Listen To Puck Daddy Radio for Jack Edwards, riot aftermath
It's a Thursday edition of Puck Daddy Radio, and we're chatting about the following and much more: • Special Guest Star No. 1: Once more, with feeling - our old pal Jack Edwards joins us to talk about...
View ArticleBourne Blog: Why the best team won the Stanley Cup
The President's Trophy-winning Vancouver Canucks had two cracks to win the Stanley Cup, one of which was on home ice. This should point to the idea that it was a close series, or that they barely...
View ArticlePuck Headlines: Game 7 aftermath; more Jaromir Jagr chatter
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. • We had this photo in the...
View ArticleVancouver Riots: Citizens unite to clean, police seek suspects
The people of Vancouver who didn't partake in the Game 7 riots could have spent The Day After bitterly lamenting and decrying the "criminals, anarchists and thugs" (in the words of the police) who...
View ArticleVideo: The top 10 goals of the 2011 Stanley Cup playoffs
After 89 playoff games, the Stanley Cup was handed out on Wednesday night to the Boston Bruins. Hockey is gone from our televisions for the next four months and the goals that excite us on a nightly...
View ArticleIs Mike Yeo the right head coach for the Minnesota Wild?
First impressions are hard to shake, which makes the Minnesota Wild's hiring of Mike Yeo as the third head coach in franchise history feel a little odd. My introduction to Yeo as an NHL coach was...
View ArticleHey D.C. area Puck Daddy readers: Come to our NHL Awards bash!
The NHL Awards are scheduled for Wednesday, June 22, and if last year's edition taught us anything it's that this ordeal is vastly improved by humor and booze. Conveniently, both will be prevalent at...
View ArticleReport: Chris Drury’s injury blocks Rangers buyout
Last week, it was reported that the New York Rangers would mercifully buy out the last season of Chris Drury's lamentable 5-year, $35.25 million contract, taking part of that cap space-devouring deal...
View ArticleTrending Topics: Bruins GM won Cup by resisting temptation
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...
View ArticleThe identity of Vancouver’s famous kissing couple is revealed
In the age of Facebook and Twitter, it was only a matter of time before the world learned the identities of the kissing couple from that now-iconic photo of the Vancouver riots. About 24 hours after...
View ArticleListen To Puck Daddy Radio for Chris Campoli, Canucks’ ills
It's a (gettin' down on) Friday edition of Puck Daddy Radio, and we're chatting about the following and much more: • Special Guest Star: Chris Campoli, RFA defenseman for the Chicago Blackhawks, talks...
View ArticleEulogy: Remembering the 2010-11 Vancouver Canucks
(Ed. Note: As the Stanley Cup Playoffs continue, we're bound to lose some friends along the journey. We've asked for these losers, gone but not forgotten, to be eulogized by the people who knew the...
View ArticleBourne Blog: When the NHL lockers empty for the summer
Sometime in the next few days, the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins will head back to the arena and pack up their stalls. Summer is just beginning, and regardless of how your season ended, at some...
View ArticlePuck Headlines: Bettman on booing; Bruins on ‘Today’; new coaches
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. • We don't want to say the...
View ArticleThe greatest Ilya Bryzgalov reference of Vancouver Game 7 riots
As we noted Thursday, the citizens of Vancouver responded in an inspiring way after the ugly riots that followed the Canucks' Game 7 loss to the Boston Bruins on Wednesday. That included turning the...
View ArticleCanucks GM: No sweeping changes, injuries a factor in Cup loss
To hear General Manager Mike Gillis say it, the Vancouver Canucks would be Stanley Cup champions were it not for injuries and the Boston Bruins. Gillis and Canucks head coach Alain Vingeault met the...
View ArticleTribute: Remembering the 2010-11 Boston Bruins
(What, you thought the champs get off easy? Before the season, we assign 16 eulogies. As in the past, the winning team's eulogy becomes ahem, a "tribute" by the fans who hated them the most. Here is...
View ArticleInside the KHL’s ‘money for a roster spot’ scandal
In a radio interview in Russia last year, Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin said: "You can say whatever you want, and everyone can talk very good. But if you look at what is happening in reality...
View ArticleVideo: Brad Marchand raps ‘Black and Yellow’ at Bruins Cup parade
Boston Bruins Stanley Cup parade organizers decided to have the players address the crowd — estimated to be over a million people — before embarking on the parade route. This dramatically decreased the...
View ArticleFree-agent tension: Latest on Weber, Doughty, Parise, Stamkos
Besides slightly sinister playoff facial hair, Drew Doughty of the Los Angeles Kings and Shea Weber of the Nashville Predators have something else in common: They're two NHL stars in need of new...
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