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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
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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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on 10/29/2008 - 05:43 AM
In many ways, the Maple Leafs and the Lightning are the same: each has a new coach, a new management team and a first-round pick around which they can build their future.
But the Lightning have something the Leafs do not: a game-breaking superstar.
There was no stopping Vincent Lecavalier last night, the difference in a 3-2 Tampa win that ended the Leafs' modest two-game winning string.
"We don't have a Vinny Lecavalier," said Leafs coach Ron Wilson, stating the obvious. "We should have been aware of where
Posted by
billy on 06/18/2008 - 03:23 PM
The Philadelphia Flyers announced Wednesday that they have traded the rights to forward Vaclav Prospal to the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for a seventh round pick in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft and a conditional pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.
"Vinny really didn't express much of an interest in coming back and playing for us next season," said General Manager Holmgren in making the announcement. "His heart is elsewhere."
Prospal, 33, recorded four goals and 10 assists for 14 points and six penalty minutes in 18 regu
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billy on 05/08/2008 - 11:58 PM
TAMPA BAY - Tampa Bay centre Jeff Halpern is expected to miss the next six to eight months after rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament at the IIHF World Hockey Championship, the Lightning announced Wednesday.
Halpern, the captain of the U.S. team, was hit hard late in the third period of Tuesday's 5-4 loss to Canada in Halifax. The diagnosis was made Wednesday by Dr. Benjamin Shaffer in Washington.
Halpern also suffered a Grade 3 sprain to his medial collateral ligament, and a small tear to his lateral meniscus. Doc
The NHL is trying to crackdown on unnecessary blows to the head.