This was submitted as a potential Asshole Coach Digest entry, but I think it crosses a line. Now if it were Coach-Produces-His-Own-Child-Pornography Digest, then we'd consider it.

Robert Bopp already faces life in prison on charges that he paid a 14-year-old to perform oral sex on him. Add to that a child pornography rap for filming students with a hidden camera, with the tapes being made as recently as...last season. Jesus.

Parents are upset that they're only finding out now, even though authorities found the tapes in July.

The U.S. attorney asked us not to make contact until they completed their investigation," McInerney said, though he noted that some hockey parents had been told previously.

The lawyer said he has not seen the tape himself, but he said he has been told that the camera captured images of the players as they walked around the locker room.

Bopp, the once-lauded Grosse Pointe South High School ice hockey coach, stashed a small video camera to secretly tape his players in a locker room on two occasions during the 2008-09 season, according to a letter the school district sent to some ex-players in mid-November.

Last year, Bopp was inducted into the Michigan High School Hockey Coaches Association's Hall of Fame. So, when you complain about Busher Jackson's induction, remember it could be a lot worse.

Ex-Players Told Of Locker-Room Video [Detroit Free Press]

Some hockey dads from British Columbia have invented a product that they claim will get rid of the stench that hockey gear invariably becomes afflicted with - and they have named said product Hockey Sudz.

After two years of trial and error, the advent of the frontload washer and plenty of research, Keith Howlett and his partner created the soap-based product that's antibacterial, biodegradable, hypo-allergenic and won't break down the glue that holds hockey gear together.

Dr. Paul Basson, team physician for the Western Hockey League's Chilliwack Bruins, says the build-up of sweat with heat and humidity leads to the growth of all sorts of bacteria and fungi and some of it can be dangerous, and even in rare cases causing flesh eating disease.

Far out, but for those of you in the U.S. who would like to purchase their product for your stench-related needs, you are out of luck. Unless you want to travel to Canuckistan - at this point, it's only available in Western Canada.

It's great that these dads took matters in their own hands, but it still doesn't change the awkward relationships they have with their daughters. The resentment these dads feel will only fester and get worse. Does anybody know if there is a Canadian Dr. Phil?

B.C. hockey dads invent detergent to wipe stench from daughters' hockey gear [NHL.com]

Just three games into their inaugural season in the Southern Professional Hockey League, head coach Ron Handy abruptly quit to "focus on community relations and off-ice operations." Apparently, losing the team's first three games didn't fall under that rubric. Caught in a bind, general manager and team president Brent Sapergia put himself behind the bench for last week's two game series against Pensacola. It did not go well. He received a game misconduct in both games and has been banned from coaching by the league after responding to penalty call by taking anything not nailed down to his bench and hurling it on the ice.

Is Sapergia crazy ... or crazy like a fox? Is it too cynical to think that the Bill Veeck of Southeastern Minor League hockey cooked up this rant to draw some attention to his floundering expansion team? The IceGators—a non-indigenous species, obviously—were resurrected in 2009 after a previous incarnation of the franchise folded four years ago. And before this moment, were you aware that there was a hockey team in Lafayette, Louisiana? Didn't think so.

Or maybe he's just a really, really bad coach. Eh, I'll just go with that one.

[Video: AP, via Busted Coverage]
Struggling IceGators get new coach [The Independent]
The Official IceGators Website [Icegators.com]
Ice Flyers open at home with win [Pensacola News Journal]

Hockey Canada announced yesterday that the team will wear the green jerseys at next year's world championships as a tribute to the CFL's Saskatchewan Roughriders, which would be akin to the USA's squad wearing purple in honor of the AFL's Milwaukee Mustangs.

Specious justifications aside, you might have noticed that green isn't one of the colors on Canada's flag. This has a few people upset.

"Pretty much the stupidest idea ever. So the crowd will be in red and white but the team will be green?"

"Great idea: use Canada's junior hockey team to honour a football team with 23 Americans on its active roster.
That'll be sure to capture the spirit of Canadian hockey."

"Why didn't anybody tell me the Toronto St. Patricks were making a comeback?"

"Well the other colour is yellow and they couldn't go with that as it conotates cowardice."

"If we make the gold medal game whoever we play will respect us about as much as dirt. In our red and white thats a simbole of power and superiority we might win because our opponents will be rolling around on the ice laughing"

It's breaking down to the point where commenters are trashing the newspaper's site for flagging "colour" as a misspelling. There's some serious Canadian pride on display this weekend, so avoid your local Tim Horton's and TD Banks should riots break out.

Canada Unveils Green Jersey [Globe and Mail]

Philly fans aren't necessarily as bad as the reputation that precedes them, however stories like this certainly don't help.

As for the stabbing, this is the story told to the 700 Level.

When we got back to the The Arena bowling alley in the Northeast, there were cop cars everywhere and a big brawl taking place. These were all Flyers fans fighting. I don't know why. I guess drinking all day had something to do with it? Anyway, some guy comes walking by with his buddy screaming, "Call an ambulance!" He had been stabbed and his intestines were literally hanging out! There was blood everywhere. We were just a little freaked out and didn't want to be stabbed so we left.

Well hopefully there's some exaggeration in that description, regardless, it doesn't paint a pretty picture of fans who should have been celebrating a win over a rival.

Yeah...no idea. Let the emailer explain:

Some dude with an unfortunate name who plays for the Rimouski Oceanic of the CHL Currently playing for the Memorial Cup.

Which is insanely complicated

And there you have it.

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Good morning. How's Wednesday? Let's sculpt something massive.

And really, who could blame her?

Sidney Crosby got the scoring started five minutes into the first period with his fifth goal of the playoffs. The Capitals answered with a goal from the Dave Steckel before Alexander Ovechkin put them ahead with a goal off on a two-man advantage. Mark Eaton scored the equalizer midway through the second period, setting up what should be a dramatic finish over the final 20 minutes.

Thanks to reader Lawrence for the screen grab.

Update: Tomas Fleischmann just scored to give the Capitals a 3-2 edge in the early minutes of the third period.

Update II: The Update Returns: The Caps hung on to win 3-2. In about five minutes my entire neighborhood will be filled with red-clad people honking the horns of their SUV's in celebration on their way back to Northern Virginia.

Wyshynski breaks down the case for and against suspension over at Puck Daddy.

It's not comparable to the Brashear incident, which was headhunting. But one assumes that a hit that results in pools of blood on the ice, and one that is immediately labeled "barbaric" by the national TV announcing crew, will earn some kind of supplemental discipline. Right or wrong, the NHL can be swayed by such things.

One thing is certain, Rajon Rondo thinks this is some bullshit.