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North Korea And South Korea Agree To Form Joint Olympic Hockey Team
North Korea and South Korea have agreed to form a joint Olympic women’s hockey team and march together during the opening ceremonies next month in Pyeongchang, according to the Associated Press. ...
The Hurricanes' New Owner Got Rich Off Subprime Loans<em></em>
Last Thursday, the Hurricanes officially announced that owner Peter Karmanos had sold a majority stake in the franchise to Thomas Dundon. Dundon bought 61 percent of the team, paid a reported $420 million, and has the option to buy the rest of the franchise in three years. He’s boys with Tony Romo a...
The Islanders Got Hilariously Outshot And Still Won
The Montreal Canadiens got 56 shots on goal against goalie Thomas Greiss and the New York Islanders. On the defensive end, they only gave up 24 shots. Somehow, they still couldn’t win, as a John Tavares overtime goal and a truly dreadful performance from Carey Price handed Montreal a 5-4 loss in rid...
Tyler Seguin Made Precisely Three Bruins Look Stupid With His Overtime Goal
Down went David Pastrnak, Ryan Spooner, and goalie Anton Khudobin. Stars center Tyler Seguin made three Bruins fall over as he took advantage of a delayed penalty and scored the overtime goal to give Dallas a 3-2 win over Boston today....
Hockey Is For Dancing
Thursday was the all-star game for Russia’s Women’s Hockey League, held in Astana, Kazakhstan. In a move that the NHL should absolutely steal, the second intermission was given over to a dance-off. First, the East team, with an on-ice routine set to a Kazakh hit:...
United States Army Files Trademark Claim Against Vegas Golden Knights
The United States Army has been threatening to file a trademark claim over the Vegas Golden Knights’ branding, and yesterday they finally did so, submitting a formal Notice of Opposition with the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board on the last possible day. The notice, which you can read in full b...
Auston Matthews Can Stickhandle His Way Out Of Any Peril
Auston Matthews announced his NHL arrival last season by taking on the entire Senators line single-handedly and winning, thanks to his unreal stickhandling, and he gave us a near-reprise tonight against the very same team. Matthews started with his back to the net in the offensive zone, then maneuve...
Happy Ben Hutton Transforms Into The Hulk For Twelve Seconds
Noted dancer and permanent smiler Ben Hutton is known for being one of the chillest dudes in the NHL, but tonight, the Canucks defenseman got very, very angry....
Dan Girardi Leaves Game After Taking A Slap Shot To The Head
Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Dan Girardi suffered a brutal injury in the second period of the team’s 5-2 win against the Red Wings Sunday night. As Detroit’s Martin Frk fired a one-timer from the faceoff circle, Girardi went down on one knee to try and block it from close range. Frk’s shot hit G...
Canada Wins World Juniors; Swedish Captain Hurls Silver Medal Away
Canada claimed the world junior hockey championship tonight with a 3-1 win over Sweden, and a distraught Swedish captain Lias Andersson wanted nothing to do with his silver medal—first attempting to not even have it placed around his neck, before immediately chucking it over the glass where a happy ...
Nazem Kadri And Joe Thornton Get Mad, Get Thrown Out Of Faceoff Circle, Fight
The Leafs’ Nazem Kadri and Sharks’ Joe Thornton got chippy with each other about as fast as possible tonight—sniping at each other in the faceoff circle to the point of getting kicked out of the circle before dropping gloves to start fighting, all of two seconds into the game. ...
Erik Karlsson Wasn't Ready For Andreas Athanasiou
It took just six seconds for young Red Wing upstart Andreas Athanasiou to get the winning goal in overtime against the Senators Wednesday night. And for that, he can thank the best defenseman in hockey....
I Don't Really Know What To Make Of The U.S. Olympic Men's Hockey Team
During Monday’s Winter Classic, USA Hockey revealed the rosters for next month’s Olympics. And because of the NHL’s refusal to release its players (though the IOC is more deserving of the blame), the men’s team is weird as hell:...
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Slovakia Beats USA 3-2 In Huge World Juniors Upset
A stunning coast-to-coast individual goal from Samuel Bucek gave Slovakia a massive 3-2 win over the United States in the preliminary round of the World Junior Championships tonight. With just 2:08 remaining in the game, it served as the perfect rebuttal to a Casey Mittelstadt equalizer a minute pri...
Nikita Kucherov And Steven Stamkos Have Beautiful Chemistry<em></em>
Tampa Bay Lightning scorers Nikita Kucherov and Steven Stamkos have only been teammates since 2013, but at the end of the second period tonight against Montreal, the pair showed off the communication skills of a longtime married couple. As the Lightning pushed the puck down deep in the Canadiens’ zo...
Alex Ovechkin's Bullet One-Timers Will Never Get Old
The Washington Capitals entered the second period tonight against the Bruins down 2-0, and after a couple of scoreless games prior, they were staring down the longest goal drought in team history. But Lars Eller ended the struggle at 12:31, and less than two minutes later, Alex Ovechkin took a power...
Arena Worker Assailed By Czech Pucks
On one hand, you have to admire the Czech Republic World Junior team for their fierce commitment to getting in their practice reps. On the other, I’m terrified of their blatant disregard for human life, as seen when a Buffalo arena worker was still in the net as the team took the ice, and the young ...
Reports: Failure Will Move Back To Long Island After Things Didn't Work Out In Brooklyn
Five years after the announcement of a 25-year lease at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, the New York Islanders are already returning home—well, not quite home, but at least back out of New York City and onto the land mass* where they began (Correction: They never left the land mass). Reports say that a ...