I was flipping through my Comcast Xfinity Guide Brought To You By TV Guide this morning when I noticed that the NHL Network was showing a game. After highlighting the listing, this is what was showing: Hartford vs. St. Louis? Someone in the world of cable television decided to bring back the Hartford Whalers, if only for one day. With all of the NHL…

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We've all been there. You're traveling somewhere & end up watching a game in an airport bar, only to find that it's time to board and the game isn't over yet. Some Canadian travelers on an Air Canada flight from Vancouver unwisely booked their flights for during the gold medal match with the United States. I guess they didn't think Canada would…

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Ladies and gentlemen, here's the shortest fight in NHL history. Daniel Carcillo of the Philadelphia Flyers managed to K.O. the Caps' Matt Bradley with one punch following a cross-check. Bradley did drop his gloves, but Carcillo punched him about 2 milliseconds later and down he went. The referees took pity on Bradley and didn't give him a penalty…

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Today's Worst Person in the World: Keith Ballard of the Florida Panthers. Following a goal by the Atlanta Thrashers' Ilya Kovalchuk, Ballard angrily smashed his stick against his own net. Or at least, that's what he tried to do. His own teammate, goalie Tomas Vokoun, was still in the crease and started to stand up just as…

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Henrik Andersen is only 18, so he's not only fairly new to professional hockey, he's also new to goal celebrations. Anderson scored his first goal of the season for Sweden's Leksand and immediately tried an Ovechkin-style celebration by crashing into the glass. Not only did he crash into it, he crashed right through it. It seems nobody…

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