Hockey Page 648 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights
A Funny Story About Then-Rookie Eric Lindros Being A Huge Dickhead
Former NHL player and referee Paul Stewart has a new column up on the Huffington Post about his officiating days. It's peppered with excellent anecdotes, none better than one involving Eric Lindros, then a rookie for the Philadelphia Flyers, being a spectacular prick....
The Flyers Almost Had Teal Jerseys
Here is an excellent read for anyone interested in uniform marginalia, design trivia, or just the fashion horror show that was the 1990s. It's the previously untold story of the time the Philadelphia Flyers nearly went teal....
Anze Kopitar And His Dog Enjoy Stanley Cup Breakfasts
Los Angeles Kings center Anze Kopitar celebrated his day with the Stanley Cup yesterday in his home country of Slovenia. Kopitar started his morning right by eating breakfast out of the cup with his dog, Gustl. For hygienic reasons, Gustl ate from his own mini trophy. Still adorable....
Loyalty In Sports Is Stupid
This is about hockey. Not that other thing....
Jonathan Toews And Patrick Kane Are Getting <em>Paid</em>, And They're Worth It
Today the Chicago Blackhawks announced identical eight-year contract extensions for forwards Jonathan Toews and Patrick Kane. They will run through the 2022-23 season, and each will carry an annual cap hit of $10.5 million a year. This is a lot of money, and it's also almost painfully reasonable....
Claude Giroux Reportedly Arrested After Ass-Grabbing A Cop
The Ottawa Sun reports that Flyers star Claude Giroux spent last night in jail after an incident with a police officer:...
Your NHL Free Agency Open Thread
I'm not going to do a full accounting of the first day of free agency (here's a tracker for that), but you deserve at least the bullet points thus far, so as to point and laugh....
Doc Emrick Calls Play-By-Play For NHLers Playing Bubble Hockey Games
On the less-unhinged side of the NHL Awards, here we have Doc Emrick lending his play-by-play skills to a bubble hockey game between NHL Stars. One of the matchups included dueling goaltenders: Tampa Bay's Ben Bishop and the Bruins' Tuukka Rask. ...
Cuba Gooding Jr. Is Making Everyone Uncomfortable At The NHL Awards
Cuba Gooding, Jr. was a presenter at the NHL Awards tonight and he might have been overserved. Either that or he's the weirdest dude on the planet. I don't know how else to explain the slapping and talking about ass-grabbing and making a reverse Oreo with Mark Messier and Adam Graves. ...
Celebrating Kings Fans Took Down A Drone
On Friday, after winning the Stanley Cup, Kings fans celebrated outside the Staples Center under the watchful eye of a quadcopter-mounted camera. In the most L.A. move ever, they brought it out of the sky with a commemorative T-shirt, whacked it with a skateboard on its way down, and chanted "We Got...
L.A. Mayor At Kings Stanley Cup Rally: "This Is A Big Fuckin' Day"
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti either committed political suicide, or just became Mayor For Life. Addressing a rally for the Stanley Cup winners inside the Staples Center, Garcetti noted two rules of politics and then immediately broke both, to raucous applause. ...
Meanwhile, In Los Angeles
[via Sean Leahy]...
Alec Martinez Was Mic'd Up For His Double-OT Stanley Cup Winner
Los Angeles Kings defenseman Alec Martinez deposited a meaty rebound in the back of the net at 14:43 in double-overtime, giving the Kings a 3-2 win and the Stanley Cup. The NHL had Martinez mic'd up for the moment and even though it's exactly what you'd expect it to be—a whole bunch of whooping and ...
Woman Walking On Staples Center Ice Eats It On Live TV
It happens every year: in the wake of a Stanley Cup victory, some friend or family member strolls across the ice like it's concrete, and eats it. Here's a woman walking behind KNBC's Mario Solis during a live shot, who does exactly that....
CBC Loses Signal In Middle Of Stanley Cup Celebration
CBC lost Canada's rights to the NHL this year, so when the Kings scored in double overtime to win the Stanley Cup, that moment marked the end of an era. It also marked the end of CBC's transmission, which disappeared amidst L.A.'s celebration....
Kings Take Stanley Cup With Comeback Double-Overtime Game 5 Win
The Kings hoisted the Stanley Cup tonight for the second time in three years after Alec Martinez's goal at 14:43 of the second overtime gave Los Angeles a series win in five games....
Lego Kings And Rangers, Getting Wrecked In A Blender
This video, from the "Will it Blend?" folks, purports to predict a winner of Kings-Rangers by seeing whose Lego knockoff Lego players survive. On a more primal level, enjoy it as super-high-speed camera footage of little Lego men (and a little Lego zamboni!) getting destroyed in a blender. [via Puck...