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Re-signing Alex Steen a must for St. Louis Blues
While this season looks like an out-of-body experience for Alex Steen (20 goals and 32 points and plus 13), St. Louis Blues head coach Ken Hitchcock says this is no one-off. He’s the real thing, and...
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A wonderful step back in time for Ken Hitchcock
Ken Hitchcock turned 62 on Wednesday but two nights later at a dinner at a downtown Edmonton restaurant, the St. Louis Blues coach with 628 NHL wins took a step back in time to when he was 12 and a...
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Magnus Paajarvi still finding his way with the St. Louis Blues
The transition has been far from seamless for Magnus Paajarvi, who returns to Rexall Place tonight as a member of the St. Louis Blues. But the team is winning, and he does have a head coach who sees a...
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Chris Stewart on Alex Ovechkin scoring pace for Blues
The St. Louis Blues were supposed to heading to the Century Grill for a team meal Saturday after leaving Rexall Place, before flying to Calgary but did they really need to eat twice? They’d already...
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Martin Marincin, Anton Belov surprise selections off Edmonton Oilers roster...
Listen to Edmonton Oilers head coach talk about the players off his team’s roster selected to play in the Sochi Olympics Edmonton Oilers defenders Martin Marincin and Anton Belov got surprising...
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Ken Hitchcock talks about Olympic team choices
Mike Babcock is running Canada’s bench in Sochi but nobody’s been around the Olympics more than Ken Hitchcock, who’s on his fourth term of duty as an associate/right-hand man who’s seen things in Salt...
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Ten St. Louis Blues players will be going to Sochi for Olympics
Chew on this: Half of head coach Ken Hitchcock’s St. Louis Blues lineup Tuesday night against the Edmonton Oilers will be in Sochi, at the 2014 Winter Olympics, a month from now. Ten out of 20 players,...
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THIS ‘N’ THAT
Would the Carolina Hurricanes ever consider trading goalie Cam Ward, who has two years left on his deal ($6.3-million salary-cap hit)? They like Russia’s Anton Khudobin and farmhand Justin Peters gave...
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Finding a replacement winger for Sidney Crosby won’t be easy
Pittsburgh Penguins general manager Ray Shero is a sharp cookie. He traded defenceman Alex Goligoski to the Dallas Stars for James Neal and Matt Niskanen and years back he got rental stud Marian Hossa...
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Taylor Hall has a sore shoulder, but the Edmonton Oilers star is ready to...
Edmonton Oilers winger Taylor Hall has a sore shoulder and didn’t skate Monday or Tuesday morning, but like the cop says at a traffic accident–move along folks, nothing to see here. It is, as somebody...
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Ralph Krueger is going to work for an English soccer team
Former Edmonton Oilers head coach Ralph Krueger has accepted a position on the board of a soccer team in the English Premier League. Krueger, who was fired in June in favour of Dallas Eakins after...
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Another drive is alive to get Drake into Hockey Hall of Fame
A group of local businessmen is making another push to have Clare Drake inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builder’s category. Drake, who influenced scores of coaches — among them current NHL...
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Ex-Oilers coach Ralph Krueger engrossed with new English soccer gig
Ralph Krueger is now chairman of the board of the Southampton Football Club, which is currently residing in ninth place in the 20-team Barclay’s Premier League — a fine placing because, as he says,...
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This ‘n’ that: Ex-Oilers defenceman Anton Belov says playing in NHL...
- Anton Belov’s statement to a reporter at Sovietsky Sport about his time with the Edmonton Oilers wasn’t as negative as it first appeared. “Nobody can pay me enough for having had the experience of...
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Short Shifts: Tyler Myers stands tall again for Buffalo Sabres
Tyler Myers’s game in Buffalo has picked up considerably this year because Josh Gorges is mentoring him, but as one pro scout said, “how can a guy playing those minutes (24-1/2 per game) have no...
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Magnus Paajarvi placed on waivers by St. Louis — should Edmonton Oilers give...
Would-be Oiler Dany Heatley also waived On a day that Edmonton Oilers finally took advantage of the waiver wire, claiming Boston Bruins winger Matt Fraser, a couple of other wingers with past...
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Can Vladimir Tarasenko score 50 goals?
Vladimir Tarasenko, who plays in a building at the corner of Clark Avenue and Brett Hull Way in downtown St. Louis, is not like the aforementioned Hall of Fame Golden Brett. Tarasenko would almost...
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Jay Bouwmeester plays 900th game tonight vs Oilers and only 31
Jay Bouwmeester remembers being a teenager, all of 18 and playing for the Florida Panthers seeing thirtysomethings at the rink with their kids. “Yeah, I thought 31 was old. Now that’s me.” Bouwmeester...
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The hockey version of spring house-cleaning in Toronto and Buffalo,
If you’re an NHL coach of a non-playoff team, it might be an idea to throw your cell-phone away and maybe book an ocean cruise where nobody can get a hold of you. Peter Horachek, bye-bye. Ted Nolan,...
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Todd McLellan parts company with San Jose Sharks; is he a good fit to coach...
This morning’s NHL news barely qualifies as such, it was such a foregone conclusion. Todd McLellan has entered the summer coaching market with the official word that he has officially parted company...
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