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The biggest questions for all 24 teams remaining in the NHL playoff mix
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Hockey
Tuesday, 02 June 2020 10:53
The sheer volume of questions about the NHL's season restart this summer can leave one feeling woozy. Will teams and players come back? Can they come back? Should they come back? And that's not even getting into the mysteries concerning locations, schedules, and the hundreds of health and safety considerations necessary for playing out the 2019-20 season in a global…
Building the perfect NHL forward: Best skills, attributes
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Tuesday, 02 June 2020 05:44
Today's NHL is loaded with skill and talent up and down the ice. But what would the perfect player look like? Using the attributes of current NHL stars, we set out to create the perfect forward, defenseman and goaltender.We start the series here by building the ultimate forward from 19 different skills and characteristics of players around the league. (Check…
NHL players speak out on protests, Floyd's death
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Hockey
Monday, 01 June 2020 14:30
NHL players and teams made strong statements against racial inequality over the weekend, using social media to address the killing of George Floyd and the protests that followed.Floyd died last week in Minneapolis after Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes. He was 46. Chauvin, fired last Tuesday, was charged Friday with…
The NHL's coronavirus pause: Players, coaches offer opinions on return-to-play format
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Hockey
Monday, 01 June 2020 10:03
It has been 81 days since the NHL hit the pause button on the 2019-20 season because of the coronavirus pandemic. As the cancellations and postponements around the world of sports continue, there also have been continuous nuggets of new information regarding the potential resumption of the season, the draft, the playoffs and how it all affects 2020-21.As players, executives…
Angela Ruggiero: 'Shocking' that more women aren't NHL execs, coaches
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Hockey
Monday, 01 June 2020 05:05
Angela Ruggiero is a Hockey Hall of Famer, a successful businessperson and a respected former member of the International Olympic Committee. She will add "head coach" to that biography next summer as one of the inaugural group of eight bench bosses for 3ICE, an innovative 3-on-3 hockey league scheduled to begin play in summer 2021.Despite her experience and her stature,…
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