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NHL.com Scoreboard: What Happened to the Shift Chart?
If you have to follow games online by the score sheets, as I frequently do, you get pretty familiar with the interface from NHL.com scoreboard. This year, in a never ending quest to “improve” their product, the NHL has changed their game summaries and “Super Stats” (now called event summery) into almost illegible fodder. And…
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Headlines From My Feed Reader
With success like this, at least for tonight, it’s hard to complain. This is what’s sitting in my inbox: Stastny, Hejduk spark Avs (Fox Sports) Stastny Propels Avalanche (New York Times) Avalanche tame visiting Sharks (Covers.com) Stastny’s 5 points lift Avs past Sharks (Lexington Herald-Leader) Stastny’s career-best five points lift Avs over Sharks (FOX 23…
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Sharks Vs. Avs: Barely Liveblogging
Let’s be honest. I don’t really expect to liveblog this thing so much as just shoot off some comments every so often. I have the Avalanche feed on Center Ice here in Dallas, TX, so I feel I should do something. Tyler Weiman is the backup, so maybe Theodore didn’t make it back from Cleveland…
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Early Line Changes: Just Like Last Season
You know, it just wouldn’t feel like Joel Quenneville behind the bench without some line changes. From the Denver Post: Ryan Smyth is a hockey player who has been around long enough to know when he needs to be a diplomat. The Avalanche’s biggest offseason free-agent signee might not be thrilled at playing on his…
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Lake Erie Inaugural Game: Bets on Losing Goalie?
No, really, guess who? Yeah. Lake Erie dropped their inaugural game tonight against the Grand Rapids Griffins, with Jose Theodore in goal (on a rehab start). And from the background, in front of a crowd of about 150. You know this is just going to end in tears. “No, really, happy to be here, Bob.”…