Archive for the ‘NHL’ Category
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
For the past couple of days, the internets have been burning up with rumors that Jaromir Jagr was eyeing a return to Pittsburgh. The Free Agent forward has spent the past few seasons with the Rangers, but it seems like the team has decided to go in a different direction next ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
When I found out that Sean Avery was using his offseason to work as an intern at Vogue, I envied the guy. Not only does he play a professional sport for a living and get to date A-list celebrities like Elisha Cuthbert, but he now gets to work with another ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
I don't know much about the league, teams, or actually how old the fight is. What I do know, the brawl is awesome! The use of hockey sticks was gratuitous, but of course necessary. Watch for yourself!
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
A pair of future Hall of Famers, fresh of championbship seasons, have retired this week.
Michael Strahan said goodbye today, with a press conference at Giants Stadium. Dominick Hasek did the same, walking away after his second tour with the Red Wings.
Hasek has to be included in the conversation ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
Red Wings 3 Penguins 2 - Detroit showed that experience and hard work were enough to hold off the young upstart Penguins. Goals by Brian Rafalski and Valtteri Filppula put the Red Wings up 2-0 and things looked bleak for Pittsburgh. Marc Andre Fleury, who was on top of his ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Penguins 4 Red Wings 3 - Petr Sykora told NBC's Pierre McGuire he was going to score between plays earlier in the 2nd overtime. And score he did. Sykora took a Evgeni Malkin pass and beat Chris Osgood short side over the left shoulder to send the series back to ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Penguins 3 Red Wings 2 - The high scoring Penguins were held scoreless for the first two games of these Finals. Henrik Zetterberg, Pavel Datsyuk and Tomas Holmstrom were mostly responsible for bottling up Sidney Crosby. But that changed when the Pens got back to Mellon Bank Arena. Crosby scored ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
I spent the weekend in lovely Montreal Canada, where I have always been led to believe hockey is more important than anything else on the planet.
Apparently there is a new world order. Because Saturday night, walking down Crescent Street (Rue Crescent?!?), every single bar had it's big screen tuned ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Red Wings 3 Penguins 0 - Like every other team Detroit has stomped their way through in the playoffs, Pittsburgh can not figure out Chris Osgood. The hottest goalie in the game stopped another 22 shots for his third shutout this postseason, second of the Stanley Cup Finals. The Red ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
The outcome of game 1 could have been foreshadowed with the Penguins first step on the ice.
Penguins goalie Marc-André Fleury fell leading the Eastern Conference champs into their pre-game skate. With Chris Osgood stopping everything Pittsburgh shot at him and little talked about Mikael Samuelsson's two goals, the Red Wings ...
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