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"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...

Both Pilots Of The Plane In The Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Crash Should Not Have Been Allowed To Fly
Tomorrow is the one-year anniversary of the plane crash that killed 36 members of the Russian hockey club Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, including former NHLers Ruslan Salei, Kārlis Skrastiņš, and Pavol Demitra. Today Russian officials announced that they were charging Vadim Timofeyev, the deputy head of the ...

BU Men's Hockey Team Will Try To Change Its "Culture Of Sexual Entitlement"
The panel in charge of investigating the Boston University men's hockey team's "culture and climate" released its findings today, and it concluded that the student-athletes in the program should be treated as if they were merely students....

Remembering The Night A Ref Punched A Player And A Goalie Choked The Ref
The New Haven Register is in the middle of a series highlighting the 200 greatest moments in New Haven sports history, and if that's a good enough excuse for them to highlight one of the dirtiest hockey games you've probably never heard of, it's good enough for us too....

The Toronto Maple Leafs Are Encouraging Their Own Fans To "Watch Paint Dry Live!"
Ah, those self-deprecating Canadians. If you love watching a Zamboni resurface the ice—and who doesn't?—here's your chance to watch some folks apply paint to the subsurface, live. Apparently this means hockey season might be starting sometime?...

German Field Hockey Team Gets $630,000 Bill After Cruise Ship Party
The German men's field hockey team recently won its second-straight Olympic gold medal with a close win over the Netherlands, and the celebration continued after they left London, primarily on a cruise ship that was apparently the scene of some intense partying and crazy field bro antics. The result...

Here's Henrik Lundqvist And His Doberman Sitting Down To A Meal
Rangers goalie Henrik Lundqvist got suited up today to promote the team's upcoming Rangers Dog Walk. His dinner companion is Nova, a five-year-old Doberman that, according to this New York Times story from last year, pretty much gets her way around the house. There isn't anything about this photo th...

Specially Contoured Jeans Designed To Combat Scourge Of "Hockey Ass"
So, here's a real product you can buy that I never thought warranted existence. The hockey apparel-minded folks at Gongshow announced this one back in January, but it has just released its new Hustle & Flow jeans, an otherwise ordinary-looking pair of pants that serve a very specific purpose. We'll ...

Australian Hockey Team Suits Up In Bra Sweaters
It takes a tough man to play hockey. It takes an even tougher man to go shirtless, with just a bra separating the cold rink from your perky nipples....

This Is Just Another Friendly Reminder That There Will Be An NHL Lockout Because The Owners Are Cheap Bastards
Hey, it's mid-August. That means we're a little more than a month away from NHL training camp. So it's time to get excited again about all your favorite prospects, like that kid from Canadian major junior who was on the bubble last year but will definitely make the team this year, and all your new f...

"Hockeyy Insiderr," Everyone's Favorite Twitter Rumormonger, Is Probably A 17-Year-Old Kid
Perhaps you're familiar with @HockeyyInsiderr. Even with the awkward username, the mysterious Twitter account has racked up 50,000 followers* hungry for NHL rumors. Despite the fact that any sane reader can tell Hockeyy Insiderr has zero inside sources, and zero knowledge that can't be gleaned from ...

The Women's Field Hockey Gold Medal Match Was Even Bloodier Than The Semifinals
We already showed you this brutal connection between hockey stick and face, and it happened again during today's gold medal match between Holland and Argentina. The Netherlands ended up taking gold with a 2-0 win, but injury was added to insult when Argentina's Mariela Scarone let her face get in...