Tag Archives: NHL Lockout
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11 Big Questions Heading Into the 2013 NHL Season
Well here’s something I didn’t think I was going to get to write this year—a list of the biggest storylines for the upcoming NHL season. Just three weeks ago I had pretty much given up all hope that the groundless and maddening NHL lockout would ever end. Now here I am, very pleasantly surprised to [...]
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The NHL Is Back!!! But Will You Be? (Video)
Good news, Florida Panthers fans: your long nightmare is over. The NHL lockout is over. Hockey is back. As you’ve surely heard by now, in the wee hours of Sunday morning, the NHL and the NHLPA finally reached a tentative agreement on a new CBA that will supposedly have players back on the ice and [...]
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Bruins’ Shawn Thornton Performs “Twas The Night Before Christmas” with the Boston Pops (Video)
The list of interesting jobs performed by NHLers during the lockout is growing longer and weirder everyday. Just to recap, we’ve seen Vancouver’s David Booth hunting gigantic wild beasts, Montreal’s P.K. Subban doing the weather and training police dogs, Los Angeles’s Dustin Penner interning for Conan O’Brien, and pretty much everyone in the Nashville Predators’ [...]
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Dustin Penner Got an Internship With Conan O’Brien During the Lockout (Video)
While I’m sure every NHL player would love to know what it’s like to play for the Montreal Canadiens in the most hockey-mad city on earth, there are definitely perks to playing elsewhere. For proof, just look at what some players have been up to during the current NHL lockout. On the one hand, there’s [...]
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Introducing Nintendo’s “Ice Hockey: Lockout Edition” (Video)
The NHL lockout has now reached 80 days, and there are no signs of a resolution. The players have made what they call “major concessions” which the league rejected as nonsense. And the league has made what they call “major concessions” which the players have rejected as nonsense. Now they’ve called in a federal mediator, [...]
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9 Things We Won’t Miss About the NHL if the Season is Cancelled
It’s time to face it, hockey fans. Hard as it is to believe, for the second time in a decade, there probably won’t be a NHL season thanks to this stupid lockout. I hope I’m wrong. I love hockey. Not only is it great to watch, but it’s also fun to write about. But I’m [...]
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P.K. Subban Tries His Hand at K-9 Training During Lockout (Video)
The NHL lockout is now several months old, and it looks like they may not play any hockey at all this year. As a result, more and more players have decided to stop holding out for a resolution and instead sign with a European club in order to keep their skills sharp. For example, St. [...]
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Nashville Predators Surprise Youth Hockey Players by Giving Their Game the Full NHL Treatment (Video)
We all know how NHL players are keeping busy during the (ridiculously stupid) NHL lockout. They’re hunting wild animals and playing for teams in random countries all over Europe. But what about everyone else who plays a role in the day-to-day functioning of NHL teams? What are they doing during the lockout? Well, the fact [...]
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13 People Who Need the NHL Lockout to End Right Now
Since the NHL lockout began two months ago, much of the hockey-loving public’s attention has been focused on who’s right and who’s wrong. Is it the owners being too greedy? Is all this stuff about redefining hockey-related revenue nonsense? Or do they have a point—are the players asking for too much in a time when [...]
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SportsNet Organizes Hockey-Playing Flash Mob at Toronto Mall to Raise Awareness for their “We Love Hockey” Petition (Video)
Well, this is a first. We’ve seen flash mobs do just about every kind of dance imaginable, but I don’t think we’ve ever seen a flash mob play hockey—until now. It happened on Sunday in Toronto, at one of the biggest shopping malls in Canada. Two guys (who happened to be carrying hockey sticks) in [...]
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Canadiens’ Defenseman P.K. Subban Is Moonlighting as a Weatherman During NHL Lockout (Video)
Unfortunately for hockey fans, this stupid NHL lockout is still going strong, and it doesn’t look like there is an end in sight. That means the majority of your favorite players—like Henrik Zetterberg, Evgeni Malkin, and Claude Giroux—will remain in Europe for the time being, playing for lesser clubs in random countries. Of course, not [...]
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9 Random Countries Where You Can Still Watch NHLers Play
Earlier this week, the NHL commissioner Gary Bettman surprised the hockey-loving world by presenting the locked-out NHL players with their first reasonable contract offer to date. Thus, while no one expected that offer to dissolve the impasse entirely, it seemed like it might move negotiations along and possibly salvage a full, 82-game season. Of course, [...]
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Pavel Datsyuk Scores Goal With His Head During KHL Game (Video)
This stupid NHL lockout may delay the start of the 2012-13 season or even kill the thing altogether. However, hockey fans don’t need to worry. Even if we lose the NHL season, we here at TotalProSports.com will still bring you great hockey highlights this winter. They’ll just be from the KHL. And why not? The [...]
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Behold The “Official Song” Of The NHL Lockout (Video)
What do you get when you combine a new Taylor Swift song about Jake Gyllenhaal, a couple of country music radio DJs from Winnipeg, and the NHL lockout? You get “The Official Song of the NHL Lockout.” A few weeks ago a DJ from QX104 FM in Winnipeg, Manitoba, named Jonathan Best had a great [...]
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This Inebriated Blues Fan Will Make You Very Sad There Is An NHL Lockout (Video)
Well, the NHL players are officially locked out, and we’re headed toward yet another long, boring, hockeyless winter. Can anything be done to save the 2012-13 NHL season? It’s hard to say. The players and the owners are still miles apart. The former pretty much just want to keep the status quo, while the latter [...]
