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Kuklas Korner (Paul) —
CHELMSFORD, Mass., May 21, 2012 — A new global survey commissioned by The Workforce Institute™ at Kronos Incorporated and conducted by Harris Interactive reveals that employees around the world have, to varying degrees, called in sick to work over a sporting event. Whether they stayed home to watch it on television, attended it live, played the sport themselves, or needed a day off after...
Kuklas Korner (Paul) —
from George Johnson of the Calgary Herald, In that, a complete contrast to heart-on-his-sleeve Brian, who camouflaged nothing. And whose pride in possibly adding a Stanley Cup coaching championship in the family is plain for all to see, too.“It’d be pretty special for Darryl,’’ says big brother. “I mean, you’re the eighth seed and you had to fight to get into the playoffs right until the end...
The Cannon (Mike MacLean) —
Zemgus Girgensons Position: Center Team: Dubuque Fighting Saints (USHL) Age: 18 Date of Birth: January 5th, 1994 Place of Birth: Riga, Latvia Ht: 6'2" Wt: 198lbs Shoots: Left 2011-2012 Regular Season Stats: GP G A PTS +/- PIM 49 24 31 55 +17 69 2011-2012 USHL Playoff Stats: GP G A PTS +/- PIM ...
Kuklas Korner (Paul) —
from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN, “There’s a resiliency to this group,” Tippett said. “Every team gets an identity. There are different forms of it. But the resiliency of this group is part of the identity. People don’t think we can do things, well, it’s like the group is saying, `We’ll show you.’”That identity starts with the head coach. Has there been a better coaching performance in the NHL over...
Kuklas Korner (George Malik) —
The biggest Red Wings news on Monday will run into something of a wall today: the widely-reported coverage of and speculation about SportsBusiness Journal’s Don Muret’s report that the Wings and/or Ilitch Holdings has hired an architectural firm to design Joe Louis Arena’s follow-on facility is definitely intriguing, but between the self-imposed gag organizational “no comment” policy’s laid...
Kuklas Korner (Paul) —
The John Tortorella thing just keeps getting better. Before Game 4 - and after he embarrassed himself, his organization and the league with his press-conference performances - Lord Torts suddenly found a use for the media when his player, Brandon Prust, was facing a suspensionJust like that, The Great Man turned into Winston Churchill. He talked about the Devils’ many crimes against the...
Kuklas Korner (Paul) —
from Dan Bickley of the Arizona Republic, “You can almost feel it creeping in,” Coyotes General Manager Don Maloney said. “This is something we can’t let go on any further, in my opinion.”Coyotes coach Dave Tippett has seen it happen over the course of the regular season. So has New York Rangers coach John Tortorella, who just accused the opposing New Jersey Devils of embellishment in the...
Kuklas Korner (Paul) —
from Larry Brooks of the NY Post, Maybe this is what John Tortorella meant by gamesmanship, maybe the Rangers’ coach defines that as racing to the front of his team’s bench for an exchange of angry words with Devils coach Pete DeBoer, a man whose presence he clearly cannot abide.Maybe this latest incident, coming at 6:18 of last night’s third period after Mike Rupp punched Martin Brodeur in...
Kuklas Korner (Paul) —
Finally we have a series we can dig our teeth into.The New Jersey Devils defeated the New York Rangers 4-1 to even the series at two. Game 5 on Wednesday night should be fun to watch.This flare-up, first between the players then the coaches, should add some fuel to the fire for Wednesday’s game.added 10:49pm, The NBCSN version of skirmish can be viewed below…
Kuklas Korner (Patrick Hoffman) —
This appears to be the case for the New York Rangers as the team dropped Game 4 at the Prudential Center to the New Jersey Devils by a score of 4-1.For the third straight series, the Blueshirts will go into Game 5 tied with their opponent. While this probably should not have happened against both the Ottawa Senators and Washington Capitals, the Rangers certainly deserve this fate after the way...
Kuklas Korner (Paul) —
Ron MacLean and Don Cherry touch on numerous subjects including winning faceoffs and coaches dealing with the media.
Kuklas Korner (@TheDailyBites) —
This is the fourth article in a series looking at the Toronto Maple Leafs organizational depth by position. Thus far I have completed my review of goalies, defensemen and center icemen in the organization and that leaves us with wingers to round things out. As I stated in my previous article, most forwards can play multiple positions and often do throughout a season, I will do my...
The Cannon (Mike MacLean) —
Over the past week or so, many of SB Nation's hockey writers have submitted their picks for the major NHL awards, and over the next few days we'll reveal the results. Today, the Vezina winner was chosen , with Jonathan Quick taking home the hardware. Each writer submitted a first, second and third choice for the award. The first place vote was given three points, second place two, and...
Kuklas Korner (George Malik) —
On a day when none other than the Wall Street Journal’s Mike Sieleski quotes the CBC’s Gord Stellick as stating that the Red Wings are going to be the prime suitors for Zach Parise, should he choose to leave New Jersey…One intriguing possibility is the Detroit Red Wings. “He is their guy,” former Toronto Maple Leafs GM Gord Stellick said. “[The Red Wings are] never going to go after an...
Kuklas Korner (George Malik) —
Now this is as intriguing as all hell get out, as reported by the Detroit News, the Detroit Free Press’s John Gallagher and 97.1 FM: SportsBusiness Journal’s Don Muret suggests that the Red Wings’ owners have (via Curbed’s Sarah Cox) tagged architect Chad Krieger Sieniewicz and the architectural firm HKS to design Joe Louis Arena’s follow-on facility, according to SportsBusiness Journal’s Don...