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And We Need the NHL Network Why?
The buzz for hockey fans in the United States lately is all about television. Is the NHL coming back to ESPN? What does Center Ice Online mean to regular subscribers, and, the one we’ve all been waiting for, the NHL Network. What Canadians have had for a longtime, we in America are finally getting (no,…
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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…