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Tonight's Rangers-Islanders tilt will be a bit unusual.
A New York City radio station (WZRC; 1480 AM)
is actually going to broadcast the game in Chinese . I was pretty shocked when I first heard about the plan, wondering how this whole idea came ...
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sk8babee
posted 2/16/2008 from
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Mike Heika briefly addresses what I occasionally wonder
about: How does the two-headed beast that is the
Dallas Star GM-ship go about doing business ? Not that there's really an answer. Heika reports that co-GM Brett Hull seems more interested in winning in the present, while co-GM Les Jackson is a little bit more interested in preserving the Stars' future.
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OK. In case you were wondering why the
Leafs are such a mess, here is a nice
example of how things roll in Toronto: Fire your coach (some people call him Maurice). Float a name as a possible GM (David Nonis, fresh off of his victorious tour ...
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HockeyAdventure
posted 9/30/2007 from
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Veteran Philadelphia forward Sami Kapanen endures ridiculous visa
hassles while trying to get to training camp.
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You know, I could write about how Pittsburgh
managed a three-overtime win in Detroit, keeping them alive
in the finals , but I'm probably not the best person to ask. Wings coach Mike Babcock would be a better place to start: I think people ...
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Alexei Yashin returning to the Islanders ? Would
anyone be happy with that? Would the Isles be
happy to have him back in the locker room? Would GM Garth Snow be happy to be paying Yashin even more money on top of what Yashin got in his buyout? Would ...
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More and more, it sounds like the Lightning
really are about to trade Dan Boyle. Erik Eriendsson
is the latest to say he thinks the Lightning will try to move Boyle , assuming Boyle waives his no-trade clause. Eriendsson reminds us Boyle is married ...
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When GMs construct teams, do they ever consider
the psychological makeup of their players? In yesterday's Post
, Larry Brooks brought up the issues of if the Islanders rushed goalie Rick DiPietro back or if DiPietro downplayed his symptoms in order ...
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I can hardly even think about the playoffs
knowing there's a line of hockey-themed romance novels .
There are a ton of great titles, like THE PENALTY BOX and CHASING STANLEY . And I'm proud to announce that I'll be contributing to the line: ...
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On the one hand, there's not much surprising
about the Islanders' firing coach Ted Nolan . It
was no secret Nolan and GM Garth Snow didn't get along very well . The surprising part is the timing of the firing. First, it was over two weeks into free ...
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This is a great little stat: no coach
in Penguin history has started and finished four consecutive
seasons. Ron Cook thinks Michel Therrien, who just signed a contract extension , could be the one to break that streak. I don't. Therrien is a ...
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The most interesting part of Brad Stuart and
Wayne Primeau going to Calgary for Andrew Ference and
Chuck Kobasew ? Stuart and Primeau were both part of what San Jose sent over for Joe Thornton, making that deal look even worse over time. I know I...
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This time of year, I'm kind of scared
to write anything, because by the time any kind
of trade speculation goes up, it's already kind of outdated. So I'm trying to type as slowly as possible while I watch the sites. I'm a bit shocked the Isles...
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Wow. Edmonton trading Ryan Smyth turned out to
be more controversial than I thought. USA Today ?
Not a big fan of the move . Mike Heika from the Dallas Morning News ? Not a big fan of Smyth : "Bottom line: Smyth has never had more than 70 points...
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Congratulations to the Islanders for really fighting their
way into the playoffs, finally making it in via
a shootout in game 82 . Coach Ted Nolan started the season asking for character players: guys like Mike Sillinger, Chris Simon, Brendan Witt, ...
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Whatever happens tonight in Vancouver, Dallas fans pretty
much have to agree that Stars goalie Marty Turco
isn't the playoff albatross they've long complained he is . Three shutouts in the series so far? A lot of Stars fans seemed pretty convinced ...
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Wow. Larry Brooks is good. His Sunday column
was all about how the NHL Competition Committee is
considering changing the playoff overtime format . Acknowledging playoff overtimes don't always highlight the greatest hockey, they're thinking about ...
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You really have to respect the Islanders. They
were shut out of the top-tier free agents big
time, but they didn't fold. They're still working hard. They just landed Bill Guerin and Mike Comrie . Depending on which Guerin shows up (Dallas/San Jose ...
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Larry Brooks is officially on my personal 'NHL
is Too Big' bandwagon . The league is looking
to expand into two more markets (the NHL as Starbucks approach to a league), but Brooks says the active roster should drop down to 20 per game (from 23), ...
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Cool. Mike Milbury is joining NBC and their
revamped non-studio studio show . Sadly, for him at
least, Bill Clement won't be a part of NBC's hockey coverage, though ( Thanks to Neil Best for being all over this, by the way ). I never loved NBC's ...
Expanding the NHL Market: An Interview with Fred Teng