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Battered Blueline Will Not Stop the Canadiens in Game 6

MONTREAL -- Outside the Bell Centre, a pair of tickets for Monday night's Game 6 between the Montreal Canadiens and Pittsburgh Penguins can be purchased from a hospitable scalper for $1,500. However, there are two less expensive avenues to get into the tilt that's the talk of Quebec. Find a way to become one of the...

Thrashers Owner Says Team Is Committed to Keeping Kovalchuk

The Atlanta Thrashers, currently occupying their familiar spot at the bottom of the NHL's standings, are headed for their ninth non-playoff season in their 10-year existence. The team's best player -- and captain -- Ilya Kovalchuk is an unrestricted free agent following next season, while starting netminder Kari Lehtonen...

Daniel Briere Injured Again

In hindsight, the Philadelphia Flyers decision to sign Daniel Briere to an eight-year, $52 million contract is looking to be a rather poor investment. That is, if you ignore the original insanity of giving a player that type of contract when he's topped 75 points only once in his career. And that's when he's actually on...

Rangers Continue Slide in Playoff Race

Things are getting ugly in New York as the Rangers continued their recent slide with a 5-2 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday afternoon, their seventh loss in the past eight games, putting them in the quagmire that is the bottom of the Eastern Conference playoff picture.Aside from getting booed much of the afternoon...

Glen Metropolit's Big Give

Few ever associate Canadian cities and low class "projects" in the same breath, but Canada, like any other country, has its share of communities where people barely scrape by on welfare and minimum wage jobs.Regent Park, an area of Toronto, is the picture of a typical "American" inner city: Drug dealers, prostitutes,...