NHL
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Maple Leafs Fan Creates Online Petition to Turn the CN Tower into the World’s Largest Goal Light
Until this season, the Toronto Maple Leafs hadn’t made the playoffs since 2003-04. That’s seven seasons and eight years (thanks to the lockout of 2004-05) since they have played hockey in May in Toronto. So how did the most valuable franchise in the NHL commemorate their return to the postseason? Did they thank their loyal [...]
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This Clip of Jay Onrait Making Fun of Alex Ovechkin Is Why We Love Canadian SportsCentre (Videos)
In America there’s SportsCenter. In Canada, there’s SportsCentre. Notice the difference? On the surface it’s small—the former is spelled with an “er” at the end and the other is spelled with an “re.” However, the real difference actually goes a little deeper than that. You see, while they like to keep things pretty loose on [...]
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Days After Boston Marathon Bombing, Bruins Fans Sing National Anthem in Unison (Video)
When the world experiences a tragedy, something that jars us and makes us want to hug our kids or call our parents, people in the sports world talk about how, “at times like these,” you remember that “it’s just a game” and “there are more important things in life.” In one sense this is true. [...]
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Rangers Fan Gets Beat Up By a Mob of Islanders Fans Outside the Coliseum (Video)
Despite the fact that the New York Islanders are probably going to make the playoffs this year, the team is still dead last in the NHL in attendance, averaging just 13,193 fans per game. Why? Well, being a terrible embarrassment of an organization for years and years probably drives fans away, and playing in somebody’s [...]
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Sabres’ Steve Ott Licks Jeff Halpern’s Face (Video)
Thanks to Buffalo Sabres center Steve Ott, you may soon be hearing something at NHL arenas that you never thought you’d hear… “Two minutes for licking.” Yes, licking. Nowhere in the NHL rulebook does it say you’re not allowed to lick another player, but that’s only because nobody ever tried…until last night. The Montreal Canadiens [...]
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Parenting Fail: Mom Drops Kid to Catch Hockey Stick at Kings Game (Video)
Sporting events present a lot of challenges to parents. Pretty much everywhere you look there’s a way for your kid to get injured or into trouble, and there just so happens to be a huge distraction—i.e., the game—right in front of you the whole time. That being said, a lot of parenting fails at sporting [...]
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Coyotes’ Antoine Vermette Scores an Own Goal (Video)
One year after making it all the way to the Western Conference Finals, the Phoenix Coyotes find themselves on the outside of the Western Conference playoff picture looking in with less than ten games remaining in their regular season. They currently sit in ninth place, just three points back of the eighth-place Detroit Red Wings. [...]
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Scott Hartnell Doppelganger Takes In the Leafs-Flyers Game in Toronto (Video)
Apparently coming to the arena dressed as your favorite hockey personality is the thing to do now among NHL fans. So far this season we’ve seen a guy who looks exactly like Senators coach Paul MacLean at a Senators game sitting—where else?—right behind Paul MacLean. Then we saw not one, but six Calgray Flames fans [...]
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Lithuanian Under-18 Hockey Player Hurls His Stick at a Referee (Video)
We see athletes and coaches blame the referees for a tough loss all the time. Most often it’s not really their fault and it’s bad sportsmanship to lay the blame on them, but it happens, and it’s not a huge deal. Guys take the game seriously, they get frustrated when they lose, and then take [...]
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These Austrian Minor Hockey Players Know How to Brawl (Video)
Brawls at youth hockey games: they’re not just for Canadians. Or Russians. Or Kazakhs. They’re also for Austrians. In fact, the Austrians might do youth hockey brawls best. I’m only judging from one example, of course. But I assume that all Austrian youth hockey brawls are as good as this one from a recent championship [...]
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Predators Fans’ Booger-Eating Antics Caught on Live TV (GIF)
A word of advice to all of you sports fans out there. If you want to pick your nose and eat it, that’s cool (okay, it isn’t). But try not to do it at a live sporting event where dozens of cameras are scattered throughout the stadium. Why, you ask? Well the answer is [...]
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Islanders’ Matt Martin Knocked the Devils’ Tom Kostopoulos Out Cold (Video)
Personally, I don’t like it when one hockey player challenges another to a fight after the other guy makes a good, clean hit. It’s not that I don’t like hockey fights. I love ‘em, so long as they’re part of the game and not pre-arranged. However, when you fight somebody over a legal check, you [...]
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Tuukka Rask Tries to Smash Stick on the Boards After Loss to the Habs, Falls on His Butt (Video)
Without a doubt, the biggest surprise of the abbreviated 2013 NHL season is the Montreal Canadiens. Nobody really knew Chicago would be as good as they are, and the Ducks are somewhat surprising, but with their talent, observers certainly thought they both had a chance to be good. But the Canadiens? They were supposed to [...]
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Line Brawl!: Kid Throws Cheap Shot After Cheap Shot at Minor Hockey Game in PEI (Video)
Another day, another incident of violence at a Canadian minor hockey game. Yesterday, of course, we told you about a bunch of classy parents brawling at a Class C Bantam (15 and under) game in rural Ontario. Today’s incident? A line brawl at a Class AA Midget (18 and under) game in PEI. The two [...]
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Mr. T Shoots During the Chicago Blackhawks Intermission Contest (Video)
You know what I love about Chicago? Yes, of course the deep dish pizza. But besides that? I love the fact that, if you’re from the Windy City and you ever achieve even the slightest bit of national fame, you are a hero for life. You could wind up practically broke and doing informercials on [...]
