Critical juncture begins for Anaheim Ducks NHL
Source: Lebrun Pierre.
1 days 13 hrs 44 mins
Will the real Ducks please stand up? Because it's getting late in the season for the floundering Anaheim team to turn things around.
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Nikita Filatov, Blue Jackets may both benefit from agreement NHL
Source: Lebrun Pierre.
3 days 6 hrs 44 mins
Nikita Filatov will finally get to play -- without the pay cut.And that's what you call a happy, temporary separation.The 19-year-old forward, the sixth overall pick in the 2008 NHL entry draft, will get to make a decent wage with CSKA Moscow after the Columbus Blue Jackets announced a loan agreement with the KHL club Tuesday. Had Filatov been assigned to the AHL's Syracuse Crunch, his two-way NHL deal would have called for him to make $65,000 in the minors. Although nobody connected with the...
Answers to your 'beefs' this week: Time for Brian Burke to do something intelligent NHL
Source: Lebrun Pierre.
3 days 13 hrs 44 mins
The old timers are wistfully clamoring for the days of ol'. Rangers' fans are hoping Glen Sather gets the ax. People, we're here to sooth your pain.
The story on a young, brave Russian kid NHL
Source: Lebrun Pierre.
4 days 10 hrs 44 mins
Kirill Kabanov just wants to play in the NHL. Not a lot to ask when you're a teenage prodigy with oodles of talent, or is it?
Decisions aplenty for Anahein Ducks, Caroline Hurricanes NHL
Source: Lebrun Pierre.
6 days 4 hrs 44 mins
Jean-Sebastian Giguere's frustrated. The Ducks know it. The Canes are crumbing and St. Louis is feeling the blues. So is anyone satisfied these days?
Los Angeles Kings hope sit-down leads to Jonathan Quick turnaround NHL
Source: Lebrun Pierre.
7 days 13 hrs 44 mins
I heard some faint rumblings this week that the Los Angeles Kings weren't terribly satisfied with Jonathan Quick's last few games, and when I saw Erik Ersberg get the start Wednesday night at Carolina, well, my spider senses tingled.Turns out, my spider senses were wrong."No, there's no goalie thing going on," Kings head coach Terry Murray told ESPN.com. "Quick is my No. 1 goaltender. He had played 12 in a row and 16 of 17. I saw a couple of areas in his game in his last start in Chicago that...
Devils keep churning out the wins NHL
Source: Lebrun Pierre.
8 days 3 hrs 44 mins
With the plethora of departures the New Jersey Devils have endured, who would have thought the Devils would be in first place? On second thought, does this surprise us?
Happy times nearing in KHL-NHL relationship? NHL
Source: Lebrun Pierre.
8 days 8 hrs 44 mins
The KHL and NHL have historically been at odds. But the leagues are trying to upgrade their divisive relationship.
A safer helmet: An idea whose time has come NHL
Source: Lebrun Pierre.
9 days 8 hrs 44 mins
TORONTO -- Somewhere along the line, the mood in the room shifted.It was gradual, it took a long time, but after years of discussing head shots at NHL general managers' meetings, the tone in Wednesday's discussion was different. "It was quite a bit different: Some of the guys who have taken a strong position that it may take hitting out of the game have adjusted their views a little bit," veteran GM Jim Rutherford of the Carolina Hurricanes said after the two-day meeting wrapped up in a downtown...
Wrapping up Day 1 of the GM meetings NHL
Source: Lebrun Pierre.
10 days 7 hrs 44 mins
Which teams are showing a keen interest in Peter Forsberg? And is 47-year old Chris Chelios on the verge of coming back? Pierre LeBrun wraps up Day 1 of the GM meetings.
Answers to your 'beefs' this week: Shoulder pads and OT discontent NHL
Source: Lebrun Pierre.
10 days 11 hrs 44 mins
You know, what I should really do is give you guys my home office phone number and let you rant on my voicemail. On second thought, this is fine. Again this week, I've let you puckheads rant, and I'll attempt to soothe you with some answers: big_jim: I've got a gripe about the hard plastic caps on the shoulder pads and elbow pads of most players' equipment. I think that this contributes to how much a player gets injured when they get hit in the head. Modifying the equipment would help reduce the...
Lou Lamoriello's players still making their mark NHL
Source: Lebrun Pierre.
11 days 9 hrs 44 mins
TORONTO -- Lou Lamoriello and Brian Leetch were on opposite sides of the Devils-Rangers NHL rivalry, but they share a lifetime bond with a hockey memory that grows in stature with each passing year.As they slipped on their Hockey Hall of Fame induction rings Monday morning -- along with Steve Yzerman, Luc Robitaille and Brett Hull -- the great New Jersey general manager and legendary New York defenseman shared their thoughts on a moment that forever will be remembered in Team USA hockey lore: capturing...
It's Monday ... send in your gripes! NHL
Source: Lebrun Pierre.
11 days 10 hrs 44 mins
Got the Monday blues? Need to get a hockey rant off your chest? Well, this is the blog for you.Send in your NHL beefs to me before 6 p.m. ET and I'll be back Tuesday with your top 10 rants and a little advice on each one to get you through the week.You can send in your rants here or to my mailbag.
NHL -- LeBrun Blog -- GMs meeting preview, plus latest on Peter Forsberg and Islanders' plans in net NHL
Source: Lebrun Pierre.
13 days 4 hrs 44 mins
The NHL's 30 GMs meet Tuesday and Wednesday here in Toronto on the heels of Hockey Hall of Fame weekend, and, yes, head shots will definitely be a headliner on the agenda. But one other item on the agenda I found interesting was the discussion about whether to eliminate the trapezoid, the areas where goalies aren't allowed to play the puck. The trapezoid was brought in after the lockout amid the package of rule changes, which opened up the game. It was believed at the time that limiting the goalies'...
NHL -- LeBrun Blog -- Nashville Predators fighting their way through early-season adversity NHL
Source: Lebrun Pierre.
14 days 12 hrs 43 mins
Just about every NHL team has been hampered by injuries this season, with more than 100 players in the medical ward right now around the league. Amazing.But when you're the Nashville Predators, with the 28th-ranked payroll in the NHL, injuries hammer away at your depth just a little more than your average team. The frugal Preds don't have the luxury of hiding expensive, one-way contracts in the AHL. They just can't afford it.So when top center Jason Arnott misses six games or agitator Jordan...
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