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Mike Green Unfiltered - Too Much So?
Mike Green Unfiltered - Too Much So?
One of the great things about being a sports fan in this day and age is the access we have to the players we follow. Through social media and real-time online coverage, our collective insatiable hunger for the latest news (and non-news) is getting fed around the clock. For example, Mike ...
Time to Walk the Walk on Team Toughness
Time to Walk the Walk on Team Toughness
japersrink.com — by chipgriffin via flickr View full size photo uploaded October 26, 2009 "We like what we have... now, and if we need that element, we'll go get it." - Capitals ... (more) Time to Walk the Walk on Team Toughness
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Tell It Like It Is
KK Hockey — from Japers’ Rink, One of the great things about being a sports fan in this day and age is the access we have to the players we follow. Through social media and real-time online coverage, our collective insatiable hunger for the latest news (and non-news) is getting fed around the clock. For example, Mike Green has 2,309 followers on Twitter, some of whom, no doubt are minors. Earlier today, all of them got to see this: continued

Inside the NHL's social media innovations, growing pains
Puck Daddy — ... being involved. But we acknowledge there's a right way to get involved." Compounding the issue is that players are using Twitter independent of their teams, like Martin Havlat's(notes) groundbreaking rebuking of the Chicago Blackhawks' decisions this summer and players like Mike Green(notes) of the Washington Capitals using social media to increase their profiles; and, in Green's case, drop an F-bomb about the Swine Flu on occasion. DiLorenzo sees these outspoken players as ...

Empty Netter Assists - 10-30-09
Empty Netters — ... -"'I've already won the awards for top goal scorer and point leader. It's better to win something new." - Alexander Ovechkin talking about the Lady Byng Trophy. We think. -The Panthers are replacing a former Penguin with a former Penguin. With forward Dominic Moore sidelined due to nasal surgery, Florida recalled forward Jeff Taffe from Rochester of the AHL. -Capitals defenseman Mike Green cares not for the swine flu. Central Division -Pekka Rinne made 22 saves for the Predators ...

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