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Experience is apparently the difference-maker and is probably a prime factor in the Red Wings‘ Stanley Cup victory. Whenever possible in the series, the old men from Detroit took early leads and then sat back and played safe and boring (but effective) hockey. It clearly frustrated the (normally) high-flying run ‘n’ gun youngsters [...]

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I’d like to forget that the previous round happened, since I went 0-4 in my predictions. Where did I go wrong? Well, the media will probably blame 20 year-old phenom Carey Price, but the Habs‘ high-flying offence that scored with the greatest of ease during the regular season, began to falter in the [...]

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Now that the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs are in the books, let’s see how accurate my predictions were. I correctly chose Montreal, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Colorado, Detroit and San Jose to win their first round matchups. Dallas and the Rangers were surprises, resulting in me going 6-2. Allow me to [...]

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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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It all starts tonight. The first day of the NHL playoffs signals the beginning of one of my favourite times in any given year. Here’s the first round matchups and my predictions are in bold.
East
Montreal vs Boston
Washington vs Philadelphia
Pittsburgh vs Ottawa
New Jersey vs New York Rangers
West
Minnesota vs Colorado
Detroit vs Nashville
San Jose vs Calgary [...]

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Even if you’re not a hockey fan, you’ve probably heard about Florida Panthers forward Richard Zednik. Maybe you’ve even seen the footage; either the complete scene or the less-gruesome clip. Either way, unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that Zednik’s carotid artery was partially severed by teammate Olli Jokinen’s skate [...]

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I haven’t posted much about hockey lately. Dena gives me grief that all I talk about on this blog o’ mine is geek stuff. I try to tell her that I usually mention my daily goings-on with Facebook Status Updates feature for those that have me on their friends list. I get [...]

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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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TSN has been providing video footage of recaps and highlights for the various sports in the “TSN Broadband” area of their website for a while now, and they’re not the only television network doing this. However, one of the greatest displays of technology and the use of the Internet is that TSN is broadcasting [...]

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