Monthly Archive for May, 2013
Yikes, OKC
Natural disaster strikes again in Oklahoma City: Another massive storm with tornado warnings left the OKC dressing room flooded and postponed Game 4; they’ll play Saturday and add a date Sunday. Mark …
Crunch, Barons go up
Tyler Johnson did play, and he played in a game that went to the wire before an empty-netter gave Syracuse a 2-0 win over the Penguins and a 2-1 series lead. Richard Panik left early for the Crunch, …
Linkage catchup
Syracuse tied up the Eastern Conference Final on Sunday but lost Tyler Johnson to what sounded like an inadvertent knee-on-knee with Chad Kolarik (who left briefly). Johnson didn’t practice yesterday; …
Tornado relief in OKC
A pretty neat gesture from the PHPA and the AHL: Ticket revenue from Wednesday’s Game 3 of the Western Conference Final will go toward relief for the OKC area, struck by tornadoes over two days last …
School partnership, locals to Europe
Excellent and long-overdue news in high schools: The SCC and SWC announced a partnership beginning in the winter, teaming up to create a superpower hockey conference. The headliner is Notre …
Pens all the way back
They pulled it off. Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, dead in the water, facing the top team in the league, needing four in a row with the last two on the road… They pulled it off. Brad Thiessen made 34 saves …
Islanders sign Chris Bruton/Griffins advance
The Islanders announced they’ve signed right winger Chris Bruton to an NHL deal for next year. Looks like he brings some grit and toughness; he was also captain of the 2008 Memorial Cup champions in …
Pens force Game 7
There’ll be a seventh game Wednesday night in Providence, and you can thank or blame Brad Thiessen as appropriate. The Bruins were all over the Pens; Thiessen didn’t let a second one in, which gave …
The 10th one’s the tricky one
Switzerland was 9-0 at the World Championship through Saturday. But Sweden is the World Champion, coming back from an early deficit to win gold on Sunday. The U.S. coughed up a 2-0 lead in the …
Niederreiter, Switzerland looking golden
The rest of the organization waits at home, but Nino Niederreiter’s playing for gold on Sunday. He scored the first goal on a two-on-one off a neutral-zone turnover, and he assisted on Reto Suri’s …
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