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Unsung Heroes Ready To Shine In Second Round

Old or young, they rise like the mythical phoenix from the ashes every spring. They're the unsung heroes of the Stanley Cup playoffs, and they have already started to shine as the second round gets underway. "They're not guys that get a stack of headlines, but when the game is on the line, they just find a way to lead,"...

Coping With the Offseason: Tall Tales and Mirages of August

The temperature was over 90 degrees here on Long Island for the second day in a row. So, about two months late, summer has finally arrived in my neck of the woods. Glad to see that it could take the time to finally stop by. But along with the heat comes a weird time in the hockey news cycle. Basically, anything and...

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...

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...

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05/23/12 Remembering 1994: Q. and A. With Claude Lemieux Source: Slap Shot - The New York Times 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.

Background on claude lemieux

Claude Percy Lemieux (born July 16, 1965) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player. He last played for the San Jose Sharks before announcing his retirement on July 8, 2009. He is one of only ten players in Stanley Cup history to win the Cup with three different teams.

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