Archive for the ‘NHL’ Category
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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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Randy Cunneyworth was named interim coach of the Montreal Canadiens this weekend when the team fired Jacques Martin. Cunneyworth is Canadian so one could assume that a Canadian coaching the Canadiens would be enough to placate the fan base.
Ah, but you see these are Canadiens, not Canadians.
And those French Canadians ...
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Friday, September 30th, 2011
The Los Angeles Kings and star defenseman Drew Doughty finally agreed to a deal late Thursday night that will keep the 21-year-old in Los Angeles for eight more years.
Doughty is undoubtedly one of the bright young stars in all of hockey, and he was looking for a big payday. Well, ...
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
In honor of Randy Moss' retirement on Monday, I have decided to run over a traffic cop we here at Rumors and Rants have been inspired to look back at some of the greatest rookie seasons in the history of sports. For this purpose, we'll focus on the four major ...
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