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NHL Update: And they're off...

The New York Rangers are off to their best start in 25 years (5-1). They won back-to-back 2-1 victories in Prague against Tampa Bay as the NHL tries to expand its interests in Europe. Lundqvist has...

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Penguins win a Stanley Cup classic

[youtube:http://youtube.com/watch?v=FtnSuoew_1E] The Pittsburgh Penguins were done. Having blown a 2-0 lead in Game 5 of their Stanley Cup Finals to the Detroit Red Wings, the Penguins trailed 3-2...

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Stanley Cup Finals preview

The matchup of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings in this year’s Stanley Cup finals gives the National Hockey League something it desperately wanted: the presence of Sidney Crosby....

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Getting ahead of themselves

At the website Shop.com you can now buy a Reebok Pittsburgh Penguins 2008 Eastern Conference Champions Locker Room Hat for $28.99 (excluding tax and shipping). This is wrong on two levels. $28.99...

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Stanley Cup Conference Finals preview

O Canada, your teams all now play golf…sorry. Had a bit of a jingoistic feeling to work through. You see, some people had the impression that the Flyers-Canadiens series was being played by the...

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Stars beat Sharks in 4OT

If you attended last night's San Jose Sharks at Dallas Stars NHL playoff game, you saw a game that did not end until 1:25 a.m. local time; on the East Coast, people watching Versus at that hour...

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Avery's season over, Rangers' season soon will be

New York Rangers forward Sean Avery has gotten some attention from this blog. Jim determined that Avery is gayer than he is, and Cyd wrote about his upcoming summer internship at Vogue. I, on the...

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Stanley Cup playoffs -- Round Two preview

After one round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, last year’s two finalists are already gone. There hasn’t been a repeat champion since the Detroit Red Wings in 1997 and 1998, and the 2006-07...

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Scary NHL moments

One thing that distinguishes the National Hockey League from the NFL, NBA and Major League Baseball is the fact that they play the game on ice. This means that the players' skates are going to come...

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Smell the glove in hockey

It’s not one of those stories you want to read over breakfast, but the New York Times has an article on the time-honored hockey tactic of sticking a smelly glove in an opponent’s face to piss...