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Farewell Kristians Pelss

Blog: Oil Patch By Lisa McRitchie

06/18/13 at 12:00 AM ET | Comments (0)

The hockey world was shocked by the passing of young Latvian, and Oilers' prospect Kristians Pelss. Shocking, heartbreaking and tragic, the loss of Pelss touched upon the heart strings of anyone who heard the story. While we may never know what happened last Monday in Latvia, we do know that the friends and family of Pelss will never forget, will never completely be able to move on. And for them, we mourn. 

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Report: Sharks and Logan Couture reach contract extension

Blog: KK Hockey By George Malik

06/17/13 at 11:31 PM ET | Comments (0)

The rumblings regarding Logan Couture being close to a contract extension with the San Jose Sharks have been percolating for a while now, so this should not come as a surprise:

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Fox Sports Detroit will stream Game 6 of Calder Cup Final

Blog: The Malik Report By George Malik

06/17/13 at 11:28 PM ET | Comments (0)

Good news for Red Wings and Grand Rapids Griffins fans:

AHLLive.com will air the game as well, and Time-Warner Cable will air the game in upstate New York.

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Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville declares Marian Hossa ‘day-to-day’ with ‘upper-body’ injury

Blog: KK Hockey By George Malik

06/17/13 at 11:19 PM ET | Comments (0)

Let's not expect to learn very much about whatever ails Chicago Blackhawks forward Marian Hossa over the next day or three:

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Boston out-classes Chicago, takes 2-1 series lead via 2-0 win in Game 3

Blog: KK Hockey By George Malik

06/17/13 at 10:53 PM ET | Comments (1)

Holy crap. I'll grant you that the Chicago Blackhawks were playing without Marian Hossa's services, and I'll grant you that the last-minute shenanigans may have woken them up...But did they ever succumb to a sleeper hold placed upon their collective necks by the Boston Bruins.

The Bruins just dismantled the Chicago Blackhawks, winning 2-0 and taking a 2-games-to-1 lead in the Stanley Cup Final while rendering the Hossa-less Hawks impotent on the power play and downright vulnerable on the power play, on the penalty-kill, at even strength, in terms of physicality, puck possession, puck pursuit, forechecking, backchecking, discipline, intensity, focus, desire, I mean, you name the *#$%@& adjective or adverb.

The Bruins out-classed Chicago on Tuesday night, and the Blackhawks were the team that looked like it'd played four games' worth of ice time, while the Bruins looked like a team that had swept Pittsburgh and was simply cashing the check that was increased energy reserves.

Can the Hawks come back on Wendesday and tie this thing? Sure, but the Bruins just established a, "How to defeat the Blackhawks" blueprint for 28 other teams to use next season in nothing less than a command performance from Tuukka Rask on out.

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Cherry chats with the top prospects

Blog: KK Hockey By George Malik

06/17/13 at 10:03 PM ET | Comments (0)

Don Cherry adores chatting with the top draft prospects that the NHL brings to every Stanley Cup Final, and he chatted with the gents in a long Coach's Corner on Monday night. I'm posting it for tradition's sake as there isn't too much substance to the video otherwise:

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Hossa out, Chara nearly out—warm-ups are dangerous!

Blog: KK Hockey By George Malik

06/17/13 at 09:35 PM ET | Comments (0)

Things got very interesting just prior to Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final, as ESPN Chicago's Scott Powers noted...

Chicago Blackhawks winger Marian Hossa was a late scratch from Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals against the Boston Bruins on Monday.

Hossa, who has seven goals and eight assists in the playoffs, skated during the team's pregame warmups and was scratched with about 15 minutes left before the opening faceoff. An NBC announcer said Hossa was hit by a puck during warmups.

Ben Smith filled in for Hossa. Smith scored one goal in one game for the Blackhawks in the regular season. He had three goals in seven playoff games in 2011.

And things COULD have ended quite poorly for Zdeno Chara when he bumped both Milan Lucic Adam McQuaid during warm-ups, yielding a trip to the locker room for stitches to the back of his head and an in-game absence to have his skates re-sharpened:

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Grand Rapids Griffins-Syracuse Crunch Monday practice news

Blog: The Malik Report By George Malik

06/17/13 at 09:16 PM ET | Comments (0)

The Grand Rapids Griffins' trip to Syracuse, New York took exactly one hour, and the fact that they flew on Red Bird III didn't go unnoticed by the local media corps. WOOD TV8 will air tomorrow night's Game 6 in Grand Rapids (it's a 7 PM EDT start; if you live outside WXSP's broadcast area like I do, you'll be watching the Crunch's broadcasters on AHLLive.com as the Albany Times-Union reported that Time-Warner Cable will broadcast the game from Syracuse again), and they dispatched a camera crew to Van Andel Arena to get some "pre-flight" comments from the Griffins' players and coach:

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Video- Hockey Night In Canada SCF Game 3 Opening Montage

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

06/17/13 at 08:30 PM ET | Comments (0)

Featuring Neil Young.

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Open Post- Game 3 Chicago vs. Boston

Blog: KK Hockey By Paul

06/17/13 at 07:41 PM ET | Comments (4)

One team is going up 2-1 in the series after tonight's game.

Will it be Boston with the home-ice advantage or Chicago playing the perfect road game?

If things go as they have the last two games, expect the results around midnight or maybe even a little later.

Puck drops just after 8:00pm ET and is on NBCSN, CBC and RDS.

added 8:24pm,

Hossa took the pre-game skate, but not in the lineup tonight.  Reports say he may have taken a puck in the warmup.

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