Carey Price’s near spit-take in NHL All-Star Draft after Lupul pick (Video)
With their seventh pick of the 2012 NHL All-Star Game Fantasy Draft, captain Zdeno Chara and assistant Joffrey Lupul wanted to take a goaltender. Lupul, a Toronto Maple Leafs forward, decided to reach...
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From Pavel Datsyuk first to Logan Couture last, comparing the 2012 All-Star...
GATINEAU, QUE. -- The dust has settled and the 2012 NHL All-Star Fantasy Draft is complete. No big snubs or dramatic teammate double-crosses. No trade between the two sides, the Sedins stick together...
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In which Scott Hartnell and Joffrey Lupul share a toilet during NHL All-Star...
GATINEAU, QUE. — The 2012 NHL All-Star Fantasy Draft featured a relaxed setting for the players waiting to be selected by Teams Alfredsson and Chara. Well, save for the bathrooms. With 46 players in...
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Tim Thomas says he has ‘full and unwavering support’ of Bruins teammates
GATINEAU, QUE. -- When Tim Thomas said on Monday evening that his statement on Facebook would be his final comment on the issue of him skipping the Boston Bruins' trip to the White House to celebrate...
View ArticleAfter making him nervous, Bruins’ Zdeno Chara and Tyler Seguin hug it out at...
GATINEAU, Que. — Tyler Seguin of the Boston Bruins was among the final four picks in the 2012 NHL All-Star Fantasy Draft, staring down the potential for considerable irony: That he could be the last...
View ArticleJoey Junior Blackhawks Reporter flirts with Heidi Androl and trolls Leafs,...
OTTAWA — Joey Junior Blackhawks Reporter, the precocious scamp who rocketed to fame by asking "Who do biggest tuwh-key on da team?", has taken his talents to Ottawa for the 2012 NHL All-Star Weekend....
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Whoever invented this NHL All-Star Game Jersey Fouls machine must be stopped
OTTAWA — It's no secret the NHL has made a brazen endorsement of Jersey Fouls lately, what with a recent commercial that enables these affronts to fandom. But this really ups the ante. Introducing the...
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Marty Turco signs with EC Salzburg; has NHL out-clause
When we last left former NHL goaltender and frequent NHL Network analyst Marty Turco, he had signed a short-term contract with EC Salzburg to play in the European Trophy Finals in December. Turco...
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After Phil Kessel strife, how Logan Couture pushed Mr. Irrelevant back into...
OTTAWA — Along with the ignominious label of Mr. Irrelevant and a new Honda Crossfire, Logan Couture was given something else as the last pick of the 2012 NHL All-Star Game Fantasy Draft: All of the...
View ArticleMike Richards is future of hip-hop and other revelations from Funny Or Die...
The Fame Makers, a.k.a. Neil Campbell and Mike Hanford, have performed a public service to hockey on Funny or Die: Teaching Mike Richards, Anze Kopitar, Matt Greene and Drew Doughty of the Los Angeles...
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Don’t tell ESPN, but new poll finds hockey as popular as basketball in U.S.
Hockey fans in the U.S. take what we can get when it comes to validation of our sport's popularity. We celebrate minimal upticks in television ratings that still put the NHL behind children's cartoon...
View ArticleMarek Vs. Wyshynski Radio: Awkward All-Star Draft, NHL CBA doom, live from...
It's a (gettin' down on) Friday 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: Perhaps an NHL All-Star. Perhaps...
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Judge orders backyard rink makers to pay water bill, community service
Desperate times called for desperate measures. When 21-year-old Tony Nelin and 20-year-old Timmy Ryan were in dire need of water in order to help build a backyard rink, they figured using a garden hose...
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Puck Headlines: A letter from the Blue Jackets’ owner; Alfredsson’s got one...
• How committed is Alex Ovechkin to not being a distraction at the All-Star game? He's wearing camouflage shorts. [Alex Ovetjkin] • Speaking of Ovechkin, Bruce Arthur's column on his ASG no-show is...
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Trending Topics: Stop pretending you don’t care about the All-Star Game
Trending Topics is a column that looks at the week in hockey, occasionally 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...
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Tim Thomas would really appreciate you leaving his teammates, family out of this
OTTAWA — Try as he might, Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas can't get the focus back on hockey. After the NHL All-Star Game Fantasy Draft on Thursday, Thomas fielded questions about declining to take...
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Ratings dip in U.S., Canada for NHL All-Star Fantasy Draft
Apparently, the selection of Team Chara and Team Alfredsson wasn't appointment television. The second edition of the NHL All-Star Game Fantasy Draft saw its numbers fall in the U.S. and Canada,...
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Ryan Suter won’t sign before trade deadline, ups pressure on Predators GM Poile
OTTAWA -- The pressure is on Nashville Predators' General Manager David Poile. He has two cornerstone defensemen -- Ryan Suter, who can become an unrestricted free agent July 1, and Shea Weber, who can...
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All-Star experience something Brian Elliott ‘wouldn’t trade for the world’
OTTAWA -- St. Louis Blues goaltender Brian Elliott joked that he would have loved for his first All-Star Game to happen in a warmer climate. Other than wishing he was away from the snow in Ottawa and...
View ArticleFor the second straight year, Phil Kessel’s pathos is captured on cell phone...
The NHL skills competition goes Saturday night, and I, like many of you, will be waiting with bated breath and whispering humbleness to learn who truly is the league's fastest skater (among the 1o guys...
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