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Kirill Kabanov a Happy Islander, Just Needs a 2011-12 Home
A long-ranging interview with Islanders prospect Kirill Kabanov in sports.ru (Russian) by Igor Eronko drew some angst -- because we are prone to fear the worst -- when Yahoo's Dmitry Chesnokov tweeted a very select excerpt asking rather suggestively, "Kabanov upset with the NHL?": "Everyone [in...
Habs shape up for camp..Well, almost all of 'em
It was fitness and medical testing day, as the Montreal Canadiens training camp officially opened. The 64 players turned their heads an coughed, ran a battery of fitness tests and posed for their individual photos. After a summer of viewing tweets from Mike Cammalleri and P.K. Subban on their...
Nassau County polls open in Islanders arena debate
Denis Potvin. Olli Jokinen. Roberto Luongo. Branislav Mezei. Names which to this day still tend to elicit some form of emotion from hockey fans in South Florida. And then there's Bill Torrey. What's the common link? All came to the Panthers via Uniondale, NY, current home - as it has been since...
Best in Class: The New York Islanders Dynasty
In the interests of a ration of ducats for the humble blogger, I was asked to discuss a team in history that "exhibited exceptional class." There's an obvious answer here, so I tried to think of obscure ones -- this year's Islanders, who stood up for themselves when officials and the special...
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians: The Defensemen
The League of Extraordinary Statisticians (LOES) is a weekly forum bringing together 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 these...
Bits: Conference Finals Sunday, Flyers/Habs poll
A Flyers-Canadiens poll, and completely random little collection of links as the NHL Conference Finals kick off on a big Sunday: Larry Brooks says Charles Wang should reassure fans that he won't move the team out of the New York area. I'm a fan of publicly stating your intentions, but I've long...
Last 3-0 Series Comeback: The 1975 New York Islanders
With two teams trailing 3-0 in NHL conference semifinal series (a disappointing contrast to the first round), the 1975 New York Islanders will get their share of mentions for the next few days until the Red Wings and Flyers are officially put out to pasture. Those spunky Islanders, in their third...
Wednesday Caterwaul
Always a treat when the Rangers come to town.
Looking Back...at Jaroslav Pouzar
Pouzar was a man of few words, and those in a broken English which had an endearing way of getting straight to the point, usually with a twinkle in his eye. During one celebrated incident he got stitched up between shifts without bothering with a local anaesthetic, rationalizing: "Me married. No...
Fox Sports Florida's Panthers broadcasts earn local Emmy nominations
The Panthers' cable broadcast team has been named as a Suncoast Emmy finalist for two programs aired during the past year: RICHARD ZEDNIK FEATURE: Frank Forte, Mitch Rubenstein PANTHERS VS. MAPLE LEAFS (no date provided, but I'm guessing the McCabe OT thriller in February): Mike Rubin, Steve...
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