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Written by Justin Bourne
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Saturday, January 09, 2010 00:00 |
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I pulled my first hockey prank at about six years old. I'm suspicious though, that I may have in fact been just a pawn in someone else's practical joke.
I was in the Los Angeles Kings' dressing room after a game (or practice, what do I know, I was six), and Luc Robitaille was heading into the shower. Apparently, under my own power, ... |
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Friday, December 18, 2009 17:37 |
 When your puppy tries to chew on the couch, you give him a whomp on the nose with a newspaper.
You wait.
Your puppy tries to chew on the couch.
He gets whomped.
Eventually, the puppy equates the whomp on the shnozz with chewing on the couch, and stops the chewing.
And yet, some, crazy, brainless anomalies ... |
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Thursday, December 03, 2009 00:00 |
Rosters change at an alarming rate in today's NHL, with general managers shuffling players like fantasy league owners. Trade him now, maybe we'll pick him up again next year. Put him on waivers — if he gets better, we'll re-sign him then. Put him on the IR for a few weeks, call some kid up.
For less-than-diehard fans, th ... |
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Monday, November 16, 2009 11:17 |
 Isn't the NHL pretty these days?
Picture Pavel Datsyuk's shootout goal from the past week, followed by Henrik Zetterberg's. One right after the next, like back-to-back holes-in-one, they looked like something a player 20 years ago couldn't even envision happening in the game someday. These guys make hockey look like ... |
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Friday, November 06, 2009 15:52 |
In every sport, there are always a few unwritten rules amongst the players that go unnoticed by the casual fan.
In the case of hockey, “plus/minus etiquette” is one of those rules that get governed within the confines of the team.
If the referee misses your assist, or didn’t notice that you tipped a shot from the blue line, official stats can be chan ... |
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