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Puck Previews: Canes vs. Sabres, Lydman returns for Ducks
Back by popular demand, here are your Puck Previews: Spotlighting the key games in NHL action, news and views as well as general frivolity. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when...
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Free spa services for Vancouver rioters is a pretty dumb idea
Here's a strange thing: a Vancouver spa is offering free manicures and facials to Stanley Cup rioters that turn themselves in to the police. From The National Post: The spa said it would give rioters...
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Friday’s Three Stars: Skinner gets winner; Hiller, Shark killer
No. 1 Star: Jonas Hiller, Anaheim Ducks After struggling with vertigo for much of last year, Jonas Hiller showed the fans in Anaheim that he was feeling much better. In his first game in the Honda...
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Video: Jason Blake stepped on by Brent Burns, suffers ‘severe’ cut
Midway through the second period of Friday night's game between the Anaheim Ducks and the San Jose Sharks, Ducks' winger Jason Blake got tangled up with Sharks' defenseman Brent Burns while trying to...
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Roundtable: Debating Mike Richards in his return to Philadelphia
It was all there for Mike Richards. He was going to be the face of the post-lockout Philadelphia Flyers; ascending to the captaincy, bordering on stardom, signing a 12-year contract and playing a...
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Evgeni Nabokov makes long-awaited Islanders debut tonight
One would expect some -- possibly all -- New York Islanders fans inside Nassau Coliseum tonight to get their Evgeni Nabokov frustrations out in the form of loud boos towards the netminder the moment he...
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The Columbus powerplay could use a guy like James Wisniewski
If there's any team that deserves to grumble about Brendan Shanahan's stiff suspensions, it's the Columbue Blue Jackets. Through the first four games of the season, the BJ's powerplay has been silent...
View ArticleDucks’ Jason Blake to miss 3 months with wrist laceration
The good news for Anaheim Ducks forward Jason Blake is that he's expected to make a full recovery after Brent Burns of the San Jose Sharks accidentally stepped on his arm Friday night causing a severe...
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Video: Ex-enforcers get ‘Coach’s Corner’ apology from Don Cherry
The moment the words "hypocrite", "pukes" and "turncoats" left the lips of Don Cherry during the opening "Coach's Corner" of the 2011-12 NHL season on Oct. 6, a firestorm erupted. Cherry, as you'll...
View ArticleKings star Drew Doughty out, injury not concussion related
For all of those clutching the pearls and worrying about "good hits being taken out of hockey," we give you Zac Rinaldo of the Philadelphia Flyers on Los Angeles Kings defenseman Drew Doughty just 20...
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Saturday’s Three Stars: Tavares tricks Rangers; Kessel stays hot
No. 1 Star: John Tavares, New York Islanders Tavares recorded his second consecutive 4-point night, with this one including his third career hat trick as the Islanders downed the New York Rangers 4-2....
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Plymouth Whalers’ hair-raising effort to fight breast cancer
Like other teams, the OHL's Plymouth Whalers do their part during Breast Cancer Awareness month, donning pink jerseys and having a Pink Out at the rink for the fourth consecutive season. But unlike...
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Ciao, comrades: Russia’s KHL expanding to Italy in 2012
Back in March, Kontinental Hockey League boss Alexander Medvedev discussed a time-honored European tradition: Growing an empire by conquering other countries. Otherwise known as the KHL's Western...
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Phil Kessel’s blazing start for the Maple Leafs: Trick or treat?
The NHL offensive leader board currently has Phil Kessel tied with John Tavares of the New York Islanders and David Legwand of the Nashville Predators with eight points, and tied with Tavares and...
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Ex-NHL brawlers won’t sue Cherry; Grimson rips ‘Ron and Don’
On Saturday night during CBC's Coach's Corner, Don Cherry offered an apology to former NHL players Stu Grimson, Chris Nilan and Jim Thomson after calling them "turncoats" and "hypocrites" and "pukes"...
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Sunday’s Three Stars: Bobby Ryan drops a deuce on Blues
No. 1 Star: Bobby Ryan, Anaheim Ducks Dominant night for Ryan, who had two goals and an assist in the Ducks' 4-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues. He scored his first of the season at 2:20 of the...
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Battle of the Blades III Review: Kurt Browning, dream ruiner
Welcome back to Puck Daddy's enduring coverage of the face-meltingly bad CBC reality hit, Battle of the Blades (and not the good kind of face-melting, like a metal guitar solo; the bad kind, like...
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Eat the NHL: Check out Foogos, food-created hockey logos
Remember that scene in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" when Roy Neary's simmering obsession with UFOs manifests itself in his creation of Devil's Tower out of mashed potatoes? One can only...
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What We Learned: The Ryan Nugent-Hopkins propaganda machine
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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What’s the majority opinion on NHL fighting?
The Arron Asham vs. Jay Beagle fight last week gained instant infamy because of Asham's CM Punk-like taunt at the end of the bout, for which he's since apologized. Had he simply skated to the penalty...
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