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A hit like that, don't even try to excuse it
Last night's Tampa Bay Lightning vs. Montreal Canadiens game wasn't televised in the Tampa Bay Market... Which was the truth for the majority of the Lightning's pre-season. There were other sports distractions locally anyway. So even if the game was on TV, it would have likely been missed. It's...
Before the Penguins Finale: A Primer of 2010-11 Islanders Grievances
Following the Islanders 9-3 destruction of the Penguins Feb. 11, somehow the national media didn't see it like Isles fans. Instead of seeing it as turning the corner on a tough season with a rout of a division rival (well before the fights started), or even an oft-beat-up team finally standing up...
NHL General Managers Continue Seeking Solution for Player Safety
The second day of the General Manager's Meeting in Boca Raton took another look at working to resolve some of the player safety issues facing the league. The bottom line? After the impact of the yesterday's Concussion Study, seeing concussion-causing hit after hit, the questions surfaces if the...
Nebraska's Courtney Osborne's Hit on Blaine Gabbert - A Shot Sequence
My last article was a series of individual shots of game action of Nebraska's last game against Missouri as fellow members of the Big 12 conference. After the jump is a four-shot sequence of Courtney Osborne's hit on Blaine Gabbert as provided by Dennis Hubbard, a play that has created a fair...
Taking The Pulse Of BRB: The NFL’s New "Violent Hits" Policy
Something that seems to be sweeping the nation and sports talk radio the past couple of weeks is the NFL's new "Violent Hits" policy. After Steelers linebacker James Harrison decided it was his job to try to become the first NFL serial killer a couple of Sundays ago, the mighty Commissioner Goodell...
More Headshots: James Wisniewski Takes Out Brent Seabrook
One of Coyotes Fans' "favorite" players, one James Wisniewski, tonight delivered a vicious hit on the Chicago Blackhawks' Brent Seabrook. Seabrook had delivered an out of position hit on Corey Perry of the Ducks and Play continued. Then after the puck had been cycled past Seabrook behind the net,...
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