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One Tough SOB

by Paul on 10/20/08 at 08:54 PM ET
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On Wednesday, October 22, 2008 the National Hockey League and USA Hockey will team up to honor Bob Naegele Jr., Brian Burke, Phil Housely and Ted Lindsay with the 2008 Lester Patrick Award.

“I had the idea that I should beat up every player I ever tangled with,” Lindsay famously said. “And nothing ever convinced me it wasn’t a good idea.”

Tonight we feature Ted Lindsay, watch the video below.

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The Barilko Curse

by Paul on 10/18/08 at 12:15 AM ET
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from PRLog,

Want to own the one-of-a-kind piece of hockey memorabilia that played a part in ensuring the Toronto Maple Leafs a Stanley Cup win in 1962? Bill Barilko’s authentic 1951 Player of the Week Schaefer Cup will be auctioned off beginning tonight, October 17, 2008 at 9 p.m. EST for a special 10-day auction on auctionwire.com. Barilko’s Schaefer Cup comes with a rich and mysterious history that will delight any fan upon hearing!

Barilko’s disappearance in 1951, four months after shooting the winning Stanley Cup goal against the Montreal Canadiens, had fueled many superstitions as to the Leafs inability to regain the Stanley Cup in the years after his disappearance.

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Visit auctionwire.com for more on Barilko.

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Talking Greats From The Past

by Paul on 10/11/08 at 11:43 AM ET
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from Craig Slater of the Nanaimo Daily News,

Both Cliff Ronning and Gerry Cheevers, former NHLers, can’t deny the following today’s stars receive, but each have fond memories of the superstars they played with or against during their heydays in professional hockey.

“There was a time that Pavel Bure, no question, was the most exciting player in the NHL,” Ronning said of his former Vancouver Canucks teammate. “The first three years of his career in Vancouver . . . he took guys to another level. He was a player who came over (from Russia) and brought everyone’s fitness level so high. He changed the game in so many ways.”

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Below you will find a video of Bure’s Top Ten goals…

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Taking A Shot At The Ref

by Paul on 10/05/08 at 09:11 AM ET
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from Kelly Egan of the Ottawa Citizen,

The Los Angeles Kings are playing their second game of the season in Oakland. There are 2,668 fans in the stands. Mr. Regan is the general manager of the Kings and his boss, Mr. Cooke, is not happy.

The Kings are having their home opener in four days. There are only 1,400 or so tickets sold and Mr. Cooke wants his GM to do something about this. Mr. Regan is watching the penalty-filled Oakland game in the stands when he gets an idea: if the fans want rock ‘em, sock ‘em hockey, he will give it to them.

He decides to punch a referee.

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Only Memories Now

by Paul on 09/22/08 at 10:15 AM ET
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from Mick Kern at the XM NHL Home Ice Blog,

Each autumn I can feel the clock tick a little louder; another step towards the grave.  The closing of Yankee Stadium is yet another small step in that direction.  Just another part of my past that now is gone.

Add it to the roll call of other great buildings.  Maple Leaf Gardens, the Detroit Olympia, Chicago Stadium, Boston Garden, the Montreal Forum.  And that’s only the tip of the iceberg.  No doubt you have your own arenas/stadiums to add to that list.

For me, it’s Clarke Stadium in Edmonton, the Montreal Expos, the Calgary Cannons, the St. Catherines Stompers, and Ottawa Rough Rigers.  The Hartford Whalers, Winnipeg Jets, and Quebec Nordiques.  The Atlanta Flames at the Omni.  The Winnipeg Arena, though I never saw a game there, but once peered in through the windows and caught a glimpse of the seats.  10 cent chocolate bars at the corner store, milk in glass bottles, Saturday morning cartoons, and playing outside without sunscreen.

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Autograph Seeker

by Paul on 08/29/08 at 10:07 AM ET
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from Ace Burpee of the Winnipeg Sun,

It’s been a while since I’ve been dead-set on approaching someone for an autograph, but this past Wednesday I was in the same room as Bobby Hull for the first time in my life. I was actually nervous, which hasn’t happened since I first met Bob Irving.

A five-pack on meeting Bobby Hull:...

3. How charitable is Bobby Hull? He signed two autographs for me ... one “To Ace, All the Best, Bobby Hull” ... the other dedicated to nobody in case I wanted to sell it on eBay. That’s not my thing, but I do now possess a 20-dollar bill signed by Bobby should the right charity angle come along.

1. If I had scored over 900 goals between the NHL and WHA, I’d wear a rug too. He’s earned the right.

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Greatest Photos In Hockey History

by Paul on 08/23/08 at 12:42 PM ET
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Check out Greatest Hockey Legends for some of the great hockey pictures.

Joe Pelletier is doing a countdown and is now on #12 and I have yet to see the below picture.  I wonder if it will make Joe’s list?

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Bobby Hull Takes A Shot At Tippett

by Paul on 08/09/08 at 10:23 AM ET
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He’s (Brett Hull) done a wonderful job and I knew that he wanted to be involved in putting a team together, but he had just been retired two years and all of a sudden he’s general manager in Dallas and doing a masterful job of putting his team into the third round. I think if they had maybe a little more astute coaching, they might have beat Detroit. I said before the playoffs started that it would be Pittsburgh and Dallas in the finals and I wasn’t far astray.

more from Bobby Hull in a Q & A at the the Daily Gleaner…

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Putting The Myths To Rest

by Paul on 07/25/08 at 05:21 PM ET
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from Tom Lynn at Hockey Ops Blog,

Myth #1: Expansion has diluted the level of talent in the NHL

This is the popular fable of the myopic scribes who cover hockey in some of the oldest markets. As the story goes, in the “Original Six” NHL (there were actually eight teams originally, but this fact was somehow lost on them) there were so few spots available on the teams, the level of play was extremely high. This was their “Golden Age” of hockey, with so many (per capita) of the League’s players achieving legend status and enshrinement in the Hall of Fame. In 1951, the top five scorers in the NHL all ended up in the Hall of Fame (Howe, Richard, Bentley, Abel, and Schmidt). Later, so the fable goes, with the NHL expanding more and more, anyone who could lace up a pair of skates was eligible for an NHL roster spot. This reached its lowest point after the last expansion, to 30 teams, when the Wild and Columbus took to the NHL ice with players that offended the high sensibilities of the Fourth Estate and older columnists.

Like many myths, this one is based on a reasonable premise, but has the unfortunate quality of being completely false.

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Legends Of The Game - Glenn Hall

by Paul on 07/14/08 at 10:00 PM ET
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Survival was part of the game…

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