Canes to keep Laviolette as coach

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Finally Official: Lavi Stays…for now
Published 5/16/2008 by acidqueen at Sweet Tea, Barbecue, and Bodychecks
Laviolette keeps job — LSB After keeping us all on pins and needles for weeks after the end of the season, JimR has finally made it official–Peter Laviolette is staying on as coach of the Hurricanes. I had gotten some juicy rumours dropped on me regarding possible replacements (Chairman Mo was NOT one of those possible replacements), as well as a possible destination for our beloved coach (conjecture was that ATL would have had him on their payroll inside of 36 hours). But since I couldn’t substantiate them I didn’t feel comfortable posting them–after all, I’m not charging all y’all $texas for the “privilege” of reading complete and total codswallop and made-up “CONFIRMED TRADE IN THE WORKS” ...

Puck Headlines: NBC hopes to avoid another Preakness pity party
Published 5/17/2008 at Puck Daddy
Yippee! Blackouts are awesome! If it weren't for some unfortunate power failures on the East Coast, this would have been up this afternoon. Instead, here are your Evening Puck Headlines: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • NBC took a load of heat for the way it handled overtime on Preakness Saturday during the Eastern Conference Finals last postseason. Well, the Peacock is contractually obligated to leave the Dallas Stars/Detroit Red Wings Game 5 for Big Brown's inevitable win in the ...

Mr. Subliminal Talks Lavvy and Homo-Erotic Staal Dreams
Published 5/17/2008 by CasonBlog (noreply@blogger.com) at CasonBlog
Hi all, if yer still reading. Good move (financially) to bring Coach Lavvy back. GMJR finally puts to rest speculation (he created) about Coach's status, and lets us know it's part of the usual end-of-season (failed season) process: "I can understand why there was speculation," Rutherford said, "but I wasn’t trying to insinuate anything. It's a standard process each year. I wasn’t going to take that position until every one had the chance to meet." So this morning I'm sitting there having that first cup of joe watching the Wings/Stars ...