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Toronto Writer To Maple Leaf Fans: It's All Your Fault
It's still early in the NHL season, but the Toronto Maple Leafs are solidly in 4th place—right where they've belonged for the past three seasons. If you're not familiar with the rules of ice hockey, that's bad. However, the organization that owns the team—Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment—is doing...
Hockey Mom Begins Conquest To Kill All Goalies
Now sure, the McCain/Palin campaign have had their hardships over the past few weeks with some bad PR issue - who doesn't spend $150,000 on their wardrobe? - but until last night we didn't have indisputable proof that they are completely incapable of leading our country! At the most recent Palin pu...
Blues Announce Sarah Palin Puck Drop; Forfeit Season
Noticing how seamlessly everything went together when the Philadelphia Flyers tried it, the St. Louis Blues thought that they'd get in on some of that sweet Sarah Palin puck-droppin' action theyownselves. The Blues confirmed Wednesday that Palin will drop the first puck at the Scottrade Center on Fr...
Begun, The Blog Wars Have
David Berry never started out to be the Che Guevera of the sports blogosphere. He's actually quite mild-mannered — even for a Canadian — and doesn't even own a beret. But sometimes these things are out of one's control, and Berry these days has found his situation the cause celeb among his basement-...
The Edmonton Oilers Will Not Tolerate Your Live-Blogging Shenanigans
Last Sunday, the proprietor of the Covered in Oil blog was live-blogging the Oilers-Avalanche game. There was just one tiny problem. It was in violation of his press pass, or something. Turns out that the blogger actually has an MSM job, for which his tasks mostly consist of grabbing player quotes ...
Does Haunting Cherepanov Video Reveal Negligence?
Yesterday's story about the tragic death Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov has taken a more disturbing turn now that amateur video (available after the jump, watch if necessary) of the final minutes of his life has been revealed. The official medical report lists his death as chronic ischemia, a co...
Tragic Death of Rangers Prospect May Have Been Accidently Caused by Jaromir Jagr?
The details are starting to come in about the death of New York Rangers hockey prospect, 19-year-old Alexei Cherepanov. The initial reports had him suffering a cardiac arrest while sitting on the bench at a game in Moscow, but the story is getting even more random and tragic. Puck Daddy has been all...
Sarah Palin Booed At Flyers Game, Did Not Take Battery To The Face
The GOP's vice presidential nominee was in the hizzy for the Flyers' opener last night. The chorus of boos that began as soon as she was seen were blasted out by some loud music and (some have said) artificial crowd noise. Palin walked onto the ice before the start of the game to help drop the cerem...
Prop Odds On Sarah Palin's Puck Dropping Skills
I think what I admire most about America — after our vast interstate highway system and the existence of fried elephant ears — is that you can literally bet on anything. The thing I admire most after that, is that a vice-presidential candidate could appear at professional hockey game in Philadelphia...
Former Goalie Just Can't Stop Experiencing Gruesome Injuries
Although Richard Zednik's bloody neck-opening incident last season left many sports fans squeamish for weeks, former Buffalo Sabres goalie Clint Malarchuk's 1989 throat slash still remains the most disturbing and terrifying. (Video here — if you dare. ) And even though it seems statistically impossi...
Sarah Palin's Pucksterism Comes to Flyers Opening Night
Yesterday the Philadelphia Flyers announced that a special guest will drop the ceremonial first puck for their home opener against the New York Rangers Saturday night and it's none other than everyone's favorite moose killer, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Although Palin has no direct ties...
Hockey Night(s) In Europe
The NHL season hasn't even really started yet, but the Tampa Bay Lightning already have two losses. That's the same number of losses my rec league hockey team has and we didn't even have to go to the Czech Republic to earn them. (Heck, we don't even have uniforms.) The New York Rangers are the benef...
The NHL Season Is Here, All of Prague Rejoices
The NHL regular season starts today for a new year of blood and glory, fists and fury. (I'm such a freaking poet.) The league is abandoning its American following and fleeing to Prague to open the season with the Rangers and Lightning. What does it mean? It means unless you have the NHL network, you...
Surprise! It's Hockey Season!
Bet you didn't see that one coming, huh? But it's true, the NHL season begins Saturday in—where else?—Prague! Followed closely by a second regular season game in Stockholm, as part of the league's ongoing "Thanks for all your players" European initiative. But there's so much other goodness in store ...
Study: NHL Players with Bigger Heads Spend More Time in the Penalty Box
Honestly, this is a study. Thanks to the the fine people at Brock University in St. Catherine's, Ontario we know that NHL players with fat heads spend more time in the penalty box. How? Evidently head width runs the gamut from the skinny (1.6) to the unusually wide (2.3). By studying the profile pi...
Red Wings and Blackhawks Head To Wrigley Field for New Year's 2009
Even if you're not a hockey fan this will be pretty cool to watch. Of course I might just think that because I've married into a Detroit family that is rabid for the Red Wings. My mother-in-law still believes that the Nashville Predators have the worst-behaved fans in the NHL because of a game she a...
Sean Avery Will Now Have To J.O. To Dallas Ladies
Well, isn't that fitting. Fashion-friendly hockey menace Sean Avery gets savaged by Gawker due to his "I'm Going Home To Jerk Off To You Now" comment at a Paris fashion show and then signs a 4-year deal with the Dallas Stars. The Stars are excited about his hockey skills more than his masturbatio...
Just Because They're In A Hockey Musical, It Doesn't Mean They Like To Puck Dudes
Say what you will about former Deadspin hockey wonk, Greg Wyshynski, but the man always seems to find some sort of tie-ins between hockey and homosexuality. This week, Puck Daddy delves into the motivation for "Hockey: The Musical!", which is having its big bawdy debut at the Toronto Fringe Festiva...
Congratulations, Kid. You've Been Drafted.
Tomorrow night in Ottawa, dozens of kids too young to legally drink will be drafted by professional hockey franchises willing to devote time, effort, and a boatload of money to turning them into Stanley Cup Champions. The NHL Draft will kick off Friday, and for that, we turn to Melt Your Face-Off, w...