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Teemu Hartikainen's Homage To Esa Tikkanen
Teemu Hartikainen is up to his old tricks in Oklahoma City - through three games, he's taken 9 shots on goal and scored once on the power play. By all accounts he looks quicker as well, the same quickness he demonstrated in Oilers' training camp in September. It might be because of the weight...
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians: The Greatest Game
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians (LOES) is a weekly forum bringing together the top analytical minds in the hockey world to answer a variety of questions that straddle the line between stats analysis and something you might hear floating around section 304. They have agreed to answer...
A Tale of Two Mountains
If you're an avid Puck Daddy reader (and who isn't?), you've no doubt been enjoying their late-summer "Mt. Puckmore" series, a team-by-team look at the faces that have made the National Hockey League's member franchises what they are today. And if you've been lamenting the fact that you were going...
Blueshirts by the Numbers: The Collection of Number 10's
As we continue with our "Blueshirts by the Numbers" series, there are too many legends that wore the number ten on their back while playing on Broadway for us to narrow it down to one. So, we decided to combine this post into one and include all of the candidates for the best Ranger to wear number...
Finnish Minutes - The Key To The Oilers Playoff Success
A long, long time ago, in an NHL far, far away, the Edmonton Oilers used to employ a wide variety of Finnish players. A long, long time ago, in an NHL far, far away, the Oilers used to be the most dominant franchise in professional sports. The argument as to whether the Finnish connection was...
Kurri or Selanne: who is the greatest Finn ever?
It went right down to the wire with perhaps his final season soon drawing to a close, but Teemu Selanne hit a series of important career milestones in recent days. First the Finnish Flash joined a select club, becoming the 18th NHLer, and second Finn, to score 600 regular season goals in the NHL. A...
I Hate Ryan Kesler
Recent history has seen players like Cooke and May and Bertuzzi in Vancouver colours and now there is the pest Burrows and hard rocks like Bieksa and Ohlund and at the head of the line, Kesler, who plays with nothing but malice in his heart. Goddamn him for it but I want him on my club. --Pat,...
The team that wouldn't die - the 1987 Philadelphia Flyers
A visit to Edmonton by the Philadelphia Flyers always brings to mind happier days for both squads when they were the class of their respective conferences. Indeed, those memories would be a whole lot happier for Flyers' fans if not for the Oilers who twice defeated Philly in the finals and...
Rangers Updates: Marian Gaborik speaks, Rangers sign Chappell
Marian Gaborik spoke to the media on his first full day as a New York Ranger, Andrew Gross at Ranger Rants has the full story. Some of the highlights: Gaborik said the Rangers pursued him heavily the moment the free agent market opened. He added the Wild made no attempts once noon struck...
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