The National Hockey League once again gears up for the Stanley Cup playoffs. A major factor in the greatness of the NHL postseason is sudden-death overtime. Now that the NFL has done away with it for their playoffs (and perhaps for the regular season as well) by giving a team that gives up a field [...]
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Museum gets Sidney Crosby’s used pants
The folks who run the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto are excited — they are getting the pants Sidney Crosby used to help Canada win the gold medal. And they’re not washing them. “It’s going to be beautiful,” [Kelly] Masse [of the Hall] said of the display. The sweat-soaked pants, of course, will not [...]
The NHL is back
As usual, the National Hockey League has its problems. The Phoenix Coyotes are bankrupt and a judge is trying to sort out a mess in which the league is trying to stop the only bidder willing to buy the team, because he wants to move it to Hamilton, Ontario. All of this led to the [...]
NHL: Capitals-Penguins must-see TV
The first-ever Stanley Cup playoff showdown between the NHL’s top two superstars has lived up to the hype. On Monday night Alexander Ovechkin’s Washington Capitals forced a seventh game in their Eastern Conference semifinal series against the Pittsburgh Penguins with a 5-4 overtime win at The Igloo (or, if you’re a stickler for corporate names, [...]