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Habs Monday Noon Number: No. 9
When Montreal Canadiens fans, and for that matter many hockey fans, think of the number nine, one name comes to mind..Maurice "Rocket" Richard. Only eight players in Canadiens history wore No. 9, prior to Richard. Charlie Sands was the last to wear it before The Rocket, and still had it while...
Boston Bruins Are Your 2010-2011 Stanley Cup Champions
After going down in the series 3-2 Friday on the strength of a Roberto Luongo shutout, the Boston Bruins rallied to win the final two games of the Stanley Cup final with the Bs being the only team to take a road game in the series in last night's game seven. Boston erases their "choker" label...
Toronto Maple Leafs' Mount Puckmore
Editor's Note: Thanks to Sean Leahy for asking us to contribute to Puck Daddy's Mount Puckmore series and thanks to everyone that helped discuss the choices. Here's what we went with, let us know what we got wrong but remember, Wendel blessed these choices. Save the 1967 jokes: unless your...
Ducks Gameday -- Remembering Jiggy, Part 1
Detroit Red Wings (27-19-10, t-7th in west) at Anaheim Ducks (26-23-7, 11th in west), 7 pmAnaheim Calling, Winging It In Motown, Abel To Yzerman, The Triple Deke -- have fun out there, kiddos. (Author's note: this originally was going to be a rather lengthy farewell post to J.S. Giguere, but seeing...
Blaming History Part 2 - Stafford and Pal Hal
(Note: I've hemmed and hawed over this one for a few days. I can't really bring myself to defend Harold Ballard, and yet I think everyone deserves a fair treatment - even Harold. In the end, I'm not so much trying to defend him as give a little more background into just where Harold came from. ...
Blaming History Part 1 - Conn Smythe
Writing good history is a tricky process. The author has both the benefit and the hazard of hindsight filtered through the distorted window of contemporary eyes looking at a world that might have worked by different rules. It's not an inherently bad thing to want to take a fresh look at a story...
Book Excerpt: Leafs AbomiNation Part One
When news of this book first came out the response was...ummm...visceral to say the least and understandably so. I received a copy to review (out next week) but over the weekend I'll provide you the excerpt of the first chapter. Read it at your own risk. Full disclosure: The hour and a half I spoke...
Brian Leetch getting the Hall call today?
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