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Czech Fans Chant "Monkey, Monkey" At Wayne Simmonds
Flyers winger Wayne Simmonds recently signed with a team in the Czech Republic to try and ride out the lockout. It is exciting for Czech fans to see real life NHLers, but also scary for some of them to see a black person. So a sizable portion of the crowd in Chomutov did not take it well when Simm...
Who Needs The NHL? Your Weekly English-Language KHL Update
With a growing number of European NHLers threatening to stay in foreign leagues after the lockout, maybe it's time the fans did too. After all, the Kontinental Hockey League—the consensus second-best league in the world—has made it easier than ever for North American fans to follow the action. They'...
The Islanders Are Leaving Their Crappy Arena For A Crappy Hockey Arena
Yesterday the New York Islanders announced they'd be leaving their soulless, ancient, crumbling box in Uniondale in favor of Brooklyn's new (if rusty) Barclays Center when their lease expires in 2015. Judging by the Nassau Coliseum's Yelp reviews, no one is really going to miss it:...
Canada's Best Hockey Broadcaster Is Building A Lake Cabin With His Bare Hands, Just Waiting For A Call
There's no hockey, as you may have heard. This means NBC's Doc Emrick, one of our favorites, is calling figure skating for the peacock network. But what about Jim Hughson of the CBC? Hughson—whose best Roberto-Luongo-specific calls you can hear above—is another one of our favorites. Unlike Emrick,...
It's Surprisingly Miserable Being An Enormous 12-Year-Old Hockey Player
At first glance, you'd think it's good to be a big boy. Ethan Lavallee is just 12 years old, and he already runs 6-foot-5½, 192 lbs. This should be an advantage in peewee hockey, and beyond—if Outliers' theory on young players' physical development carrying over through the rest of their lives is ac...
Columbus Blue Jackets Fans Gathered At a Bar For An Xbox Simulation Last Night, And The Blue Jackets' Radio Announcers Showed Up To Call It
Life sucks when your favorite sport is locked out. If Gary Bettman was putting on hockey games instead of spit-shining what's left of his public image, the Columbus Blue Jackets would have played the Vancouver Canucks last night. Instead, solitude and desolation for hockey fans in Ohio....
Rick Reilly Got Fooled By A Satirical Blog Post (Again)
Remember when Rick Reilly wrote a column that included a line about LeBron James punching Juwan Howard’s cane, and it turned out that he got that anecdote from a satirical post on The Basketball Jones? Boy, that was a silly mistake, and one that you wouldn’t expect Rick Reilly to make again.[jump]...
A Delightfully Catty Press Release, As The NHL Lockout Sets Canadian Networks Sparring Over Who Owns The Words "In Canada"
Without the NHL, Canada's broadcasters are scrambling. The CBC, which airs Hockey Night in Canada on Saturday evenings, has a massive programming block to fill. As the lockout drags on, their solution is apparently: old hockey. The CBC is having fans vote on classic games, with those games to air in...
Justin Bieber Fan Defaces Rick Rypien Memorial In Vancouver, Faces Wrath Of Hockey Fans
The American Civil War was fought over slavery and states' rights. The Canadian Civil War will naturally be fought between supporters' of the country's two pastimes: hockey and Justin Bieber....
Hockey, Everybody!
We noted yesterday there is indeed professional hockey being played, and much of it can actually be watched on television! ESPN2 aired the much-anticipated Lev-Dynamo game, one claimed by Moscow after Alexander Ovechkin seized a mishandled puck and tucked it in for the game's only goal....
Don't Despair, NHL Fans: You Can Watch Imitation Pro Hockey On ESPN! Here's How.
There's still no NHL hockey. It won't be coming back for a while. (But you knew that already.) So what is a despairing puckhead to do? You could always watch college hockey, which starts its national TV schedule this weekend. But you're probably not going to find the skill you're looking for there. ...
"Team Obama Loses Early Wicket": The Romney-Obama Debate Was Like Every Sport Conceivable, According To Internet
The debate Wednesday could be compared to many things—a slow dance in which the partners are holding potato peelers to each other's throats, perhaps, or a restaurant in which you, the diner, get to watch a prep cook slow-spit on your burger before it's served—but of course everyone immediately turne...
Dear Women: Someone Wrote A Terrible NHL Lockout Column About You
Everyone: try not to kill your own grandfather, because we have apparently been transported back to the 1950s, where women are barefoot and pregnant and the biggest casualty of the NHL lockout is wifey, at her station in the kitchen, struggling to keep "hubby" happy....
Is A Quota The Answer For Reining In Hockey Fights?
Fighting! Few serious fans of hockey think it doesn't have a place in the sport. But then, no serious fans think this bullshit belongs either. How, then, to separate the meaningful fighting for legitimate purposes—enforcement, deterrence, stimulation—from fighting for fighting's sake? The OHL has an...
Evgeni Malkin Sign With KHL Team Metallurg, Metallurg Best
Since American NHL leader troll Gary Bettman make with hockey lockout (remind you of Putin, da? Except fearless leader Putin like hockey, ho ho ho!), Evgeni Malkin sign with Metallurg. Metallurg play in Magnitorogorsk, hearty industrial city in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. Malkin from Magnitorogorsk,...
The NHL Is Officially Locking Out Its Players After Sides Failed To Meet Today
It may have seemed like a forgone conclusion (NHL deputy comissioner Bill Daly said today, "I think it's fair to say there was no realistic expectation to avoid a lockout as of developments on Wednesday and Thursday") but the owner's self-imposed deadline was midnight tonight. Nothing happened or wi...
Climbing The Glass And Blowing A Kiss Is Our New Favorite Hockey Goal Celebration
That's Iiro Vehmanen of TuTo during a Finnish Metsis League game earlier this week. Be sure to listen to the audio, too. Twice, the announcer throws a "Rocky Balboa" out there in between a bunch of Finnish words. Our thoughts exactly. This has been your Deadspin pre-NHL lockout hockey highlight....
How Gary Bettman Spent The Vancouver Riots
Excerpted from The Instigator: How Gary Bettman Remade the League and Changed the Game Forever, out in Canada now and in the U.S. Oct. 1....
Russian Hockey Player Gets Sliced In The Neck, Loses One Pint Of Blood, Will Only Miss One Game
Damn, hockey players are an insanely tough group of people. Denis Sokolov, a longtime blueliner in the KHL, got sliced in the neck by accident on Monday, thanks to the wayward skate blade of an opposing player. It nicked his carotid artery and he preceded to gush blood all over the ice. However, h...
"People Were Having Sex In The Penalty Box," And Other Shitshow Details From The Report On The BU Ice Hockey Team
The task force report released earlier this week about the Boston University ice hockey team's "culture of sexual entitlement" withheld the finding's explicit details from the public. The Boston Globe has obtained those details, which were based on testimonials from players, students, and others, an...