Tag Archives: NHL
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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 [...]
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15 Craziest NHL Contracts
Well, the NHL officially locked out the players over the weekend. Now the entire 2012-13 season is in jeopardy, just 7 years removed from the 2004-05 lockout that cost us an entire season. The great irony here, of course, is that the owners are complaining that they aren’t making enough money and demanding pay cuts [...]
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Gruesome Hockey Laceration: KHL Player Loses Pint Of Blood After Carotid Artery Slashed By Skate (Video)
There haven’t been many serious injuries involving skate blades in the sport of hockey over the years. However, when they do happen, they are horrifying. And strangely, the two most glaring examples both took place in Buffalo. Four years ago, the Florida Panthers’ Richard Zednick had his carotid artery nicked by the skate of teammate [...]
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Croatian Hockey Team Will Play Two Outdoor Games This Weekend In An Ancient Roman Amphitheater (Video)
You know how the NHL and its various media partners are always referring to hockey players as warriors or gladiators battling for supremacy? Well, some folks over in Pula, Croatia, had a great idea when they thought to themselves, “let’s have these so-called gladiators compete in an appropriate venue.” So this weekend, there will [...]
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Finnish NHL Fan Creates Video Imploring Fans To Rise Up And Demand That The 2012-13 NHL Season Be Played (Video)
In case you haven’t heard, we’re getting dangerously close to an NHL lockout and yet another lost season. Though there are many issues at play in the negotiations between the owners and the NHLPA, the one preventing a deal from getting done is the issue of how rich teams (like the Toronto Maple Leafs) [...]
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10 Little League World Series Players Who Went On To Star In Sports Other Than Baseball
Every year during the Little League World Series, people do lists of all the players who have actually gone on to become Major Leaguers. But as I’ve already said, that’s kind of boring. You expect a lot of these kids to go on to become big league baseball players. After all, the teams that compete [...]
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Paul “BizNasty” Bissonnette Does Some Yoga With Playboy Model Amy Lynn Grover (Video)
Paul Bissonnette of the Phoenix Coyotes doesn’t give us much to talk about on the ice. I mean, the guy has recorded just 8 points in 135 NHL games. However Bissonnette, or as his fans like to call him, BizNasty, has managed to become one of the NHL’s most entertaining and most talked-about personalities off [...]
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Tyler Seguin Almost Killed By A Line Drive While Speed Dating At A Minor League Baseball Game (Video)
You don’t get many NHL stories during the summer months, but today we’ve got a two-for-one special for you. Headline A: Tyler Seguin was speed dating at a minor league baseball game. Headline B: Tyler Seguin was almost killed by a line drive at a minor league baseball game. And here’s the catch: Headline B [...]
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This Day In Sports History (August 9th) – Wayne Gretzky
It was on this day in 1988 that the Edmonton Oilers did the unthinkable and traded Wayne Gretzky. Gretzky was traded to the Los Angeles Kings along with Marty McSorley and Mike Krushelnyski in exchange for Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelinas, the Kings first round draft picks in 1989, 1991 and 1993 and $15 million in [...]
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The World’s Most Valuable Sports Teams (Infographic)
After watching a team like Chelsea FC throw approximately $40-million at a player like Eden Hazard– a 21-year-old winger who has scored 36 goals in 147 appearance over the course of five years with French club Lille–you may have found yourself wondering just how much money some of these sports clubs are worth if they [...]
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The Kings Recently Held Tryouts For Their Ice Girls Crew, And The Video Is Amazing (Video)
After the King’s magical playoff run this spring that ended with them hoisting (and partying with) the Stanley Cup for the first time in franchise history, these guys are suddenly the biggest sports stars in Tinseltown. Thus, when the team recently held open tryouts for their Ice Girls crew, there was more interest than ever. [...]
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Hockey Goals + Soccer Announcers = Awesome (Video)
Did you ever stop and consider how much of an effect sports announcers have on your perception of a game? I mean, unless you grew up with season tickets, the majority of your experiences with your favorite sport have been on television (or the radio, if you’re an old-timer). And when you’re watching on telelvision, [...]
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NHL Top Prospect Nail Yakupov Takes Batting Practice at PNC Park With No Shoes, Runs to Second Base (Video)
Nail Yakupov’s skills on the ice are unquestionable, as the Russian phenom is expected by most to go first-overall in tomorrow’s NHL Entry Draft. As for his skills on the baseball diamond, well, let’s just say that his swing could probably use some work. Yakupov and several other NHL draft prospects took the field at [...]
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This Day In Sports History (June 22nd) – 1991 NHL Draft
It was on this day in 1991 that the NHL Entry Draft was held at the Memorial Auditorium in Buffalo, New York. The Quebec Nordiques held the No. 1 selection, as they earned a league low 46 points in the 1990-91 season. The Nordiques would select highly touted prospect Eric Lindros, a power forward who [...]
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Hockey Players Unimpressed By LeBron James’ Leg Cramps
At the end of Game 4 of the NBA Finals, the Miami Heat’s LeBron James suffered what appeared to be quite the painful leg cramp, which forced him to sit out the last minute of the game. It also resulted in the above image of James being carried off the court with a painful expression [...]
