Evening Line
05/22/13 at 08:17 PM ET | Comments (0)
I am proud of many of the things we accomplished as a group these past seven seasons in Vancouver and only wish we were able to win the Canucks first Stanley Cup. I am a career coach and it is what I love to do. I hope to coach again in this League and will always have good memories of my time and the fans in Vancouver.
-Alain Vigneault. Read more from a release he sent out at the Canucks' website.
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Kings Still Hungry For A Repeat Performance
05/22/13 at 07:52 PM ET | Comments (0)
from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,
They're finding out that repeating is awfully tough.
"The physical part is obviously huge, but just the highs and lows that you go through, you got to be ready for that in your head," said Kopitar. "Last year we had lot more highs than we had lows. This time it's a little bit different. Mentally, it's challenging. You have to take it as a new day and prepare that way."
This a good test for the Kings, who have character and guts. It would be a shock if they didn't raise their game and step up to another level in Game 5 on Thursday at Staples Center.
This team still has the hunger.
"Absolutely, absolutely," said Williams, who appears to be playing banged up in this series. "We're professionals, we're here for a reason. That Stanley Cup, the big silver jug, is the pinnacle of success in our professional life. Regardless of whether you've won it once, twice, five times, come playoff time that's all you want."
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Only One Game On The NHL Playoff Schedule Tonight
05/22/13 at 07:00 PM ET | Comments (2)
The Pittsburgh Penguins are visiting the Ottawa Senators in game 4 of this series. The Penguins lead 2-1 and the Senators need a win in order to avoid an elimination game in Pittsburgh on Friday.
The puck drops around 7:37pm ET and can be watched on NBCSN, CBC and RDS.
Feel free to comment below on the game or anything related to the 2013 NHL Playoffs.
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Gustav Nyquist Joined NHL Live Today
Blog: The Malik Report By Paul
05/22/13 at 06:46 PM ET | Comments (2)
Listen/watch five minutes with 'Gus'.
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Video- Top 10 Pavel Datsyuk Goals, TSN Style
05/22/13 at 06:02 PM ET | Comments (3)
Sorry a little late with this, but had to shutdown due to storms in the area. All good now.
So, which one is your favorite and/or did TSN miss any goals?
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Yes, Wings coach Mike Babcock once asked Ken Holland if he could be Scotty Bowman’s successor
Blog: The Malik Report By George Malik
05/22/13 at 05:09 PM ET | Comments (3)
The Associated Press's Larry Lage examined the battle between the Chicago Blackhawks' and Detroit Red Wings' coaches, discussing Joel Quenneville's role in his Hawks' successes (despite being 0-and-5 against the Wings in the playoffs) and Mike Babcock's presence behind the Wings' bench, and in doing so, Lage related a story from Wings GM Ken Holland that you may not yet be aware of:
"He makes his team accountable,'' Red Wings general manager Ken Holland said.
With an iron fist?
"Yeah,'' Holland said. "He's the boss.''
Holland is Babcock's boss more than a decade after telling him that he wanted to lead the storied franchise on the ice while he was coaching a minor league team shared by Detroit and Anaheim. During the second intermission of a playoff game in 2002, Holland recalled Babcock telling him he wanted to be the next coach of the Red Wings.
"I don't hire interns,'' Holland said he told Babcock. "The next year, he knocked us out of the playoffs.'
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Bad news/good news: Red Wings’ Darren Helm’s definitely done, but Danny DeKeyser may yet return
Blog: The Malik Report By George Malik
05/22/13 at 04:53 PM ET | Comments (8)
Updated 2x at 5:19 PM: In addition to today's pair of Red Wings-Blackhawks practice posts: I know that the story that got Red Wings fans down involved the Detroit News's Ted Kulfan's report that Darren Helm has suffered yet another setback in his attempt to recover from a partially torn ligament and slightly herniated disc in his back...
"The team is doing so great, it's the playoffs, and I want to be out there," said Helm, who was skating lightly during the Anaheim series before another setback occurred. "It's extremely tough to watch."
The plan now is for Helm to stay off the ice indefinitely.
"Something happened (skating during the Anaheim series) and it hurt a lot and I was limping around for a couple of days," Helm said. "We decided to take a step back and we needed a different approach — staying off the ice a lot longer.
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You’ve Probably Never Heard Of Tim Thompson But You Know His Work
05/22/13 at 04:35 PM ET | Comments (0)
from Sean Fitz-Gerald of the National Post,
During the two months of the NHL playoffs, his days are spent in a windowless studio on the seventh floor of the CBC’s downtown Toronto headquarters. He was wearing blue jeans and a black T-shirt during one recent editing session. Pages torn from a steno pad covered the desk, an incomprehensible shorthand scrawled on each scrap — a cue, a note, or an inspiration for a future montage.
“I have this weird kind of head,” Thompson said. “I walk around with cinematic films going on in my mind. I’ll see a bird flying over a streetcar as a kid walks across the street, and it will be like, ‘Oh, that song!’ ”
And the songs for his montages vary. Sometimes, they are not even songs. Thompson has worked with opera and hard rock, folk music and spoken word. Canadian actor and filmmaker Jay Baruchel opened one broadcast earlier this season by reading from Two Solitudes, the 1945 novel by Canadian writer Hugh MacLennan. (Baruchel had two pages to read, and he read them fiercely: “I wish we had actually filmed him doing it,” Thompson said with a smile.)
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Canucks Will Be Searching For A New Coach
05/22/13 at 04:18 PM ET | Comments (0)
Numerous media outlets are confirming the report from Louis Jean of Vigneault being fired by the Canucks.
added 4:30pm, from Ed Willes of the Vancouver Province.
Popes are elected in less time than it took the Canucks to fire Alain Vigneault. But now that the inevitable decision has been made, the longstanding debate over Vigneault’s abilities has finally come to an end.
For this we can only be thankful, because the issue had long since become tiresome. The small but persistently shrill anti-Vigneault faction laid a disproportionate share of blame for the Canucks’ shortcomings at the former coach’s feet. Vigneault supporters were likely blind to a staleness that had set root in the organization. In the end, it was simply time for a new voice, a new face, and unless Francesco Aquilini decided to reset the organization from top to bottom, Vigneault was going and general manager Mike Gillis was staying.
added 6:10pm, Read the press release from the Canucks below...
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Red Wings-Blackhawks practice day updates, part 2: On Cleary’s resurgence, PK Miller and Hawk talk
Blog: The Malik Report By George Malik
05/22/13 at 04:17 PM ET | Comments (4)
Updated 5x at 5:18 PM: The first Red Wings-Blackhawks practice day post has run its course space-wise, so we'll begin a second slate of Red Wings and Blakchawks stories with coach Mike Babcock's very thorough off-day presser (which serves as a very nice compliment to his Fan 590 interview)...
As well as the Wings discussing the positive effects of their two two-day breaks between Games 1 and 2 and now 3 and 4 with MLive's Ansar Khan...
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