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NHL Fan Sues Penguins for 3 Texts Too Many

Fred Weiss says he agreed to only 3 a week, got 9 in 2 weeks

(Newser) - Fred Weiss signed up to get text message alerts from the Pittsburgh Penguins, and was assured by the promotional agreement he would only receive up to three texts per week. When he started receiving more than that, rather than simply unsubscribing, he filed a lawsuit. Weiss alleges that the NHL...

Vladimir Putin: Hockey Star
 Vladimir Putin: Hockey Star 
May 8, 2012 2:35 PM CDT

Vladimir Putin: Hockey Star

Russian president takes the ice against hockey legends, beats them

(Newser) - Is there anything Vladimir Putin can't do? Russia's old/new president celebrated his inauguration by lacing up his skates for an amateur hockey team and scoring the winning goal against a team of hockey legends, Russia Today reports. The game was a season-ending exhibition between select members of the...

Panthers Ban Rat Sales
 Panthers Ban Rat Sales 
Apr 24, 2012 4:41 AM CDT

Panthers Ban Rat Sales

Rogue rat-chuckers were Devils fans, team says

(Newser) - The Florida Panthers are taking steps to cool down one of the NHL's stranger traditions as their playoff run continues. Plastic rats—which fans have been chucking on the ice by the hundred—will no longer be sold at the team's souvenir shops, reports the Miami Herald . The...

Dear NHL Owners, Do You Know Kids Are Watching?
Dear NHL Owners, Do You Know Kids Are Watching?
OPINION
Apr 18, 2012 12:41 PM CDT

Dear NHL Owners, Do You Know Kids Are Watching?

One dad points out there's a difference between tough play and savage play

(Newser) - Dave Banks is thrilled that his 10-year-old son started playing hockey this year, absorbing all the great lessons that team sports can bring to a kid. Too bad the adults playing the game are such lousy role models, he writes for the GeekDad blog at Wired . In an open letter...

Brain of Dead Hockey Player Was 'Going Bad'

Derek Boogaard likely faced early dementia

(Newser) - Hockey enforcer Derek Boogaard died of a drug and alcohol overdose at age 28—but his future likely wouldn't have been too bright had he lived, because he probably faced midlife dementia. In the last of a three-part series on Boogaard, the New York Times reveals that the multi-millionaire...

NHL Team Signs 51-Year-Old Goalie

Fortunately, Jim Deutsch did not have to play

(Newser) - The NHL's Minnesota Wild signed an emergency goalie today, which is news only because the guy is 51 years old and owns an embroidery store. As it turns out, Jim Deutsch won't have to suit up for an NHL game, but he came thisclose, reports the Minneapolis Star ...

Flyers Pull On-Ice Stunt to Send NHL a Message

Philly refuses to move to call out Tampa's boring 'trap' strategy

(Newser) - Bizarro moment in an NHL game last night: The Philadelphia Flyers refused to budge with the puck, and Tampa refused to go after them. It actually happened multiple times, with the Flyers trying to send a message about Tampa’s reviled “trap” system. The trap is a defensive scheme...

Cause of Deadly Hockey Plane Crash: Pilot Hit Brake

Had crew realized the problem, takeoff could have been aborted

(Newser) - A tragic coda to the story of the Russian hockey team that perished in a plane crash in September: The accident was caused because one of the pilots accidentally pressed the brakes during takeoff, officials revealed today. The New York Times calls it an "extraordinarily basic human error,"...

Fan Tosses Banana Peel at Black NHL Player

Philadelphia Flyers' Wayne Simmonds is the on-ice target

(Newser) - Very classy act from a hockey fan in Canada: Someone tossed a banana peel onto the ice as Wayne Simmonds—one of the few black players in the NHL—skated toward the net during a shootout last night, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer . The peel landed in the path of the...

Only Player to Survive Russia Plane Crash Dies

Alexander Galimov suffered burns from disaster

(Newser) - The only hockey player to survive last week’s plane crash in Russia died today of his injuries, the Hockey News reports. Alexander Galimov, 26, died from burns over 90% of his body, said a Moscow hospital. The only other crash survivor, a member of the plane’s crew, is...

