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What the NHL’s new boarding, head-shot rules mean for safety
Along with officially giving Winnipeg an NHL franchise again (R.I.P. Thrashers), the NHL's Board of Governors approved two significant rules changes to boarding (Rule 41) and illegal checks to the...
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Report: Andrei Markov will stay with Canadiens on 2-year deal
In 2009, defenseman Andrei Markov missed 37 games for the Montreal Canadiens after injuring his tendon on opening night. In 2010, Markov tore his ACL during the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs...
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NHL top-selling jerseys: Crosby, Ovechkin and Winter Classic effect
Who had the best-selling jerseys in the NHL last season? According to Sports Business Daily, it's still the Sid and Ovie show: Penguins C Sidney Crosby again led the NHL in jersey sales during the...
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Is Bryzgalov worth $7 million a year? Apparently, to the Flyers
If the Philadelphia Flyers end up spending $7 million a season on Ilya Bryzgalov, which both Nick Kypreos and Elliotte Friedman have heard is the price tag for the goalie, there's only one guy to...
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Listen To Puck Daddy Radio for NHL Awards preview!
It's a Wednesday edition of Puck Daddy Radio, and we're chatting about the following and much more: • Special Guest Star: Elliotte Friedman of CBC Sports joins us to talk NHL Awards and Ilya Bryzgalov....
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Which 2011 NHL Awards have the highest cringe factors?
The NHL Awards are Wednesday night (as is the Puck Daddy/Japers' Rink NHL Awards Party in D.C.), as Las Vegas will welcome back the NHL for what should (God-willing) be another night of free-flowing...
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Where is Jaromir Jagr headed? Will Ilya Bryzgalov really be worth $7 million per season? And which players might be in play at the NHL Draft? Please join us beginning at 2 p.m. ET/11 a.m. PT today for...
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Pass or Fail: The new logos for the Nashville Predators
Ryan Porth of Smashville 24/7 published these new Nashville Predators logos that were shown to bloggers at the NHL Awards in Las Vegas on Wednesday. The team is debuting new home and away jerseys this...
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Puck Daddy chats with Ilya Bryzgalov about Philadelphia Flyers, his contract...
If Ilya Bryzgalov's former team the Phoenix Coyotes played in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final, would fans in Arizona take part in the same kind of riot as those in Vancouver did? "Fans there wouldn't...
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Puck Daddy picks the 2011 NHL Awards winners
Wysh, Leahy, Dmitry and a slew of readers are at the Iron Horse Tap Room in DC for another Puck Daddy/Japers' Rink viewing party for the 2011 NHL Awards. We'll have post-award coverage tonight and on...
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How Corey Perry won the Hart, and other revealing vote totals
The 2011 NHL Awards were their usual mix of awesome and awkward. But the awards themselves offered a bit more unpredictability than in previous years — and some razor-thin margins in the voting....
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The best and worst of the 2011 NHL Awards
(Ed. Note: Wysh and Leahy are traveling to the NHL Draft today; here's Lambert on the NHL Awards.) A lot of things happened at this year's NHL Awards in Las Vegas. Some of them really cool, most of...
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Puck Daddy chats with Tampa Bay’s Steven Stamkos about his NHL 12...
On Wednesday night, EA Sports announced their newest cover athlete for the popular NHL video game series during the League's annual awards broadcast. Steven Stamkos of the Tampa Bay Lightning was...
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Mystery: Who broke Daniel Sedin’s Ted Lindsay Award in Vegas?
When Vancouver Canucks star Daniel Sedin and his lovely wife Marinette Sedin posed with his Ted Lindsay Award for outstanding player Wednesday night at the NHL Awards in Las Vegas, something seemed a...
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Listen to Puck Daddy Radio for Chris Therien, NHL Awards wrap
It's a Thursday edition of Puck Daddy Radio, and we're chatting about the following and much more: • Special Guest Star: Former NHLer Chris Therien joins us to talk puck. • An award-by-award breakdown...
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Claude Noel gets Winnipeg coaching gig, beating out Haviland
Earlier this week, the Winnipeg coaching derby was down to Manitoba Moose head coach Claude Noel, former interim coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets, or Chicago Blackhawks assistant coach Mike Haviland....
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Landeskog’s NHL Draft Diary: Touched by the hand of Don Cherry
(Ed. Note: Gabriel Landeskog is a winger for the Kitchener Rangers and is expected to be a Top 3 pick in the 2011 NHL draft. He's agreed to write a few Draft Diaries for Puck Daddy before and after...
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Puck Headlines: Panthers target top pick; NHL scheduled released
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. (Running around at the draft...
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Flyers deal Jeff Carter, his contract to Blue Jackets
Jeff Carter makes $5,272,727 annually against the salary cap, and will continue to do so until 2022. The Philadelphia Flyers needed cap space in order to sign goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov and make other...
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Flyers captain Mike Richards traded to Kings in pre-draft blockbuster
Los Angeles media, meet your new headache. Philadelphia Flyers fans, enjoy your heart transplant. According to multiple sources (and first reported by TSN), the Flyers acquired blue-chip forward...
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