Tag: nhl
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Peter Horachek: The What Meter?
Screenshot courtesy of Toronto Maple Leafs/Youtube . Following the Toronto Maple Leafs 13th loss in 12 games, Toronto head coach Peter Horachek said at a press conference “ The give-a-#*@% meter needs to be higher...
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How to Bench David Clarkson and Not Get Fired
Screenshot courtesy of Toronto Maple Leafs/Youtube The Toronto Maple Leafs snapped a team record 11-game losing streak this past Saturday with a convincing 5 – 1 victory over the hopeless Edmonton Oilers. These days, a...
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Juiced: The All Steroid League
Image courtesy of J (mtonic.com)/Flickr . The NFL, NHL, MLB, and NBA have all had various athletes fail their various performance-enhancing drug screening tests over the last few years. In the lead up to UFC...
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Toronto Maple Leafs Bring Losing to New Heights
Image courtesy of Mark Watmough/Flickr . If you’re a Toronto Maple Leafs fan (and you shouldn’t be) then you’re more disappointed in this team than a dog is in their owner when they discover the...
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How to Fix the Playoffs in Every Sport
Image courtesy of Joseph Glorioso Photography/Flickr . The inclusion of a team with a sub-.500 record in the NFL playoffs has me irked, but I’ve disliked the playoff structure in all sports for some time...
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Say No to Bullying: Fighting in the NHL
Image courtesy of Les Stockton/Flickr . Sitting in the Air Canada Centre for the Toronto Maple Leafs-Anaheim Ducks game the other night, something unexpectedly donned on me: Hockey without fighting is just fine. With time...
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Would Someone Please… NHL Edition
Image courtesy of Matt Boulton/Flickr . Would someone please tell NHL commissioner, Gary Bettman, that fighting must remain in the game of hockey. Fighting is as much of an integral part of hockey as idiotic...
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Would Someone Please… NBA Edition
Image courtesy of Soletron Fresh/Flickr . Would someone please remind the rest of the NBA that the Toronto Raptors are for real. Ok, yes, the Bulls disposed of the Raptors with relative ease last week,...
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Pick a Sport: Ranking the Big 4 in Watchability
Image courtesy of espensorvik/Flickr . I was sitting in my basement the other night flipping between two or three NBA games, two hockey games, and keeping tabs on the NFL games that were finishing up...
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Wayne Gretzky: The Greatest Ever?
Image courtesy of Thomas Crenshaw/Flickr . Statistically speaking there is no greater player in the history of the NHL than Wayne Gretzky . I could put up some of the numbers, but really they are...
