Rule 32.2 As there is a human factor involved in blowing the whistle to stop play, the Referee may deem the play to be stopped slightly prior to..
..the whistle actually being blown. The fact that the puck may come loose or cross the goal line prior to the sound of the whistle has no bearing..
Who-i Whatiksson? The NHL held it’s All-Star game in Raleigh Sunday night, featuring the likes of Alexander Ovechkin, the Sedin twins, and some other guys loosely defined as “stars” by NHL standards, with Team Lidstrom defeating Team Staal, 11-10. Loui Eriksson, who apparently plays for the Dallas Stars, netted two goals and added two assists [...]
The NHL’s 30 Guardians may have found their kryptonite. With the All-Star game fast approaching, the Stan Lee-conjured superhero protectors of the NHL have failed to shield the hockey world from the most absurdly awful piece-of-shit marketing gimmick in recent memory — the Guardian Project. With just hours before All-Star festivities were set to begin [...]
Brendan Shanahan, NHL’s VP of Hockey and Business Development, admitted that some factors did contribute more significantly than others when it came to naming the 2011 NHL All-Star Games’ alternate captains. “In the end, they are all remarkable players, so when it came right down to putting the names in the press release, we went [...]
Kyle Wellwood held a news conference this morning to say that it was “total crap” that his #kylewellwoodissothin meme, launched last week, never took off. “Twitter is bullshit,” Wellwood said while eating a pint of ice cream. “I’m not fucking fat. I weigh 180 pounds. Just ask this cardboard cutout of a doctor I get [...]
Almost Islanders goaltender Evgeni Nabokov told reporters Tuesday morning he will only report to play for a team if he has the chance to personally dismantle their chances of winning a Stanley Cup. “It’s sort of my trademark,” Nabokov said. “And it’s not going to happen in Long Island. I walked into Nassau Colosseum for [...]
The New Jersey Devils, riding high amid a 6-0-1 streak to start the second half of the season, were rattled to the core Monday morning when a season ticket holder informed them the season had actually started nearly four months ago. Newark resident Fred Callahan, on a locker room tour following Monday morning’s practice, was [...]
The St. Louis Blues are hoping to add Kyle Wellwood by luring him from Russia with a trail of pork steaks, a popular St. Louis standby. The oft-eating Wellwood, who most recently played in the NHL for the Vancouver Canucks, had his contract voided recently by the KHL’s Atlant Moscow Oblast after violating a key [...]
The much ballyhooed 1st meeting between Boston Bruins star Marc Savard and Pittsburgh Penguins agitator Matt Cooke was dampened before it even started tonight, when Savard told a group of reporters he can’t remember Cooke doing anything that would make him dislike the bruising winger. Savard was knocked loopy by a high hit from Cooke [...]
Police arrested the entire roster of the New Jersey Devils Thursday night following their 4-2 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers after mistaking them for the Russian World Junior Team, who have been drunkenly terrorizing people around the east coast since defeating Canada earlier this week. “We had an inkling in the third period when they [...]
Goaltender Rick DiPietro went down with an injury during the Islanders 5-2 victory over the Calgary Flames Monday night, to the surprise of absolutely nobody. The Islanders acted quickly to replace DiPietro on the roster, recalling recently-signed backup goaltender Murphy Slaw from the team’s AHL franchise in Bridgeport. Slaw, a relative unknown that has apparently [...]