Tag Archives: NHL
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Stat Line of the Night — 3/4/2013 — Jeff Carter
After losing their first three games, and seven of their first ten to start the lockout-shortened season, the Los Angeles Kings’ chances of repeating as Stanley Cup champions were not looking good. But they have since turned things around, as they finished the month of February off with a five-game winning streak, and they recorded [...]
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Sidney Crosby Uses Soccer Skills to Set Up a Pretty Goal (Video)
Most NHL teams these days have at least one group of players that likes to warm up before a game by juggling a soccer ball. The reason? Well, it’s a great way to get your heart rate up and stay loose, for one. But more importantly, it’s a great way to improve your footwork or, [...]
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Evgeni Malkin Trick Shot: Flips Puck into Bucket From Center (Video)
Half-court shots in basketball always make for pretty popular posts, so today we thought, “why not a center ice hockey shot?” Of course, simply putting the puck in the open net from center ice is something any experienced player could do 99 times out of 100. So instead of just shooting the puck in from [...]
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This Day In Sports History (March 1st) — Wayne Gretzky
It was on this day in 1988 that Wayne Gretzky surpassed Gordie Howe for the most career assists with his 1050th helper. Gretzky set up Jari Kurri in the first period against the Los Angeles Kings during a 5-3 Oilers victory. It was quite fitting that Kurri would score the record breaking goal as that [...]
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Stat Line of the Night — 2/26/2013 — Tomas Kopecky
The Pittsburgh Penguins entered last night with the chance to move back atop the Eastern Conference standings with a victory over the Florida Panthers, but unfortunately for them, Panthers center Tomas Kopecky had other ideas His his 436 previous NHL appearances, Kopecky had never scored a hat-trick, but game #437 turned out to be a [...]
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Junior Hockey Player Flips Out After Getting Hit from Behind (Video)
With all the junior hockey highlights we’ve brought you lately, if you didn’t know any better you would think the NHL lockout never ended and we were just desperate for hockey-related material. Of course, the lockout did end, so it’s not that we’re desperate. It’s just that junior hockey players have been doing some remarkable [...]
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Stat Line of the Night — 2/25/2013 — Roman Josi
The Nashville Predators’ offense has been struggling mightily this season. Heading into last night, the Preds were averaging a league-worst 2.05 goals per game and they were in the midst of a 120-minute goalless streak. But with defenseman Roman Josi leading the charge, the Preds were able to regain their scoring touch at the expense of the [...]
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Caps Fan Performs Dirty Gesture for the Camera (GIF)
What is it about cameras at sporting events that gives otherwise (presumably) sensible human beings the sudden urge to make some kind of vulgar gesture? I mean, there are so many things you could do with your fleeting moment of fame—wave, smile, stick your tongue out, beat your chest like an ape, do the Gangnam [...]
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Blue Jackets’ Artem Anisimov Knocked Unconscious Last Night in Detroit (Video)
Take a good look at the above photo. That’s Artem Anisimov of the Columbus Blue Jackets. It’s pretty freaky, isn’t it? On Thursday night in Detroit, Anisimov and Detroit defenseman Ian White were racing to join the play behind the Red Wings net and, next thing you know, Anisimov somehow ends up on the ice, [...]
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21 Ridiculous Hockey Dive GIFs
In case you haven’t notice, there is an epidemic sweeping the sports world. It’s got a few different names depending on what sport you’re talking about, but the problem is the same. I am talking, of course, about diving or flopping. What seems to have started in soccer quite noticeably crept into basketball. Now even [...]
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Mike Milbury Compares Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin to Crack Addicts (Video)
Did you ever wonder why they put Mike Milbury on TV to talk about hockey? After all, during his playing days his greatest achievement was being a member of the Boston Bruins gang that went into the stands to beat up some New York Rangers Fans. Then, as general manager of the Islanders, Milbury made [...]
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Last Night’s Leafs-Lightning Game Featured a Bout Between Ali and Frazier?
If you happened to hear somebody talk about an “Ali-Frazier” fight at last night’s game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Tampa Bay Lightning, you might have assumed that somebody was commenting on the quality of the bout by making a comparison to one of boxing’s most famous rivalries between Muhammad Ali and Smokin’ Joe [...]
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Vancouver’s Jannik Hansen Gave Marian Hossa a Dirty Elbow to the Back of the Head (Video)
Twelve different Western Conference NHL teams have taken a shot at beating the Chicago Blackhawks in regulation in 16 tries so far this season. None have succeeded. Oh sure, Minnesota, Vancouver, and Anaheim beat the Hawks in overtime, but in today’s NHL an overtime loss isn’t the same as a regulation loss. So Chicago’s record [...]
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Vicious Two-Handed Slash in QMJHL Game Leaves Player with Broken Jaw (Video)
A vicious two-handed slash that results in an injury that requires surgery and keeps a guy out of action for 4-6 weeks surely deserves a lengthy suspension, right? If described like this, then the answer is an obvious “yes.” But what if you add one little detail—namely, that the player doing the slashing had his [...]
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This Day In Sports History (February 20th) — Billy Smith
It was on this day in 1993 that the New York Islanders retired goaltender Billy Smith’s number 31. In doing so, Smith became one of six former Islanders players to have his number retired by the organization. Billy Smith was originally drafted by the Los Angeles Kings, but in 1972 he was selected by the [...]
