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How much would you pay Brad Marchand?
By the numbers, 23-year-old Boston Bruins forward Brad Marchand had an impressive season — 21 goals and 20 assists in 77 games — followed by a star-making postseason, scoring 19 points in 25 playoff...
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Puck Headlines: NHL mental health debate; hockey wedding vid
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. • In order to increase their...
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Do hockey’s tough guys need their own representative body?
Hockey is a weird sport. While all of the major sports have games within the game, hockey is the only one that boasts a mini-game that often has no bearing on the outcome of the larger contest. Here,...
View ArticleVideo: Revealing, ahem, look inside KHL cheerleader dressing room
Here is today's lesson in international hockey marketing, courtesy of the KHL and its cheerleaders. The NHL has both Ice Girls and cheerleaders, but their marketing of these women is usually reserved...
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Puck Daddy NHL Season Preview 2011-12: Carolina Hurricanes
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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Record-setting Longest Game for Cystic Fibrosis in the books
Above: Karen Johns poses for a photo between shifts of the longest hockey game ever played. BURNABY, B.C. -- Buoyed by a breakout, 266-goal performance from forward Bree Healey, Team White defeated...
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Report: Flyers GM Holmgren injured in ‘serious’ bike accident
Tim Panaccio of CSNPhilly.com reports that Philadelphia Flyers GM Paul Holmgren, 55, was involved in a bike accident in South Jersey on Monday and remained hospitalized in Camden, NJ on Monday night:...
View ArticleVideo: Witness Andrew Ference’s Stanley Cup flash mob
Andrew Ference is no stranger to creativity. He was, of course, the brains behind the legendary Boston Bruins jacket that was given to the team's best player after each win during their Stanley Cup...
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City of Vancouver blames NHL for riots, embarrasses itself
Think about the night of June 15, when the Boston Bruins defeated the Vancouver Canucks in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final. Think about the cars smoldering in the streets of the city. Think about...
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HerbStock: Yes, it’s a Herb Brooks version of Woodstock
Miracle on Ice coach Herb Brooks has been honored in a variety of ways after he led the U.S. to Olympic glory and since his passing in 2003. There's a statue in his honor in St. Paul. Kurt Russell paid...
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The war over the NHL’s salary cap floor
In the final weeks of the NHL lockout of 2005, Jeremy Roenick famously said that the NHLPA got their "asses kicked" in the negotiation. In the short-term, he was correct: The NHLPA conceded more than...
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What do you expect Sidney Crosby to say at press conference?
When the Pittsburgh Penguins hold a 12:30 p.m. media availability, the media usually finds out about it that morning. But this is Sidney Crosby we're talking about here, and he's talking for the first...
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Pass or Fail: The home and away jerseys for the Winnipeg Jets
As soon as True North Sports and Entertainment purchased the Atlanta Thrashers in May, the two most anticipated aspects of the new "Winnipeg" team were whether or not they would again be called the...
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Puck Headlines: Holmgren health update; Ovechkin to Bauer
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're really starting to...
View ArticleVideo: Alex Ovechkin on his ‘perfect body’ and Bauer Hockey
ARLINGTON, Va. — To answer your first question about Alex Ovechkin leaving CCM for a six-year deal with Bauer: The apparel company isn't showing its hand on whether the marketing approach with the...
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Bourne Blog: When hockey friends become the enemy
In a recent interview with NHL.com, Max Talbot discussed switching sides within the Philadelphia Flyers/Pittsburgh Penguins rivalry, at one point saying about the Pens: "I owe them a lot, and I hope...
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Puck Daddy NHL Season Preview 2011-12: Chicago Blackhawks
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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Kyle Turris’s contract demands and paying for potential
After being drafted third overall in 2007, Kyle Turris has tallied more points in the AHL (71 in 86 games) than he has in the NHL (46 in 131). At 22 years old, he remains one of the Phoenix Coyotes'...
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Inside Derek Boogaard’s painkiller addiction
In Sept. 2009, the Minnesota Wild announced that brawler Derek Boogaard was out indefinitely because of a concussion. It was the line they had to sell due to the privacy mandate from the NHL and...
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Plane crash kills ‘majority’ of KHL team Lokomotiv
Tragedy has struck the hockey world again, this time in Russia and this time on a considerable scale. From the AP: A Russian jet carrying a top ice hockey team crashed while taking off Wednesday in...
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