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Underfilling in Portland: Sabres Sign a Trio

In trying to fill the nigh-legendary shoes of the recently departed Randy Cunneyworth (I can't describe how hard my wife still laughs over the man's name... she's sometimes easily amused) for that hockey hotbed of Atlanta, the Buffalo Sabres today went with the next best thing in terms of organizational continuity in...

Brett Favre, Minor League Hockey Player?

As if the Iowa Chops, the Anaheim Ducks AHL club, didn't make enough headlines with their goofy new name and delicious new logo, the hockey club has gone out and publicly tried to recruit Brett Favre, the indecisive Hall-of-Famer-to-be NFL QB, for a spot on the roster.Could sports fans see Brett Favre in an Iowa Chops...

Ducks Prospects Turned Into Pork Chops

With Iowa's AHL franchise now serving the Anaheim Ducks instead of the Dallas Stars, a new name change and uniform design was in order.Instead of opting to go the easy route and become the Iowa Ducks or Iowa Mallards, the team went in a completely different direction and chose a baffling new name: The Iowa Chops. "We...

Boy Dies at Hockey Game Picking Up His Raffle Prize

A 14-year-old boy from Scituate, Mass. died at a minor league hockey game between the Portland Pirates and the Providence Bruins at the Dunkin' Donuts Center in Providence on Friday night. It was "Revival Night," an annual promotion by the team that attracts more than a thousand church congregants to the arena. The...