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Re: 2010-2011 NHL Season
I was in Boston when the Sox won the 2007 World Series. The game was IN Colorado, but I had tickets to the Patriots game that day. So we made a day out of it. We watched the Pats crush the Skins 52-7 or whatever it was, then took the short drive to Boston to watch the game in one of the bars near Fenway. It was a crazy scene and there were mobs of people out on the streets celebrating. Police had a presence, but there was nothing too crazy or dangerous going on. Although I was highly intoxicated and ran from cops for some reason. I ended up getting separated from my group of friends and my cell phone died. I asked a cop if I could borrow his phone. Luckily, he obliged, and even despite my horrible drunken description of where I was, my friends were able to track me down.
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Re: 2010-2011 NHL Season
Sabres trading for Regehr, then trading for the rights to Christian Ehrhoff and signing him, then getting Ville Leino when they thought they couldn't get Richards really shows the organization's new direction. Lost Connolly to the Leafs, Montador to the Blackhawks, and Butler to Calgary, so I think there's no question Buffalo got better. I'm hoping we deal two of Boyes-Pominville-Kotalik-Hecht along with picks to get a real top 2 center, but if Leino is playing center, we still will have a strong enough D and goaltending to contend for the division.
Re: 2010-2011 NHL Season
Chris Osgood's long and winding road in the NHL has finally come to an end.
The 38-year-old keeper announced his retirement from hockey in Detroit Tuesday morning, bringing an end to his 17-year playing career. He moves on to a new job within the Red Wings organization.
The Peace River, Alberta-native won three Stanley Cups with the Detroit Red Wings, who originally drafted Osgood in the third round, 54th overall, in 1991. He suited up for 744 NHL games in his career, spending two stints with the Wings, as well as playing for the Blues and Islanders.
He would serve as the starter for two of his three Cup wins, in 1998 and 2008 and served as Mike Vernon's back-up on Detroit's 1997 Cup-winning team. He also took the Wings to Game 7 of the 2009 Cup Final, where they would lose to the Pittsburgh Penguins.
A two-time Jennings Trophy winner, Osgood would share the award with Mike Vernon in 1996 and Dominik Hasek in 2008.
Osgood's numbers rank amongst the all-time leaders amongst NHL goalies, despite fighting for a starting job for portions of his career.
Still, the numbers piled up. He ranks amongst the all-time leaders in regular-season wins (401, 10th all-time), shutouts (50, tied for 24th), goals-against average (2.49, 24th).
In the playoffs, his numbers were even better, his 74 playoff wins are good for eighth all-time and his 16 playoff shutouts trail only Martin Brodeur, Patrick Roy and Curtis Joseph.
Osgood is also one of only five goalies to have scored a goal in an NHL game by actually firing the puck into the opponent's net, doing so against Hartford on March 6, 1996.
Re: 2010-2011 NHL Season
Well if Osgood deserves to get in than a guy like Thomas sure as hell does. 1 Cup, 1 Conn Smythe, Two Vezinas. Thomas has in my opinion accomplished more and achieved more than Osgood. Osgood was ok but he played on the Red Wings. he was NEVER the determining factor was never the guy looked at as having the edge over the goalie at the other end of the rink. he's an average goalie who played on a very good team. I think him for the HOF is a tough, tough argument.
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No decision yet for Marc Savard’s name on Bruins’ Stanley Cup
By Greg Wyshynski
For a player to automatically get his name on the Stanley Cup after his team wins the championship, he needs 41 regular-season appearances or one appearance in the Stanley Cup Final. Upon request to the NHL, there are exceptions to this rule.
Which brings us to Marc Savard(notes).
Savard played 25 games for the Boston Bruins in 2010-11 before another concussion ended his season on Jan. 22, well before the B's began their playoff journey to the Stanley Cup championship.
We've had a few readers ask recently about Savard's name on the Cup, so we passed the query to the Bruins. From Bruins director of communications Matt Chmura:
"No decisions have been made yet. [GM] Peter Chiarelli has stated publicly that he will petition for Marc to be on the Cup, but I have not heard definitively one way or the other on an answer."
This is probably a formality, given that Savard is scheduled to spend a day with the Stanley Cup in Peterborough on Aug. 1. But according to the Bruins, nothing has been formalized with Savard's name on the chalice. So there you go.
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Former NHLer Belak found dead in Toronto condo
A sad off-season in the National Hockey League continued Wednesday with the death of former Toronto Maple Leafs and Calgary Flames tough guy Wade Belak, CBC News has confirmed.
Belak, who played 15 seasons in the NHL with five teams and had retired on March 8, reportedly was found in the tony 1 King West Hotel and Residence, just blocks from the Air Canada Centre in downtown Toronto. He was 35.
Born in Saskatoon and raised in Battleford, Sask., Belak is the third NHL player to die in less than four months.
In mid-May, New York Rangers enforcer Derek Boogaard, 28, was found dead in his Minneapolis apartment from a drug overdose, while one-time Vancouver Canucks forward Rick Rypien was found in his Alberta home earlier this month, a "sudden" and "non-suspicious" death, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Rypien was suffering from depression.
Belak, who maintained residences in B.C. and Nashville —where he last skated in the NHL for the Predators —was in Toronto to film the third season of Battle of the Blades, the CBC's successful reality-show mixture of hockey and figure skating, which begins Sept. 18.
"The entire Nashville Predators organization and family is shocked and saddened by the sudden and untimely passing of Wade Belak," read a statement released by the NHL club. "Wade was a beloved member of the organization, a terrific teammate and wonderful father and husband who will be greatly missed.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to his wife Jennifer and children Andie and Alex. We offer our full support to them at this very difficult time."
The Belak family is not commenting at this time, CBC News in Saskatchewan reported Wednesday evening.
Belak was a first-round pick of the Quebec Nordiques (now Colorado Avalanche), drafted 12th overall in 1994. He broke into the NHL with the Avalanche during the 1996-97 campaign, playing five regular-season games. Belak appeared in eight games the following season and 22 in 1998-99 before moving on to the Calgary Flames for two-plus seasons.
It was during Belak's next NHL stop in Toronto where the player realized he had a future in the league.
"That's where I learned to play forward and defence," Belak told the Toronto Star in May of this year. "I knew my role was the enforcer type, but I learned a lot of things along the way from people like [former NHL tough guy] Warren Rychel."
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wtf is up with nhl players this summer? 
