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Hey, Hey, Hey Sid

by Paul on 03/18/10 at 04:17 PM ET
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from Mike Devlin of the Victoria Times Colonist,

(Bill) Cosby, who played football and ran track for his alma mater, Philadelphia’s Temple University, also had good things to say about the men’s gold-medal contest — and one person in particular.

“It was a good match. (When the U.S. side tied it up), I know Canadians must have been saying, ‘Oh, God, here we go.’ And it didn’t happen, thanks to a kid named Sidney Crosby.”

Cosby was in California on business when Sid the Kid scored the winner in a 3-2 victory over the U.S. Later that night, while watching news reports about the game, Cosby said he was saddened by the slant of the coverage.

“I’m watching a guy do the sports, and he said, ‘How can we lose to a country that has fewer people than the state of California?’ He was mad and he couldn’t take it. They don’t know how to behave. That’s your sport.”

read on for Cosby’s view on the post game celebration by the Canadian women…

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Bids Taken On Team USA Sweater, Right Off The Player’s Back

by Paul on 03/17/10 at 09:44 PM ET
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from NHL Auctions,

USA Hockey and the MeiGray Group, “The Official Game-Worn Source of USA Hockey” have teamed so that fans across the globe for the first time ever can acquire authenticated, game-worn jerseys and other game-used and autographed items from the Men’s and Women’s U.S. Olympic Teams, Men’s and Women’s U.S. World Championship Teams, U.S. teams that have competed in the World Junior Championship, and much, much more.

Proceeds will benefit the USA Hockey Foundation.

read more and place your bids on items like Ryan Miller’s sweater going for $5000.

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Babcock Talks Hockey At Red Deer College

by Paul on 03/16/10 at 01:36 PM ET
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from the Red Deer Advacate,

Twenty-two years after being hired on as a rookie hockey coach, Mike Babcock returned to the Red Deer College fold on Tuesday morning.

In front of more than 800 people at the Capri Centre Exhibition Hall, Babcock — recent coach of the gold medal-winning men’s hockey team in the Winter Olympics and current coach of the Detroit Red Wings — was the featured speaker of the seventh annual Red Deer College Kings and Queens Scholarship Breakfast.

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Crosby’s Gear Found

by Paul on 03/10/10 at 03:09 PM ET
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via the CP at TSN,

Sidney Crosby’s missing stick and glove have been found.

Hockey Canada says Crosby’s missing Olympic equipment were misplaced rather than stolen.

Crosby’s stick was accidentally placed in a shipment bound for the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame in St. Petersburg, Russia, that ended up getting intercepted in Toronto.

And one of his gloves was put in a bag belonging to Patrice Bergeron, who sat beside him in the locker-room.

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Crosby Says No To Letterman

by Paul on 03/07/10 at 07:53 AM ET
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from Larry Brooks of the NY Post,

Maybe Sidney Crosby is a fan of Jay’s or maybe he was upset at not being invited to Dave’s Super Bowl bash with Oprah, but folks around the NHL sure would be interested in learning even one of No. 87’s reasons for rejecting David Letterman’s invitation to host his Top Ten while the Golden Boy was in New York this week.

Upon learning of the snub, Slap Shots was told that this wasn’t the first time Crosby, who last year declined to appear on NBC’s “Today” show following Pittsburgh’s Stanley Cup victory, had rejected a request from Letterman’s “Late Show.”

continued plus additional topics…

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Canada vs. The Red Army Was The Greatest Hockey Game

by Paul on 03/06/10 at 11:14 PM ET
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from Jerry Green at the Detroit News,

So it was that Roenick, employed by NBC as hired mouth, who stated before last Sunday’s Canada-USA gold medal final: “This is the most important hockey game in history.”

He said it twice, to millions of viewers in the USA—a huge percentage watching a hockey game for the first time in their lives.

It was one of those frequent moments when I wanted to throw a brick through my television screen.

Jeremy Roenick was 2 years old in 1972, probably learning to skate on double runners. He did not have the privilege—the honor—of witnessing the most important hockey game in history.

This one was not for an Olympic gold medal. Rather it was a battle between diverse ways of life.

It was Democracy vs. Communism. During the heat of the Cold War.

Our guys against theirs in a battle of symbols....

In Michigan it was getting toward twilight. The TV flickered—and I sat in my family room transfixed. The Canadian telecast flowed across the border, over Lake St. Clair and the Detroit River.

And somehow, the boisterous cheering became international—reverberating across Lake St. Clair.

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Inside Hockey With Brian Burke

by Paul on 03/06/10 at 09:24 PM ET
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Elliotte Friedman of HNIC interviews Brian Burke and discusses both Team USA and the Toronto Maple Leafs.

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Nothing Beats Winning The Cup

by Paul on 03/05/10 at 03:07 PM ET
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from Todd Davis of the Dallas Morning News,

Ken Hitchcock, the Stanley Cup-winning coach of the Dallas Stars for seven seasons, spoke with Mike Rhyner and Corby Davidson of The Ticket’s Hardline after his stint as an assistant with Team Canada during the Olympics.

He was asked how winning the gold medal compares to a Stanley Cup.

“I’ve said this from Day 1, nothing compares to the Stanley Cup. This is a great award for the country; it’s a great award for Canada, but nothing compares to the Stanley Cup.

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The Value Of Crosby’s Gold Medal Goal Stick

by Paul on 03/04/10 at 07:37 PM ET
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from Bruce Dowbiggin of the Globe and Mail,

It’s not the Hope Diamond, but the Crosby Reebok could still fetch a handsome reward for the person who has the stick used to score the golden goal for Canada in men’s hockey at the Winter Olympics last Sunday.

The stick Crosby flung in the air is missing, presumably snaffled by someone with access to the ice or dressing rooms at Hockey Canada Place in Vancouver.

While Hockey Canada searches diligently for the historic artifact, private collectors are salivating at the prospect the stick may somehow come into the market. Brian Logie is an historian of sticks who maintains one of the top private stick collections in his London, Ont., home.

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Taking It A Bit Too Far

by Paul on 03/04/10 at 09:29 AM ET
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from Peter Adler at the Cult of Hockey,

So, where were you when Sidney Crosby scored the gold medal-winning goal against the Americans? Eh?

When this kind of question was first asked following the November 22, 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, it made sense to a degree. The victim, after all, was the United States of America’s 35th president, and his premature death did have a bit of an impact on the rest of the world.

But no, Canada’s sports commentators, and even political pundits, now wax sentimentally how the Olympic games in Vancouver have changed Canada. Often, they don’t even bother to add that the change was for the better. That, they assume, is taken for granted.

Let us put the entire matter into context. Canadians, and their children, and their grandchildren even, are now stuck with a debt that won’t be paid off in less than 30 years. Now, that is a legacy if there ever was one.

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