Russian Hockey Team Dies in Plane Crash

Just one team member reportedly among survivors

(Newser) - Just two people survived a crash today that claimed almost an entire Russian ice hockey team. The Yak-42 plane, which was carrying the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team to Minsk for the season opener, crashed to the ground and caught fire immediately after take-off at 4pm Moscow time. RIA Novosti reports that...

&#39;Wrong&#39; Twin Makes $50K Hockey Shot
'Wrong' Twin Makes
$50K Hockey Shot
Aug 16, 2011 3:24 AM CDT

'Wrong' Twin Makes $50K Hockey Shot

Dad comes clean after sons switch places

(Newser) - Minnesota dad Pat Smith has decided that teaching his boys about honesty is worth more than $50,000. Smith took his twin 11-year-old sons, Nate and Nick, to a charity fundraiser hockey game last week, where Nate amazed the crowd by firing a 3-inch puck through a 3.5-inch hole...

Atlanta Loses Hockey Team to Winnipeg

Poor attendance, bad record will send the Thrashers north

(Newser) - Proving for a second time that Hotlanta may be too hot for hockey, the Atlanta Thrashers are moving to Winnipeg. The Thrashers entered the NHL in 1999 as an expansion franchise, but ownership problems, a losing team, and dwindling attendance doomed the club. It has been purchased by True North...

Hockey Star Found Dead in Apartment

Derek Boogaard, former Minnesota Wild standout, found yesterday

(Newser) - New York Rangers hockey player Derek Boogaard, 28, was found dead in his Minneapolis apartment last night. Boogaard, formerly a Minnesota Wild player, fought on the ice 54 times and amassed 255 penalty minutes, but the enforcer known as the "Boogey Man" will be remembered just as much for...

Hockey: Another Brain Damage Culprit?

Brain tissue of Bob Probert shows chronic traumatic encephalopathy

(Newser) - Hockey is famed for its rough-and-tough brawling, but most of the recent conversation about the perils of high-impact sports on the brain have centered around NFL players . That might change. Researchers at Boston University this week announced that they noted chronic traumatic encephalopathy in the brain tissue of Bob Probert,...

FBI Hunts Missing Stanley Cup Puck

Patrick Kane's 2010 game-winner is nowhere to be found

(Newser) - The FBI gets called in to investigate some serious stuff—terrorism, drug trafficking, espionage. And now, the search for a hockey puck. Not just any hockey puck, but the six ounces of elusive rubber that Patrick Kane slipped in the back of the net to give the Chicago Blackhawks an...

Delta Boots Entire Russian Hockey Team Off Plane

They were still celebrating a world championship

(Newser) - Winning a world championship is bound to make a team pretty ecstatic, and coming back from a three-goal deficit is only going to take that happiness to a whole new level. After doing just that last night in the IIHF World Junior Hockey championships in Buffalo to beat Canada for...

Blackhawks win Stanley Cup
 Blackhawks Win Stanley Cup 
Jun 10, 2010 5:45 AM CDT

Blackhawks Win Stanley Cup

Blackhawks beat Flyers, end 49-year title drought with OT goal

(Newser) - The Chicago Blackhawks won the Stanley Cup last night, beating the Philadelphia Flyers 4-3 in overtime in Game 6 for their first championship since 1961. Patrick Kane scored the winning goal about 4:10 into overtime, and no one but the Blackhawks appeared to realize what was going on for...

Wow! Obama Saved Us from the Canadians!
Wow! Obama Saved Us from the Canadians!
Charles Krauthammer
Apr 16, 2010 12:11 PM CDT

Wow! Obama Saved Us from the Canadians!

That nuclear summit looked a lot like a waste of time, didn't it?

(Newser) - President Obama convened the biggest meeting of world leaders on US soil since the founding of the UN in 1945. And what did this week's historic gathering accomplish? Well, it generated a nonbinding statement saying that Ukraine, Chile, Mexico, and Canada will get rid of some enriched uranium. “What...

Hockey Player Guilty—but Only of 'Being an Asshole': Judge

Canadian Chris Doyle acquitted in assault trial

(Newser) - If Canadian junior hockey player Chris Doyle "was charged with being a colossal asshole, I would find him guilty," a judge said Friday. "Of assault causing bodily harm, I find him not guilty." The verdict ends Doyle's assault trial for showing up drunk at his ex-girlfriend's...

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