something to Penguins star Evgeni Malkin....
View ArticleAlex Ovechkin drops a verse in ‘Champion’, by Russian rapper Sasha Belyi (Video)
Alex Ovechkin had a busy summer. He presented 1,000,000 Rubles to the Dynamo Moscow Youth Hockey Program. He signed on with Mr. Big. He recreated the album cover for Funkadelic classic, Maggot Brain...
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