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Offseason Roadmap: Pacific Division

It's officially the offseason, meaning the time is right to look into the future. We continue our division-by-division preview of the potential wheeling and dealing with the Pacific Division.San Jose saw its Presidents' Trophy campaign come to a surprising end in the first round of the NHL playoffs, Los Angeles is still...

Canadiens Lose Game, Key Players

Newsmakers in the NHL is a weekday morning attempt to clear yesterday's rebounds and look to the day ahead.Senators 3, Canadiens 2: First, the bad news for the Montreal Canadiens: they dropped a 3-2 decision, at home, to the Ottawa Senators on Monday night. Now, the really bad news for the Canadiens: remember those...

Martin Brodeur to Play vs. San Jose?

Back in November, the prospect of months without Martin Brodeur seemed like a long and daunting wait, but with Scott Clemmensen and Kevin Weekes playing the way they have, the time has gone quicker than expected. Still, everyone in New Jersey wants Marty back, and we're getting closer and closer to the reality of having...

Buys and Sells: Predicting the Future of the NHL's Aging Stars

Each Friday throughout the season, I'll provide you with my predictions on whose stock is on the rise and whose is failing miserably like an American bank pretty much everything these days. It's a neat little segment entitled Buys and Sells. There are a few teams/players/issues to buy and a few to sell.Last summer, we were...

In Defense of Claude Lemieux

Over at my other blogging home, The Sporting Blog at The Sporting News, I've been keeping a close eye on the return of Claude Lemieux to the NHL with the San Jose Sharks. Safe to say, no matter how one might feel about Lemieux, his comeback has been one of the more interesting stories this NHL season. Heck, when I asked...

ClaudeLemieux News From the Web

05/23/12 Slap Shot: Remembering 1994: Q. and A. With Claude... Source: The New York Times - New York NY During the Eastern Conference finals between the Rangers and the Devils, The New York Times will revisit some of the memorable characters of the 1994 conference finals between the teams.
05/17/12 Devils hot topic: Who is on your 'all-playoff team'? Source: NJ.com After yet another game-winning playoff goal by David Clarkson, we started thinking about some of the greatest postseason performers in Devils history.
05/14/12 25 Years Ago Today the Flyers and Canadiens Brawled... Source: The 700 Level The Globe and Mail wrote an article over the weekend about a bench-clearing brawl between the Philadelphia Flyers and Montreal Canadiens that took place before their playoff game even began way back on May 14, 1987. "
05/12/12 The fight that changed hockey Source: The Globe and Mail - Toronto ON - Canada From high in the rafters of the Montreal Forum, an organist plays a lovely little number once made popular by polkameister Frankie Yankovic.
05/08/12 Top Ten: Five former Detroit Red Wings occupy list of... Source: The Ann Arbor News - Ann Arbor MI With Nicklas Lidstrom deciding whether he's going to call it a career after 20 years with the Detroit Red Wings, or if he's going to push back his Hall of Fame induction ceremony for at least another season, it seems like an appropriate time to talk about some of the "senior" players in NHL history.