Hockey Page 535 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
Your Canucks/Bruins Game One Open Thread
The Vancouver Sun went ahead and ran a feature headlined, "Bleacher Report's 15 bold predictions for the Stanley Cup Finals." So, there are 15 bold reasons why the Vancouver Canucks should go another 41 years without winning the Stanley Cup....
Network Airing Stanley Cup Finals Does Not Know Who Is In Stanley Cup Finals
This is what you get for slashing Dick Ebersol's $600 billion promo budget....
Chris Pronger Thinks He Is Not On Air, Says A "Shitfaced" Mike Keenan Once Stormed Gretzky's Hotel
Flyers defenseman Chris Pronger stopped by XM Radio's NHL Live studios in New York for a half-hour interview on Friday morning. For a brief interlude, the host threw things to their correspondent in Boston. But the mics remained hot, at least for a few minutes available in the NHL.com podcast edit...
You Can Still Buy Atlanta Thrashers Season Tickets
Not 15 minutes ago, I called up the Thrashers and inquired about season tickets, of which there are plenty still available. And the nice lady who answered the phone was more than willing to take down my credit card information to put in my deposit. This despite the minor detail that the Thrashers ar...
You Can Have Any Sports Video Game You Want, But There's Only One
About this time last year, at E3, I was chewing the fat with a 2K Sports representative about NBA 2K11 which already looked to be the monster it would become. Long dominant in the pro basketball genre, the game with… [Kotaku] ...
Your Bruins/Lightning Game Six Open Thread
So, Boston heads into the St. Pete Times Forum with an opportunity to advance past the Lightning and into the team's first Stanley Cup Finals appearance since 1990....
Your Sharks/Canucks Game Five Open Thread
The Vancouver media loves the Sedins again. We'll see how venomous the rancor can get should San Jose win tonight, to make the series 3-2 and send it back Sharkward....
Here's Tim Thomas With The Best Save Of The Playoffs
That endorsement from hockey minds across Twitter tonight. Steve Downie, in a one-goal game, would probably agree....
Here's A Photo Of Every Single Tampa Bay Lightning Fan
All 800 of them, sending their beloved team off yesterday. Organized on Facebook (of course) and by the team (grassroots it is not), every single man woman or child that roots or ever rooted for the Lightning gathered in a parking lot at Tampa International Aiport and stood in the shape of a lightni...
Your Canucks/Sharks Game Four Open Thread
If San Jose fans actually believe that men in tights can be as effectively distracting to a penalty-boxed opponent as bared boobs, they don't deserve to advance to the Stanley Cup Finals....
Your Bruins/Lightning Game Four Open Thread
Bruins just took a 1-0 lead on Patrice Bergeron's goal, halfway through the first period. Victor Hedman's fault. Seems like he's been doing that a lot this series....
Don't Cry For Me Philips Arena: Atlanta Burned Again As Thrashers Jet North
Atlanta: heart of the South, birthplace of hockey in the Prairie Provinces. According to a report in The Globe and Mail, the Thrashers have been sold and will move to Winnipeg, with an announcement to be made as early as Tuesday. This is good, and bad, and weird, depending on who you're concerned wi...
Your NHL Eastern Conference Finals Open Thread
The Bruins and Lightning split a pair of games in Boston. Tonight, they do battle in Tampa Bay. Discuss....
And Here's Another Hockey Player Who Allegedly Threatened His Wife
Nikolay Zherdev, most recently of the Flyers, is in a spot of trouble today back in Russia. According to a report from a Russian newspaper, first brought to our attention by Broad Street Hockey and Crossing Broad, Zherdev was out to breakfast with his wife and friends yesterday when things turned ug...
Ben Eager Was The Most Interesting Man In The World Last Night
Eager was all over the place for San Jose: pancaking Daniel Sedin against the glass, trash talking a prostrate Roberto Luongo (after pulling the Sharks to within 4), and, of course, getting flashed in the penalty box. Call it the EagerTrick: a goal, a scuffle, and boobs. (Video NSFW at the end)...
Here's Your Keepsake NSFW Photo Of A Canucks Fan Showing Her Breasts To The Penalty Box, World
The Vancouver Canucks won tonight's Western Conference Finals game vs. the San Jose Sharks 7-3. But, thanks to a comfortable-in-her-own-skin Canucks fan, Ben Eager of the Sharks was the night's big winner, if only for a couple penalty-box seconds....
Your NHL Western Conference Championship Open Thread
The San Jose Sharks and Vancouver Canucks resume their respective quests to reach the Stanley Cup Finals this evening. Awesome, right?...
Your Lightning-Bruins Game Two Open Thread
In Game One Saturday night, Tampa Bay blitzed the Bruins, scoring three goals in a span of 90 seconds in the first period, winning 5-2....
A Eulogy For The Boogeyman, Hockey's Quintessential Goon
He had no hockey skills to speak of. He couldn't skate, pass, or shoot, and he couldn't check. Derek Boogaard could do one thing: fight. He died Friday of unknown causes, at age 28. If fighting killed him, as some fear, it was also the only thing that gave him a career. READ » • Elsewhere: The New Y...
Derek Boogaard, The Quintessential Goon
This is Derek Boogaard, younger, still the same player....