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I’d put money on the fact that HBO/NBC paid the refs off to make this penalty shot happen with 19 seconds left on a clock in a 1 goal game with the losing team shooting.
The 2012 Winter Classic with the Rangers vs Flyers gets underway at 3:00 on NBC.
Believe it or not, the NHL season kicks off Thursday. What better way to get in the mood than this 1957 photo of the Rangers-Canadiens playing at Madison Square Garden. (John G. Zimmerman/SI)
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Hail Hockey
After getting engaged in December, this weekend is Henrik Lundqvist’s bachelor party and as part of the festivities he had to dress as a king and sell bottles of shampoo while playing guitar in a Gothenburg, Sweden mall.
Brad Richards to New York Rangers
The New York Rangers have some of the strongest, and strongest-willed, ownership in the NHL. When they’re winning, New York is a stellar hockey town. And now that Richards has agreed to a 9-year, $58.5 million contract with the Rangers (per TSN), the Blueshirts are in a much better position to win the Stanley Cup.
Today is Friday the 13th. In the hockey world, May 13, 2011 was a day that lost an important role-player. Derek Boogaard was found dead by family members in Minnesota.
He was a fighter. He stood up for his teammates and made sure that no one messed with his team. He refused to back down to anyone.
He was a kind and caring. Derek started his own charity with the New York Islanders in his only year with them, “Boogaard’s Booguardians” that hosted military families to go to Rangers games.
But most important of all, he was only 28.
For his family, friends, teammates, all the people who looked up to him, I am forever sorry. He was too good a man to lose. Too young to lose.
He may have been a fourth line player but he still made the NHL. He still made his dream come true. He was a fighter both on and off the ice.
He fought through amateur hockey, junior hockey, minor pro hockey to make it.
He did it.
Derek, you’ll always be remembered and you will never be forgotten. We know you’re up there, making sure everyone in the hockey world is okay. Your fighting spirit will never die.
Only the good die young.
June 23, 1982 – May 13, 2011.
RIP Derek Boogaard.
(via bruinsofaces)
New York Islanders’ defenceman James Wisniewski tells Sean Avery to politely…well…you know…just watch it.
There’s no word yet if Wisniewski will be facing any time of punishment from the league.
