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The Ice Sheet: Playoff Speed Bumps

Every day from Monday to Saturday, The Ice Sheet will take a look at the biggest stories in the league that happened on the ice and elsewhere the night before.Every hockey fan knows that it's not goalie interference if a defenseman shoves an opponent into that D-man's own keeper. The rule was interpreted in two different...

Peter Forsberg Expected To Flip Coin, Throw Dart by Tuesday

Over the next 48 hours, Peter Forsberg will decide which NHL team will have the honor of giving his bum wheel a two-year contract. Or he'll decide to remain in Europe because he isn't healthy enough for Stanley Cup Playoff-level competition. Either way, this farcical season-long tease could finally be coming to an end; I...

NY Times Declares War on Sun Belt Hockey

For some, "balanced reporting" and "The New York Times" are mutually exclusive terms. Last weekend's notebook item titled "Enthusiasm Cools for Hockey's Foray Into the South" did little to dispel that notion; here was a doom and gloom report on the NHL in non-traditional markets -- an indictment of Tampa Bay, Phoenix,...

Forsberg Drains His Dating Pool

Word broke yesterday that Peter Forsberg could decide by the end of the week if he'll return to the NHL and where that return will take place. According to TSN, he's managed to narrow the field in anticipation of that decision. Since this ridiculous courtship is quite reminiscent of Internet dating, allow me to...

The Ice Sheet: Hurricanes Blow Away Leafs; Blogger Uses Meteorological Cliché

Every day from Monday to Saturday, The Ice Sheet will take a look at the biggest stories in the league that happened on the ice and elsewhere the night before.Maple GriefWhen I turned on the television this morning, BBC America was showing highlights from Carolina's 7-1 humbling of the Maple Leafs in Toronto last night. My...