Playoffs or bust seems to be the Mantra of the Los Angeles Kings these days. This is a team that has not seen the post season since 2002, and the organization seems to be taking an all ...
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The 2008-09 season ended on a very sour note for the Montreal Canadiens. They were swept out of the first round of the playoffs by the Boston Bruins. So heading into their 100th season General Manager Bob ...
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For a team that missed the 2008-09 NHL playoffs by just two points the Buffalo Sabers have been strangely quiet for mush of this off season. Of course they have finished 10th in the Eastern Conference for ...
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Toronto Maple Leaf's General Manager Brian Burke wants the Maple Leafs to be bigger and cruder. He wants to return this team to an old school style of hockey where the team not only beats their opponents, ...
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The Florida Panthers are for sale, and like most pro sports teams that are for sale this team is somewhat of a mess. While some may point to the fact the Panthers are victims of the over ...
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So far in 2009 the Minnesota Wild have been busied changing themselves. After missing the playoffs for the third time in the past five season’s owner Craig Leopold had enough. He fired, head coach Jacques Lemaire, and ...
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So what should a team that went 38-35-9 do in it's off season? We are talking about a team that scored 85 points and missed the playoffs for the second straight year. If you answer is, fire ...
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At this point in our NHL preview we have gone through the six teams that are complete train wreck disasters, and moved onto the teams that just have a few issues here and there. This brings us ...
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As a sports business reporter, and Journalist in general, following the saga of the Phoenix Coyotes has been a truly great story. I have been following this story for well over a year now, and I am ...
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Like most of the team we have looked at so far though our NHL preview the Tampa Bay Lightning are a complete mess. They have two feuding owners whop cannot agree on how to run the team. ...
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It seems the Judge presiding over the Phoenix Coyotes bankruptcy hearings as a style more conductive to letting the parties involved, work out their issues amongst themselves. However, since there is so much animosity between the NHL ...
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Sometimes you really got to feel for the folks who run the Nashville Predators. This team has no money to either resign their own players, or to attract high quality free agents. They also have a hard ...
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It seems the NHL has a collection of less that reputable person in ownership positions of their franchises. On one hand we have Charles Wang, of the Islanders, who doesn't seem to know how to run a ...
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While the ownership group tries to get everything straighten out, the Thrashers on the ice may be poised for a break out season. Over the last few years they have been forced to trade away several big ...
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This story seems to prove two different things. First that the fight over the Coyotes is so ugly, so personal that the NHL is willing to go to any lengths to keep Jim Balsillie out of their ...
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With all the court room drama surrounding this team it is sometime very hard to remember that they will be taking to the ice, at least somewhere in just a few weeks. While it is certain to ...
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The New York Islanders are a mess. There is really now other way to say it. They have Owner Charles Wang, who just may be the worst NHL owner not named Jerry Moyes, and they have failed ...
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With a little less then a month to go until the opening of the NHL season we should start to take a look at the teams of the NHL. We shall begin with the Colorado Avalanche who ...
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On Thursday a United States Federal Bankruptcy Judge began hearing arguments from Jim Balsillie and his attorney that the Judge should disregard the NHL's objections to Balsillie as an owner and his plan to buy the Phoenix ...
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The NHL mess in the dessert gets worse and worse each and every day. Yesterday Jerry Reinsdorf, owner of the Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls, officially withdrew his groups bid for the bankrupt hockey team. That ...
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Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane was arrested Sunday morning in Buffalo, New York after a dispute over a taxi fare ended in robbery and assault.
According to reports, Kane was paying for the taxi ride when the driver ...
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