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Cook: Evgeni Malkin lives up to lofty standards bc-hkn-malkin(sh) | By: RON COOK | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Sports Columns (TN), Hockey (HK) May 15, 2013 12:05 PM By RON COOK It says something about Evgeni Malkin's hockey talents that he can be the Pittsburgh Penguins' top scorer in their first-round playoff series against the New York Islanders, score in all six games, lead the NHL in assists and still fee
Cook: Fleury must get another chance to help Penguins win Stanley Cup bc-hkn-penguins(sh) | By: RON COOK | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Sports Columns (TN), Hockey (HK) May 13, 2013 11:30 AM By RON COOK You think taking down the New York Islanders in six games was rough? The Ottawa Senators will be a much tougher out. Islanders goaltender Evgeni Nabokov was a sieve, his poor play the biggest reason the Penguins survived and advanced.
Cook: Penguins' Tomas Vokoun excels in goal despite nerves bc-hkn-vokoun(sh) | By: RON COOK | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Sports Columns (TN), Hockey (HK) May 10, 2013 11:45 AM By RON COOK Rust? What rust? So what if Penguins goaltender Tomas Vokoun hadn't played in 17 days? Playoff inexperience? What inexperience? So what if Vokoun hadn't played in a postseason game in more than six years and came in with a 3-8 playoff
Ryan Suter thrives playing 'crazy' minutes for Minnesota Wild bc-hkn-suter-stamina(sh) | By: RACHEL BLOUNT | Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | Hockey (HK) May 3, 2013 1:15 PM By RACHEL BLOUNT By any standard, he should have been exhausted. But less than 10 hours after Tuesday's NHL playoff opener against Chicago -- in which Ryan Suter played 41 minutes, 8 seconds -- the Wild defenseman was answering an 8 a.m. wake-up c
Alex Ovechkin thriving under Capitals coach Adam Oates bc-hkn-ovechkin(sh) | By: STEVE ZIPAY | Source: Newsday | Hockey (HK) May 2, 2013 12:40 PM By STEVE ZIPAY A day before the Washington Capitals were to open the postseason, Alex Ovechkin was at the head of the class. Kneeling on the ice, the Russian sniper was in front of the scrum of teammates at practice watching a play being diagramed o
Evgeni Nabokov has playoff experience young Islanders lack bc-hkn-nabokov(sh) | By: MARK HERRMANN | Source: Newsday | Hockey (HK) May 1, 2013 10:40 AM By MARK HERRMANN As interesting as it should be to see how so many young Islanders players perform in their first Stanley Cup playoff games, the true key to the team's first postseason series in six years quite likely is the 37-year-old who has been
Cook: Playoffs could soothe Sidney Crosby's pain bc-hkn-crosby(sh) | By: RON COOK | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Sports Columns (TN), Hockey (HK) Apr 30, 2013 3:05 PM By RON COOK The words came from Penguins coach Dan Bylsma. He was reacting to the suggestion that it's easy to feel sympathy for team captain Sidney Crosby, who lives to play hockey but has missed big chunks of his career because of injuries. "You w
Sixteen teams begin the run for the Stanley Cup bc-hkn-runforthecup(sh) | By: DAVE MOLINARI | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Sports Columns (TN), Hockey (HK) Apr 29, 2013 12:00 PM By DAVE MOLINARI Sixteen teams will have a chance to win the Stanley Cup as the playoffs begin. Most, if not all, genuinely believe they can do it. And, if history counts for anything, they should. No postseason tournament is more grueling or unpre
High-pressure system in forecast for Dan Bylsma, Penguins when NHL playoffs begin bc-hkn-penguins(sh) | By: RON COOK | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Hockey (HK) Apr 26, 2013 11:15 AM By RON COOK I started a long conversation with Pittsburgh Penguins coach Dan Bylsma late Tuesday night by congratulating him on getting to 200 wins faster than any NHL coach. I finished it by suggesting he likely will be fired if the team goes out i
Collier: Penguins' owners always aim for the Stanley Cup bc-hkn-penguins(sh) | By: GENE COLLIER | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Sports Columns (TN), Hockey (HK) Apr 5, 2013 3:51 PM By GENE COLLIER Working to confirm that Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Ray Shero is at this hour pleading with the NHL office to extend the trade deadline -- just a couple of days -- so that he might add another component to his hockey team's
