sports.espn.go.com - 12/22/2008
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Posted by Pierre LeBrun We hate to be Captain Negative today, but you can't underestimate the news out of Columbus, where the Blue Jackets announced Monday that impressive rookie center Derick Brassard is out for the year. He's having surgery in January to repair a dislocated right shoulder. ...
sports.espn.go.com - 12/30/2008
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Posted by Pierre LeBrun CHICAGO -- It wasn't
quite Claude Lemieux after five years away from the
game, but skating for the first time in 15 months was a comeback story of my own Tuesday. Wonky knee aside, it was a thrill to hit the ice at Wrigley ...
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sports.espn.go.com - 12/28/2008
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Posted by Pierre LeBrun You may remember we
recently talked about next season's plans for the NHL
to have six teams open the regular season in Europe. It may still happen, but we are told the Premiere Games in Europe are hanging in the balance. We ...
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sports.espn.go.com - 12/19/2008
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Posted by Pierre LeBrun Last season, the waiver
pickup of the year was goalie Ilya Bryzgalov .
This season, while still early, it may just be Kyle Quincey . In a move that didn't exactly turn many heads in mid-October, the Los Angeles Kings picked up ...
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Puck Headlines: Beware the fake Wayne Gretzky on Twitter
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Here are your Evening Puck Headlines and Previews: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • Twitter: For those who feel Facebook status messages are too densely plotted. Anyhoo, there's a Twitter user with the handle wayne_gretzky; and despite it looking rather authentic, the NHL tells Information Week that it's actually bogus. Which could be news for the 336 followers of The Fake One. His first post? "Shaq told me I had to start using Tweeter. Now what?" The Forechecker ...
Conklin conference call reverberations
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... this afternoon, and he noted that even the three-time outdoor game vet feels that every "classic" presents a unique on-ice challenge: December 22, ESPN : "No, I can't explain to anybody how to stickhandle in the cold and when the ice is a little bit choppy," Conklin said. "I'll leave that up to them. The thing that's difficult is that the guys who have the hardest job are the equipment guys. "[Red Wings equipment manager] Paul Boyer is going to have a good time because you never know what kind of weather you're going to get. It could be 35 degrees and a nice and sunny day, or ...
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