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Green Bay's junior hockey team, which had a home game interrupted by a flying bat that met its demise after it was swarmed by former Edina star Anders Lee and other stick-swinging players, is seizing on the incident to raise money for a wildlife sanctuary. In response to criticism of the bat's public and immediate death last week, a "Bat Trick" promotion will be staged starting with the team's game Dec. 31. Resch Center fans will be able to buy a toy bat in the team store for $2. All of the proceeds will go to the Bay Beach Wildlife...

Cool shot! Ah, to be 9 years old again, showing off for the cameras!Here's the link again.

This incredible 9 year old hockey star amazes every one when he scores what most are calling the greates goal in history. This kid is being compared to Gretzky..If you have seen a better goal please post video response or comment to let everyone know who scored a better goal... VIDEO

(Hockeytown, USA - 10/9/09) In a stunning announcement today, a spokesperson for the NHL Commissioner issued the following short statement: "We are pleased to present the 2009-2010 Stanley Cup to President Obama for his innate ability to skate around every issue that comes his way. Forwards, backwards or sideways, his skating ability is second to none." "We are also seriously considering awarding him the Defenseman of the Year award not only for his backwards skating ability, but also his ability to defend against everything he's done wrong by effectively blaming all ills on someone who hasn't been in office for...

Jim Sacco estimates that his son Josh has watched "Miracle," the film about the 1980 U.S. Olympic men's hockey team's legendary upset of Russia, nearly 150 times. Apparently, the movie has made quite an impression... Nicknamed "Rizzo" after the gold medal-winning team's captain Mike Eruzione, Josh sparked an Internet sensation this week when his hilarious, inspirational and eerily impeccable interpretation of actor Kurt Russell's locker room speech as Coach Herb Brooks went viral -- spreading everywhere from blogs to USA Today to the "Ellen" show. No professional coaching. No fancy editing. No script, because Rizzo hasn't learned to read yet...

(Click the link for the schedule of Thursday's games and TV coverage. LET THE GAMES BEGIN!)

NHL Network's Button breaks down the East - NHL Network analyst Craig Button offers some clues as he breaks down the hockey scene for NHL.com. Expect a hard-fought battle in the West this season - NHL Network analyst Craig Button breaks down what we will see from the West in 2009-10.http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=500138

Looking for 6 more teams in our 16 team FREEPER hockey pool via Yahoo sports. Autodraft...trade, waive, pick up free agents. The software is excellent, it is all drag and drop. It is free to play. This will really enhance your enjoyment of the hockey season with a bunch of likeminded fellows, who, other than myself, should be quite easy to beat.

KENT, Wash. - A military wife and her hockey friends are working to help homesick soldiers enjoy the “coolest game on Earth” in one of the hottest places - in the desert of Afghanistan. Brenda and Rob Mason of Kent have a solid marriage built on the slippery ice of a hockey rink. The love affair for each other, and the game goes back nearly 30 years to their second date. "He took me to a hockey game. He said if we’re going to be together, you’re going to have to like hockey. And I did," says Brenda. But for...

A highly-anticipated hockey video game that features realistic fighting scenarios and black eyes is a useful tool to teach children that brawls are part of the game and in some cases can help you win, says a former NHL captain. Retired Vancouver Canucks player Trevor Linden, well-loved in the city and not known for getting into frequent dust-ups, endorsed "NHL 10" Monday prior to its next-day launch across North America. "Fighting in hockey is not something you necessarily want to promote, but at the same time, you want to make children understand that it is part of the game and...

The Penguins' charter flight had just departed Detroit's airport in the early morning hours after they won the Stanley Cup on June 12 when general manager Ray Shero first heard the question. "Guys started asking right away, 'Are we going to the White House?' I was, like, 'Yeah, I think so,'" Shero said Friday. "It's not something you think about before you win, and it's not something you want to do just once." No strangers to the District of Columbia - they won Games 5 and 7 of a second-round playoff series at Washington's Verizon Center in the spring -...

TORONTO, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- Hall of Famer Ted "Teeder" Kennedy, who played on five Toronto Stanley Cup championship teams, died Friday in Port Colborne, Ontario. He was 83.

Tim Hortons Inc., the quintessentially Canadian coffee and doughnut chain, wants to become even more Canadian. The company has filed a notice with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission stating that it wants to reorganize itself as a "Canadian public company" in order to take advantage of decreasing Canadian corporate tax rates. The reorganization would regroup the company's U.S. and Canadian business units under a single entity incorporated under Canada's federal company statute, the Canada Business Corporations Act. The new company would maintain the name Tim Hortons Inc. The federal government is whittling down the federal corporate income tax rate...

