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With or without Bru: Edmonton Oilers cut Gilbert Brule
In honor of his placement on waivers by Edmonton, please follow the bouncing Brule … In 2009-10, Gilbert Brule finally showed some of the promise of being the No. 6 overall pick by the Columbus Blue...
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Battle of the Blades III Review: Sandra hates Tessa
Welcome to Week 2 of Puck Daddy's ongoing coverage of CBC's Battle of the Blades, the figure-skating-meets-hockey reality program that proves Canadians will watch just about anything, provided it...
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Video: Hockey-themed Bar Mitzvah will leave you verklempt
Remember "My Super Sweet 16" on MTV, which showed the world the luxurious excess of six-figured birthday parties for young adults? The show that made you feel horrendous for having your party at a...
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What We Learned: 20 bold predictions for the NHL season
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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How the first two months can royally screw your NHL season
There's no guaranteeing that the New Jersey Devils will return to the playoffs this year. They still have a roster of oddly-fitting parts, one that's now short a true No. 1 center until 2012 with...
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Ryan Malone dodges the Shanahammer; right or wrong call?
(Left: Brendan Shanahan during his first suspension video. Right: Brendan Shanahan on the Clarke MacArthur video, his latest one.) Brendan Shanahan, the NHL's Executive VP of Player Safety and...
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Brayden Schenn: Odds-on favorite to win rookie of the year?
Trying to figure out the Calder Trophy winner in early October is like trying to handicap the Best Picture winner in April: There are simply too many variables in play for there to be anything close to...
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Puck Headlines: Crosby on IR; Wings ink Brunnstrom; cuts around NHL
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. • Hockey players are...
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Mike Milbury on NHL suspensions: ‘a lot of pink hats out there’
NBC Sports Group held its annual media call on Monday, which is a chance to ask its assembled hockey experts all sorts of questions about the upcoming season. It didn't take long before Kevin Dupont...
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Fantasy Hockey: Preseason scoring leaders tease NHL domination
Dobber checks in every Monday to force-feed you the latest fantasy hockey trends. The founder of DobberHockey.com and a columnist for The Hockey News website, he long ago immersed himself into this...
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How much NHL Center Ice will cost you for 2011-12 season
As the 2011-12 NHL season begins on Thursday night, so starts another year of NHL Center Ice, the television subscription package that keeps fans across North America tuned into up to 40 live games a...
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Video: Shanahan’s 1st no-suspension video on Ryan Malone hit
After a series of concise, enlightening video explanations for his eight preseason suspensions, NHL VP of Player Safety (and infomercials) Brendan Shanahan had yet to host a clip detailing why a player...
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Battle of the Blades III Review: Marcy & Todd first to go
Welcome back to Battle of the Blades, the show that combines two popular sports, hockey and figure skating, then methodically removes everything we enjoy about both. I'm Harrison Mooney, your boatman...
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Pat Tillman tribute featured on Jason LaBarbera’s stunning mask
Like many National Hockey League goaltenders, Jason LaBarbera of the Phoenix Coyotes was in the market for a new mask design for the upcoming season. Previously, he had worn inventive color schemes...
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Puck Daddy’s 2011-12 NHL Awards Predictions (and other stuff)
Only the greatest, most accomplished and respected players get to walk away with a trophy at the end of the season. Some of them collect NHL Awards, too … Your old pals at Puck Daddy have projected...
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Capitals, Penguins team up to support Lokomotiv families
The emotional impact is still being felt from the plane crash that killed 44 people, including all of the players on the KHL's Lokomotiv Yaroslavl last month. Tributes were held all over the world in...
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Sean Avery no longer in fashion for Rangers, placed on waivers
Does John Tortorella not have HBO? How could the New York Rangers coach potentially deprive us of Sean Avery, uncensored on "24/7 Road To the NHL Winter Classic" by cutting the uber-pest in favor of...
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Fans outraged as NHL’s European TV deal remains in the dark
Hockey fans in the U.S. know all too well about standoffs between a distributor of NHL content and a television provider; the scars from the VERSUS/DirecTV wars of 2010 still run deep. But that was...
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Puck Headlines: Top 50 players rank; Shane Doan contract news
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. • The Los Angeles Kings...
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Targeting the salary cap ‘cheaters’ in the next NHL CBA
Really nice work by Pierre LeBrun of ESPN.com putting together a "key issues" post on the next NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement's points of contention, from revenue sharing to "second contracts" for...
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