Crosby, Crosby, Crosby….and now here are your regular scheduled programming of links:
Your Lightning links:
- The Toronto Star on how Stamkos is more than just his one-timer from the left circle
- Victor Hedman on wanting Crosby back on the ice and having to explain the hit he gave to Sid (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
- Last week Mike Halford of PHT called out Dwayne Roloson for his underwhelming play in their Wednesday Wake-Up Call
- Rating the mustache efforts of the team so far during Movember (Lightning Hockey Blog)
- 10 reasons why the Lightning are better than other teams (The Hockey Writers)
- A Theory of Ice has three ridiculous, boring coaching ploys even better than Laviolette’s to the Lightning
- Cristodero writes on the art of describing the injury as upper or lower body injuries. “And then Babcock throws out mid body,” Blues coach Ken Hitchcock said of Red Wings coach Mike Babcock. “What the hell is that?” (St. Petersburg Times)
More links after the jump…
Your links from around the NHL:
- Epic recap by The Pensblog of the game last night
- Great post by James O’Brien on PHT that compares Sidney Crosby come back from injury to Mario Lemieux’s comeback from retirement. They are eerily similar
- There was a shift-by-shift live blog of Sidney Crosby’s shifts by Dan Rosen (NHL.com)
- Stephen Brunt on the return of Sidney Crosby and how “for a night, for a little while, everyone who loves hockey ought to be a Penguins fan. Sometimes it’s about the greater good, and about what we all could miss.” (Sportsnet)
- A great article by Michael Grange on Sidney Crosby’s dad Troy Crosby on being a hockey parent through the past 11 months (Sportsnet)
- The Sabres lose Tyler Myers for 4-6 weeks with a broken wrist (TSN)
- Brandon Worley writes on the Dallas Stars getting a new owner in Tom Gaglardi: The end of a long & painful road for team and fans
- After the the 7-1 meltdown to the Leafs this past weekend, Elliott Friedman penned an article on how the Capitals need to have a meeting between George McPhee, Alex Ovechkin and Bruce Boudreau
- Tarik El-Bashir on how Ovechkin and Boudreau need to get on the same page (Washington Post)
- Steve Simmons on the decline of Alex Ovechkin (Toronto Sun)
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Kid comes to boo Ilya Bryzgalov but ends up getting his goalie stick (Winnipeg Free Press)
- The Royal Half’s Pundays post: Rich get Richer
- Hilarious story of how Gray of Couch Tarts sat next to Ryane Clowe while at a restaurant and never said hi. Been there, done that, reacted exactly the same as she did (Couch Tarts)
- Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters met Zdeno Chara. Awesome photo gets taken
- Hilarious review of Twilight’s Breaking Dawn by Bobby Ryan of the Anaheim Ducks (The Post Game)
- Puck Daddy had a list of the 10 best candidates for the HHOF class of 2012
- Could hockey come back to Hartford? There is a $105 million dream to redevelop the XL Center by Harold Baldwin as per the Hartford Courant
- Ex Red-Wing Vladimir Konstantinov is having an exhibition for his paintings at a gallery in Detroit. This is great story to read about the player who suffered a brain injury just 6 days after winning the Stanley Cup in 1997 (The Detroit News)
