http://sportsblogs.org/entries.php?sport_id=4&date=2010-03-14&start=0 Sports Blogs :: National Hockey League Daily Entries en-us from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN, One idea floating around in the NHL head office is to somehow give an international hockey feel to feed off the Vancouver experience, possibly staging some form of a mini-World Cup. I stress this is very conceptual at this point, but still interesting nonetheless. Speaking on international hockey, I?m told the Russians have recently approached Hockey Canada about staging a Summit Series in 2012 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the ?72 classic. The Russian... http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2369001&src=rss 2010-03-14T12:58:25 from Steve Simmons of the Toronton Sun, • Love to know what the head of the NHL Players? Association thinks about the head-shot controversy, but alas, there is no head of the NHLPA and thus no one to speak on behalf of the players for or against. • Can?t envision a Stanley Cup final that doesn?t have Pittsburgh or Washington in it. The West can offer up a deeper field with Chicago, Vancouver, San Jose and Los Angeles all capable of doing some playoff business. • For as mu... http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2369002&src=rss 2010-03-14T12:43:03 from Rosie DiManno of the Toronto Star, Hockey is Freudian for Canadians ? it puts the id in our collective identity. The father of psychoanalysis would have had a wet dream dissecting the thumb-sucking relationship between a game and a people. Not that there?s been a shortage of behavioural experts to probe this particular symbiosis, from pinhead academics to press-box philosophers? Canada is one coast-to-coast Hot Stove League. Put another way, hockey for Canadians is chronic masturba... http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2369003&src=rss 2010-03-14T12:35:57 from Larry Brooks of the NY Post, In each of the previous two seasons, the Rangers took one road trip on which players were accompanied by their fathers. One of the highlights of last season, in fact, was when the fathers chanted, ?Let?s Go Rangers!? in the corridor outside the locker room in Chicago on Jan. 16 during then-coach Tom Renney?s postgame press conference after their kids? team defeated the Blackhawks in overtime. But this year, though we?re told that preliminary planning had ... http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2369004&src=rss 2010-03-14T12:06:38 More photos... http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2368929&src=rss 2010-03-14T10:00:23 Every Sunday, FTR will look back at some of the posts from the hockey blogosphere across the past week. Shameless self-plug: compare the Matt Cooke hit on Marc Savard with other similar hits that did and didn't w... http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2368880&src=rss 2010-03-14T08:15:58 Late-season wins for a non-contending team can be awfully misleading, but you’d always rather see players developing on a positive arc than the other way around. The recent “usual suspects” rose to the fore again last night, particularly Kulemin, Bozak and company. They will need to be this good—and even better, in the fall when it will really matter. http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2369037&src=rss 2010-03-14T08:07:00 http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2368972&src=rss 2010-03-14T07:00:00 Watch the entire broadcast! http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2369007&src=rss 2010-03-14T05:20:57 Both Don and Ron MacLean said the head shot proposal needs to be changed now, not next year. The Cooke segment starts at the 2:00 minute mark. http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2368587&src=rss 2010-03-14T03:36:01 from Jim Gintonio of the Arizona Republic, The CEO of Ice Edge Holdings, emphasizing that financing is not a problem, is optimistic that the purchase of the Coyotes can be finalized by the close of the NHL season. Anthony LeBlanc said the ?whole deal? is contingent on renegotiating a new lease with the city of Glendale. ?We indicated it was going to take us three to six months, and best case, we have this closed before the playoffs start,? he said. ?We certainly expect that this will be... http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2368667&src=rss 2010-03-14T03:18:31 This girl has a ridiculous body! http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2368887&src=rss 2010-03-14T03:10:00 This picture says it all… Bryzgalov was put into the spotlight last night as he denied wave after wave of the potent Carolina Hurricanes attack stopping all 29 shots he faced. In addition, Ilya Bryzgalov now holds the lead in NHL shutouts for the season with eight, he tied the franchise record for shutouts in [...] http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2368962&src=rss 2010-03-14T01:33:22 from Chris McCosky of the Detroit News, The general managers got at least one thing right during their meetings last week. They shot down a proposal from New York Islanders owner Charles Wang to have a mini-tournament for the eighth and final playoff spot in each conference. I know?huh? His proposal was to have the teams that finish eight through 15 in each conference play a week-long tournament to decide the eighth-place finisher. Never mind that 82-game regular season?that was just a ... http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2368588&src=rss 2010-03-14T01:08:13 Looks like our hosting company may be playing with the time settings due to the DST change. Therefore, some posts have disappeared but hopefully will be back soon. http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2368589&src=rss 2010-03-14T01:01:29 Thanks to a 2-1 win by the Columbus Bluejackets over the Atlanta Thrashers on Thursday night, the Washington Capitals were able to obtain their third consecutive Southeast Division title. They plan on focusing on bigger goals though, such as winning the President’s Trophy as the NHL’s top point-producing team, and winning a Stanley Cup. The Capitals did not play like [...] http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2368938&src=rss 2010-03-14T00:44:33 Florida comes back to win in overtime over the Sharks 3-2. Allen scored 3 minutes into overtime to win it. He had two points in the game to lead the Panthers. Marleau had a goal and an assist to lead the Sharks. Vokoun made 37 saves, Greiss 25 for the loss. Box score here. Rafalski scores in overtime to give the Wings a big win, 3-2 over the Sabres. Buffalo was down 2-0 but fought back. Hecht scored twice f... http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2368827&src=rss 2010-03-14T00:30:00 Was nice to see Cherry come out and blast Cooke. I like the blunt approach, he has some good points ... Cooke is dirty and is a coward. Not going to get into it again, but I do agree, hope they pass the new rule quickly. Watch the video below. Man it's sad to hear how bad Savard is having it right now. Hope he recovers ... did not know it was so severe, his concussion. http://rd.sportsblogs.org/viewEntry.php?id=2368828&src=rss 2010-03-14T00:17:00