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Florida Panthers Trade Deadline 2011: Tomas Vokoun
New General Manager Dale Tallon is ready to remake this team in his image. He has challenged the players to prove they should be a part of his plan. Even before Tallon was hired, ownership warned the fans that big changes were in store and asked that judgement be reserved until the process is...
A Day in the Life of Garth Snow
Garth Snow, the General Manager of the New York Islanders, has a very difficult job. His team has had terrible luck with injuries all season long and they are currently about one step away from holding open try-outs for goaltenders. Rick DiPietro, or 'DP' as he is referred to by the 12 New York...
Norfolk Admirals December report
I attended the Norfolk Admirals 30th game of the season, and 11th home game, versus the Albany Devils. The Devils are the AHL affiliate of the New Jersey Devils, and former Tampa Bay Lightning prospect Mike McKenna was the starting goaltender for them on this night. Norfolk beat Albany 5-1. Here...
Thoughts On The NHL All-Stars
Super Skills:- When they were introducing the coaches for the west, Bailey was definitely in the camera shot dancing!! Awww, I loved that!- Obstacle Course: I LOVED the wee net they used!! I was pretty excited to see DiPi shoot the puck 180 feet across the entire rink to score on his leg.- Fastest...
8 In A Row
Pre-Game:- Had dinner with KingsCast at the Royal Room. Thoughts: It was a little dark in there. It gave it a kind of "I'm too cool for school" ambiance. The food was good and you could definitely share one order of something with someone else.- Sharks activate Cheechoo and the Kings scratch Cammy...
Kings 2, Sharkies 1
So I turn the TV on to FSN for the start of the Kings game. What do I see instead but a WSU/WASH game in the last 5 minutes, which they've decided to show until the end since it's tied 35-35. What the hell!! I have to wait for this to be over before I can see my Kings whomp on the Sharks? With each...
Morning Skate: JAWS
A very close 2-1 victory against a good Kings team and now the Red Wings get...the San Jose Sharks. No ugly third jersey picture this time (womp womp) but a good movie still to go with the post will do right? Anyway, let's get right into it. Get the octopus ready, Jimmy Howard is starting his 8th...
NHL Playoff Recap from the Ranger Reporter
We're having a little technical difficulties this morning, so I am posting this for Ranger Reporter..... Okay so I know that you all come down to Blueshirt Banter to read about Ranger news, but we are technically an NHL blog so were going to do some playoff updates. The Rangers...
Blueshirt Banter Awards 2008-09 Regular Season
James Mirtle over at From The Rink asked each of the blogs to come up with a list of who we would nominate from our respective teams and nominees for the entire league for each of the following awards: Hart Trophy: Awarded to the player judged to be most valuable to his team. Norris Trophy:...
A Tale of Four Goalies
I think Mr. Bryzgalov doesn't really understand the concept of "Team First":"I got a call from the club and they told me that they see me as their number one goaltender," the Russian told Sovietsky Sport newspaper. "They (Anaheim) also want to trade Giguere but no one wants him." If Giguere is not...
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