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• You're David Frost. You're a former hockey coach and agent who was just acquitted on sexual exploitation charges involving teenage players, in a trial that featured salacious details of threesomes. What do you do? Declare yourself "hockey's number # 1 bad boy controversial figure" and start a Web site called Hockey God Online, of course. With the promise of photos featuring "hotties," and a monthly column from former New Jersey Devils and St. Louis Blues forward Mike Danton, who is currently in a U.S. prison until about 2010 ... for a failed murder-for-hire plot that allegedly targeted Frost, his former coach and agent. This story takes disturbing and disgusting to impressive new levels. [Ottawa Citizen, via Kukla]

• Seven reasons why Boston Bruins fans should believe that their team is a Stanley Cup contender this season. Reason No. 8: Every other team in Boston has a done the world championship thing in the last few years. Hell, even the Revolution were MLS Cup runners-up. [Boston Globe]

Alexander Ovechkin? Evgeni Malkin? Ilya Kovalchuk? Pavel Datsyuk? Alexander Semin? Evgeni Nabokov? Who can be called the best Russian player in the NHL? [IIHF]

• Larry Brooks of the NY Post feels that players have become too big for fighting to continue in the NHL. Yes, that would be the same Larry Brooks who last year wrote: "Fighting is a part of the sport's heritage and remains a necessary component of a game that, at its most intense, is part Wild West." [NY Post]

• Say what you will about Brian Burke, but the man talks one hell of a game for the Toronto Maple Leafs: "Changing the general manager doesn't change the team. It is going to take some time and some patience. Changing the general manager does not change the roster we are going to dress tonight. It doesn't change the record of our team and it doesn't change the chapters of history with unfulfilled expectations that preceded today. What it does represent is the turning of the page." [National Post]

• Coach Terry Murray sees Jason LaBarbera and Erik Ersberg each playing 10 of the next 20 games for the Los Angeles Kings. [Inside the Kings]

• A change in student ticket policy has produced a rare sight for Minnesota Golden Gophers games: Empty seats. [MNdaily.com]

• Pierre McGuire calls Montreal Canadiens forward Tom Kostopoulos "a monster," "a bulldozer" and "a spectacular guy." In some countries, that meets the conditions for a common law marriage. [Montreal Gazette]

• Attention stat geeks: You may be interested in what the PDO number is, what whether it can predict the last three-quarters of the season. [mc79hockey]

• Who's a soft European? Milan Michalek of the San Jose Sharks is getting his hands dirty this season, with more hits, blocked shots and penalty kill time. [Fear the Fin]

• Scotty Hockey breaks down an embarrassing 4-0 defeat to the Florida Panthers for the New York Rangers at home. [Scotty Hockey]

• Finally, it was Sci-Fi Night at the Minnesota Wild/Nashville Predators game last week. Which meant it was time for the local "Star Wars" costuming society to send one of its own repelling down from the rafters, dressed as Boba Fett. (Around the 2:00 mark.)

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  1. Wrap Around Curl
    1. Posted by Wrap Around Curl Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:49 pm EDT

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    Let the wookie win?
  2. tylergreendc
    2. Posted by tylergreendc Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:25 pm EDT

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    Just for the record, hot threesomes are salacious. The threesomes in the aforementioned case were... creepy.
  3. Maraldo
    3. Posted by Maraldo Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:34 pm EDT

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    shawn michaels is not impressed with the entrance
  4. Scotty Hockey
    4. Posted by Scotty Hockey Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:22 pm EDT

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    Boba and me in the same post???
    Sweet!!
  5. carl_vs_mastershake
    5. Posted by carl_vs_mastershake Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:18 pm EDT

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    Why you feel ANYTHING in the NY Post is news worthy is beyond me. You should at least post Eklund's delusions right under that to be fair to all salesmen that will publish any story that gets hits to their webpage or moves papers off the stands.
    This just in Batboy seen wearing a Winnipeg jets jersey.
  6. Wyshynski
    6. Posted by Wyshynski Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:21 pm EDT

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    @ RussianRocket --
    Please tell me you didn't miss an Owen Hart layup.
  7. j_n_16
    7. Posted by j_n_16 Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:45 pm EDT

