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NHL free agency 2010: Analysis on Sergei Gonchar, Anton Volchenkov, Paul Martin
If you were looking to add a defenseman this offseason, I hope you didn't blink. It didn't take long for several of them to find new homes on the firs...
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NHL: Penguins, Canucks among big winners of early free agency
The first day of free agency 2010 is over. As usual, teams and player agents were burning up phone lines throughout North America. While it's probably...
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NHL: The NHL is right to experiment with shootout format, but for now, it's...
The league's just-concluded research, development and orientation camp stirred some summer chatter among us puckheads. The topic that seemed to gen...
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NHL: Matthew Bartkowski, Derek Stepan and other promising youngsters of 2010-11
If you follow me on Twitter -- you should -- you know that I braved a little rainy weather to check out the Ottawa Senators vs. New York Rangers exhib...
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NHL: The Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings square off tonight
OK, I've got a little catching up to do. I was so busy yesterday celebrating both Columbus Day and Canadian Thanksgiving, I didn't get down to our usu...
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Vancouver Canucks, Los Angeles Kings top best games of upcoming weekend
My Five for Friday is a look ahead to the five games that I'm going to be watching this weekend. There's a terrific West Coast matchup Friday night fo...
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NHL: E.J. Hradek analyzes the Pittsburgh Penguins and picks all of Tuesday...
Before we get to the Hradek selections for Tuesday night, here are three things I noticed watching the Coyotes-Penguins game Monday: First, they're ...
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NHL: Logan Couture, Jeff Skinner, Jordan Eberle and John Carlson highlight...
On Tuesday, the league announced its All-Star selections, which includes a group of 12 rookies. To those selected, I say congratulations! To those who...
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NHL: Gary Bettman chats on Winter Classic, other topics prior to All-Star...
With the All-Star Weekend upon us, I figured it was a good time to catch up with Gary Bettman. The NHL commissioner will soon be celebrating his 18th ...
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NHL: Why the Phoenix Coyotes will beat the San Jose Sharks and other Tuesday...
With the All-Star Weekend in the rearview mirror, I'm faced with my biggest challenge of the season: a 12-game return to action. That's a whole lot of...
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NHL: Mailbag on the Phoenix Coyotes' playoff chances and Peter Forsberg's future
Did you know that since 1945 only two NHL players have scored six goals in a single game? And, believe it or not, their names weren't Wayne Gretzky an...
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NHL: After Brent Johnson's knockout of Rick DiPietro, a ranking of the best...
For whatever reason (it has to be the equipment, right?), fights between opposing goaltenders get a lot of attention. The Wednesday night bout between...
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NHL: Analyzing the Pittsburgh Penguins-Dallas Stars trade and Tuesday night...
Before I get to my regularly scheduled Tuesday NHL picks, I thought I'd weigh in on yesterday's Dallas Stars-Pittsburgh Penguins deal and pass along a...
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NHL: Alex Goligoski gets his time to shine for Dallas Stars, Jarome Iginla...
Recently acquired Stars defenseman Alex Goligoski didn't arrive a minute too soon for Dallas head coach Marc Crawford. The Stars' bench boss hasn't he...
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NHL: How the Montreal Canadiens will beat the Washington Capitals and other...
Sadly, my prognosticating turnaround was short-lived. After correctly tagging nine of 10 two weeks ago, I fell back to Earth hard last Tuesday, droppi...
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