While other municipalities debate about how to fund new arena projects, Kansas City remains in the NHL expansion/relocation conversation because they already have a viable one: Sprint Center. The 18,000-seat barn (with a smaller capacity for hockey) is managed by … Continue reading ?

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Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and boils those events down to one admittedly superficial fact or stupid opinion about each team. Feel free to complain about … Continue reading ?

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Lindy Ruff of the Buffalo Sabres is the NHL's longest-tenured coach, hired in July 1997. Nashville Predators Coach Barry Trotz was actually hired one month later, but the Preds' inaugural season was the following year. The next longest-tenured coach entering … Continue reading ?

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Brendan Shanahan knows exactly what he's getting in to.

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Brendan Shanahan knows exactly what he's getting in to. Without ever overseeing a discipline hearing or handing out a suspension, the NHL's new sheriff is already familiar with the ins and outs of hockey justice. "I played this sport, I understand the passion that's involved," Shanahan said during the NHL's recent research and development camp.

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Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media. • Ladies, here is a ferocious bit of rink-inspired fashion for you. … Continue reading ?

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Jersey Fouls is our ongoing exploration of the rules and etiquette for proper hockey jersey creation and exhibition. If you spot what you think may be a foul in your arena, email a photo to us at puckdaddyblog@yahoo.com for inclusion in … Continue reading ?

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So what comes next for the Islanders, now that their latest attempt to secure a new arena was shot down in early August?

Owner Charles Wang said the rebuilding team must concentrate in the short term on getting back to the playoffs this season, but the franchise's future on Long Island is murkier than ever after Nassau County voters rejected a referendum for $400 million in funding for a sports complex that would include a replacement for antiquated Nassau Coliseum.

While Nassau officials continued to solicit private development proposals for the 77-acre land that houses the Coliseum, Wang reportedly opened discussions to possibly relocate the Isles to another Long Island county, Suffolk, which is farther east—away from New York City—than the team's existing...

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TORONTO - Brendan Shanahan knows exactly what he's getting in to.

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Duane Sutter’s hockey career has taken him all over North America.

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