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Murray On An Off Day

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

05/29/07 at 08:57 PM ET | Comments (0)

Q. Bryan, other teams in these playoffs have talked about maybe the Ducks’ extra hacking and whacking at the goal on plays in front of the net and whatsoever. How much do you think - is that maybe them crossing the line at all? How much do you think - are you going to maybe voice that with Colin?
COACH BRYAN MURRAY: I think everybody sees what - I don’t have to say one word to anybody, really. I am. I have. But I don’t have to, because every time I talk to one of the league officials they’ve seen it and it’s a matter of application.
And I’m not sure if they do or not. I think there were a couple times last night where Ray Emery had the puck covered and there were two or three extra hacks at him.
But I asked one of the officials one comment, and he told me to go stand behind the bench. So it’s very hard for me to do anything other than be the guy behind the bench standing there and hope that somebody recognizes that there are levels that we’ve been told you play at, and it’s called accordingly.
But I can’t answer for the officials.

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Ron Wilson Will Be Back

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05/29/07 at 08:35 PM ET | Comments (0)

from the AP via Ft.Wayne.com,

Ron Wilson will return to coach the San Jose Sharks next season, general manager Doug Wilson said Tuesday after another week of self-evaluation and soul-searching for the playoff underachievers.
Ron Wilson and assistants Tim Hunter and Rob Zettler will get another chance to coax postseason success out of the Sharks despite a second-round playoff loss to the Detroit Red Wings last month. The postseason exit - culminating with three straight losses - infuriated Doug Wilson, apparently prompting the GM to consider major changes to his winning club.
“This coaching staff will be back, and I’ll look forward to the work we’re going to do,” Doug Wilson said.

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Ray Emery Today

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

05/29/07 at 08:29 PM ET | Comments (0)

Q. Ray, having a night to sleep on last night’s game, do you feel like maybe you’re not quite as far off as the 3-2 final score and maybe you guys are right there with these guys and maybe just a couple adjustments and you’ll be back in?
RAY EMERY: Yeah, that’s what I thought last night. We made a lot of mistakes. And definitely it didn’t play our type of game. And still gave ourselves a chance to win and still - in most cases when we have a lead going in the third we do win.
So if we correct even some of the mistakes, we’re looking pretty good. But we want to definitely correct a lot of those mistakes and we’re not short of confidence. If we correct those mistakes, we’re going to come out on top.

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Hockey Exists In The USA Too

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05/29/07 at 05:18 PM ET | Comments (0)

Enough of the complaining from the hockey “experts”!
Read on at my NHL.com blog.

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Milbury Leaves Islanders

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05/29/07 at 04:54 PM ET | Comments (0)

from Greg Logan at Newsday,

One year after stepping aside as general manager of the Islanders to serve as senior vice-president in marketing, Mike Milbury on Tuesday announced his resignation from his full-time position in the organization.
Although Milbury will remain as an advisor to owner Charles Wang on the Project Hope youth hockey program they began two years ago in China, his move effectively ends his 12-year relationship with the Isles in terms of any major decision-making role. Milbury also served as coach three times and survived through four sets of owners.

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added 4:30pm, from the New York Islanders,

“Charles gave me the opportunity of a new challenge for the last 18 months and I enjoyed every minute of it,” Milbury said this afternoon. “I’m very proud of our staff and the strides we made last season in corporate sales, customer service and community relations. Although it’s time for something different for me, I appreciate the challenge of continuing the work we started with Project Hope and the Children’s Foundation, among other projects.”

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Damien Cox a Bit Sensitive Today?

Blog: KK Hockey By Alanah McGinley

05/29/07 at 04:49 PM ET | Comments (0)

Canada vs California: a Stanley Cup war of media words.  First, here’s Helene Elliott’s comments in the LA Times:

The Canadian media have cast the Senators in the role of Canada’s Team, even though the Ducks have more sons of the True North on their roster than do the Senators. And the label may not even be accurate.
Maple Leafs fans rarely care about anything that happens outside of Toronto, otherwise known as the Center of the Hockey Universe, so their support of the Senators is probably minimal, if it exists at all.”

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To which Cox responds,

This stuff is so utterly idiotic it’s hard to even comment on it, particularly in a U.S. state with a larger population than all of Canada. More to the point, readers of the newspaper must be utterly confused by this silliness, which seems to roughly equate newspapers and television in Canada with state-controlled media from the old Soviet Union, thinking en masse and according to some approved national policy.

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Note:  For more on Helene Elliott, you can find my interview with her here from two weeks ago

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Bringing A City Together

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05/29/07 at 04:40 PM ET | Comments (0)

from Lisa Wallace at TSN,

While Senators mania may have started out slowly the city has now jumped in with both feet.
Retail stores are scrambling to keep up with the demand for merchandise, neighbours are outdoing one another with various displays of support and kids are pleading with their parents for later bedtimes in order to catch a glimpse of history.
But perhaps most remarkable is seeing people put aside their cultural differences to celebrate the Senators achievements.

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What Did He Say

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05/29/07 at 03:19 PM ET | Comments (0)

from Loose Change at the Hockey News,

Gary Bettman’s annual State of the NHL Union address is kind of like highlights of a hockey game. You see a few hits, the odd fight and most of the goals, but a lot times the filler – sometimes the meatiest and therefore most nutritional parts – is left out. That’s really unfortunate since often times it’s the mysterious gristle which makes the sausage taste so good.

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Palaire Report Details NHLPA Spying

Blog: KK Hockey By Alanah McGinley

05/29/07 at 03:08 PM ET | Comments (0)

Liz Mullen at Sports Business Journal has written an article today on more of the background to the Ted Saskin and NHLPA scandal. SBJ is normally for subscribers-only, but has graciously provided Kukla’s Korner with a free link to the complete article for the benefit of our readers. Our sincere thanks to them for doing this.

And this article is well worth reading. My own reaction was that some people might - and perhaps should - face serious legal consequences for some things that happened in this case. 

The electronic spying program instituted at the NHL Players’ Association targeted 45 players, was referred to as “Big Brother” and extended to ex-union chief Ted Saskin examining how individual players voted in the secret ballot to ratify the NHL labor deal, according to sources familiar with a report on the matter.

Among other details from the report, according to sources: Saskin systematically read the personal e-mails of players and union staff members for more than a year, but stopped briefly because he was concerned about legal implications in the wake of the Hewlett-Packard corporate surveillance scandal. Saskin resumed reading the messages when he learned of an effort by NHL players to authorize an investigation into his hiring and other activities.

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HHOF Honors Pair

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

05/29/07 at 02:47 PM ET | Comments (0)

from Legends Of Hockey,

Bill Hay, Chairman of the Hockey Hall of Fame, announced today that Washington Times sports reporter Dave Faye will receive the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award for his outstanding work as a beat writer covering the Washington Capitals and that the late Bill Hewitt, who was the voice of Hockey Night in Canada for more than three decades, will receive the award named for his father — the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award.

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