mike-vernon Stories - Fear The Fin
Nikolai Khabibulin's Resurgence
The Edmonton Oilers have had a surprisingly competitive start to the 2011-12 season. Some of that success has come because of improvements at the team level, most notably on the penalty kill, but no one (save perhaps Tom Renney) has had a bigger hand in the early-season success than Nikolai...
Purging of the Old Panthers: Radek Dvorak
Dale Tallon has completed an unprecedented string of player acquisitions this off-season, bringing in seven free agents for the NHL roster and trading for three more. Some additional prospect and minor-league signings brings the potential for over half of this season's Panthers roster to be...
Greatest Sharks: Mind Yo' Netminders
When it's down to the wire, even Sharkie logs on to vote! Well, FTF'ers, it's been a journey. A long, not too difficult, not too meaningful journey. But hey, we're almost done... so cut us some slack. After rounds upon rounds of voting in a process that carried us through the regular season,...
Today In Colorado Avalanche History
March 26, 1997 - In Claude Lemieux's first game back in Detroit since his vicious hit from behind on Kris Draper, Darren McCarty decides that the best way to punish douchebaggery is with more douchebaggery. After Igor Larionov and Peter Forsberg get into a scrap along the boards, McCarty sucker...
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