Tickets sell out within half-hour for NHL's first outdoor match in 4 years
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sep 19, 07 6:06 AM CDT
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The NHL has scheduled its first outdoor game since 2003, with Pittsburgh visiting Buffalo in the 73,000-seat Ralph Wilson Stadium on New Years Day, 2008. The current NHL attendance record is 57,167, when Montreal visited Edmonton; this is poised to be shattered, as tickets for Buffalo-Pittsburgh sold out within half an hour.
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Anaheim, Edmonton GMs trade barbs over Penner salary
USA Today Aug 3, 07 5:29 AM CDT
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The Ducks have lost their first marquee player since winning the Stanley Cup in June, and GM Brian Burke is enraged. Embattled Edmonton GM Kevin Lowe offered 24-year-old winger Dustin Penner a deal averaging $4.25 million, a nine-fold salary increase that Burke sees as desperate and fears will spur salary inflation across the league.
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19-year-old signs $43.5 million, five-year extension to stay with Pens
Canada.com Jul 11, 07 4:25 AM CDT
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Pittsburgh locked up young talent Sidney Crosby, hockey's reigning MVP, through 2013, with a contract extension that will pay $8.7 million per year starting in 2008. That figure was carefully chosen; Crosby's team number is 87. The Penguins also recently signed defenseman Ryan Whitney to an extension, shoring up their formidable array of young talent.
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New York seizes big-time
centers from Jersey, Buffalo
Associated Press Jul 2, 07 10:13 AM CDT
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The New York Rangers signed free-agent centers Scott Gomez and Chris Drury yesterday, stealing two powerful offensive weapons from their rivals. Gomez was pinched from the neighboring Devils, and Drury—whose play against the Rangers in last year's postseason contributed to their demise—from the Buffalo Sabres.
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At 19, Crosby adds MVP honors to scoring title
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jun 15, 07 5:45 AM CDT
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Pittsburgh phenom Sidney Crosby was voted hockey's MVP by both writers and players, adding the Hart trophy and the Pearson award to his collection. Only Wayne Gretzky received the Hart at a younger age, edging out the 19-year-old Crosby by two months. Fellow Penguin Evgeni Malkin, at twenty, won top rookie honors.
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California gets its first Stanley Cup as Ducks dominate Game 5, 6-2
Los Angeles Times Jun 7, 07 4:24 AM CDT
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The NHL Finals ended in a blowout, with Anaheim humiliating Ottawa in Game 5 for the franchise's (and state's) first Stanley Cup. Travis Moen had two goals, one of which was actually an own goal; Chris Phillips accidentally deflected the puck into the goal off python-owner and keeper Ray Emery.
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Another hit to the head, another suspension for Ducks enforcer
ESPN Jun 4, 07 4:27 AM CDT
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Chris Pronger will be suspended for Game 4 of the NHL Finals for administering a blow to the head of Ottawa winger Dean McAmmond, who may also miss Game 4 with lingering wooziness. It is the second suspension of the playoffs for Pronger, who left Detroit's Tomas Holmstrom bloody on the ice after smashing his head into a wall.
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Third-period goal gives Ducks 1-0 victory, 2-0 series lead in finals
CBC (Canada) May 31, 07 4:32 AM CDT
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Anaheim outshot Ottawa 31-16 at home in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup finals, but had nothing to show for their advantage until Samuel Pahlsson scored the game's only goal with less than six minutes remaining. The series heads now to Ottawa, where the Senators will try to overcome a 2-0 series deficit.
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Canadian billionaire may move
Predators north of the border
Globe and Mail May 25, 07 4:49 AM CDT
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BlackBerry magnate Jim Balsillie will pay $220 million for the Nashville Predators, one of the NHL's best and lowest-revenue teams, and likely move them out of Tennessee. Possible new homes include Kansas City, which is courting teams for its new arena, and Kitchener-Waterloo and Hamilton in Ontario, threatening the theft of fans of nearby Toronto and Buffalo.
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Detroit demoralized by last-minute equalizer; Anaheim takes 3-2 series lead
Toronto Star (Canada) May 20, 07 10:49 PM CDT
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Playing six on four during a power play and without a goalie, the Ducks tied the Red Wings with 48 seconds remaining, and Teemu Selanne scored on a steal to win Game 5 of the Western Conference Finals in overtime. Detroit had outshot Anaheim 34-18 in regulation and kept the puck out of their zone for most of the game.
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Senators on brink of finals after sheathing Sabres
Canada.com May 15, 07 5:41 AM CDT
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The Ottawa Senators needed only one goal from their vaunted line of Heatley, Alfredsson, and Spezza to extend their playoff winning streak to six, as python-owner and goalie Ray Emery scored his third shutout of the postseason. Ottawa, a fourth seed, hopes to sweep the NHL's highest-scoring team at home on Wednesday.
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Ottawa takes a 3-1 series lead
against the East's top seed
Yahoo! May 2, 07 10:47 PM CDT
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Ironman goalie Martin Brodeur was good, but the Ottawa front line was even better in a 3-2 Game 4 victory that has New Jersey on the verge of crashing out of the playoffs. Winger Dany Heatley played the hero before an electrified home crowd; he assisted on Daniel Alfredsson's goal, then put one between Brodeur's pads himself.
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Yahoo! Apr 9, 07 12:50 PM CDT
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At 19 and in his second season, Pittsburgh's Sidney "Sid the Kid" Crosby has won the league scoring title at 120 points and is taking his team to the playoffs. He's achieved both milestones in far less time than it took Mario "Super Mario" Lemieux, the Penguins' current owner and former heartthrob phenom.
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Devils GM takes his own coach's job for second year in a row
Sports Illustrated Apr 2, 07 7:02 PM CDT
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Despite his team's first-place standing in the NHL's Atlantic Division, New Jersey Devils GM Lou Lamoriello has summarily dismissed coach Claude Julien and will coach the team himself for the remainder of the season, which consists of a week and then the playoffs. This is the second time in as many years the perfectionistic Lamoriello has taken his own coach's job.
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