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  • sharks47

    San Jose Sharks Get By L.A. Kings In Game One Slugfest

    Joe Pavelski’s game-winning goal at the 14:44 mark of OT snuck the San Jose Sharks past the Los Angeles Kings last night in front of a rowdy crowd at HP Pavilion. Sharks coach Todd McLellan had said it all week. The playoffs were going to...

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  • Nashville Predators

    What makes a playoff team (part 4)

    In the 4th installment of my series of analysis on the make up of the 2011 NHL playoff teams, I examine the bottom four teams in the Western Conference, and find some striking similarities in how they were constructed. As a reminder, I group the...

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  • sharks40

    Beat LA: Four Reasons the Los Angeles Kings Are the Most Favorable Match-Up For the San Jose Sharks

    In a final weekend of the NHL season that can only be described as “nutty,” some teams got the match-up they wanted in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and others did not. I will gladly insert the San Jose Sharks into the “match-up they wanted” category...

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  • Dustin Penner

    Deadline Day Winners and Losers

    The 2011 NHL Trade Deadline came and went yesterday, without much of a peep from most clubs as much of the shopping and bargain hunting seemed to occur in the weeks preceding the deadline this year. February 18th, a day that saw Tomas Kaberle, Ian...

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  • Nikolai Kulemin, Tyler Bozak, Francois Beauchemin

    Leafs starting to gel, but is it too late?

    Don’t look now, but the Toronto Maple Leafs have won 3 straight, and 4 of their last 5. They have scored 23 goals over those 5 games as well. Players like Phil Kessel, Mikhail Grabovski and Nikolai Kulemin are enjoying their longest streaks of the...

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    And the real Devil has shown himself

    With Gary Bettman’s quashing of the Ilya Kovalchuk contract yesterday, it seems that the true Devil is the NHL and its owners. The league rejected the contract on the grounds of cap circumvention, and yet players like Chris Pronger, Marian Hossa, Roberto Luongo and other...

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  • simon-gagne-phiadelphia-flyers

    Lightning finally strikes; Flyers ship Gagne to Tampa Bay

    As one Flyer fan of my acquaintance bluntly put it upon hearing the news, “That’s it?” I think that sums it up pretty well. In almost a footnote with the Kovalchuk sweepstakes finally ending, Simon Gagne trades in his orange and black threads that he’s donned for over twelve years...

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