Collier: It's getting tough to think about anything but the streak hkn-penguins | By: GENE COLLIER | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Sports Columns (TN), Hockey (HK) Mar 27, 2013 12:10 PM The longest winning streak in the history of the NHL was in progress 20 years ago today, when waves of power-skating Pittsburgh Penguins flashing the ancient colors of basic black and traffic-light gold piled up 17 victories without interruption. Unl
U.S. national deaf hockey team begins title quest hko-deafhockey | By: JIM ALEXANDER | Source: The Press-Enterprise | Hockey (HK) Mar 22, 2013 2:55 PM Hockey is by its nature an audible sport. There's the swoosh of skates, the smack of stick on puck, the thumps of collisions along the boards and, not least, the way players chirp at each other when emotions run high. Trey Wilson has fed his passion
Cook: Mental aspect still final piece of the puzzle for Penguins hkn-penguins | By: RON COOK | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Sports Columns (TN), Hockey (HK) Mar 8, 2013 3:30 PM The Pittsburgh Penguins have more than enough talent to beat the Philadelphia Flyers in a game, a season series, even a playoff series. They proved that again Thursday night by digging out of a three-goal abyss in the second period the way few teams
Rangers making strides when it comes to winning faceoffs hkn-rangers | By: STEVE ZIPAY | Source: Newsday | Hockey (HK) Mar 7, 2013 12:35 PM After a shaky start this season, the Rangers' pivots are certainly adapting. In the last four games, they've won an average of 60 percent of faceoffs (55 percent against the Flyers, 64 against the Sabres, 67 against the Lightning and 57 against the J
High school hockey players cleared too soon after concussions, study concludes concussions-kids | By: JACK KELLY | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Health and Fitness (AH), Hockey (HK) Mar 7, 2013 12:15 PM His study of 54 high school hockey players in New England who suffered concussions indicated more than a quarter of the athletes were cleared to return to play too soon, said Neal McGrath, neuropsychologist and clinical director of Sports Concussion
Cook: Marc-Andre Fleury's mental strength an asset for Penguins hkn-fleury | By: RON COOK | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Hockey (HK) Mar 5, 2013 1:15 PM Marc-Andre Fleury is a true pro, not just a winner but a Stanley Cup-winning goaltender. He is as tough-minded as they come despite going through life with a smile on his face, seemingly without a care in the world. He's strong enough to shrug off ba
Islanders Rick DiPietro felt 'like someone ripped out my heart' after demotion to minors hkn-dipietro | By: ARTHUR STAPLE | Source: Scripps Howard News Service | Hockey (HK) Mar 1, 2013 1:30 PM Being sent down to the minors had Rick DiPietro feeling "like someone ripped out my heart," the goaltender said Thursday. DiPietro, in an interview with News 12, opened up about his struggles with injuries and being ridiculed by fans the past few sea
Collier: Documentary 'Last Gladiators' shows hockey's role in Chris Nilan's sad life hkn-gladiator | By: GENE COLLIER | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Film (EF), Sports Columns (TN), Hockey (HK) Feb 27, 2013 3:45 PM A dark close-up of the very knuckles that begat Chris Nilan's nickname fills the opening shot of "The Last Gladiators," but the old National Hockey League enforcer's sharp mind, broken heart and ravaged soul are the most brutal components of the new
In 'Last Gladiators,' hockey players show love of game gladiators-film | By: BARBARA VANCHERI | Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | Film (EF), Hockey (HK) Feb 22, 2013 12:45 PM Call them what you will: hockey goons, enforcers, the brawlers who provide protection for the finesse players. Alex Gibney's new documentary gives them another name: "The Last Gladiators." Front and center in the movie is Chris "Knuckles" Nilan, a re
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