EDMONTON — An empty arena for Arizona Coyotes home games in the first round of the NHL playoffs has created no notable difference from the level of crowd noise the team generated prior to virus restrictions, sources yawning as they try to stave off elimination tomorrow confirm.
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NEW YORK — Rangers GM Jeff Gorton contacted junior star Alexis Lafrenière this morning to discuss the team’s plan to select him first overall and their preference that he “fit the team model” by showing up at training camp having aged 16 years and with no apparent desire to keep playing hockey, the club recently confirmed.
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TORONTO — A research team commissioned by the NHL discovered a never-before-seen third commercial this morning, according to league sources telling FanDuel their ad will now only broadcast 7,000,000 times over the next several days.
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This excerpt is from Pittsburgh Unfiltered’s completely unlicensed hockey compendium A Game of Violence: Three Periods and a Lot of Blood, which will be made available as a free PDF download at the start of the Penguins season Thursday, October 3. Now get out there and demand blood while banging your head to ‘Enter Sandman.’
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This excerpt is from Pittsburgh Unfiltered’s completely unlicensed hockey compendium A Game of Violence: Three Periods and a Lot of Blood, which will be made available as a free PDF download at the start of the Penguins season on Thursday, October 3. We wanted to get, like, Scott Paulsen or our beer guy Vince to write a guest entry, but this goofball wouldn’t leave us alone, so enjoy — or whatever.
Hello reader,
My name is Gary Bettman and I’m the commissioner of the very popular, highly prosperous, and virtually controversy-free National Hockey League. You may have seen me, some of my colleagues, and good hockey friends – just ask them! – briefly between basketball highlights and high school softball coverage on the ESPN – yes, the very same you’re thinking of!
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This excerpt is from Pittsburgh Unfiltered’s completely unlicensed hockey compendium A Game of Violence: Three Periods and a Lot of Blood, which will be made available as a free PDF download at the start of the Penguins’ season Thursday, October 3. The editor — pretty sure he goes by Chief — was a jagoff, but he begged us (/paid us handsomely in beer) to post this section first, so here goes nothing.
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SAINT PAUL, Minn. — Former Penguins player and assistant general manager Bill Guerin initiated impromptu hockey-style fights with numerous Minnesota Wild employees this morning to assert his dominance as the team’s new GM, sources holding ice packs to various parts of their face confirm.
Continue readingChuck and Ronnie spend a little of their downtime giving you the hottest takes on Pittsburgh sports. They also yelled at people speeding down the road.
Another year, another spring of question marks for the Penguins heading into the postseason. It doesn’t matter, though; the excitement of playoff hockey can’t be dulled by a mere hint of doubt.
We went down to the Big Screen at the site of our holiness, the former Civic Arena, to see what the game day experience was all about.
