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Hockey Guilty Pleasures: Harrison Mooney edition
(Ed. Note: Our series "Puck Daddy's Guilty Pleasures" features puckheads from all walks of life answering questions about their own hockey-related guilty pleasures. Have a suggestion for a "Guilty...
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Organizer: Sean Avery planned to get arrested at White House
If constructed, the Keystone XL pipeline would transport oil 1,980 miles from Hardisty, Alberta to Arthur, Texas. The U.S. State Department supports the project; environmentalists oppose it, citing...
View ArticleExclusive: Wayne Gretzky talks greatness in EA Sports NHL 12
Wayne Gretzky's first NHL goal was a weak dribbler through the five hole of Vancouver Canucks goalie Glen Hanlon back in 1979. Not that the style mattered — you always remember your first time fondly....
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Puck Daddy chats with Mikhail Grabovski about Maple Leafs’ playoff chances,...
With 29 goals in 81 games last season, Mikhail Grabovski of the Toronto Maple Leafs beat his share of defensive players. But which defenseman in the NHL does the 27-year-old forward think is the most...
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Hockey and depression: Going from ‘I’m fine’ to “I need help’
"I think it's a coincidence." "It's amazing, I think, that there's not more Wade Belaks, Derek Boogaards, [Rick] Rypiens." These are two statements made within moments of each other by Lyndon Byers,...
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Is Pekka Rinne the best goalie in fantasy hockey?
Pekka Rinne will probably never get the respect in the NHL that his numbers indicate he deserves because he (a) plays for an unglamorous franchise and (b) plays behind a defensive system and (c) can't...
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Puck Daddy NHL Season Preview 2011-12: Boston Bruins
It's going to be another year of blockbusters and huge flops in the NHL. Which teams blew out their budgets for big name stars and gigantic special effects to score Michael Bay-levels of box office...
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Winning the Presidents’ Trophy is as easy as playing easy teams
Last season, the Vancouver Canucks discovered the secret to winning the Presidents' Trophy, a secret the Detroit Red Wings have known about for years: play bad teams often. This isn't meant to...
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Puck Headlines: Red Wings/Amway outrage; Trevor Gillies on MMA
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. • That right there is a...
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Bourne Blog: Motivation means being better than the other guy
The time between your first step into a gym after the season and your first step onto the ice to start training camp can feel like an eternity. Check that: It does feel like an eternity (to which...
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CBC’s P.J. Stock: Wade Belak not a suicide but an ‘accidental death’
Via Mirtle, here is a full page ad that will appear in the Saturday edition of The Tennessean: a tribute to the late Wade Belak penned by his Nashville Predators teammate David Legwand and on behalf of...
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Trending Topics: What was with that van Riemsdyk deal?
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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About those Henrik Zetterberg sightings in New York City
Puck Daddy reader Lori from Brooklyn shared this image on Friday, saying that Detroit Red Wings star Henrik Zetterberg was "shooting a promo of some sort in Herald Square. What's with the silly red...
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Tales from the future: 20 storylines for the NHL’s first quarter
The NHL regular season begins in just under a month, and it will bring with it a great many twist, turns, and tales. But if, like me, you're far too impatient to let the future come to you naturally...
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Puck Daddy NHL Season Preview 2011-12: Buffalo Sabres
It's going to be another year of blockbusters and huge flops in the NHL. Which teams blew out their budgets for big name stars and gigantic special effects to score Michael Bay-levels of box office...
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Five reasons to calm down about tattoos at Islanders games
On Tuesday, New York Islanders center Micheal Haley is scheduled to appear at Tattoo Lou's, a Long Island-based parlor that's been in business for 50 years. Hockey player gets a tattoo ... nothing too...
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Hockey Guilty Pleasures: Sean Leahy edition
(Ed. Note: Our series "Puck Daddy's Guilty Pleasures" features puckheads from all walks of life answering questions about their own hockey-related guilty pleasures. It will run daily during the month...
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Puck Daddy NHL Season Preview 2011-12: Calgary Flames
It's going to be another year of blockbusters and huge flops in the NHL. Which teams blew out their budgets for big name stars and gigantic special effects to score Michael Bay-levels of box office...
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What We Learned: Maybe owners aren’t serious about concussions
Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each...
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Jesse Boulerice’s wife announces his retirement on Facebook
Some players hold press conferences to announce their retirements from the NHL. Others opt for interviews with friendly journalists. Still others are content to have the NHLPA issue press releases on...
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