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Darkness has fallen upon the Edmonton Oilers once again

The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars. Though apparently if you’re covering the Edmonton Oilers or a fan of them, that’s the going theme. Perhaps after years and years of the same problem, Oilers observers are just tired of complaining about the same things, so they’re looking for things that aren’t there… Read […]

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Dylan Larkin gives fan $20 to make up for spilled beer

There are few things more important in life than a beer you just bought at a sporting event. People are so desperate to get the tiniest of buzzes going that they’ll drop a whole Andrew Jackson on some watered-down alcohol. Thus, spilling that beer would be an absolute tragedy, fit for Shakespeare in the park. […]

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Canadian media is already trying to protect Wayne Gretzky from Alex Ovechkin

Amazingly, what was a question before the season now seems a certainty. Alex Ovechkin is going to break Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record. There was some worry or dispute as to whether Ovie could hold his simply ridiculous pace as he got deeper into his 30s. He pretty much dispelled that in the season’s opening… […]

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Do you have to pay attention to the Anaheim Ducks?

Surprise hockey teams don’t come around in the same way as they do in the NBA. In professional basketball, generally the newest team that you have to watch has one or two young stars that are starting to find it. Like Memphis with Ja Morant of late, or the meteoric rise of the Suns. Not […]

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Old coach yells at cloud, shakes fist at air

In the past week, the NHL news around here has been excessive violence , more excessive violence , the Flyers being hellaciously awful , and the latest lunatic turns in the decade-long saga of the league trying to make fetch happen in Arizona. Read more…

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Old coach yells at cloud, shakes fist in air

In the past week, the NHL news around here has been excessive violence , more excessive violence , the Flyers being hellaciously awful , and the latest lunatic turns in the decade-long saga of the league trying to make fetch happen in Arizona. Read more…

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Fed-up Flyers fans ready to bag the season

If you’re not a part of Flyers Twitter, well, consider yourself lucky. But you did miss fans of the Orange and Black having a totally normal one on Thursday as a movement to change PFPs to an unhappy fan wearing the bag over his/her head (much like the infamous days of New Orleans fans during […]

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Does the NHL vet its owners?

I wish I could write stuff like this as fiction. But unless you wrote it as Mel Brooks-ian farce, I don’t know how you’d make it believable. And I have to say that I really want to see the city of Glendale actually chain up the doors to Gila River Arena when Coyotes players attempt […]

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The hockey men were at it again last night

A few times throughout the season, randomly, there’s a night where it feels like hockey players across the league lose their mind. It’s like a hive mentality, perhaps when the banality of the regular season sinks in or becomes too much to deal with and they have to break out in the only way they […]