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Posted by
on 11/24/2008 - 07:44 PM
CALGARY - Jiri Hudler has had a hot hand lately as the Detroit Red Wings continued their fine play with a 5-2 win over the Calgary Flames on Saturday.
Hudler notched the game-winning goal and had an assist as the Wings won their fifth straight game to improve their record to 14-2-3.
"It's a bit of luck," said Hudler, who jumped off the bench as the extra attacker and fired a feed from Henrik Zetterberg into the top corner over Calgary goalie Miikka Kiprusoff's outstretched glove at 11:21 of the third. "It was a great p
Posted by
on 11/17/2008 - 05:25 PM
The NHL is trying to crackdown on unnecessary blows to the head.
The NHL's Senior Vice President and Director of Hockey Operations, Colin Campbell, had the following memo, obtained by TSN, posted in every NHL dressing room on Friday.
"Recently, we have had two (2) supplemental discipline incidents involving direct elbow blows to the head. This is a play that we have been trying to remove from our game for a number of years. In one case there was no injury and in the other incident the elbowed Player received a concus
Posted by
on 10/30/2008 - 06:14 AM
General managers will have one extra day to make NHL trades. The league said yesterday it has pushed the trade deadline back to March 4. A high volume of games forced the switch. There are 12 games on the schedule March 3 and only two March 4. The league and NHL Players' Association agreed on the change.
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billy on 06/04/2008 - 11:44 PM
For the 11th time in franchise history the Detroit Red Wings are Stanley Cup champions after defeating the Pittsburgh Penguins 3-2 in Game 6.
The Penguins had no answer for Detroit's suffocating style as Henrik Zetterberg's third period goal ensured that the Cup was headed back to 'Hockeytown' for the fourth time in the past 11 seasons.
With 13 goals and 26 points in the playoffs, Zetterberg was named the winner of the Conn Smyth Trophy, becoming only the second Swedish player to accomplish the feat.
"It
Posted by
billy on 05/26/2008 - 11:59 PM
DETROIT - NHL history suggests that the Detroit Red Wings are shoo-ins to win the Stanley Cup now.
Brad Stuart, Tomas Holmstrom and Valtteri Filppula scored the goals and Chris Osgood blanked the Pittsburgh Penguins for the second straight game, 3-0 on the heels of a 4-0 whitewash in the opener, as the Red Wings took a 2-0 stranglehold on the championship series Monday night.
The all-time championship series record of home clubs winning the first two games is 30-1. The 1970-71 Chicago Blackhawks were the only team to b
