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Ice Chips: Who Wants To Skate With Cros-Kin?

This week’s lucky-special-wow winner is Ruslan Fedotenko, who goes from being bumped around every line possible to skating shotgun on a mega-line with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. That also means that something’s not quite right in Pittsburgh, as uniting the two star centres on one line is usually a formula for kick-starting a club [...]

 

Two Minute Warning: Down on Main Street

Two weeks prior to Week Eight action, a co-worker of mine invited me to watch the Eagles/Falcons game at her apartment with a group of people. The apartment is dubbed the “Bob Seger Castle.” Why you ask? For no other reason than it is located on Main Street. Sounds like the concoction of people who [...]

 

Dr. Pigskin: Week Eight

This past week marked the second annual game played in Wembley Stadium in London, England. Last year, the Giants played the Dolphins in a rather boring mudfest. Both the NFL and the fine folks overseas learned from this lesson. The groundskeepers let the grass grow out longer and took special measures to prepare the field. [...]

 

Filatov Farmed out by Columbus

Unless you’re playing in a keeper league, you can probably feel free to dump young Russian forward Nikita Filatov, after Columbus sent him down to the AHL on Tuesday.
This 18-year-old kid, the sixth overall pick in the draft in June, became just the fourth Blue Jacket in team history to score a goal in his [...]

 

The Mitchell Report Revisited, Part XIII

Okay, this is it – the final part of our 13,731-word tome on the Mitchell Report, nearly a year later. We’ve done our best to give you full updates on all the parties mentioned in this report, but damn, it will be fine to get on to something else baseball related after this has kept [...]