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Puck Previews: Neuvirth, Emery get starts; Avs shake up lines
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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Friday’s Three Stars: Stamkos, Duchene tricks; Oshie boosts Blues
No. 1 Star: Steven Stamkos, Tampa Bay Lightning Stamkos scored all three of his goals in the second period for his fourth career hat trick as the Lightning edged the Chicago Blackhawks in overtime...
View ArticleVideo: Cool 1st-person hockey practice, now with stick-cam!
We've previously featured the GoPro helmet cam technology, whose disorienting first-person experience gives us a "Being John Malkovich"-like view into everything from mountain climbing to roller...
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Five reasons the Detroit Red Wings might actually be this bad
Five games into the season, the Detroit Red Wings were looking like they would be, as they often are, the class of the Western Conference. Undefeated, they faced off against the similarly undefeated...
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Like most, Linus Omark would rather be in Sweden than Oklahoma
During his time in the Edmonton Oilers organization, Linus Omark has earned a reputation as a pretty candid guy. At the close of last year's training camp, for instance, when the Swedish forward found...
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Tim Thomas’ Movember mask wants you to ‘Grow Your Mo’
It's Nov. 5. How's your Movember mustache coming along? Are you currently at Harold Snepsts or Sidney Crosby level? As players and fans get in on the fun growing a duster, NHL goalies are doing their...
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Georges Laraque and the NHL’s telltale steroid signs
Georges Laraque has a new book called "The Story of the NHL's Unlikeliest Tough Guy," and while his accusations about performance enhancing drugs won't lead to Roger Clemens testifying before a...
View ArticleVideo: The mess that Mike Blunden made in New York
There are a lot of things wrong about the following sequence from the New York Rangers' game against the Montreal Canadiens on Saturday night: As Brandon Dubinsky skated through the neutral zone, Mike...
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Embattled Blue Jackets coach on ‘hitting another big bottom’
If Scott Arniel keeps his job beyond Saturday night's 9-2 evisceration of his Columbus Blue Jackets by the Philadelphia Flyers, it's either an act of sadism or the ultimate acknowledgement that...
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Here’s Rocco Grimaldi Tebowing after 1st NCAA goal
Honestly: Did you expect North Dakota freshman and Twitter preacher Rocco Grimaldi to celebrate his first NCAA goal with anything other than Tebowing? It was an emotional moment for Grimaldi, a devout...
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Saturday’s Three Stars: Seguin bullies Leafs; Preds, NJ OT heroes
No. 1 Star: Tyler Seguin, Boston Bruins Phil Kessel does nothing against the Bruins, Tyler Seguin posts a hat trick against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Despite their places in the standings, it feels...
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Video: Let’s all be thankful Drew Doughty wears a visor
Visors, visors, visors … since Chris Pronger's eye injury on Oct. 24, and his prickly reaction to potentially having to don a visor upon his return, the issue has been at the forefront at the player...
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Video: Vityaz head coach Andrei Nazarov fights KHL fans with stick
Andrei Nazarov played 571 games in the NHL with seven teams, with his longest tenure coming at the beginning of his career with the San Jose Sharks. In those 571 games, Nazarov dropped the gloves 133...
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Five battles to watch for when the Canucks visit the Blackhawks
If it wasn't already a foregone conclusion that the best rivalries are made in the playoffs, consider the animosity that exists between the Vancouver Canucks and Chicago Blackhawks, who have now met...
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No Jackets required: Ken Hitchcock hired by Blues, Payne fired
Ken Hitchcock is back in the NHL as a head coach. In the Central Division. For a team that hasn't made the playoffs for a while, but that many felt could contend this season before it stumbled out of...
View ArticleKings’ Ethan Moreau fined for boarding Kunitz; was that enough?
In the first period of Saturday night's game against the Pittsburgh Penguins, Los Angeles Kings forward Ethan Moreau made this reckless hit on Chris Kunitz: Moreau was given two minutes for boarding on...
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Sunday’s Three Stars: Perfect Biron; Sedins punish Blackhawks
No. 1 Star: Martin Biron, New York Rangers Making just his third start of the season, Biron kept his record perfect with a 23-save 3-0 shutout of the Winnipeg Jets. Biron is now 3-0-0 on the season...
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Battle of the Blades III Review: Marie-France & Bryan’s perfect score
Welcome back to Puck Daddy's coverage of Battle of the Blades, the show that -- I can't believe I'm saying this -- is beginning to hold my interest. I just threw up in my mouth a little. Don't get me...
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Georges Laraque vs. Darren Pang Twitter fight over Gretzky legacy
Former Edmonton Oilers enforcer Georges Laraque has a new book out. Perhaps you're heard of it, what with the accusations that the NHL is filled with more juice than a Florida orange grove. But "The...
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What We Learned: Only one solution for Blue Jackets’ disaster
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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