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Peter DeBoer’s Devils: How coach’s philosophy, rivalry with Tortorella have defined New Jersey’s playoff run

Yahoo.com: Puck Daddy (Greg Wyshynski) — The New Jersey Devils' three Stanley Cup winners since 1995 have featured some constants: Goaltender Martin Brodeur, Grand Emperor Lou Lamoriello and the defensive foundation those champions where constructed on. But their coaches have defined each of them. Jacques Lemaire's trapping Devils in 1995. Larry Robinson, the players' coach, whose stunning conference finals tirade sparked the...
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Senators by the Numbers: #2

SBN: Silver Seven (Amelia L) — Today's entry is devoted to the #2. 2 is traditionally a number worn by defenseman and that's been the case for the players who have worn the number while in Sens colours: 13 blueliners have worn the #2 in Ottawa's 20-year history. While many Sens fans are hoping Jared Cowen continues to develop into an elite shutdown defenseman, he's played 1 season for the Sens and the 12 other defensemen...
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What We Learned: Embarrassing LA sports media moments while covering Kings playoff run

Yahoo.com: Puck Daddy (Ryan Lambert) — Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it. It's possibly the greatest bit of investigative journalism conducted since Woodward and Bernstein brought down Richard Nixon. This exemplary, collective effort...
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Five Stanley Cup titles in a row? Not these days

The Province The earliest the Canadiens’ most remarkable Stanley Cup playoff record can be challenged will be in 2016.
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Brooks believes Caps’ ouster should Holtby them to higher goaltending standards

Kuklas Korner (George Malik) — Tomas Vokoun won’t be returning to Washington next season, and the Capitals are likely to undergo something of an overhaul after their second round ouster at the hands of the New York Rangers, but the New York Post’s Larry Brooks believes that employing another Dale Hunter-style coach to teach offensively-oriented personnel to abandon their natural style of play won’t work very well come next...
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A strange but true Ovechkin-Gomez comparison and the art of winning sans six goalie shot blockers

Kuklas Korner (George Malik) — The Edmonton Journal’s Jim Matheson does an absolutely bang-up job of talking about the Washington Capitals possibly trading Alex Ovechkin, said team’s search for the right coach, even wondering whether the Canadiens will trade Tomas Plekanec and a host of other topics in his “Hockey World” column, but the real eyebrow-raisers for me came in the form of his conversation with Rangers GM Glen...
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Marlies miss huge opportunity

SBN: Pension Plan Puppets (birky) — After a dominating performance on Thursday night in Oklahoma City, the Marlies and Barons met again last night for game two. Unfortunately for Toronto, the roles were reversed as OKC netter 5 goals and tied their Western Conference Finals series at one game apiece. Jonas Gustavsson got the start in net for the Marlies. Here are some links: The Leafs, the NHL, coaching vacancies, and the...
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Let the bench-boss search begin

Edmonton Journal NHL coaches generally have the same shelf life as Kardashian husbands, but since gaining entry to the NHL club in 1979, the Edmonton Oilers have only had 10 different coaches — Glen Sather three times — which makes them a considerably more stable franchise than others. Like, the Montreal Canadiens who have had 10 since 1995.
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Trending Topics: The Phoenix Coyotes and the making of a villain

Yahoo.com: Puck Daddy (Ryan Lambert) — Trending Topics is a column that looks at the week in hockey, occasionally according to Twitter. If you're only going to comment to say how stupid Twitter is, why not just go have a good cry for the slow, sad death of your dear internet instead? There are a lot of teams in the NHL that are easy to hate, for a lot of reasons. The Bruins are a dirty team. The Canucks dive everywhere. The...
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Stubbs: Jean Beliveau: The Habs legend happy to be home after stroke

Ottawa Citizen Canadiens icon Jean Beliveau was in strong voice and excellent spirits Friday, back home and getting stronger by the day.
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LBC's All-Time Florida Panthers Roster Countdown: 234-230

Litter Box Cats (Kevin Kraczkowski) — Welcome back to the first edition of the All-Time Panthers Roster Countdown, Volume XII. If you need to know how this list came into reality (poof!), click here. Yesterday, we went over the brief Florida careers of centers Mike Green and Petr Taticek, left winger Patrick Rissmiller, defenseman Nolan Yonkman, and right winger Paul Brousseau. Today, for your browsing enjoyment, we have a...
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Puck Daddy Hockey Live Chat!

Yahoo.com: Puck Daddy (Greg Wyshynski) — Can the Coyotes rally? Are the Devils done? Did the Blue Jackets make the right coaching call? And who takes over the Capitals, Canadiens and Flames? Please join us beginning at NOON ET/9 a.m. PT today for our weekly chat that includes a revolving door of panelists like Lyle (Spector) Richardson of Spector's Hockey and Katie Baker of Grantland ; as well as your friendly neighborhood...
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The 10 best Sports Illustrated Stanley Cup Playoff covers

Yahoo.com: Puck Daddy (Greg Wyshynski) — The National Hockey League has appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated — either the main mag or on a commemorative issue — 114 times, according to the SI Vault archive. Sometimes, it was a quick mention on a cover story dedicated to Tiger Woods another sports story. Other times, hockey was given the spotlight. The Stanley Cup Playoffs have been featured around 35 times, including...
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Big Market NHL Teams to “Max Out” This Summer?

Kuklas Korner (Lyle Richardson) — For the seventh consecutive year, the NHL salary cap limits are expected to increase.Thanks to a projected $3.2 billion in revenue for the 2011-12 regular season and playoffs (the most for a single season in NHL history), the salary cap “ceiling” for 2012-13 could rise to $69 million, as well as raising the salary cap “floor” to over $53 million.It could go even higher, for if the NHLPA...
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Songs This Hurricanes Fan Never Wants to Hear in a Hockey Arena Again

Cardiac Cane (Sally M. Brown) — Oftentimes people come to the PNC Center and I overhear comments about the in-game experience including the music. They aren’t always flattering. Granted these comments are often from people like the Canadiens fans that sat behind us at the last home game of the season who began complaining before the anthems even started and stayed to boo Eric Staal in the post-game interview. Now that’s...
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