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June 2009
- 350K Fete Victorious Penguins
  
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Jun 15, 09 2:18 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Pittsburgh celebrated its Stanley Cup-winning Penguins today with a parade that may have drawn upward of 350,000, the Post-Gazette reports. Revelers began arriving at the parade route in center-city at 4:30am, and by 10:15 there were already 185,000 happy fans. At a downtown Starbucks with lines out the door, an employee said they had run out of pastries: “That usually doesn’t happen.” More »
- Penguins Pinch Wings 2-1 for Stanley Cup
  
  Associated Press | Jun 12, 09 10:06 PM CDT
  
  (AP) - Slide over Super Mario and make room on the Stanley Cup for a new batch of Pittsburgh Penguins. Max Talbot scored two second-period goals, and the Penguins overcame the loss of captain Sidney Crosby and a whole lot of history to beat the defending champion Detroit Red Wings 2-1 tonight in Game 7 and win the Stanley Cup for the third time. More »
- Lord Stanley's Top Game 7s
  
  ESPN | Jun 12, 09 5:49 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - With the Detroit Red Wings and Pittsburgh Penguins to decide the Stanley Cup finals tonight, David Schoenfield takes a look at the best Game 7s in NHL championship history for ESPN. Some highlights: 1950: Red Wings 4, Rangers 3 (2 OT). Pete Babando’s goal 8½ minutes into the second overtime capped a series that saw the last four games decided by one goal, three of them OT. 1994: Rangers 3, Canucks 2. New York hangs on in front of a delirious crowd to end the franchise’s 54-year Cup drought. More »
- Hockey Holiness: Penguins Force Game 7
  
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Jun 9, 09 9:56 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - It may not have the audience or star power of the other big-sport championships, but the Red Wings and Penguins are plugging away in a great Stanley Cup finals. Pittsburgh eked out a 2-1 win tonight to tie the series at 3 and set up those two words so beloved by hockey fans: Game Seven. Detroit will host it on Friday night for all the marbles. More »
May 2009
- Stanley Cup Could Use Spell Check
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 21, 09 7:50 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - As hulking as NHL players may seem on ice, they can be even more daunting to etch in silver, reports the Wall Street Journal in a look at the quirky typos that decorate hockey's storied Stanley Cup. An influx of Eastern European and Scandinavian players has the league's official silversmith quaking, hoping not to become an unfortunate part of hockey lore while engraving names such as Ruslan Fedotenko, Dustin Byfuglien, or Niklas Hjalmarsson. More »
- Masks: a Goalie's Power Play
  
  Washington Post | May 9, 09 4:38 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Unlike their cookie-cutter colleagues in other sports, NHL goalies wear their hearts on their faces, the Washington Post reports in a retrospective celebrating the 50th birthday of a netminder's best friend—the goalie mask. Players take great pride in personalizing them, sometimes spending $1,000 on images of prizefighters, dead relatives, or even Hershey Bars. More »
- It's Magic vs. Bird—On Ice
  
  Wall Street Journal | May 8, 09 10:41 AM CDT
  
  (Newser) - The Capitals-Penguins playoff series, with its two budding superstars, is what the beleaguered NHL has been waiting for, writes Reed Albergotti in the Wall Street Journal . In contrast to the disciplined play of Sidney "Wayne Gretzky" Crosby, Russian phenom Alex Ovechkin is both a firebrand and a goofball. But the matchup, which is only being shown on the Versus cable network, may slip by relatively unseen. More »
April 2009
- Fenway Will Be NHL's Next Outdoor Venue
  
  Boston Globe | Apr 9, 09 2:49 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - Boston’s Fenway Park will host next season’s outdoor NHL game, the Globe reports today, with the Bruins facing either the Philadelphia Flyers or Washington Capitals on New Year’s Day in baseball's oldest stadium. The so-called Winter Classic most recently attracted 40,000 to Chicago’s Wrigley Field to see the Blackhawks host the Detroit Red Wings on Jan. 1. More »
March 2009
- Brodeur Has Most Wins in NHL History
  
  Associated Press | Mar 17, 09 9:49 PM CDT
  
  (AP) - Martin Brodeur posted his 552nd win tonight and passed childhood idol Patrick Roy for the most career victories by a goalie in NHL history. He made 30 saves in the New Jersey Devils' 3-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks. The victory came in Brodeur's 987th game of a 15-year career played entirely with the Devils. "If this continues being fun, I'll stick around for a long time," said Brodeur, 36. More »
- NHL Cracks Down on Fighting
  
  Christian Science Monitor | Mar 12, 09 12:36 PM CDT
  
  (Newser) - This has been a banner season for fighting in the NHL, and the league doesn’t like that one bit. It’s trying to crack down on “staged fights,” in which two players agree to duke it out as soon as play starts, the Christian Science Monitor reports. A proposed new rule would tack 10 minutes onto the traditional “five for fighting” if the fight looks arranged. More »
February 2009
- Palin Has NHL Goalie Singing the Blues
  
