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Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:18 pm EDT

Puck Headlines: Fleeting moment of joy for Vancouver fans

By Greg Wyshynski

Here are your Puck Headlines: A glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.

• Mats Sundin was headed to the Vancouver Canucks this weekend ... until his agent came out and said a report in a Swedish newspaper was utter bunk. Oh well. Follow this epic tale in painful real-time on Waiting for Stanley. This Sundin situation is getting to be more time-consuming than following IKEA instructions.

• Jonathan Toews and the Chicago Blackhawks accelerate the Yzerman Transformation, name him captain. [The Two-Line Pass]

• Latest on the New York Islanders coaching derby: The Isles get permission to speak with John Tortorella and his former assistant Mike Sullivan. They're also expected to interview former Toronto Maple Leafs coach Paul Maurice, and could chat with former Atlanta Thrashers coach Bob Hartley, current Providence Bruins coach Scott Gordon and former Colorado Avalanche coach Joel Quenneville. Also, the rift between the team and Ted Nolan was a rather long-standing one.

• "Hey, I don't make the rules. If your son wants to learn French or gain some weight, then he can be goalie." [I Don't Make the Rules]

• The Pensblog unleashes its particular brand of whimsy on Bob Smizik, Post-Gazette columnist. Some men just want to watch the world burn. [The Pensblog]

• Andre Roy, who brought the crazy to Tampa Bay long before the Koules-Aid arrives, goes to the Calgary Flames. MetroGnome would like to know why GMs continue the "musical chairs of goons" in the NHL. [Five Hole Fanatics]

• Interesting interview between Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch and Alexander Medvedev, president of the Russian KHL. At one point, Portzline asks if the family of Columbus Blue Jackets prospect Nikita Filatov had been threatened. The response: "Good God! I have a nagging suspicion you read a lot of James Bond stuff in your spare time!" Which is just what a Bond villain would say ... [Columbus Dispatch]

• With a huge collection of goalies on the free-agent market next summer, should the Edmonton Oilers ink Mathieu Garon to a long-term deal or not? [Covered in Oil]

• Bubba provides a rather interesting reaction to that "who the hell are the Carolina Hurricanes?" survey we covered on Friday. [Canes Country]

• Matching up the 2007-08 Pittsburgh Penguins with (what we expect will be) the 2008-09 Pittsburgh Penguins. The results ain't pretty. [The Confluence of the Three Rivers]

• Danny Markov's not willing to take a physical before signing with the Los Angeles Kings. Which really doesn't inspire much confidence in his current physical condition.. [Inside the Kings]

• Conspiracy theory of the weekend: MSG hired TV's Joe Micheletti to be so awful that fans would buy more tickets to New York Rangers games. Discuss. [Scotty Hockey]

• Finally, Kevin Schultz takes a look at Sparky, the NY Islanders Dragon. Much more popular than Milbury, the Village Idiot. [BMR]

Related: Hockey Fans, Goons and Pugilism, Rumors, scuttlebutt, innuendo

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  1. Tom M
    1. Posted by Tom M Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:14 pm EDT

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    1st, and I really hate you so much Wyshynski, you're not funny at all.
  2. Spon
    2. Posted by Spon Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:42 pm EDT

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    Then stop reading his column.
  3. aris21
    3. Posted by aris21 Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:14 pm EDT

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    I hate you as well Wyshynski, I agree with the first post, you try so hard to be funny but your not.
  4. Wrap Around Curl
    4. Posted by Wrap Around Curl Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:49 pm EDT

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    i'd throw around some haterade. But then I remembered how useless it is to do on the internet.
    So, go back to arguing which Return is better; of the King or of the Jedi and save the keystrokes for your raid later tonight.
  5. Rhonda
    5. Posted by Rhonda Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:44 pm EDT

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    The Blue Jackets can just send Amanda Bynes to Moscow and tell her she's making "She's the Man 2, Hockey Comrade"
  6. Olee Cannoli
    6. Posted by Olee Cannoli Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:38 pm EDT

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    Sundin is the Brett Favre of hockey. Just give it up big guy. You aren't going to win the Cup with any of those crappy Canadian teams anyway...
  7. Olee Cannoli
    7. Posted by Olee Cannoli Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:38 pm EDT

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    and Jedi...
  8. officerofc
    8. Posted by officerofc Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:43 pm EDT

