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Doubled up (with overnight adds)

Fairfield’s Julie Chu was on the ice for Hilary Knight’s goal in overtime, and the U.S. women’s national team beat Canada to win the World Championship. So that’s gold for the Under-18 men’s team

Extra goalies

Katie Strang reports that the Islanders do plan to toll Evgeni Nabokov’s contract, which means its terms roll over to next season. Assuming it does happen, that’s 28 NHL contracts for next year,

Comebacks and comeuppance

So Portland led 3-0 and 4-1, only to blow it when Brodie Dupont tied it 1:36 into the third period… and then Dupont took a tripping penalty off the faceoff, and Mark Parrish scored the winner. The

Miracle Off Manchester

Twitter has been awash with ideas on what to call that Kings-Sharks game. Almost 30 years after the Miracle on Manchester, the natural play is to call it “(Some-‘F’-Word) on Figueroa,” and yeah, if

Change of seasons

So I saw Pat Corcoran play for St. Joseph today. Normally, good. Except he wasn’t on a line with Conor Crouse and Sander Boroczky. Ah, lacrosse ain’t so bad at all. But still. (Be nicer if the wind

On the farm

No kind of timetable for a new head coach, nor idea who he might be nor where he’ll be coming from. Still have not heard back from Long Island with any kind of official reasoning for this change,

RIP, E.J.

When I think back on Edward John McGuire, well, I remember three things. One, the mustache. I mean, come on. Awesome. Two, the ready smile. And three, how generous the Hartford Wolf Pack’s first head

Bye, Bourbeau

Only one change today: Jean Bourbeau has been sent down to Odessa. Unlike yesterday’s moves, sending down a guy who wasn’t playing much and a goalie who probably wouldn’t play much, this one’s

Sniper

The winner of the end-of-practice shootout did it with a couple of beauties. Backhander high-glove, post-and-in against Koskinen. Roofed it under the crossbar on Martin. Guess who? Benn Olson and

Reminder: Chat Wednesday

Because the team has Monday and Tuesday off, we’ll do the chat Wednesday this week at the usual 1:30. Hope you can be here. (And it’ll be on this post.) Edit, late Tuesday: Some links in the meantime: