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Celebrate 20 Years Of Steve Levy And Barry Melrose
Hop in the DeLorean and head back to an age when ESPN spent time on hockey and Barry Melrose was more hockey analyst and less Don Cherry Lite. What you'll find is a short video of Steve Levy and Melrose talking the Stanley Cup Final from 1994 to 2013 put together by ESPN as we get ready for 2014. Go...
Drew Doughty, Freaking Out And Falling Over The Boards Forever
Here's Drew Doughty—your presumptive Conn Smythe winner should the Kings take the Cup—at the moment of the series-winning goal. A couple of bangs on the glass toward the Blackhawks, and a wonderful pratfall over the boards....
The Kings Will Beat You At Their Game, Or Yours
A game can be a classic without being particularly good hockey. We haven't had a conference final Game 7 go to OT in 20 years, so Kings-Blackhawks qualifies as an all-timer just on sheer novelty, but it was ugly at times. Bad goaltending, lax backchecking, freak bounces on questionable ice, and goal...
Los Angeles Kings Beat Blackhawks In Overtime, Advance To Stanley Cup
The Kings beat the Blackhawks 5-4 in overtime of Game 7 and advance to the Stanley Cup Final. It was another wonky goal in a game full of wonky goals....
The End Of The First Period Of Kings-Hawks Was A Goal Smorgasbord
I've re-written this sentence four times since I originally started this post, and I can't even remember what it was originally going to be about. Anyway, The end of the first period of Game 7 between the Kings and Blackhawks was bananas. With goals from Toews and Saad, Chicago jumped out to an earl...
Former Nets, Devils Owner Dies In Plane Crash
Lewis Katz, the former owner of the New Jersey Nets and New Jersey Devils, was one of seven people aboard a private plane that crashed at Hanscom Field just outside Boston Saturday night. There were no survivors. ...
Sad Canadiens Mascot In Rangers Jersey Is The Saddest Mascot
Oh my God, Youppi! What have they done to Youppi!? You would think it's impossible to look so wretched while covered in electric-orange spaghetti fur—and have a name that includes an exclamation point and is literally French for "yippee!"—but then you've never been Youppi! in a Rangers jersey all al...
How Henrik Lundqvist Lugged The Rangers To The Finals
It wasn't so long ago that the Rangers were staring down death, rather than refusing to touch a trophy. Through three-quarters of the postseason, even after getting by the Canadiens with relative ease, they've had to play four elimination games: one against the Flyers, and three in a row against Pit...
Welcome To The Henrik Lundqvist Show
It's tough to recognize goalie greatness just by watching. That sounds dumb, but the nature of the job is that the best of the best announce themselves only over the long-term. Spectacular saves can be made by bad goalies on any given night, and the corollary, a lack of soft goals, by definition ind...
Henrik Lundqvist Comes Up With An Unreal Save To Prevent A Habs Goal
The Rangers are leading 1-0 in a potential final game of the series against the Canadiens, and goalie Henrik Lundqvist deserves thanks for his part with a tumbling save in the second period to keep Montreal scoreless....
We're Still Catching Our Breath After That Overtime
"I've been involved in a lot of games," said Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville, "and that might have been the greatest overtime I've ever seen." Easy enough for him to say; his team won....
Canadiens Fans Throw Hats Onto Rene Bourque's Parents' Lawn
Rene Bourque's hat trick capped a wild Montreal win last night, and hats rained down on the Bell Centre ice. Around the same time, in Bourque's hometown of Lac La Biche, Alberta, some far-flung Habs fans gave Bourque's parents' lawn the same treatment....
Awful-Sounding Kings Fan Files Police Report Against Corey Crawford
According to TMZ, a 27-year-old Los Angeles man filed a battery report against Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford, alleging that Crawford squirted him with a water bottle while being pulled late in Monday's Game 4....
Mic'd Up Patrice Bergeron Is A Must For Hockey Fans
Every hockey player should wear a microphone at all times. These wonderful exchanges—between P.K. Subban and Patrice Bergeron, and between Bergeron and referee Dan O'Halloran—show how your penalty (or no-call) sausage is made....
Barry Trotz Is Just The Right Coach For Alex Ovechkin
Fair or not, every Capitals coach over the last several years has ultimately been judged by what he has been able to get out of Alex Ovechkin. Next up: Barry Trotz....
Slash Played The National Anthem Before Blackhawks-Kings Game 3
What better way to honor our fallen troops this Memorial Day weekend than to have Slash shred a rendition of The Star-Spangled-Banner?...
Everything is happening: Brandon Prust will have his over-the-phone DOPS hearing today, Derek Stepan is out indefinitely after undergoing surgery for a broken jaw, and now Daniel Carcillo has received a 10-game suspension for physically abusing an official. No matter Prust's suspension, I'd say the ...
Boston Hockey Twitter: Not As Racist As Made Out To Be
After Montreal's P.K. Subban scored to beat Boston in game one of their series, there were two inescapable talking points: That the word "nigger" was trending in Boston (this was quickly debunked) and there had been 17,000 tweets containing the slur and Subban's name. Would it change your impression...
The Habs' Luck Is Real, And It's Spectacular
The Canadiens' 3-2 overtime victory in New York puts them right back in this series, a close-fought game that devolved into an absolutely wild final five minutes or so. Three goals in short succession sent it to OT then decided it—punch, counterpunch, sucker punch—and all three were deflections that...