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    I retire after 30 yrs.Get exiceted seeing you hockey fans,ask you guys one question and get totally ignored.Thanks for youe comment Wrap Around Curl,i see its not hockey fans but geek boys.
  9. Olee Cannoli
    9. Posted by Olee Cannoli Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:38 pm EDT

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    Alan M- In that 30 years, did you not learn literacy?
  10. Evan M
    10. Posted by Evan M Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:09 pm EDT

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    Wyshynski you are awesome. You give me entertaining stuff to read daily!
    & Sundin just needs to retire. He's pretty average now & where has his leadership gotten the Maple Leafs?
  11. killer wolf
    11. Posted by killer wolf Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:28 pm EDT

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    Sundin would of had a cup already if he would of come to detroit last season. And if he wants a cup this season, he better come to the wings - becuase the cup aint leaving "Hockey Town" for about the next five seasons
  12. Matt W
    12. Posted by Matt W Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:37 pm EDT

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    what happened to the other guy who did yahoo hockey..uhh began with an M i think..anyways i like(d) his articles, right to the point..none of this nonsense by "puck daddy" oo good nickname
  13. Olee Cannoli
    13. Posted by Olee Cannoli Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:38 pm EDT

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    Matt W-- Yeah. We didn't like him either...
  14. Olee Cannoli
    14. Posted by Olee Cannoli Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:38 pm EDT

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    Killer Wolf-- 5 years? Come on guy. I don't even like their chances for this next year. Going all the way through the playoffs is very hard on a team, especially veteran teams. The Wings aaren't getting any younger and I just don't see it happpening. They will be good, no doubt, but 3 of the 4 teams below them have gotten better and Chicago had their number all year in 2006-2007. It may not be so easy this year.
  15. Me!
    15. Posted by Me! Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:48 pm EDT

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    Another Messier? Big money and didn't do anything.
  16. Mike L
    16. Posted by Mike L Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:20 pm EDT

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    Greg Wyshynski, you are a pansy.
    Since when can you afford stuff from Ikea anyways?
  17. Wyshynski
    17. Posted by Wyshynski Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:21 pm EDT

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    Wow, this is like the Mr. Olympia competition of Internet muscles today. Thanks for reading.
  18. Evan M
    18. Posted by Evan M Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:09 pm EDT

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    What's with the hate of Wysh?
    I don't get it. He's tight
  19. AVALANCHE
    19. Posted by AVALANCHE Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:47 pm EDT

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    well bubbabanjo hasnt brought the skunk in yet...so this entry is still boring....another yawner....then again thats wyshynski/bettman for ya....take a good thing and ruin it.
    WYSHYNSKI...YOU'RE A FLOATER!!!!!!
  20. Mike M
    20. Posted by Mike M Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:20 pm EDT

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    dammit anyway, wyshynski.
  21. yourmoms2jz
    21. Posted by yourmoms2jz Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:58 pm EDT

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    i hate all of you.
  22. James M
    22. Posted by James M Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:35 pm EDT

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    As post #4 says. Just fade away, Sundin....................please.
  23. leaf fan in germany
    23. Posted by leaf fan in germany Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:04 pm EDT

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    Mr. Olympia Wys.?? More like Dumb & Dumber, I think some of the guys posting here were beat up
    as kids, or are still kids getting beat up!! Whatever, Internet tough guys always make me laugh, I think
    of the little geek sitting in his mom's basement with zit cream all over his oily face!! CARRY ON...
  24. AVALANCHE
    24. Posted by AVALANCHE Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:47 pm EDT

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    wow # 25,
    you appear to be an expert about living in your parent's basement, being a geek, being beat up as a kid, zit cream, and oily faces. sounds like you're making that assertion to draw the wolves away from yourself. either that, or you're wyshynski's relative or therapist trying to protect his internet self-esteem. you bettmans need to get as far away from hockey as possible, you're slowly but steadily choking the life from it.
    WYSHYNSKI..................................YOU'RE A FLOATER
    LEAFS FAN IN GERMANY..............YOU'RE A TURD MUNCHER
    BETTMAN................ YOU'RE A........WELL NO WORDS EXSIST FOR A FAIR DESCRIPTION OF YOU
    you all share 1 trait............SUCKING!!!!
  25. James M
    25. Posted by James M Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:35 pm EDT

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    Well. the week seems to be starting out rather nice.............don'tcha think?

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