sports.yahoo.com — As the Stanley Cup Playoffs continue, we're bound to lose some friends along the journey. Gone but not forgotten, we've asked for these losers to be eulogized by the people who knew the teams best: The fans who hated them the most. Here's Alanah McGinley from the Vancouver Canucks blog Canucks and Beyond, fondly recalling the soon to be former Stanley Cup champion Ducks. Time for an ...
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Caught Moonlighting
KK Hockey —
... read on and a great job by Alanah. I just hope her next ‘obit’ is for another team west of the Mississippi! ...
The Daltroit Flenguins (Your Obligatory Conference Finals Preview)
Barry Melrose Rocks —
... Well, here we are. It's conference finals time yet again and we're only a hop, skip and an overtime winner away from a trip to the Finals. It feels so good and yet so wrong since this means we're so close to the end of hockey season. Of course, for a few of us, hockey season has already ended. But no matter, watching teams you dislike and/or couldn't care less about is still better than no hockey. And we all know how horrible no hockey is. Anyway, the following is your obligatory preview of the conference finals and, to be honest, take it ...
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The Sweetest Sound
thepowerplay.blogspot.com 4/24/2008 — Let's hope we'll be hearing lots of this...
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Canucks fans are rational, articulate
www.falsegods.ca 4/24/2008 — False Gods welcomes Mike Gillis to the Canucks GM's chair with a sampling of fans' opinions.
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Red Wings now favored to win Stanley Cup
nhl.ultimatecapper.com 4/24/2008 — Of the remaining teams, the Detroit Red Wings have emerged as the favorite to win the 2008 Stanley Cup at 5-2 odds at Bodog. Detroit, the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference, beat the Nashville Predators in the first round.
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Versus announces NHL Playoffs Round 2 schedule
www.nhl.com 4/25/2008 — Stamford, CONN. — VERSUS, the exclusive cable television home of the NHL, will continue its wall-to-wall coverage of the 2008 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs as the Conference Semifinals commence on April 24 with a historic rivalry as the Detroit...
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NHL Calendar —
NHL.com News in English 4/24/2008
May 2-18 - IIHF world hockey championship, Quebec City and Halifax, Nova Scotia.
June 9 - Last possible day for Stanley Cup finals.
June 12 - NHL awards show at Toronto.
June 15 - Deadline for first club-elected salary arbitration.
June 20-21...
STAT SHEET —
NHL.com News in English 4/24/2008
Penalty shots taken during the Stanley Cup playoffs since 1927:
Name Date Goaltender
Mike Richards, Philadelphia 4-15-08 Cristobal Huet, Washington
x-Chris Pronger, Edmonton 6-05-06 Cam Ward, Carolina
Mi...