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Instant Analysis: Dallas Stars Sign Sergei Gonchar to a Two Year Deal
Jim Nill has finalized his first acquisition as General Manager of the Dallas Stars, inking defenceman Sergei Gonchar to a 2 year, $10 million deal. The rights to negotiate with Gonchar...
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Ottawa Need To Give Alfredsson Reason not to Retire
He is still good enough, but are they? Just a few days after his Ottawa Senators were eliminated from the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Captain Daniel Alfredsson was faced with a...
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Three Stars: All-Time Greats of Northeast Division Teams
Welcome back to Peculiar Side of Sports. Every so often something in sports perplexes me, and I just hate not knowing something. So, I do what any normal, sane sports fan does –...
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Home Sweet Homer? The Return of Home Ice Advantage
If you go to your favorite interwebz search engine, you’ll be able to find all kinds of sappy, saccharine sayings about the joys of coming home. Home sweet home. Home is...
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Jason Spezza will return to Senators Lineup in Game 3
Trailing the Pittsburgh Penguins 2-0 in their second round Stanley Cup Playoffs Series the Ottawa Senators are in need of a boost. It appears that they will get just that, with...
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Pens and Sens Have Plenty to Prove in Round Two
The Ottawa Senators and the Pittsburgh Penguins will have two very different mindsets on what transpired in the first round. For the Sens it is entirely positive, they took down the...
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Priceless Canadiens are not Done Yet
Almost everything in the first round of the playoffs has gone the way of the Ottawa Senators. Whether this is a statement about refereeing, bounces or the way they have dictated...
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Classing up the NHL
Hey, you know what myth I am tired of? The myth that Canadians are the nicest people in the world. Malarkey, I say. I am pretty sure Canadians are the meanest,...
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Game 3 Giveaway: Sens are United in Bed, What?
Congratulations go out once again to the Ottawa Senators marketing department ahead of Game 3 of their Stanley Cup Playoff Series with the Montreal Canadiens. Let’s remember that this is the...
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Ottawa Sun Crosses the Line
I apologize in advance, but I need to rant for a moment here. The Ottawa Sun has posted the following as the front page for this mornings edition of their newspaper:...
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Habs and Sens, Sparking a Rivalry
When the Ottawa Senators were awarded an expansion franchise, I thought that the Senators and Canadiens would be natural rivals. When the Senators recorded their first win in franchise history over...
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Introducing the Habsworld Podcast: Playoff Edition
LWOS is pleased to bring you a podcast from our friends at Habsworld.net. Jon Rebello, Norm Szcyrek, and Michel Beauchamp bring you some great coverage of the Montreal Canadiens, and the NHL as...
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Erik Karlsson Returns to Sens’ Lineup; Crosby may follow with Pens
The Ottawa Senators, needing just 2 points in their remaining 3 games to lock up a playoff spot are about to get a big boost in that quest, and a possible...
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Stop Whinin’! Bring on More Outdoor Games!
Shut up! Just shut the hell up! I want to vomit with the amount of complaining and moaning that so called die-hard fans are spewing out over the announcement of possibly...
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How Many is too Many NHL Outdoor Games?
Apparently the tagline “Winter has arrived” does not exclusively apply to the new season of Game of Thrones. The NHL has apparently adopted it as their mentality as well. After recently...
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Jason Pominville to Minnesota, and Marian Gaborik to Columbus Highlight Trade Deadline
It took until after 2:30 pm but the two biggest trades of the NHL’s trade deadline have finally been made. We take a look at those trades, plus other noteworthy transactions...
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Trade Deadline Shopping Lists: Eastern Conference
Its less than one week to the NHL trade deadline, and we’ve already seen our first deals of the season with the Pittsburgh Penguins going hog wild and adding Brenden Morrow...
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Ending the Drought: A Canadian Cup Champ (East)
The Cupless streak for Canadian franchises has effected them all in individual fashions. However, as a general rule it has affected the East moreso than the West. Yesterday I looked at...
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Alex Kovalev: A Misunderstood Artist Says Goodbye
Alex Kovalev, l’Artiste, The Enigma, AK-27, Alexei Kovalev, Kovy – the man has been known by many different names in his 20-year NHL career. Today though, he gets a different designation;...
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No Name Senators Staying Strong in East
Let me introduce you to the Ottawa Senators… You may have heard of them, you may not have. The Senators hail from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The country’s capital is located between...
























