I think this will sound familiar to Kings fans: “Get him out of there right now!” Milbury calls for O’Sullivan’s benching. I thought hockey fans could be tough and nasty in their player critiques on the Oilogosphere, but CBC announcers Mike Milbury and Kelly Hrudey just got as harsh as any anonymous Internet hater. The…
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Lombardi tells Moulson He’s Complacent; Moulson says be fruitful and multiply (but not in those words)
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On the drive home after seeing his son Matt get cut from yet another Triple-A hockey team, Scott Moulson looked over at the 15-year-old and leveled with him. He saw Matt outplay other kids who made the team and he saw Matt refuse to give up during tryouts despite being so sick he was throwing…
Tavares-Moulson connection? All chemistry
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Maybe it’s that old sports cliche, chemistry, that explains the immediate collaborative efficiency between celebrated Islanders rookie John Tavares and free-agent discovery Matt Moulson. Maybe it’s a familiarity that goes back at least five years, when Tavares, the emerging hockey phenom, was playing lacrosse and hockey with Moulson’s younger brother Chris in the Toronto suburb…
Swift Current Broncos | It’s About Passion…
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Broncos’ players Cody Eakin, Morgan Clark, Geordie Wudrick and Justin Dowling are all off to NHL Camps this week. Eakin will head to Arlington, Virginia to attend Washington Capitals camp after being selected in the third round of this past spring’s NHL draft. Geordie Wudrick is off to Los Angeles Kings camp for the second time…
hitmenhockey.com – All Aboard for the 2009 – 2010 Season!
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Calgary Hitmen General Manager Kelly Kisio announced today eight Hitmen will head to NHL Training Camps this week. Of the eight players, five are drafted (Kris Foucault, Brandon Kozun, Ian Schultz and Michael Stone). Martin Jones is a free agent signing of the LA Kings while two Hitmen have received free agent tryouts (Rigby Burgart,…
NHL Western Conference teams confront key questions – NHL.com – NHL Insider
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Los Angeles Kings: How much does Ryan Smyth have left? Smyth came to L.A. during the summer following two disappointing seasons after he signed a big-money free-agent deal with Colorado. The Kings are counting on his experience, grit and scoring ability to help a group of talented young players take the next step and make…
NHL.com – 2010 Winter Olympics: NHLers (Kings and ex-Kings) dominate Slovak camp – 08/03/2009
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2010 Slovakia Olympic candidates Goaltenders (4): Peter Budaj (Colorado), Jaroslav Halak (Montreal), Jaroslav Janus (Erie Otters, OHL), Jan Lasak (HC Moeller Pardubice) Defensemen (11): Ivan Baranka (Spartak Moscow), Zdeno Chara (Boston), Milan Jurcina (Washington), Richard Lintner (Dynamo Minsk), Andrej Meszaros (Tampa Bay), Vladimir Mihalik (Tampa Bay), Jaroslav Obsut (Spartak Moscow), Andrej Sekera (Buffalo), Peter Smrek…
From ESPN: National Football League goes after big game in landmark American Needle antitrust case
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Fast forward to a high-definition picture of sports late in 2010. Here is the news of the day, scrawling across the bottom of your TV screen or mobile Web device: • LeBron James, who had been expecting a free-agency bonanza when his contract with the Cleveland Cavaliers expired after the 2009-2010 season, opens the 2010-11…
From Mlive.com: New Blackhawks GM Stan Bowman suggests that cap may not fall for 10-11 season, discusses Hawks’ Red Wings-like ‘one-year window’
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Actually, it’s Mlive (from Detroit) quoting a block from the Chicago Daily Herald [with my comments in brackets]: The Hawks are under the NHL’s $56.8 million salary cap for this season [no, you're not] but part of the reason Bowman was promoted to GM was to navigate the team through next summer when there will…
From Fear The Fin: Back, meet corner
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From the Sharks’ blog Fear the Fin: You can argue against the signing of Scott Nichol based on his skill, age, injury history, whatever. Same for Huskins. You could even make the case that the Rob Blake deal was evidence of poor decision making by the Sharks, or that they overpaid for Clowe. But, like it or not, those…