Live Internet TV Feeds (Direct Windows Media Player Links)Pittsburgh NBC | Pittsburgh ABC 06.15.09: Pittsburgh Officials Prepare for 350,000 fans at Penguins' Victory Parade The City of Champions has gone Cup crazy. As Pittsburghers basked in the glow of a second pro sports championship in four months, the Stanley Cup toured PNC Park on Sunday, Sidney Crosby talked about the excitement of a two-title town and people crammed hotels in advance of today's celebration parade Downtown. "It's been an amazing couple of days," Penguins winger Bill Guerin said after throwing out the first pitch at yesterday's Pirates game. "This city...

Final game of Stanley Cup Playoffs tonight at 8pm on NBC.

scored two second-period goals, and the Pittsburgh Penguins overcame the loss of captain Sidney Crosby(notes) and a whole lot of history to beat the defending champion Detroit Red Wings 2-1 on Friday night in Game 7 and win the Stanley Cup for the third time. Instead of the Red Wings becoming the NHL’s first repeat champion

Game 7 of the Final is hockey's ultimate contest For a hockey fan, Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Final is like waiting for Christmas: It seems like the big day takes forever to get there, but when it does, it's well worth the wait. Of course, Christmas comes just once a year. A Final series that goes the maximum seven games comes along infrequently. Since the NHL expanded from the Original Six teams in 1967, the championship round has gone the distance just eight times, including this year's Final between Detroit and Pittsburgh. If the Stanley Cup Final is...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - There will be no shrimp and grits for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. She owes South Carolina's Mark Sanford some king salmon from her home state. The two Republican governors - rumored to have aspirations for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination - bet on the ECHL's Kelly Cup finals between the Alaska Aces and South Carolina Stingrays.

Good morning power players. Lots of coverage from the NHL.com crew off of last night's 3-1 Wings' victory. Your lineup includes Shawn P. Roarke, Dave Lozo, Larry Wigge, Phil Coffey and John Kreiser. Coffey has the game story covered right here. In a game that perfectly illustrated the slippery nature of hockey, the Red Wings took advantage of the breaks presented to them -- especially the lively end boards at Joe Louis Arena -- and the Pens could only shake their heads at the numerous chances that defied logic and stayed out of the net. Roarke has a very interesting...

It has been a quarter-century since the NHL had a rematch in the Stanley Cup Finals. And when the Edmonton Oilers beat the Islanders in 1984, it wasn't just the Cup that changed hands, it was the end of one dynasty and the start of another. Tonight, the Pittsburgh Penguins step into Joe Louis Arena to begin their quest for revenge and the third Cup in franchise history. To win it, they'll have to take down a Detroit Red Wings team that has won four Cups over the last 12 years and has shown no reason why it can't add...

NEW YORK -- The NHL went against its previous plan, pushing up the start of the Stanley Cup Finals to avoid a long layoff. The league announced Wednesday night that Detroit will host Pittsburgh on Saturday night in Game 1 of the first championship rematch in 25 years. Last week, the NHL said the Finals would begin June 5 if both conference finals were not decided by Tuesday. Plan B was put in place because NBC and the league didn't want to stunt the excitement about the matchup that has a potential to draw nontraditional viewers. Detroit and Pittsburgh, though,...

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DETROIT (Reuters) – The Detroit Red Wings edged the Chicago Blackhawks 2-1 in overtime on Wednesday to set up a Stanley Cup finals rematch with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Darren Helm's overtime goal sealed the Western Conference title for Detroit, the defending NHL champions, who will now host Game One of the Stanley Cup finals against the Penguins. Pittsburgh booked their return to the finals on Tuesday by completing a 4-0 sweep of the Carolina Hurricanes.

Peter Zezel, Former NHL Player, Dies of Blood Disorder at 44 Former New Jersey Devils forward Peter Zezel dead at 44 Kevin Larkin/Associated Press Former Devil Peter Zezel, shown fighting for the puck in the 1997 Eastern Conference semi-final, died Tuesday after battling a blood disorder. Former NHL forward Peter Zezel, who played 23 games for the Devils in 1996-97 and 1997-98, died Tuesday in a Toronto hospital after battling a longtime blood disorder. Zezel, who fought hemolytic anemia for the past 10 years, recently underwent surgery to have his spleen removed and had also received chemotherapy treatments. He was...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Alaska's Sarah Palin and South Carolina's Mark Sanford are already squaring off — and the presidential election is still three years away. The two Republican governors, rumored to have aspirations for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination, have a bet on the ECHL's Kelly Cup finals between the Alaska Aces and South Carolina Stingrays. Should the Aces win the best-of-seven series, Alaska's most famous "hockey mom" would receive shrimp and grits and she-crab soup from Tristan Restaurant in Charleston. If the Stingrays win, Sanford would get some Alaska king salmon.

