sports.espn.go.com - 10/30/2008
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Count me in for some NHL viewing tonight. OK, so I do that every night (much to my wife's chagrin), but seriously, there's a pair of real compelling matchups tonight with Detroit at San Jose and Montreal at Minnesota. The road to the Cup goes back through Detroit and the Sharks know that. So I ...
fromtherink.com - 10/27/2008
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Following up on a look at the average
age of NHL teams , here's a look at
the average weight of the 30 teams through the first two weeks of the season: Team Weight 1 SJS 213.5 2 OTT 212.2 3 TBL 209.1 ...
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Sizing up the NHL
sports.espn.go.com - 10/23/2008
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The NHL's 30 general managers met in Chicago
on Thursday and left with some homework. They've got
to chew on three rule change recommendations before reconvening at their next meeting in March and possibly voting on them.•The first is the Larry Pleau ...
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Pierre LeBrun Blog
sports.espn.go.com - 10/31/2008
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sports.espn.go.com —
The reverberations of the 2007 Stanley Cup victory
of the Anaheim Ducks , it is fair to
say, are still being felt. The Ducks partially brawled their way to that title, and last season much of the Western Conference added muscle with which to confront ...
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Damien Cox: New-look San Jose Sharks out-Winging their ...
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... McLellan offers a word of caution, however. "As a coach, you have to be careful you're not trying to turn the San Jose Sharks into the Detroit Red Wings, because they're not,'' he said. "But there's a lot of real good qualities here that we have to expose and build on as a coaching staff.'' ESPN's Pierre LeBrun concludes our little survey of the Wings-Sharks pre-game discussion with several comments from Sharks GM Doug Wilson about the "measuring stick" tenor tonight's game takes: October 30, ESPN : "I think it's always good when good teams play each other," said Wilson. "We ...
Two Big, Early Season Games Tonight
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from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,
Count me in for some NHL viewing tonight. OK, so I do that every night (much to my wife’s chagrin), but seriously, there’s a pair of real compelling matchups tonight with Detroit at San Jose and Montreal at Minnesota....
As expected, the Wings and Sharks already top the Western Conference standings. It’s only late October, but you know these kinds of games are important for a San Jose team trying to finally break through after four seasons of contending.
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