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Colorado Avalanche should be template for Oilers
Apart from the plane trips and restaurant gift certificates on Fan Appreciation Night, the Edmonton Oiler faithful were treated to what they hope their team will be like some day–the visiting Colorado...
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Expect Sidney Crosby to score Hart Trophy come NHL awards time
Ask the NHL rank-and-file to vote on the game’s best player, and I’d say 70 per cent of them would scribble C-R-O-S-B-Y. But Sidney Crosby, the superstar Pittsburgh Penguins captain, has won only one...
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15 observations off the first round of the 2013-14 NHL playoffs
Here are 15 observations through the first round of the NHL playoffs: 1. Nathan MacKinnon might have a wrist-shot as rippingly accurate as his Colorado Avalanche boss, Joe Sakic, and that’s saying...
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Short Shifts: Detroit Red Wings keeping farm coach in fold as Mike Babcock...
- Predictably, Detroit Red Wings general manager Ken Holland says he’ll deny all requests for teams to talk to his much-coveted farm team coach, Jeff Blashill, this spring. He can’t afford to let the...
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Cinderella Avalanche lost their glass shoe this season
Somewhere between last year’s 112-point season when they were No. 3 overall, and this year’s 78 points, where, they are 21st, rests the real Colorado Avalanche. They are somewhere between the penthouse...
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'Refreshed' Scrivens ready for challenge to be Oilers' No. 1 goalie
Edmonton Oilers goalie Ben Scrivens looks awfully lean these days. If he’s not hungry for a Big Mac, he’s hungry for the net after a poor NHL season. Scrivens was a lightning rod for fans’ discontent...
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Goalies net an edge with beefed up equipment and the butterfly effect
The first test of goalie Dave Dryden’s new mask was a slapshot to the face. The Edmonton Oilers, then of the World Hockey Association, were playing a 1977 exhibition game in Finland. “I remember being...
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Oilers goalie Anders Nilsson is faltering, but he's not the only one
In the last few seconds of the middle period Saturday, Edmonton Oilers winger Taylor Hall delivered his seventh shot at Semyon Varlamov and the Colorado Avalanche goalie dismissed it like a harmless...
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Jarome Iginla recalls his love/hate relationship with Rexall Place
If you’re looking for a non-Oiler with the strongest connection to Rexall Place, it would have to be the kid who grew up in St. Albert and wound up playing 16 years with the Calgary Flames. A building...
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Cult of Hockey: Will things really work out swell for Barrie & Avs? Hmmm
This in from reporter Adrian Dater of Bleacher Report, a long-time chronicler of the Colorado Avs, who writes that the July 29 arbitration hearing between Tyson Barrie and the Colorado Avs just might...
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