Tag Archives: NHL
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This Day In Sports History (May 10th) — Bobby Orr
It was on this day in 1970 that the Boston Bruins beat the St. Louis Blues to capture the team’s first Stanley Cup since 1941. The Bruins won the game 4-3 in overtime to sweep the Blues in their best-of-seven series. Game Four of the series would go into overtime, but it did not last [...]
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Smart Toronto Hockey Fans Fight Outside Arena Before the Game So They Don’t Get Kicked Out (Video)
This is just a casual observation from someone who writes about the subject often, but it seems to me that most fan fights go down either during the game, right there in the stands, or after the game, out in the parking lot. You rarely see fights between fans outside the venue before a game. [...]
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Maple Leafs’ Mark Fraser Take a Wicked Puck to the Face (Video)
We all know NHL players are tough, but during the Stanley Cup Playoffs they’re just ridiculous. They can lose a tooth, break a foot, or take a gash to the forehead, and chances are they’ll just miss a few shifts and get back onto the ice. So why do I bring this up? Well, I [...]
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Stat Line of the Night — 5/8/2013 — David Krejci
Any time an athlete does something that gets 5,000 people to throw $125,000 worth of hats on the ice, it’s pretty special. When you get them to do it during the playoffs? Well, that’s even better. Of course, in the case of the Boston Bruins’ David Krejci, these hats were figurative and not literal. The [...]
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The Paul MacLean Doppelganger Is Back, and this Time He’s Behind the Opposing Team’s Bench (Video)
Is it just me, or are NHL teams taking playoff gamesmanship to a whole new level these days? Last year, during the Stanley Cup Finals between the Kings and Devils, adult film star Taylor Stevens and her rather impressive rack somehow ended up right behind Devils coach Peter DeBoer. Of course, some may say that [...]
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Red Wings Fan Shakes Her Breasts at the Refs (Video)
There were plenty of remarkably pleasing sights to take in during Game Four of the first-round playoff series between the Detroit Red Wings and the Anaheim Ducks last night (unless, of course, you are a Ducks fan). For starters, there were several key, highlight reel saves made by goaltender Jimmy Howard. Here’s a look at [...]
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Sens Rookie Jean-Gabriel Pageau Lost a Tooth While Scoring His First Career Playoff Goal (Video)
During the Stanley Cup Playoffs, success comes at a steep price. A team doesn’t succeed without a 100% buy-in from each of its players, and an individual doesn’t succeed without a willingness to get gritty and take a few lumps. And nobody complains. That’s just how it is, and it’s all worth it if you [...]
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This Day In Sports History (May 6th) — Hartford Whalers
It was on this day in 1997 that Hartford Whalers owner Peter Karmanos officially announced that the team would be relocated to Raleigh, North Carolina, and be known as the Carolina Hurricanes. Karmanos was frustrated with the team’s poor attendance figures as well as a lack of corporate support, which prompted the move to North [...]
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Canadiens and Senators Engage in Epic Playoff Line Brawl (Videos)
You generally don’t see as many hockey fights during the playoffs as you do in the regular season. The reason is that, during the playoffs, every single minute is crucial, and every single player is needed. If a guy isn’t deemed absolutely crucial to his team, then he isn’t in the lineup. So teams just [...]
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Washington Capitals Fan Takes a Nap During Exciting 3-1 Playoff Victory (Photo)
NHL fans are already a pretty wacky bunch, and when the Stanley Cup Playoffs roll around you can usually count on them to take things to another level. However, at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. last night, there was one guy who was just not feeling it. Despite the fact this his team, the [...]
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Senators Steal Win over Canadiens, But Eric Gryba’s Dirty Hit on Lars Eller Steals Headlines (Video)
Last night the seventh-seeded Ottawa Senators beat the second-seeded Montreal Canadiens 4-2 to snatch a one-game lead in their opening round playoff series against their regional and divisional rivals. However, they only did it after one of their players knocked a top Montreal forward out of the game and, in all likelihood, out of the [...]
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This Video Montage From CBC Will Get You Pumped Up for Playoff Hockey (Video)
For the life of me, I can’t understand why any sports fan wouldn’t like hockey. Baseball? Sure, I get that. Baseball is probably my favorite sport, but I’ll admit that it’s basically just 45 minutes of action surrounded by two hours of pauses and crotch adjustments. Football? Sure, I get that, too. If you don’t [...]
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Wild’s Mike Rupp Breaks His Skate Blade, Hilarity Ensues (Video)
Mike Rupp‘s bone-crushing checks are enough to make any player a little wobbly on their skates. He threw a total of six of them during Game One of the Wild’s first round playoff series against the Chicago Blackhawks last night, and wouldn’t you know it, his final check of the evening would actually leave Rupp himself unbalanced on [...]
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Jonathan Quick Stands on His Head for 70 Minutes Only to Hand the Game to Alex Steen and the Blues in Overtime (Video)
Last night in St. Louis, the Blues dominated the defending Stanley Cup champion L.A. Kings for the majority of the game. They won 44 of 69 faceoffs, outshot the Kings 36-19 in regulation, and had the majority of the scoring chances. So how on earth did this game end up going into overtime? The answer [...]
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CSN’s Susannah Collins Says the Secret to the Blackhawks’ Success Is “Tremendous Amounts of Sex” (Video)
The Chicago Blackhawks were the most dominant regular season team the NHL has seen in a long time. They started the lockout-shortened campaign by going 24 straight games without a loss in regulation. Then they went on to lose only six more games, compiling a record of 36-7-5 for an NHL-best 77 points and an [...]
