What We Learned: Embarrassing LA sports media moments while covering Kings playoff run (Puck Daddy)

Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend’s events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about it.
It’s possibly the greatest bit of investigative journalism conducted since Woodward and Bernstein brought [...]

Trending Topics: The Phoenix Coyotes and the making of a villain (Puck Daddy)

Trending Topics is a column that looks at the week in hockey, occasionally according to Twitter. If you’re only going to comment to say how stupid Twitter is, why not just go have a good cry for the slow, sad death of your dear internet instead?
There are a lot of teams in the NHL [...]

Oilers torched for Renney firing; Milan Hejduk back; Alex Radulov fallout (Puck Headlines) (Puck Daddy)

Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.
• Look, JGL: “Inception” was the bomb. You were Han Solo in “500 Days of Summer.” You probably become Batman when Bane breaks Bruce Wayne’s back [...]

Finland beats US 3-2 at hockey worlds (The Associated Press)

HELSINKI (AP) Finnish forward Jesse Joensuu’s winning goal with nine seconds left lifted Finland past the United States 3-2 Thursday for a place in the semifinals of the hockey world championships in Helsinki.
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Kings top Coyotes 4-0 to go up 2-0 in series (The Associated Press)

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) The Los Angeles Kings took the hard hits, some of them questionable, and kept rolling.
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Third-period barrage lifts Rangers past Devils in series opener (The SportsXchange)

NEW YORK — As the New York Rangers prepared to host the New Jersey Devils on Monday night at Madison Square Garden, the home team made a special effort to remind the Devils — and the fans — what happened the last time the bitter rivals battled for a trip to the Stanley Cup finals [...]

Rangers 3, Devils 0 (The SportsXchange)

NEW YORK — As the New York Rangers prepared to host the New Jersey Devils on Monday night at Madison Square Garden, the team made a special effort to remind the Devils — and the fans — what happened the last time the two teams battled for a trip to the Stanley Cup finals in [...]

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