  Deadspin | Feb 7, 09 5:48 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Not only did Sarah Palin cost John McCain the presidency, some say, she robbed Manny Legace his job. The St. Louis Blues put the goalie on waivers after a string of injuries that started last October, when Legace slipped on a red carpet rolled out on the ice for Palin, Deadspin reports. “This is unbelievable,” Legace said. More »
January 2009
- San Jose Is 'LePumped' About Lemieux
  
  San Jose Mercury News | Jan 21, 09 2:46 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Four-time Stanley Cup winner Claude Lemieux took to the ice for the San Jose Sharks yesterday after nearly 6 years in retirement, and Mark Purdy of the Mercury News is cautiously optimistic. The 43-year-old, who's been a pro for longer than several of his new teammates have been alive, "was solid. That's one of the finest compliments you can pay a professional athlete," Purdy writes. More »
- Hockey Thug Suspended for ... Biting?
  
  Associated Press | Jan 7, 09 9:42 PM CST
  
  (AP) - Turns out the NHL has a bigger bite than Ottawa's Jarkko Ruutu. The league suspended Ruutu two games without pay for biting the gloved hand of Buffalo's Andrew Peters in a game Tuesday. "It's weird to even think that that goes on in hockey," said Peters, known more for his fists than his skill. "Even in my role, I would never think of doing something like that." More »
- Real-World Financial Woes Worry Sports Owners
  
  Wall Street Journal | Jan 2, 09 1:09 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - As investment portfolios dwindle and businesses suffer, more professional sports teams' owners are falling on hard times. League bosses worry that potential buyers, already an endangered breed, won't go for newly available teams because their primary businesses are foundering. Even the Cubs, one of MLB's few profitable franchises, can't find an owner, reports the Wall Street Journal . More »
- Hockey at Wrigley? Wings Beat Blackhawks
  
  Chicago Tribune | Jan 1, 09 4:32 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Two of the NHL's oldest franchises got together for some old-school outdoors hockey today, with the Detroit Red Wings beating the Chicago Blackhawks 6-4, the Chicago Tribune reports. The league's second annual Winter Classic, staged in a converted Wrigley Field, threw the players plenty of curveballs, from chilly temperatures to last-minute ice repair. “Holy Cow. It’s Cold,” one sign read, a nod to Cubs announcer Harry Caray. More »
December 2008
- Hockey Finds Itself in a Whole New Brawl Game
  
  New York Times | Dec 25, 08 8:37 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Fighting has been as much a part of hockey as skating for generations, but the rough stuff has been on the rise in the NHL since the 2004-05 lockout. By one account, fights are up by 15% from last season. With the enforcer's role becoming more vital, the New York Times looks at the reasons behind the pugnacious trend. More »
- Believe It or Not, There's an Art to This
  
  Boston Globe | Dec 17, 08 2:08 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Fisticuffs may be frowned upon in most pro sports, the Boston Globe reports, but the NHL has a definite, if brutal, code to fighting on the ice that goes back to hockey’s rural Canadian origins. Most fights are mutually agreed upon between players, and brawlers know who not to go after. “It’s the show of respect for each other,” one coach said. More »
- Stars Dump Avery, But Can't Touch $15.5M Contract
  
  Dallas Morning News | Dec 15, 08 11:53 AM CST
  
  (Newser) - Sean Avery won’t return to the Dallas Stars after his suspension, the Morning News reports. The team said it can’t continue with the volatile player, who had barely begun a 4-year contract that guarantees him $15.5 million. “It was a bad marriage and it was time to separate,” the Stars coach said. The team said the split was friendly, and would help Avery find another team if he wishes to continue playing. More »
- Jagr Happy, Rich in Siberia
  
  The Atlantic | Dec 7, 08 6:38 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - Jaromir Jagr is far from New York, playing hockey in Siberia, yet he tells the Atlantic he’s happy in the outpost of Omsk. Indeed, his $11 million salary helps cushion the blow of not being re-signed by the Rangers. And "in Russia, you have the real freedom, which is not like US freedom,” he says. “Back there you have so many rules.” More »
- Avery's Crude Comment Nets 6-Game Suspension
  
  New York Post | Dec 5, 08 1:24 PM CST
  
  (Newser) - The NHL is taking Sean Avery out of commission for six games without pay following his lewd comments in Calgary this week, the New York Post reports. The ruling is retroactive and covers two games the Dallas Stars forward has already missed, but is also means he won’t play in a three-game homestand. Avery has also been ordered, and agreed to, seek anger management therapy. More »