Tag Archives: hockey
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Henrik Zetterberg Was in No Mood to Talk to Pierre McGuire Last Night (GIF)
You can imagine how bad the Red Wings must have felt last night after their Game 7 overtime loss to the Chicago Blackhawks. They had a commanding 3-1 series lead over the best team in the NHL during the regular season, but wound up becoming just the 21st team to ever lose such a lead. [...]
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11 Hall of Fame Hockey Players Who Became NHL Head Coaches
Last week the Colorado Avalanche announced that Patrick Roy, the Hall of Fame goaltender who led the franchise to two Stanley Cup championships, was returning to the franchise as vice president of hockey operations…and head coach. Obviously, the move is two-pronged. On the one hand, it generates publicity and interest among a fanbase that is [...]
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This Day In Sports History (May 24th) — New York Islanders
It was on this day in 1980 that the New York Islanders won their first Stanley Cup in team history. This would begin a string of four straight Stanley Cups for the Islanders. Just before the playoffs began, general manager Bill Torrey made a controversial decision to trade away long-time Islander veterans Billy Harris and [...]
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Another Day, Another Amazing Playoff Goal by Sidney Crosby (Video)
How good was the goal Sidney Crosby scored against the Ottawa Senators last night? So good that it’s the only one of the Penguins’ seven that anyone will ever remember. After coming out on top in a must-win Game 3 earlier this week, the Sens managed to get to the third period of Game 4 [...]
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‘Kronwalling’ Is All the Rage in Detroit (Video)
In Detroit, they sure do love watching dudes get “Kronwalled.” That’s when defenseman Niklas Kronwall obliterates an opponent with an epic open-ice hit, and it’s not to be confused with getting “cornholed,” which is…well, something very different. The term originated a couple of years ago as fans started taking note of the six-foot Swede’s proclivity [...]
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This Day In Sports History (May 21st) – Sweden Men’s Hockey
It was on this day in 2006 that the Swedish men’s hockey team won gold at the World Hockey Championships. Sweden defeated the Czech Republic 4-0 in the championship game played in Riga, Latvia. Sweden became the first country in history to win gold at both the Olympics as well as the World Hockey Championships [...]
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Evgeni Malkin Was an Answer on College Jeopardy, But Apparently Kids at Tufts University Don’t Watch a Lot of Hockey (Video)
Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, is full of blue bloods and smarties on the fast track for high-powered jobs in law, medicine, science, and politics. It is not, however, fully of hockey fans. Squash and golf? Sure, you bet. But not hockey. We know this because of a recent episode of College Jeopardy featuring a [...]
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The 13 Best Game 7s in the History of the Stanley Cup Playoffs
This week we were treated to two Game 7s in the Stanely Cup Playoffs. One of them was between the Rangers and Capitals; the other was between the Bruins and Leafs. And while the former was a boring blowout—sorry, Capitals fans—the latter, on first glance, was an all-time classic. Or at least it that’s how [...]
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Watch NESN Announcer Jack Edwards’ Reaction to the Bruins’ Epic Comeback Victory Over the Leafs (Video)
Earlier this season we got a glimpse of how Boston Bruins TV announcer and notable homer Jack Edwards would respond if the Bruins erased a late three-goal deficit. The Bruins did just that on February 12 against the Rangers, and Edwards went absolutely nuts up in the booth. However, that game would ultimately end in [...]
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Here Is Every Overtime Goal from the First Round of the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs (Video)
The best thing about the Stanley Cup Playoffs? That would be sudden death overtime. The only other league that has anything nearly as cool as this for the playoffs is the NFL. There you kind of have sudden death overtime…after both teams get a possession…unless the team with first possession scores on their first play, [...]
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30 Classic Hockey Hairdos
There’s so much to celebrate about hockey players, from their incredible physical fitness to their utter disregard for dental health. Today, however, we’re going to focus on just one admirable trait of professional hockey players: awesome hair. For years these guys have had the best hair of any sport outside soccer, and while you would [...]
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Yet Another Bench-Clearing Brawl from a Russian Youth Hockey Game (Video)
For years and years, hockey hardliners in North America criticized European players as soft while praising the virtue of hard-nosed Canadians. However, judging by what we’re seeing at the youth level in Russia these days, the next generation of Russian NHLers will be pretty damn tough. A couple years back we saw a bunch of [...]
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The Bruins’ Epic Game 7 Comeback Is the Maple Leafs’ Epic Game 7 Collapse (Videos)
Last night in Boston, the Bruins staged one of the greatest single game comebacks we’ve seen in any sport in recent memory, and certainly one of the greatest comebacks in the history of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Down by three goals halfway through the third period of Game 7 against the Maple Leafs, the Bruins [...]
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Disturbing Image: Mark Fraser’s CT Scan After Taking Slap Shot to the Face (Photo)
Remember last week when we told you about how Maple Leafs defenseman Mark Fraser took a slap shot to the face during Toronto’s Game 4 loss to the Boston Bruins? Well, it turns out that the injury was pretty much just as bad as it looked. As we told you as the time, Fraser was [...]
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The Guy Sitting Next to Elisha Cuthbert at Game 4 of Leafs-Bruins Wants You to Know “It Wasn’t Him” (Pics)
Well, that little situation involving a death stare from April Reimer that was supposedly not directed at Elisha Cuthbert just went from amusing to hilarious. You remember what happened, right? After Toronto Maple Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf coughed up a puck that led to the Boston Bruins’ game-winning goal in Game 4 of their first [...]
