His Beloved Leafs
10/22/05 at 09:34 AM ET | Comments (0)
from the Toronto Star,
An odyssey that started over "a number of beers in the pub," will conclude with an experience of a lifetime tonight for Maple Leaf fan Nick Harris. Harris, a 35-year-old businessman from Glasgow, flew into Toronto from Scotland last night for the sole purpose of attending tonight's game at the Air Canada Centre against the Philadelphia Flyers. His whirlwind tour will end when he returns home tomorrow. Harris managed to get Leaf tickets through a university friend who is in from Britain visiting his wife's family in Toronto. When he learned about the tickets, Harris immediately went out and spent $1,200 on an airline ticket for a 36-hour trip.
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Hype Game
10/22/05 at 09:31 AM ET | Comments (0)
from the Globe and Mail,
In its infinite wisdom, the National Hockey League has scheduled the Colorado Avalanche and the Vancouver Canucks, bitter divisional rivals, to play each other six times in the next six weeks, starting tonight at GM Place. It seems a little odd, considering the last time they met, there were five fights and Steve Moore of the Avs suffered a serious head injury, leading to a long, costly suspension for Todd Bertuzzi of the Canucks, a criminal assault charge and likely a civil suit, along with a black eye for the game.
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Another Coach Complains, Another Faces It
10/22/05 at 09:05 AM ET | Comments (0)
"I don't understand how they called that many power plays against us," he said. "I don't understand how we're that bad. I guess the Detroit Red Wings get those calls in their building."- Randy Carlyle, Anaheim Mighty Ducks coach after losing to the Wings last night. Coach John Tortorella of the Tampa Bay Lightning talking after his team lost to Ottawa yesterday, "You can't find your big guys playing against probably one of the best teams right now, guess what's going to happen?" "We can't have guys lying in the weeds — our best players — in games against the best teams in the league. They need to be front and center, and they're not."
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Boulton Suspended
10/21/05 at 08:25 PM ET | Comments (0)
via TSN,
Atlanta tough guy Eric Boulton has been suspended indefinitely by the NHL for his elbow to the head of Tampa rookie Paul Ranger, the latest blow to a Thrashers team unravelling early this season. Colin Campbell, the NHL's executive vice-president and the man charged with handing out discipline, will meet Boulton on Monday to determine how many games his suspension will be.
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Legace Belongs On Canadian List
10/21/05 at 06:51 PM ET | Comments (0)
from Slam,
"It was a question of eliminating as much controversy as we can," said Olympic executive director Wayne Gretzky, upon the release of the list. "When we get down to the final 23 players there are going to be a lot of players that will be second guessed on." Hey Wayne, forget the final 23, the second guessing has already begun. At first glance the most glaring omission is that of Red Wings' netminder Manny Legace. How the Toronto native, who leads the league with six wins and has compiled a 1.98 goals against average and a .918 save percentage, did not make the top 81 is ridiculous.
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Hartley Claims Hits Were “Bad Timing”
10/21/05 at 06:06 PM ET | Comments (0)
from Scott Burnside of ESPN,
If the Atlanta Thrashers keep this up, they'll have to change their marketing slogan from Blueland to Goonland. It's already a nickname that's taken hold as far as some NHL coaches are concerned. In a surprising turn of events, not only are the Thrashers are off to an embarrassing start to the regular season with a 2-5 record in which their high-powered offense has registered just two goals in their five losses, but they have also become a lightning rod of criticism from fans, media and other coaches following a series of ugly on-ice incidents.
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Avs Best Move Is To Lose Sakic & Blake
10/21/05 at 04:31 PM ET | Comments (0)
from Allan Muir of Sports Illustrated,
Colorado GM Pierre Lacroix didn't need to watch his team blow a three-goal lead at home -- for the second time in less than a week, no less -- to realize a window was closing. The team he has constructed -- or more accurately, the team he has left after being squeezed by the newly imposed salary-cap restrictions -- is simply not good enough to win in its current form. With sub-par goaltending and a patchwork defense bleeding points away, the Avs face an uphill struggle just to grab a playoff berth.
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Sens-Panthers Game Rescheduled
10/21/05 at 04:00 PM ET | Comments (0)
The National Hockey League today announced the rescheduling of Saturday's scheduled game between the Ottawa Senators and Florida Panthers at BankAtlantic Center. The game will be played Monday, December 5, at 7 p.m., ET. The game was rescheduled due to unpredictable weather conditions associated with Hurricane Wilma.
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Sharks Need Better Goaltending
10/21/05 at 01:38 PM ET | Comments (0)
from the San Francisco Chronicle,
Evgeni Nabokov and Vesa Toskala make up one of the more formidable goaltending tandems in the NHL. While no one argues Nabokov's status as the Sharks' No. 1 goalie, a consensus suggests Toskala has the tools to be a starter in the league some day, too. And for certain, the Sharks are expecting big numbers from their goalies this year. The only big numbers produced so far, however, appear in the goals-against category.
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OLN Responds To DISH
10/21/05 at 12:42 PM ET | Comments (0)
"We are surprised and disappointed that Dish has unilaterally chosen to stop providing OLN to its customers -- and denied fans the opportunity to watch sports coverage on OLN. We are also disappointed that EchoStar cut off the ongoing discussions with OLN that were designed to bring OLN's great programming to Dish customers. Fortunately, those customers do have the ability to explore other cable and satellite options that carry OLN." update 10:53am, via mediaweek,
Thus far, the NHL hasn’t stepped in to help negoiate an accord between OLN and its distribution partners, saying that it is confident that Comcast will be able to broker a truce.update 1:32pm, via the Denver Post,
A resolution should be forthcoming, a spokeswoman for OLN said.update 6:40pm, via Dow Jones Newswire,
"Comcast is acting like the 800-pound gorilla here," said EchoStar spokesman Marc Lumpkin. NHL spokeswoman Bernadette Mansur, in a prepared statement Friday, said the league is "confident that Comcast will successfully resolve any OLN distribution issues."
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