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Billy Bush Was Kicked Out Of The Rangers Locker Room Tonight
Billy Bush is a thing with a face that is on television. A Current Affair, or something like that. Anyway, he was apparently at the Rangers game this evening—a game the Rangers won 4-3, tying the series at two games apiece—and pissed off a bunch of the local scribes when he brought the circus to the...
Toronto Maple Leafs Lose, WAGs Exchange Death Eyes
This may take a bit of explaining, but stick with us, it is the best. The blonde to the right there is Hockey Queen Elisha Cuthbert. She is currently engaged to Maple Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf. The brunette sitting one row below is married to Maple Leafs goaltender James Reimer. Both men were invol...
Toronto's Mark Fraser Takes Puck To The Face
With about 12 minutes remaining in the third period of Game 4 against the Bruins, Toronto defenseman Mark Fraser was hit directly in the head with a puck....
Kris Letang Cross-Checked A Linesman. That's A Suspension...Right?
Between Eric Gryba getting two games for a borderline hit that resulted in injury, and nobody from this Sens-Habs mess being punished, NHL playoff discipline seems even more "spin the wheel" than usual. But shoving an official would seem pretty clear-cut, no?...
Here Is Kyle Turris's OT Goal That Lifted The Senators Over The Habs
Kyle Turris scored 2:32 into overtime to win the game for the Ottawa Senators, who beat the Montreal Canadiens, 3-2, to take a commanding 3-1 lead NHL Eastern Conference quarterfinals....
There Is At Least One Very Angry Habs Fan In Ottawa Tonight
If this is meant in an existential sense, then yes, Eric Gryba will die someday, as will we all....
Hockey Fan Gives Great Explanation For Canceling Pick-Up Pizza Order
I mean, you can't really blame him, right?...
Habs Coach Michel Therrien Has A Curious Definition Of "Classless"
Ottawa is in the Canadiens' heads. There's no other way to describe it, after a 6-1 Senators victory that included 236 minutes in penalties, and a third period that saw the Habs actively and repeatedly try to hurt their opponents. Oh, but Paul MacLean called a timeout!...
Tonight's Canadiens-Senators Game Featured Two Entire Lines Fighting
Immediately after the Ottawa Senators scored to take a 4-1 lead over the Montreal Canadiens, a scrum broke out...everywhere. Every player on the ice who wasn't a goalie grabbed an opponent and fought, to some degree. As a result, 147 total penalty minutes were issued....
Boston Bruins Honor Marathon Bombing Victim Before Game 2
Last you saw Jeff Bauman, he was mangled, with a complexion reminiscent of Beetlejuice. Pushing Bauman's stretcher was a man in a cowboy hat who had shredded a sweater to make tourniquets for what remained of Bauman's legs....
Lots Of People Don't Want To See Lars Eller's Blood
Montreal center Lars Eller is the hospital this morning, after this devastating hit from Ottawa's Eric Gryba. Eller briefly lost consciousness and the team says he suffered a concussion, and facial and dental fractures. Now some people are mad that an Ottawa paper stuck a bloodied Eller on its fron...
These Hockey Announcers Think The Green Men Are Super Lame And Nerdy
The Green Men have been a fixture at Vancouver Canucks games for quite some time now, and expressing your Very Important Opinion about them became unnecessary two years ago. The Green Men are going to dance and taunt and act silly, and there isn't anything left to be said about them....
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Patrick Kane's Middle Finger Is Ready For The Playoffs [Update: Doppelkaner]
Rest easy, Blackhawks fans. The Stanley Cup playoffs begin tonight, and Patrick Kane looks like for all the world like he's back to behaving like Patrick Kane, which is to say he and his middle finger were spotted at a bar in Lincoln Park the other night....
NBC's NHL Promo Tries To Rewrite Last Season's Playoff Results
The Flyers beat the Penguins in the first round of the playoffs last year, yet it wasn't as simple as that. The teams combined for 56 goals, hundreds of penalty minutes, and multiple suspensions. It was simultaneously the ugliest and most entertaining playoff series in recent member. But the Flyer...
A Hypnotic Look At Every Goal In The NHL Playoffs
Part art, part statistic in motion, this living infographic from Bård Edlund is a soothing chronological tally of every single goal in this year's Stanley Cup Playoffs. Especially keep an eye on the puck diarrhea of that first round Flyers-Penguins series. It's a nice alternative to the real thing...
Pucks, Lies, And Videotape: Where Is The Kings' Stanley-Cup-Winning Puck?
The last puck of the Stanley Cup Finals: an important relic, timeless for the player who gets to keep it as a souvenir of the greatest achievement of his profession life, yet strangely secondary. In the rush to celebrate the final horn, not a single member of the Kings gave a thought to that little ...
The Devils Had A Grand Old Time At The Clubs After Their Game 6 Loss
Here we go again. Time to have that age-old debate over whether it's acceptable for athletes to have fun and go out partying after losing a championship. It seems like we just had this argument four months ago, but the answer remains the same: Yes, it is always acceptable. ...
The Goat, The Goalie, And Another Easy Win For The Best Hockey Team In The World
Drew Doughty spent the last 10 seconds of the 2011-2012 NHL season standing around and doing nothing. As the Devils made a token effort along the boards in the Kings zone, and as the Kings made a similarly token effort to chip the puck out, Doughty stood on the edge of the crease, never leaving his ...
L.A. Kings PR Staff Plans To Withhold Stats From The Devils, Accidentally Tells Every Reporter About It
It's the responsibility of the home team's PR staff to compile statistics after each period, then rush print-outs down to both teams' locker rooms. It's not vital information, but it's nice for a coach to be able to quantify things like ice time and shots taken. During Saturday's game 5 in Newark, D...