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The first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs is almost complete, with only a handful of series lingering (go Flames!). At this point, the sports writers and commentators whip out what I call “the historical ass chomper” statistic - inevitably history should come back to bite a given team in the ass.
Take, for example, [...]

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Jim Balsillie won’t be the owner of an NHL team any time soon, according to the CBC. Apparently the Predators’ current owner, Craig Leipold, freaked out when he learned that Balsillie had the lease at Copps secured and everything was in place to move the team to Hamilton. So instead of accepting Balsillie’s [...]

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To provide an update to my last post, it appears that Jim Balsillie may move the Nashville Predators to ‘The Hammer’. Apparently, Balsillie has a lease agreement with Copps Coliseum in Hamilton. I’d prefer the team to be here in Kitchener, but I’m ok with Hamilton; it’s only 60 kilometres away.

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Jim Balsillie wasn’t able to purchase the Pittsburgh Penguins, so he bought the Nashville Predators instead. There’s a good chance that after next year, he’ll relocate the team out of Nashville, to…….who knows? The rumour is that those of us here in K-W will be getting an NHL franchise. It may be [...]

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Forbes recently awarded Calgary the distinction of cleanest city in the world. Calgary is surely enjoying quite the economical boom as of late. Yet, the city does have something that needs to be taken care of. The Flames need something. What that something is, I don’t know. Detroit was allowed [...]

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CBC’s reporting that Jim Balsilie has withdrawn his offer to buy the Pittsburgh Penguins. I guess we’re not getting a team here now
It appears that the reason that Balsillie walked away from the purchase of the Penguins is because of über-sucky-commissioner Gary Bettman’s crazy mandates:

Reports suggest part of the reason Balsillie walked [...]

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Last night, Dena and I went to Buffalo to watch the Sabres take on the Penguins, which was televised on TSN. The Sabres, currently being the best team in the NHL, didn’t have much trouble last night. When Sid Crosby, Evgeni Malkin or (to a lesser extent) Jordan Staal weren’t on the ice, [...]

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The NHL announced that it has partnered with Google to offer hockey games on Google Video. The NHL is the first professional sports league to offer its games online for no charge. There aren’t any live broadcasts and there seems to be a 3-5 day delay from when the games take place to [...]

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Jim Balsillie, chairman of RIM, has purchased the Pittsburgh Penguins. The burning question on a lot of people’s minds is whether the Penguins will move, and if so, where? It’s been speculated that Hamilton was considered. Wouldn’t it be something, though, if they moved the team to Kitchener or Waterloo so as [...]

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Yesterday, Dena and I went to our first regular season NHL game. Last year, we saw a Bulldogs / Amerks game at Copps Coliseum, but that’s the AHL and not the biggest of the big leagues - but pretty close. I’ve also seen a couple of “Baby Leafs” Blue ‘n’ White games…again AHL. [...]

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