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Penn State AD Says "409" Stickers Were "Inappropriate and Insensitive"
Friday's announcement that the NCAA would restore Joe Paterno's 409 wins, stripped in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, led to jubilation in State College. That included shows of support from other athletes: Penn State's men's hockey team wore stickers reading "409" on their helmets for that n...
Quebec Hockey Teams Can't Wait Until Game, Brawl During Warmups
The Quebec-based Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey blatantly uses fighting as its main draw, so the only surprising part of Sunday's brawl between the Laval Braves and the Saint-Georges Cool FM 103.5 is that the two teams didn't wait until the game started....
Zdeno Chara Drops Cedric Paquette With One Punch
I went to go look up Cedric Paquette's height and weight, figuring a "Cedric Paquette is tiny. Zdeno Chara is 6'9", 255 pounds. The result when they fought was predictable." lede would be pretty good. Except I learned from Hockey Reference that Cedric Paquette is actually 6'1", 198 pounds: Zdeno C...
Hockey Player Attempts Dramatic Exit, Nearly Decapitates Himself
Mitchell Skiba is a defenseman for the Alpena Flyers of the Midwest Junior Hockey League. He was recently ejected from a game for spearing an opponent, and he decided to mix a little attitude into his exit from the ice. It did not go well for him....
College Hockey Fight Finished With One Punch
Fighting is strictly prohibited in NCAA hockey, with penalties for engaging in fisticuffs that can reach multi-game suspensions. Still, it happens on occasion—as we saw tonight in Grand Forks when North Dakota's Stephane Pattyn dropped Minnesota-Duluth's Derik Johnson with a single punch....
The Goal Keeper
Dig this 1970 painting by Charles Comfort, "The Goal Keeper." ...
Canadian World Champion Hockey Team Celebrates With Bare-Ass Twitpic
Look at that, a nice photo of some Canadian hockey players celebrating their 5-4 victory over Russia in the 2015 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, tweeted out by Canadian Olympic freestyle skier Alexandre Bilodeau. Tweeted out...and then quickly deleted once Bilodeau realized that he had captur...
NHL Game Interrupted By Puking Referee
Tonight's Lightning-Penguins game in Pittsburgh came to a screeching halt in the first period when referee Mike Leggo started puking all over the ice....
Don't Look At Michal Jordan's Mangled Finger
On Wednesday, Hurricanes defenseman Michal Jordan had his finger dislocated on a check from Pittsburgh's Chris Kunitz. Yesterday, he tweeted out a screengrab of it, which is pretty fucking gross, and is after the jump:...
The Weirdness Of The NHL's First Modern Outdoor Game
On September 27, 1991, the Rangers and Kings played a preseason game on a rink built in a Las Vegas parking lot. Despite the novelty of the outdoor game being dulled somewhat by the various Winter Classics and Heritage Classics and Stadium Series, and despite the '91 game occasionally feeling like a...
Please Don't Let This Man Rock Any More Cradles
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The Winter Classic Was Really Great Even If Not Many People Watched
Did you see the Capitals top the Blackhawks in a thrilling game played outdoors at Washington's Nationals Park? Statistically, you probably did not:...
Michael Del Zotto Gets Cut By Skate, Looks Like Frankenstein
Hockey games feature—among other things—sharp blades and exposed necks, and every so often they collide. Last night Flyers defenseman Michael Del Zotto fell over while trying to dig the puck out of the corner. Avalanche forward Daniel Brière tried to step over him, but managed to clip Del Zotto's ...
Patrick Kaleta Isn't Really Sure Why He Punched Himself In The Head
Last night, Sabres pest Patrick Kaleta punched himself in the head. Really! Look:...
The Devils Now Have Three Head Coaches And Four Players With Mumps
What in the damn hell is going on in New Jersey? Yesterday they fired head coach Pete DeBoer, and today they announced that for the foreseeable future the team will be coached by a three-headed Rock Hydra: ...
Tyler Seguin Is NOT Happy With This Referee's Positioning
You know what it's like. You're just trying to set up camp in the corner, maybe get the puck and then fire a pass in front of the goal, and the damn referee keeps getting in your way. My favorite part of this video is when the ref yells "I'm not moving!" Exactly, dude, that's why Tyler Seguin is m...