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Hockey Player Misses A Check, Sails Directly Through Sheet Of Plexiglas
Minor league hockey player Patrick Bordeleau of the Lake Erie Monsters missed a hit and slammed straight through the Plexiglas on Friday night. Bordeleau went through the entire pane, raining down shattered glass and hellfire all over the scorer's bench....

Little Girl Getting Help With National Anthem Will Warm Even Your Miserable Heart
The microphone cut out right in the middle of 8-year-old Elizabeth Hughes's national anthem before an AHL game in Norfolk. The crowd took it from there. [via Puck Daddy]...

Hockey Season? Must Be Time For Absurd Shootout Goals
This one belongs to the AHL's Kaspars Daugavins, controlling the puck with the nose of his blade, before transitioning into an unblockable spin-o-rama. Okay, we're officially ready for Thursday. [via Puck Daddy]...

AHL Coach Hulks Out On Referee
This is the Abbotsford Heat's Jim Playfair, concerned with a lack of fair play. The casualties: two sticks, and perhaps a pair of jacket buttons....

Britney Spears And Minor League Hockey; A Match Made In Heaven
We really don't know how to say this so we're just going to say it: The Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League is offering any woman who shaves her head a free ticket to their game on Saturday against the Manitoba Moose. (Terrorists throw down their weapons in disgust, give up)....