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fromtherink.com - 28 hours ago
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More photos » by Gerry Broome - AP
Browse more photos » Another barn burner here tonight
with the Capitals in town, the second-best team in the league against its worst in a game very few expect the ...
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The mood in Leafs Nation
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fromtherink.com - 29 hours ago
"It’s not something you see all the time. These things do happen. Maybe (not) over a stick. But t...
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"It’s not something you see all the time.
These things do happen. Maybe (not) over a stick.
But there’s disagreements in the stands. This isn’t the first one. Maybe the first one that’s been on video. Playing out east, some of those games, there’s disagreements in the stands. "When you’re ...
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"It’s not something you see all the time. These things ...
fromtherink.com - 48 hours ago
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This one's making the rounds, but just in
case you missed it: Pretty sad. I feel bad
for Scotty here, actually, as his good deed turns into something real ugly. Would love to know who the parties here are and what they thought was happening. Wyshynski has more .
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The Niedermayer stick fight
fromtherink.com - 2 days ago
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More photos » by Mark Avery - AP
Browse more photos » All right, all right, I
cave. I've been asked for these figures so often that I pulled them together while watching the Leafs cough up a hairball ...
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2009-10 NHL man games lost to injury
fromtherink.com - 2 days ago
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"I don’t expect that publicly reported loss numbers
will have any impact whatsoever on our ability to
sell the club," Daly said in an e-mail yesterday. The "losses in the short term don’t seem to be factoring into the interest of potential buyers. They have much bigger, longer-term vision of ...
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"I don’t expect that publicly reported loss numbers will ...
fromtherink.com - 2 days ago
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"In this particular case, what would happen is
we (in the League's video replay room in Toronto)
would see the puck in the net and call the video goal judge and say, 'Please blow the horn and get the referee over here. We see a puck in the net that hasn't been ruled a goal.' At that point ...
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"In this particular case, what would happen is we (in ...
fromtherink.com - 3 days ago
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"It was not blown dead. It was a
goal. The guy never meant to blow the whistle;
it was a shot. The puck went in on a shot. It was as dumb as anything I've ever seen." — Red Wings coach Mike Babcock Boy, it's hard to fathom just how something like that even happens. How can ...
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Babcock: 'It was as dumb as anything I've ever seen'
fromtherink.com - 3 days ago
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In cased you missed it, there's been a
switch-up at SBN Hockey : We've got a new
GM moving in as I'm stepping into a Silver Fox like advisory role to let Brandon Worley of Defending Big D take over. Building up SB Nation's hockey wing the past 13 months has been a blast. We went from five ...
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A change in the SBN front office
fromtherink.com - 3 days ago
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It appears the on-ice futility is finally starting
to catch up with the Toronto Maple Leafs, cashbox
kings of the NHL. For the first time since moving into the Air Canada Centre 10 years ago, the NHL’s richest franchise confirms that it has been unable to lease an unspecified number of ...
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It appears the on-ice futility is finally starting to ...
fromtherink.com - 4 days ago
"Corny as it is and clichéd as it is, I enjoy playing hockey, and they always say you never know ...
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"Corny as it is and clichéd as it
is, I enjoy playing hockey, and they always say
you never know when your last shift is going to be," Ortmeyer said. "I wanted to go out on my terms and not be forced out by some medical issues." San Jose Sharks' Jed Ortmeyer battles blood-clotting ...
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"Corny as it is and clichéd as it is, I enjoy playing ...
fromtherink.com - 4 days ago
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More photos » by DAVE CHIDLEY - AP
Browse more photos » The Globe's David Shoalts has
an update on the Phoenix situation , and tucked in at the end is a reference to a recent comment made by Sharks ...
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Sharks owner endorses Balsillie
fromtherink.com - 4 days ago
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That's Henrik Andersen of Leksand in Sweden's second
tier league with a celebration that doesn't go quite
as planned.
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Someone warn Ovechkin about this one...
fromtherink.com - 4 days ago
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More photos » by Graham Hughes - AP
Browse more photos » There is approximately $180 million
worth of players injured right now. (I’m talking either LTI or just out for a few games. ...
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The NHL's injury epidemic
fromtherink.com - 4 days ago
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More photos » by RYAN REMIORZ - AP
Browse more photos » T he numbers tell
a story of one of the most effective power forwards of his era, but really, they only tell the beginning of the ...
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Shanahan hangs 'em up
fromtherink.com - 5 days ago
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More photos » by Matt York - AP
Browse more photos » It was a fun summer,
picking through bankruptcy documents, arguing with a few hockey fans from Phoenix and, in the end, watching as Jim Balsillie ...
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Coyotes bankruptcy proceedings: No, they're not over
fromtherink.com - 5 days ago
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Lamest bachelor party ever. Mike Commodore, discussing Anton Stralman's
rushed nuptials
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Lamest bachelor party ever.
fromtherink.com - 6 days ago
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More photos » by Nathan Denette - AP
Browse more photos » I had the chance to
take in the Leafs- Flames game here in Toronto, a contest that was essentially over 10 minutes in after a couple iffy ...
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Looking at what ails the Leafs
fromtherink.com - 6 days ago
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"We're going to be there with them, we're
going to be crying with them, we're going to
be laughing with them. We are the biggest Panthers fans. "We're the only crazy ones who would do this." — Stu Siegel, one of two owners now in charge of the Panthers
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"We're going to be there with them, we're going to be ...
fromtherink.com - 7 days ago
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More photos » by Charles Cherney - AP
Browse more photos » Shot differential's one of those
stats that, for whatever reason, only seems to get any attention on the interwebs, but as smarter minds than ...
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A quick look at shot differential
fromtherink.com - 8 days ago
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More photos » by Gerry Broome - AP
Browse more photos » Ugliness in Carolina these days.
The 'Canes have now lost more games in a row than any other team postlockout, and the most since a couple teams ...
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Hurricanes drop 14th straight



