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    David Frost is a pathetic waste of human life. Not much more than can be said than that. It's just sad, and disgusting.
  8. TheTick
    8. Posted by TheTick Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:29 pm EDT

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    Is that really Frost's site? It's not a joke? Good God.
  9. stoneyboloney
    9. Posted by stoneyboloney Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:48 pm EDT

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    this david frost case puts me in the mind of the lady in the movie Youngblood, that banged rob lowe after serving tea. talk about a milf, she was quite boner-inducing.
  10. capsfankaufman
    10. Posted by capsfankaufman Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:17 pm EDT

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    Just throwing this out there. Shouldn't the International Ice Hockey Federation know a little more about the players and realize that Alexander Semin is not the youngest of the Russian stars in the NHL.
  11. Cramshawbar
    11. Posted by Cramshawbar Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:30 pm EDT

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    The top story is gross and disturbing.
    The fact that he is allowed to write at all, is criminal.
    Democracy should really have its limits. These kinds of things should be voted on before they are allowed.
  12. powerhouse
    12. Posted by powerhouse Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:15 pm EDT

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    Watching Malkin play with Sid or without is a treat. His personality is emerging with his English. I would describe him as goofy sheepish grinned and funloving but soft spoken and humble. In other words, does his talkin' on the ice. Reminds me a bit of guess who?
    Sid, of couse. Even if you piss them off they want to hurt you by winning and mostly by scoring. Oh yes they do.
  13. Maraldo
    13. Posted by Maraldo Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:34 pm EDT

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    @Wysh
    Thought about it, just didn't seem right. The Blue Blazer had nothing on the two time slammy award winner.
  14. Mazarin
    14. Posted by Mazarin Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:24 pm EDT

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    Um, am I the only one who went to that site and STILL don't know what a PDO number is?
  15. Ashlee T
    15. Posted by Ashlee T Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:58 pm EDT

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    && You're just giving David Frost the attention that he wants! Way to go. Maybe you should just over look the creep next time and he will have failed at getting everyones attention.
  16. Dave
    16. Posted by Dave Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:50 pm EDT

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    Wow...ice dancers, Poison AND a jedi!!! Those minor league teams will try anything to put fannies in the seats.
  17. evar
    17. Posted by evar Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:55 pm EDT

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    I just threw-up in my mouth...salacious details of threesomes involving that dude and young kids? Come on man!
  18. Garth the Hoser
    18. Posted by Garth the Hoser Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:06 pm EDT

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    Cramsahwbar writes: "The top story is gross and disturbing. The fact that he is allowed to write at all, is criminal.
    Democracy should really have its limits. These kinds of things should be voted on before they are allowed."
    I like free speech. You like Stalinism. Please don't register to vote where I live.
  19. asdfewrlkx
    19. Posted by asdfewrlkx Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:22 pm EDT

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    thanks for putting Fear the Fin
  20. jibblescribbits
    20. Posted by jibblescribbits Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:34 pm EDT

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    What's creepier: The David Frost case or Jacques Lemaire's resemblance to Salacious Crumb?
  21. evar
    21. Posted by evar Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:55 pm EDT

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    You know what's creepy? Grown adults dressing up as Star Wars people and going to a hockey game in Nashville...thats a little creepy. Was I seeing things or was the person sitting in front of the camera wearing a costume too? What is happening to hockey?
  22. lurdane22
    22. Posted by lurdane22 Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:00 pm EDT

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    I remember Danton getting arrested. Talk about a brutal road trip.
  23. mitchconnor
    23. Posted by mitchconnor Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:25 pm EDT

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    Nabokov is from Kazakhstan, although when he was born it was considered part of Russia. Does that make him "a Russian player?" I guess it does.
    I say Datsyuk is the best Russian player because all of the other Russian players seem to think so. They should know.
  24. JC
    24. Posted by JC Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:30 pm EDT

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    As bad as some fans I've had to sit near or behind have been over the years, I can't even imagine how pissed off I'd have been to be sitting behind someone dressed up as a Sandtrooper or whatever that freak was dressed up as was. I can almost give a pass to the guys who dressed up to come down from the rafters... thats cool and dangerous... but to sit in the seats wearing that is out of hand.
  25. Jose Cantseco
    25. Posted by Jose Cantseco Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:27 pm EDT

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    crappy video. crappy descriptions. how does this guy keep his job?

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