North Dakota's Board of Higher Education has agreed to drop the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname and Indian head logo, a move intended to resolve a decades-long campus dispute about whether the name demeans American Indians.

TORONTO — An audacious bid by tech industry billionaire Jim Balsillie to buy the suddenly bankrupt Phoenix Coyotes has ignited a furious confrontation with the NHL, which is moving swiftly to block the sale and girding to fight any move to relocate the team to Southern Ontario. The Waterloo-based tycoon's third attempt to acquire an NHL franchise — he was rebuffed in previous bids for the Pittsburgh Penguins and Nashville Predators — likely puts him in the strongest position yet to exert a backroom power play on league officials who previously spurned him and recently insisted no franchises will be...

A group of business people wants to bring a second team to the Greater Toronto Area, and the National Hockey League took the group seriously enough to grant it an audience. The unidentified group met with NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly in downtown Toronto last week, according to sources. The group proposes to build an arena at the intersection of Highways 427 and 7 in Vaughan, Ont., on land north of Pearson International Airport that's owned by businessman Victor De Zen. .... It is known that Research In Motion founder Jim Balsillie has conducted market research toward bringing a franchise...

"IT'S A GREAT DAY FOR HOCKEY!" - "Badger" Bob Johnson Tonight is the beginning of the NHL's 'second season'! Good luck to everyone except the Flyers! Go Pens!!!!!!!!

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The script was perfect for the first NHL goal by the son of one of the notorious Hanson brothers from the movie "Slap Shot." Christian Hanson got it against his favorite player, Martin Brodeur, and the Toronto Maple Leafs rookie didn't seem to care it didn't come on a slap shot. "To be honest I would have taken it any way it would have gone in. Off my head, off my butt, off my skate, and luckily it went off my stick," said Hanson, whose backhander capped a three-goal first period that led Toronto to a...

I found the commentary subtle, yet brilliant. Clearly, she is trying to make a statement about her feelings for the direction of American society and the economic condition of this country under President Obama. Especially in Massachusetts, she finds herself fighting against the masses who are thoughtlessly following their directionless leader into the abyss. Her climb was difficult and was met with numerous obstacles, yet she manages to find her way and avoid the fate of the American people. You go, girl! Welcome to Galt's Gulch. Video after the jump.

The trade deadline has come and gone, and there were some big deals! And some big signings of key players to their respective teams that will tighten the race towards the playoffs even more!

First in NHL: Foreward-thinking Washington Capitals discover that women love hockey, and hockey players - a fan base that is fierce, loyal and adoring.

Hard to imagine it's been so long. 29 years ago today the United States of America amateur hockey team defeated a team of Russian professionals during the winter Olympics in what has to be the greatest upset in sports history. It lifted a nation. It was nothing short of surreal. This video is a newly discovered original call of the game by Curt Chaplin who was covering the game as a sports reporter for the ABC Radio Network. Standing on a camera platform in the crowd, he did play-by-play of the entire game into his tape recorder, capturing the event...

It has been referred to as the "Jack Pot" and the "Jack Parker Invitational" because of the number of times the veteran bench boss has led Boston University to the Beanpot championship. Heading into last night's 57th quest for Boston bragging rights against Northeastern, the No. 1-ranked Terriers had 28 Beanpot crowns to their credit. Well, say hello to No. 29. The third-ranked Huskies, who have been atop the Hockey East standings for the bulk of the season, gave it their best shot - thinking this was the year they would take it away from their league rivals for their...

Julius Erving soared to some of the greatest dunks of all time there. Bruce Springsteen played there with the Rocky statue outside. Michael Jordan beat the 76ers on Mother's Day in the 1991 NBA playoffs. The Spectrum in Philadelphia has hosted thousands of events in front of millions of fans since opening its doors in 1967. And the Pitt men's basketball team will be involved in the final collegiate basketball game ever played at the venerable arena.

Growing up in Canada, every kid knows what the Zamboni is. But for the poor, deprived children of warmer climes, we'll fill you in. It's not a lunch meat or a pastry you'd find in Little Italy, but the ice resurfacing machine you see put-putting around the rink before, after and in the middle of hockey games. Created by Frank Zamboni in 1949, the company's pretty much had a monopoly on the market ever since. But the times, as Bob Dylan sang from the penalty box, they are a-changin'.

