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Thursday, May 17th, 2012
The Los Angeles Kings continued their improbable playoff run Thursday night with a 2-1 win over the Phoenix Coyotes. The Kings now lead the Western Conference Finals series 3-0 and are an incredible 11-1 in the playoffs.
While Los Angeles has mostly dominated the series to this point, Game 3 was ...
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
New York Rangers head coach John Tortorella has become known for his post-game press conferences. He often says far more than he should and is the definition of outspoken. Honestly, the guy is gold with a microphone in his face.
But after his team's 3-2 loss to the New Jersey Devils ...
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
The NHL's Western Conference Finals series has gotten a bit ugly. The Phoenix Coyotes and Los Angeles Kings clearly don't like each other and it is starting to show.
Aside from the normal chippy hits that happen from time-to-time, the Kings have certainly gotten under the skin of the higher-seeded Coyotes. ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2012
Back when I took my first sex ed class -- near the end of fifth grade, if I'm not mistaken, though they clearly jumped the gun by several years when it came to me needing any knowledge of the subject -- we were encouraged to anonymously submit questions to the ...
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
On Monday night the Los Angeles Kings took it to the St. Louis Blues in Game Two of their Western Conference Semifinal playoff matchup. The Kings jumped all over St. Louis, shooting out to a 4-0 lead after one period.
Anze Kopitar scored two of those goals, one of them coming ...
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Tuesday, April 17th, 2012
Bruins goalie Tim Thomas made major headlines this January when he declined attending Boston's championship trip to the White House in an effort to make a political statement against Barack Obama. (He said it was a statement against both political parties because the federal government has grown out of control, ...
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Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012
If the NHL wants to turn non-believers into fans, it wouldn't hurt to have every game turn out like the ones between the Winnipeg Jets and Philadelphia Flyers. But given the impossibility of that happening, I'd gladly settle for seeing the two duke it out in a first-round playoff series.
The ...
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