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Wild make Todd Richards latest NHL coaching casualty
In the NFL, the day after the regular season ends is known as "Black Monday" because a slew of head coaches get their pink slips and organizations begin looking towards next season. The last few days...
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Ranking the 2011 Stanley Cup Playoff 1st-round series
The 2011 Stanley Cup Playoffs are set, the schedule is out, and we're all making time to make sure we don't miss a single moment of the NHL fixing it for the non-Canadian teams action. But which...
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Listen To Puck Daddy Radio for fan smackdowns, biggest chokers
It's a Monday edition of Puck Daddy Radio, and we're chatting about the following and much more: • Super Special Listener Contest: This week, we're playing your pro wrestling-style promos that cut down...
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NBC/VERSUS have ice cream truck Zamboni, competition from ESPN
We figure this sort of thing is commonplace in Canada, where every ice cream truck looks like a Zamboni, the soft-serve is in mini-goalie masks and they all play a children's song version of Stompin'...
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Puck Headlines: Todd Richards on firing; Nordiques invasion video
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 Sarah Baicker of CSN...
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Mullet Man: Patrick Kane’s ‘party in the back’ is back for...
At the start of the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Chicago Blackhawks winger Patrick Kane stunned the hockey world while becoming a hero in the world of hockey hair, rejecting the traditional playoff...
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The 5 worthiest candidates for the 2011 NHL Masterton Trophy
The Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy is given to "the player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship and dedication to hockey," which typically means the player who overcame...
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Panthers president open to jerseys ads, talks selling ice to Lexus
Listen to any sporting event on the radio, and you realize how even the most inconsequential play is now sponsored by some corporate entity. Walk into any sporting venue, and you realize every space...
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Bubbly NHL Playoff Preview: Capitals (1) vs. Rangers (8)
The Washington Capitals and New York Rangers met in the 2009 NHL Playoffs, with Caps having home ice and designs on the Stanley Cup. Then the Rangers won Game 1. Then they won Game 2. The Capitals...
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Bourne Blog: Hair-raising playoff traditions of hockey locker rooms
Playoffs: the wonderful time of year where men let their facial hair run rampant in a show of unity; not so much with their team, as with the game itself. We are all hockey players, and this is...
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Listen To Puck Daddy Radio for NHL awards picks, West preview
It's a Tuesday edition of Puck Daddy Radio, and we're chatting about the following and much more: • Super Special Listener Contest: This week, we're playing your pro wrestling-style promos that cut...
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Is Jack Capuano the right man to lead Islanders’ revival?
What's inspiring about the New York Islanders' announcement that they're dropping the "interim" tag from head coach Jack Capuano's title is that (a) he earned that opportunity through adverse...
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Puck Headlines: Zetterberg out; Briere’s Chris Pronger ‘joke’
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. • No Henrik Zetterberg for...
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Bubbly NHL Playoff Preview: Pittsburgh (4) vs. Tampa Bay (5)
The Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning have never faced each other beyond the NHL's regular season. Pittsburgh is in the playoffs for a fifth consecutive year, while the Lightning have turned...
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List of fired NHL coaches grows as Crawford gets canned by Stars
After just two seasons as Dallas Stars head coach Marc Crawford has been fired. The Stars announced the move this afternoon just two days after their loss to the Minnesota Wild cost them a playoff...
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Bubbly NHL Playoff Preview: Anaheim (4) vs. Nashville (5)
It's offensive flash versus defensive prowess as the Nashville Predators and Anaheim Ducks play the 4/5 matchup in the Western Conference. The Predators have again found themselves in the playoffs...
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Edmonton gets No. 1 NHL Draft pick; Devils win lottery for No. 4
When the New Jersey Devils were in the NHL gutter earlier this season under short-lived head coach John MacLean, it was assumed they would get a lottery pick. Then Jacques Lemaire was rehired on Dec....
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Puck Daddy’s 2011 Stanley Cup Playoff Staff Prognostications
In which your friends from Puck Daddy and Puck Daddy Radio on The Score Sirius 98 select the winners for Round 1 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs as well as their conference and Cup champions. Greg...
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Chatting with Alex Semin: ‘We have to take our revenge in playoffs’
Besides the play of Jaroslav Halak, two things that killed the Washington Capitals in the 2010 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Montreal Canadiens were a lack of secondary scoring and an ineffective...
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Bubbly NHL Playoff Preview: Red Wings (3) vs. Coyotes (6)
Last year's series between the Detroit Red Wings and the Phoenix Coyotes was absolutely surreal: sold out games in Glendale, with a crowd whiting out the building; the Coyotes playing through the...
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