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9 Reasons Why The Stanley Cup Playoffs Is The Greatest Competition In Pro Sports
The 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs are now officially underway and, after just one night and three games, the storylines are getting more interesting with every faceoff. I mean, who would have thought the Flyers would come back from a 3-goal deficit to snatch one from the Penguins in overtime? Now, unpredictability is one of the [...]
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Watch Shea Weber Smash Henrik Zetterberg’s Head Into The Glass (Video)
With the final seconds winding down during Game One of the opening round playoff series between the Detroit Red Wings and the Nashville Predators, Shea Weber had two things on his mind. The first was to kill the final five seconds off the clock and ensure that his team earned the important opening game victory. [...]
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And The Award For The “2011-12 Frozen Fisticuffs Fighter Of The Year” Goes To…Shawn Thornton!
Last season it was Cam Janssen of the New Jersey Devils beating out the competition to earn the first ever “Frozen Fisticuffs Fighter of the Year” award. Janssen was in the running once again throughout the 2011-12 NHL season, but in the end, he would fall just short of earning the honor for the second [...]
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And The “2011-12 Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Year” Award Goes To… (Video)
It was an entertaining 2011-12 NHL regular season that was filled with plenty of exciting fights, but their were four bouts over the course of the past seven months that stood out above the rest. Of those four fights, we were forced to chose only one for this year’s edition of the “Frozen Fisticuffs Fight [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Janssen vs. Haley — 4/3/12
With the NHL season winding down, tensions seem to be especially high, and last night that resulted in a total of six fights. A few of those, like James Neal vs. Andrew Ference, Michael Rupp vs. Jody Shelley and Matt Frattin vs. Marcus Foligno, were worthy of a spot on the “Frozn Fisticuffs Fight of [...]
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KHL’s Anton Belov Kicks A Player With His Skate (Video)
If you want to throw kicks, you should have played soccer. That is the message someone needs to send Anton Belov of Avangard, after he delivered a kick that narrowly missed the face of Traktor’s Evgeny Kuznetsov as the Washington Capitals’ prospect laid injured on the ice. Belov only received two-minutes for the infraction, which [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Nolan vs. Eager — 4/2/12
When your team is out of the playoff hunt and there is nothing left to play for, besides pride, it can be tough for some players to develop a high level of intensity in their game, but that didn’t appear to be a problem for Ben Eager last night, as his level of intensity seemed [...]
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AHL’s Rockford IceHogs And Milwaukee Admirals Engage In Bench-Clearing Brawl (Video)
If you want to see a line-brawl, the NHL has proven on a few occasions this season that they are capable of providing just that. However, if it is a bench-clearing brawl that you are looking for, the NHL can’t help you out with that. But the AHL can! Fans at the Bradley Center found [...]
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All Hell Breaks Loose At Conclusion Of Penguins vs. Flyers (Video)
With the Flyers leading 6-3 and only one minute remaining in their Atlantic Division match-up against the Pittsburgh Penguins yesterday afternoon, all hell broke loose. And when I say “all hell broke loose,” I’m not just talking about a few fights and an exchange of some unfriendly words. Not even close! Instead, “all hell breaking [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Olver vs. Booth — 3/28/12
When David Booth of the Vancouver Canucks and Mark Olver of the Colorado Avalanche dropped the gloves during the first period of last night’s game, the Canucks’ Maxim Lapierre was quick to arrive on the scene, believing that Booth would need some back-up. He was wrong. Booth looked awfully comfortable with his gloves off, especially [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Gudbranson vs. White — 3/27/12
When the Florida Panthers drafted Erik Gudbranson with their third-overall pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, they knew that they were getting a tough, hard-nosed defenseman that would someday become a physical force at the NHL level. Little did they know that it would take him only a couple of years before he was [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Bollig Dominates Again — 3/25/12
Brandon Bollig’s busy month of March continued during last night’s game against the Nashville Predators, as the Chicago Blackhawks enforcer dropped his gloves for the sixth time in the past 20 days. This time it was Jordin Tootoo taking his best shot at Bollig, and the results were not pretty, as the Predators’ forward was [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Weise vs. Dowell — 3/22/12
The Dallas Stars are fighting for a playoff spot, both figuratively and literally. That was certainly the case last night when they hosted the Vancouver Canucks, and while they would go on to lose the battle on the scoreboard, Stars’ forward Jake Dowell was able to earn a win during his first period bout with [...]
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This Day In Sports History (March 23rd) – Wayne Gretzky
It was on this day in 1994 that Wayne Gretzky scored his record breaking 802nd career NHL goal. Gretzky surpassed his childhood hero Gordie Howe, whose record stood for almost 15 years. In the second period of a game against the Vancouver Canucks, Gretzky received a cross-ice feed from Marty McSorley and buried it into [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Staubitz vs. McCormick — 3/21/12
There was only one fight in the NHL last night, but it was a good one, as Brad Staubitz and Cody McCormick dropped the gloves and went toe-to-toe during a Northeast Division battle between the Buffalo Sabres and the Montreal Canadiens. With a spot in the playoffs on the line, the Sabres were in desperate [...]