A Portland man faces charges of burglary and drunken driving after his arrest atop a Zamboni machine at the Cumberland County Civic Center early Tuesday morning. Adam Patterson, 23, had inadvertently summoned the Portland Fire Department to the civic center by driving a forklift, with the forks raised, into part of the sprinkler system, setting off an alarm, police said. Firefighters responded at 2 a.m. to find Patterson trying to drive the large ice resurfacer, which was against an interior wall and not on any ice, police said. When officers arrived to arrest him, Patterson was sitting on the machine...

For anyone who's a hockey fan esp. of the Blackhawks or Red Wings there are some excellent pictures up at bleedcubbieblue.com of the construction. Looks like they have a lot done already. And is it just me or does Wrigley look spooky? And I found these by accident. I need another Cubs site like I need a hole in my head. But this looks like a good one.

The corruption scandal surrounding Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich is being turned into a theme night for the Las Vegas Wranglers. The hockey club is holding Blagojevich night on Friday, January 30th. The team will wear vintage prison uniforms, the kind with the stripes. Their jerseys will feature prison numbers, and a seat between the two benches will be auctioned off to the highest bidder. After the game, those prison uniforms will be signed and auctioned for charity. Rod Blagojevich prison uniform night against the Victoria Salmon Kings begins at 7:30pm on January 30th.

The NHL suspended Dallas Stars forward Sean Avery indefinitely Tuesday for making a crude reference to former girlfriends while talking with reporters. Avery’s inflammatory comments came following a morning skate in Calgary, Alberta, where the Stars were to play the Flames on Tuesday night. He approached a group of reporters, asked if a camera was present, then said he wanted to say one thing: “I’m really happy to be back in Calgary; I love Canada,” he said. “I just want to comment on how it’s become like a common thing in the NHL for guys to fall in love with...

I attended an NHL game (here in NJ) for the first time in a long time. I used to be a big hockey fan, attending about 30 games a year, until the 70s when I realized I cared more about the game than the players did. I've been to the Forum. (The real Forum; I'm not sure what you call the place where the Canadiens play now.) I still like the game. So I went Saturday night. It was like a bad party that was periodically interrupted by a hockey game. There was lots of loud music, video displays, constant...

ST. LOUIS (AP)—Blues goalie Manny Legace left after one period Friday night with a hip injury that occurred when he slipped on the carpet placed on the ice for Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. The Alaska governor dropped the ceremonial first puck before the Blues hosted the Los Angeles Kings. A narrow carpet walkway was placed from the gate at the Blues bench to center ice for Palin, her husband and two of her daughters. Just before the ceremony, Legace was the first player onto the ice for St. Louis. A team official pointed to the carpet. But Legace...

<p>ST. LOUIS - Republican vice-presidential candidate and self-proclaimed "hockey mom" Sarah Palin will drop the ceremonial first puck Friday night at the St. Louis Blues' game against the Los Angeles Kings.</p> <p>The Blues say the Alaska governor and running mate of Republican John McCain confirmed Wednesday that she'll make a stop at Scottrade Center.</p>

This is the last call to get in the action for the Conservative Yahoo Fantasy Hockey League. We currently have 7 people but the more the marrier of course. Here are the details: Name: Ice Pitbulls (ID# 90616) Password: sarah Draft: Live draft TONIGHT Friday 10/17 @ 8:45 PMC Pacific time On a second note. We also have a Basketball Conservative Basketball league. We currently have only 3 managers and will need more for us to start. Name: NObamicans (ID# 71108) Password: nobama Draft: Set for Sunday 10/19 but could be pushed in case more managers want to join. If...

WASHINGTON D.C. – President George W. Bush held the Detroit Red Wings up as a shining example of the merits of perseverance during Tuesday's ceremony at the White House to salute the 2008 Stanley Cup champions. "Game 5 of the Final, you were just 34 seconds from raising the Cup, when the Pittsburgh Penguins scored to tie the game and then scored in triple overtime to extend the series," Bush told a standing-room only crowd in the East Room. "But you did not get discouraged, you were determined and you won; and we congratulate you for winning a very hard...

NEW YORK (TICKER) —New York Rangers prospect Alexei Cherepanov died during a game in his native Russia on Monday night. He was 19. The New York Post reported that Cherepanov suffered a heart attack and collapsed on the bench during Avangard Omsk’s game against Vityav Chekhov. Former Rangers captain Jaromir Jagr had just finished a shift with Cherepanov and was talking to the him when the Russian suddenly collapsed. TSN of Canada reported that medical officials attempted to get Cherepanov’s heart beating again. According to the web site, there was no ambulance present at the arena. The report stated that...

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