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The NHL pre-season has kicked off with Nashville defeating Florida 5-3

Also been a couple of tweaks to Rule 48 (Illegal checks to the head) and Rule 41 (boarding)

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=588987

Other pre-season results so far

Carolina 1
Buffalo 3

Ottawa 2
Toronto 4

Nashville 3
Florida 4 (apparently they played twice today)

Today's pre-season results

Winnipeg 1
Columbus 5

Nashville 2
Washington 0

Philadelphia 4
Toronto 0

Dallas 6
Montreal 3

Tampa Bay 1
St Louis 3

Columbus 1
Winnipeg 6

Vancouver 1
Calgary 5

Chicago 2
Edmonton 4

Minnesota 4
Edmonton 3

Phoenix 7
Anaheim 4

Calgary 3
Vancouver 4

Today's Pre-season results

Washington 3
Columbus 4 (OT)

Detroit 2
Pittsburgh 3

New York Rangers 1
New Jersey 2 (OT)

Toronto 4
Philadelphia 2

St Louis 4
Tampa Bay 3

Boston 1
Ottawa 2 (OT)

Buffalo 3
Montreal 1

San Jose 6
Anaheim 1

Los Angeles 3
Phoenix 2

Phoenix 2
Los Angeles 1

For those wondering why some games involve the same teams twice, some matches are split squad matches played at 2 separate venues.

Calgary's Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond the first player nabbed under the new boarding rules - suspended for the remainder of the pre-season plus 1 regular season game

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=589395

Today's pre season results

Chicago 1
Pittsburgh 4

Detroit 4
Philadelphia 3 (SO)

Minnesota 1
St Louis 0

Colorado 2
Dallas 5

Vancouver 2
Edmonton 1

The Detroit v Philadelphia game was played at the John Labatt Centre in Ontario and was marred by a race attack on Wayne Simmonds when a banana peel was thrown at him from the crowd during the shootout http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=589495

And another Boarding suspension has been handed out - Jody Shelley (Philadelphia) is out for the pre-season plus 5 regular season matches - http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=589450

Today's pre-season results

New York Islanders 3
Boston 6

Buffalo 2
Toronto 1

Nashville 3
Carolina 2

New York Rangers 4
New Jersey 3

Philadelphia 3
Detroit 1

Florida 2
Tampa Bay 5

Montreal 4
Ottawa 3 (SO)

Washington 2
Chicago 3

Columbus 3
Minnesota 4 (OT)

Demolition of Pittsburgh's former home, the Civic Arena will start on Monday, and is scheduled to be completed by May.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsbu ... rss&feed=8

Fabian Brunnstrom getting closer to a contract each day, been very impressive so far in the pre-season. Emmerton though, also in contention for the 14th forward position, is playing well too, so it's going to be a tough call.

NHL pre-season all done and dusted now, regular season starts on Thursday.

Go the Pens!

Go the Caps
Time to get the playoff monkey off our backs

Jim05 wrote:Go the Caps
Time to get the playoff monkey off our backs

Those Gorillas on your back are pretty big

Brucetiki wrote:NHL pre-season all done and dusted now, regular season starts on Thursday.

Go the Pens!

If Crsoby & Malkin are back fully firing they will give the stanley cup a nudge, but without them no hope

pels wrote:

Brucetiki wrote:NHL pre-season all done and dusted now, regular season starts on Thursday.

Go the Pens!

If Crsoby & Malkin are back fully firing they will give the stanley cup a nudge, but without them no hope

Crosby's already been ruled out of the first regular season game. I know he's on the improve but lets hope this doesn't end in a similar fashion to what happened with Scott Stevens at the Crows, be sad for a player of his calibre to have his career cut short.

Brucetiki wrote:

pels wrote:

Brucetiki wrote:NHL pre-season all done and dusted now, regular season starts on Thursday.

Go the Pens!

If Crsoby & Malkin are back fully firing they will give the stanley cup a nudge, but without them no hope

Crosby's already been ruled out of the first regular season game. I know he's on the improve but lets hope this doesn't end in a similar fashion to what happened with Scott Stevens at the Crows, be sad for a player of his calibre to have his career cut short.

You would have to say its quite worrying he hasn't gotten over the concussion fully yet.
Get super Mario back he could still play

He's been training the house down I've heard, but yet to be cleared for contact practice. Lets hope that's sooner rather than later.

Problem is he's one headache from another 3 months on the sidelines.

It's been a horrible offseason for Hockey, the KHL plane crash and multiple suicides, nevermind the concussion problems for a host of players. Hopefully concussions are hopefully starting to be addressed seriously (Shanahan is doing a much much better job in charge of suspensions/headshots, actually explaining why each suspension is given is a great change).

Have a read of this, story about Boogaard (Rangers player who died in the offseason from drugs/effects of having your head punched for a living). While I like watching fighting in the NHL, it's pretty hard to defend the staged fights from enforcers after reading this. http://www.sportsnet.ca/magazine/2011/09/29/popplewell_boogaard/

Also go canucks! one more win this year hopefully..

Pittsburgh and Washington have dedicated their 13 October match for the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl victims. Both sides to have Lokomotiv Yaroslavl patches on their jerseys to be auctioned post game for the families affected by this tragedy.

http://penguins.nhl.com/club/news.htm?i ... L|PIT|home

Pittsburgh/Vancouver live on Fox tomorrow, cannot wait.

GO THE WINGS!! Our 1st game is Saturday.

NFC wrote:Pittsburgh/Vancouver live on Fox tomorrow, cannot wait.

GO THE WINGS!! Our 1st game is Saturday.

and the iQ's all set for that.