The Winnipeg Jets, in conjunction with I Love to Read Month, launched Reading Takes Flight, a program to positively encourage children to develop an interest in reading. Jets players will be visiting different schools throughout the city on Tuesda......
s 3-2 shootout win over the Russians. Despite his refusal to be labelled a hero, that's exactly what Oshie was (since a hero is literally defined as the principal character in a story, and Oshie became precisely that when Team USA decided to go to him again and again once the game reached the shootout). Oshie scored four times on six shots, propelling the US to a victory, and causing minor quakes in...
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s efforts to inject a youthful vibe into the Winter Games it is the ice hockey old-timers who are having their day on the Sochi rinks. Finland's Teemu Selanne, the 43-year-old elder statesman of international hockey, may be competing in a record-equalling sixth Olympics but the man known as the Finnish Flash is not in Sochi for a retirement party. Neither are his fellow greybeards, 42-year-old Czech...
The Winnipeg Jets today announced the hockey club will host a Canadian Armed Forces Appreciation game on Saturday, March 8, 2014 at MTS Centre when the team hosts the Ottawa Senators. Game time is 2:00 pm CT. The Jets will support our troops by......
Michael Finewax looks at the opening games in Olympic Hockey including the 7-1 win for the United States in The Dose....
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Thursday's Games (2/13): FIN vs. AUT, Group B, Bolshoy Ice Dome, 3:00 AM ET, NBCSN RUS vs. SLO, Group A, Bolshoy Ice Dome, 7:30 AM ET, MSNBC SVK vs. USA, Group A, Shayba Arena, 7:30 AM ET, NBCSN CAN vs. NOR, Group B, Bolshoy Ice Dome, 12:00 ......
It's quickly become the most confusing situation of the tournament....
s slate of games. Make sure to stop back here for the nightly Three Stars when the games are finished. Create-a-Caption: "Russian fans cheer for the women's ice hockey team at Shayba Arena during their game against Germany." ***** Czech Republic vs. Sweden, 12 p.m. EST Latvia vs. Switzerland, 12 p.m. EST ***** Five things to know about today's Olympic games ... 1. Ondrej Pavelec to watch from press...
s note: Power rankings are usually three things: Bad, wrong, and boring. You typically know just as well as the authors which teams won what games against who and what it all means, so our moving the Red Wings up four spots or whatever really doesn't tell you anything you didn't know. Who's hot, who's not, who cares? For this reason, we're doing a power ranking of things that are usually not teams....
Enjoy the next few weeks in Sochi while the NHL players represent their countries, and engage in some of the best that the world has ever seen. The NHL, the NHLPA and the International Ice Hockey Federation havent agreed to anything beyond the 2014 Winter Games, and NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said the decision would be made within the next year whether or not the NHL would participate in Pyeongchang,...
Ryan Dadoun, Corey Abbott and Michael Finewax preview all the Pool A players including Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia and the U.S. in Olympic Preview....
Thats probably the magic number dangling in front of the Capitals when they return from their 18-day Olympic hiatus and face the Florida Panthers in Sunrise on Feb. 27. Thanks to a pair of solid victories over the Winnipeg Jets and New Jersey Devils the Caps entered the Olympic break with a 27-23-9 record and 63 points. The wins were crucial because they kept the Caps one point behind the Detroit Red...
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s greatest players will jet off for the event. No decision, obviously, has been made about whether the league will participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea four years from now, considering the 2014 men's hockey tournament doesn't even begin for another two days. But you get the sense that the tide is certainly shifting toward a solid “no” vote four years from now. The simple fact is that...
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Alain and Lucy Brouillete have had quite a week, thanks to their 27-year-old son, Capitals defenseman Julien Brouillete. On Wednesday afternoon they received a phone call from their son informing them that the Capitals had recalled him from the AHL Hershey Bears and that hed be playing his first NHL game against the Winnipeg Jets on Thursday night. Alain and Lucy, who speak very little English, worked...
Coyotes had a chance to move further ahead of Dallas....