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Playoff Hockey is underway as the best NHL teams from the year are duking it out to see who will win the Stanley Cup in 2013. So far the playoffs have been exciting to say...

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On Tuesday, CSN Chicago’s Susannah Collins told her audience that the Chicago  Blackhawks have had “a tremendous amount of sex” this season. She has since been dismissed from her network. What she meant to say,...

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Hockey analyst Don Cherry stirred up some drama last Saturday when he ranted on-air about female reporters’ access to locker rooms, claiming women should be kept out of the locker room.  In response to the...

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The shortened NHL season came with the caveat of no inter-conference play. If you’re a fan of an Eastern Conference team, you likely haven’t caught more than a few Western Conference games all season. Many...

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The NHL’s Eastern Conference final standings were a partial mystery until the end since so many seedings hinged on Sunday’s lone game, a division match-up between the Boston Bruins and Ottawa Senators. The Senators ended...

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Hockey analyst Don Cherry got himself into some hot water recently when he went on the air to interrupt a playoff update to make his claim known that women do not belong in the men’s...

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Final Score: Washington Capitals 3, Boston Bruins 2 With the season finale on Sunday, the Bruins are fighting and clawing their way into the No. 2 seed spot in the playoffs. While the Bruins will...

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Monday night, the Chicago Blackhawks lost to the Vancouver Canucks in a 3-1 decision. Defenseman Duncan Keith didn’t have a great game, and was understandably not in the highest of spirits for postgame interviews. But...

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For what it’s worth, the NHL’s long history of labor disputes between players and owners has created dramatic paradigm shifts in the League’s successful teams. The post-lockout NHL in 2005 saw the emergence of players...

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Yesterday’s man hunt sent the city into lockdown, and with Boston completely shut down, its sports team’s were understandably sidelined until further notice. As Boston begins an attempt to return to the everyday norm, some...

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