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Welcome to The End of the World, NHL version.
We are not speaking of Dec. 21, 2012 – the day, some say, the Mayan Long Count calendar points to as the apocalypse (heck, the NHL hasn’t even released the schedule of which teams will be playing that night).
We speak, instead, of the playoff stretch drive that officially got under way with the cessation of all-star festivities and will last through April 7, 2012, when regular-season game No. 1,230 will be played in San Jose (Sharks versus Los Angeles Kings). All 30 teams are scheduled to play that Saturday, with 14 of them destined to play golf on Sunday.
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One day last summer, long before he would wander into the teeth of Madison Square Garden, Braden Holtby hired an airbrush artist in Sweden to paint a new motif onto his hockey mask. Holtby, from Marshall, Saskatchewan, asked... more »
Thank goodness that’s over. Two weeks and seven games of admirable, meticulous, low-scoring, joyless ice hockey came to a close on Saturday night with a 2-1 victory for the Rangers over the Caps in Game 7 at the Garden. A... more »
It’s the music that makes the mayhem. From high in the rafters of the Montreal Forum, an organist plays a lovely little number once made popular by polkameister Frankie Yankovic. The song’s unsung lyrics are, “Somewhere... more »
This whole thing, all the rancor and resentment you get now from John Tortorella vs. Peter DeBoer, really has its roots in a 1982 migration, when the Devils moved from Colorado to Jersey and became the fiscally responsible... more »
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