The Philadelphia Flyers on Monday welcomed a familiar face back to the franchise. The Flyers named Hall of Fame player and former coach Bill Barber as a scouting consultant. Its great to come back home where I belong, said Barber, who won two Stanley Cups with the team in 1974 and 1975.. I spent 30 [...]
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Monday National Hockey League Capsules. ST. LOUIS 5, TORONTO 4 (SO) TORONTO Ryan Hollweg is making his presence felt for the Toronto Maple Leafs, but it is not the kind of impact the team had hoped for. Hollwegs five-minute major early in the second period helped the St. Louis Blues rally from a three-goal deficit [...]
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Blackhawks open home slate searching for win. After dropping their first two games on the road, the Chicago Blackhawks will try and get into the win column on Monday in their home opener against the Nashville Predators. Chicago was defeated, 4-2, in its season opener at the New York Rangers on Friday and lost by [...]
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The Buffalo Sabres needed to add a little more experience on defense over the summer. They certainly needed to inject some more toughness in the backline as well. Enter Craig Rivet. It looks like he’s the veteran tough guy they needed. The 34-year-old has seamlessly fit right in to his new team, leading the blueliners [...]
Posted on September 30th, 2008 by admin
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Monday National Hockey League Capsules. TORONTO 4, ST. LOUIS 3 (SO) TORONTO Defenseman Luke Schenn scored the decisive goal in the fourth round of the shootout as the Toronto Maple Leafs skated to a 4-3 preseason victory over the St. Louis Blues. Andy McDonald gave St. Louis the edge in the first round of the [...]
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A year ago, Matt Niskanen was a fresh-faced kid out of the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Who was ticketed for a year in the minor leagues. Today, he’s one of the Stars’ core defensemen, eating up 20 minutes or more in every preseason game. So much for being a rookie. “He’s done a great job of [...]
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Hockey seasons aren’t made or lost in September, but roster spots are. The Blackhawks went to 3-0 in exhibitions with a 4-3 victory over the Dallas Stars on Sunday night. Other than to most in the crowd of 18,425 at the United Center, the result didn’t matter as much as the performances of players fighting [...]
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Though the regular season has yet to begin, the Pittsburgh Penguins already have suffered a hard hit. The Penguins will be without top defenseman Sergei Gonchar for up to six months, according to a published report on Monday. TSN of Canada reported Gonchar will undergo arthroscopic surgery to repair his dislocated left shoulder and will [...]
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Chicago Blackhawks goalie Nikolai Khabibulin has been put on waivers. Khabibulin is entering the final season of a four-year, $27 million contract. He joined the Blackhawks from Tampa Bay as a free agent after leading the Lightning to the 2004 Stanley Cup. The Blackhawks signed free agent goalie Cristobal Huet to a four-year, $22.5 million [...]
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Carolina Hurricanes co-owner Thomas Thewes died after a two year battle with leukemia. He was 76. Thewes, who passed away Sunday, most recently served as vice chairman of the board of directors of the Compuware Corporation, the company he founded in 1973 along with Peter Karmanos Jr. and Allen Cutting. Along with Karmanos and current [...]
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