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Better Know a Rule: Kicking the Puck
For your playoff rules primer, I recommend watching a little bit of this video, provided by NHL.com, designed to cover their bases and keep fans who watch it from screaming at the refs, their TVs or their children, when a puck is waived off due to the puck being kicked in the net. After viewing…
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Pens vs. Caps: What a Finish?
The game on NBC was exactly as billed, right until the end. Backstrom puts it in his own net? Like that? That was put in with purpose. Not just a small mistake, but a hard shot directly into his own net. A mistake like that is a learning experience, but more so when it absolutely…
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Crosby vs. Ovechkin: Huge!!!!
JP at Japers Rink found this image, which puts Sidney Crosby squarely in the class of football hero when compared to Alex Ovechkin, size wise: I mean, he’s huge, right? Aside from a poorly done photoshop job, anything else strike you as odd? Like the fact that the Penguins played the Capitals in the Winter…
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Mellon Arena: A Photo Retrospective
Thanks to my job, I get to see hockey in all sorts of small barns and beautiful arenas. Six weeks spent in Pittsburgh allowed me to see a few Penguins games on my days off. Leaving Mellon Arena after the Pens – Flyers games, I was actually a little sad, since it was most likely…
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Avs vs Canucks: What More Can You Ask From a Game?
I must have been clairvoyant, when I bought my ticket to this game an hour before they announced that Peter Forsberg signed a one year contract with the Avalanche. And as luck would have it, this was the game he came back in. But you knew that, you are a hockey fan, and you could…