Chances are you didn’t pick Marc-Andre Fleury in your playoff pool, but he’s been fantastic so far. (Sean Russell) The beauty of the NHL playoffs is that it’s a process. You rarely watch just one game and know a team is definitely out. Teams adjust. Teams get embarrassed. Teams fold. There are a lot of […]
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Frantisek Kaberle, right, avoided injury all season — until now. (Reuter’s pictures) Frantisek Kaberle, who stayed healthy enough to reach 80 games for the first time in his career this season, has finally succumbed to another injury. He’ll undergo right shoulder surgery Wednesday, a procedure that will sideline the veteran defenseman for two-to-four weeks and
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Patrick Marleau had a down year, but he’s been pretty good down the stretch and is a proven playoff performer. (Photo by Jon Swenson) How does one write a playoff primer when spots are still up for grabs and seedings are uncertain? Well, when you have a deadline, you just roll the dice and hope
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While out to lunch at our favourite sushi place, it appears our site was compromised. Well, Fuk Mi indeed! Our sincere apologies are in order to all our readers. It appears that someone hacked into the site and posted four stories (Breaking News: Bourque and Roy Back with Avs; V-Mart Going Under the Knife; Favre
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Another day, another drama in Leaf Land. Perhaps the most controversial act of his tenure in Toronto, Mats Sundin gave an indication of what his hockey future was by removing himself from the roster with just a handful of games left and reportedly requesting management make Tomas Kaberle the captain of the Blue and White.
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Ray Bourque (er…he’s the one in the middle), is returning to the scene of his Stanley Cup glory, but don’t worry, he’s not bringing his two friends with him. The Colorado Avalanche went back to the future to lock-in the final pieces of what they hope will be another Stanley Cup run, re-signing defenseman Ray
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The future has arrived on the Island in the form of Kyle Okposo. The beauty of an NHL system that lets more than half of the teams into the playoffs is that it makes it very exciting to watch those teams struggling to not be left out of the party. And, of course, struggle makes
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