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Not As Bad As A Corked Bat

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01/13/06 at 01:45 PM ET | Comments (0)

from the Oxford Press,

Atlanta Thrashers star Ilya Kovalchuk, who has been caught using a stick with too great a curve three times, was accused of the infraction Wednesday in a game against Nashville. "In terms of competitive advantage, I don't believe the curvature of the stick can be equated to a corking of a baseball bat," NHL director of officials Steve Walkom said. "There are certain limits that have been decided upon. ... I've been in the game a long time and if someone thinks an opponent is breaking the rule, then you can get a penalty. That in itself is a pretty big penalty in the game."

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Maybe You Didn’t Know

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01/13/06 at 01:39 PM ET | Comments (0)

-Australia’s Minister for Human Services is Joe Hockey. -Stan Fischler was once the Vice President of the Rangers Fan Club. -Ralph Waldo Emerson was the organist to open the Chicago Stadium and introduce the gigantic organ to the world. -The ice on a rink is around 3/4 of an inch thick. It takes 8-10 layers of ice to get to that figure and about 10,200 gallons of water. note: I had to re-post this entry from earlier today, a coding issue prevented the comment tracker from working properly.

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Gainey On Theodore

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01/13/06 at 01:14 PM ET | Comments (0)

When asked if he is looking to trade Theodore, who for the second straight game sat Wednesday night while Cristobal Huet got the start, Gainey said, "Well, we're looking to get Jose in the net. We signed him in the summer because we felt that to be a competitive team, we needed above-average goaltending, and that's what we believe he provides us. … We're hardly halfway through the book. I think there's still a lot to be written, and on our team, a lot of it will and can be written by him."

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Ovechkin Chatting On NHL.com

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01/13/06 at 12:50 PM ET | Comments (0)

Alex Ovechkin will be visiting the NHL chatroom next Wednesday. Get your questions ready and arrive early!

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Larry Brown Heaps Praise On Hockey

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01/13/06 at 12:15 PM ET | Comments (0)

via the Toronto Sun,

"I was involved in a championship and obviously that was an incredible, special feeling for me. But I just remember reading and hearing what hockey players think about the Stanley Cup, the fact that they can take it home, show their friends and what it obviously has meant. I'm not so sure all our guys until later on in their career, they realize what it means to be part of a championship team." "The thing that always makes me partial to guys like (Messier), all hockey players, is all they ever talk about is team," Brown told the Bergen Record. "They give credit to teammates, they room together, they eat together, they always talk about what great teammates they have and he's always been somebody everybody mentions as being such a special leader. That's something that's pretty incredible."

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NHLPA Assured NHL Rules Will Apply In Turin

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01/13/06 at 12:01 PM ET | Comments (0)

from Kevin Allen of USA TODAY,

The NHL Players Association has been assured steps are being taken to prepare international referees to officiate the Olympics under the same anti-obstruction standard used by the NHL this season. "I don't know why we are stuck on using a one-referee system when we have standards that are set up to best be called by a two-referee system," Team USA general manager Don Waddell said. "Now we have one guy trying to watch play by the goal line and all of the sudden there is a break and he's trying to get there to make sure there is no hooking and holding in the neutral zone."

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Watch Out for Those Fake Line Changes

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01/13/06 at 11:53 AM ET | Comments (0)

While discussing a possible Detroit-Philadelphia SCF matchup, Ken Hitchcock was asked about coaching against Scotty Bowman. from the Phillyburbs,

Asked about this, Hitchcock gave a sly grin and said, “In other words, what you're saying is, did I learn after about a year and a half of getting schooled? You learn about fake line changes, guys going coming to the bench, going back out ... his matchups were unpredictable, Scotty was the best bench management coach around. “The part I liked most was, Scotty got up for good teams. He got animated. You could see him behind the bench, looking very stoic at times, but against us he was very animated. He was really into it. You knew your team had to be at its best.''

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Laviolette Happy In Carolina- But…

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01/13/06 at 11:41 AM ET | Comments (0)

from the News & Observer,

Peter Laviolette's old job is open again. The job he wanted five years ago may be open again soon. And his contract with the Carolina Hurricanes is up at the end of the season. Karmanos acknowledged that without a new contract, the Canes could face stiff competition to retain Laviolette in the offseason -- particularly if the U.S. Olympic team coached by Laviolette is as impressive as the Canes have been this season. After all, there's no salary cap on coaches. "I'm always concerned about that," Karmanos said. "We hopefully have a good enough relationship that we'd have the right of first refusal. And we do have that kind of relationship with most of the people in the organization. Peter's done a yeoman job."

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Some Teams Experiencing Same Problems

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01/13/06 at 11:21 AM ET | Comments (0)

from David Shoalts of the Globe and Mail,

As always, the NHL is doing its best to put a shiny face on its corporate doings, with much talk of skyrocketing franchise values and deep-pocketed investors lining up to buy franchises. A well-connected person in the financial game, who keeps a close eye on franchise values and doings, says such talk is correct only when it applies to the high-end teams -- the Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers and Detroit Red Wings, for example. However, elsewhere in the NHL, things are not a lot different from what they were before the lockout last season. The salary cap, to the surprise of few, has not proved to be the panacea for all the league's financial woes.

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Panthers Need A Plan

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01/13/06 at 10:41 AM ET | Comments (0)

from the Sun-Sentinel,

The question remains: What's the Panthers' plan? And is it a good plan? A doomed plan? Did the plan change dramatically upon changing management two years ago, or owners four years ago, or since they last won a playoff game nine years ago? Better yet, do they have a plan? Any plan at all?

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