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Friends know when to say when. Then there are stalkers. Print
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Written by Justin Bourne   
Saturday, January 09, 2010 16:07
Friends know when to say when. Then there are stalkers.This is a bit of an intervention for the above-and-WAY-beyond hockey fan.

You know those moments when you realize, "if I don't say something to my friend, I can no longer call myself one?" We're currently having one of those.

They're awful moments. Maybe your friend is being cheated on. Maybe they're dressing horribly, gaining weight or drinking too much. Or maybe they're at ...

 
The Hockey Dressing Room: A Playground For Men Print
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Written by Justin Bourne   
Saturday, January 09, 2010 00:00

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, ...

 
Persistence is the key to shot blocking Print
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Written by Justin Bourne   
Friday, December 18, 2009 17:37
Persistence is the key to shot blockingWhen 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 ...

 
As the roster turns, the fans disengage Print
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Written by Justin Bourne   
Thursday, December 03, 2009 00:00
As the roster turns, the fans disengage

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 ...

 
The Evolution to Fluidity Print
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Written by Justin Bourne   
Monday, November 16, 2009 11:17
The Evolution to FluidityIsn'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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