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	<title>Population Statistic &#187; Hockey</title>
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		<title>WATCHING HOCKEY, OR WATCHING THE OLYMPICS?</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/01/watching-hockey-or-watching-the-olympics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/01/watching-hockey-or-watching-the-olympics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>

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Much ado over &#8220;the most-watched hockey game in 30 years&#8221;, with an estimated 27.6 million Americans watching the U.S.-Canada gold medal game. The context:
To put the numbers in perspective, Sunday&#8217;s game drew a higher overnight rating than every World Series game since 2004 (including every game of Yankees/Phillies last year), every NBA Finals telecast since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VANCOUVER 2010: CANADIAN GOLD, WHERE IT COUNTS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/28/vancouver-2010-canadian-gold-where-it-counts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/28/vancouver-2010-canadian-gold-where-it-counts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:42:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

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After falling short of a pre-Games boast to dominate the medal podiums, Olympic host Canada compensated with a record-breaking haul of 14 Golds.
And really, it&#8217;s that 14th Gold that counts the most:
Canada is the Olympic champion in men&#8217;s hockey, and the whole country can finally celebrate its Winter Games.
Canada survived one of the greatest games [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VANCOUVER 2010: MIRACLE REDUX?</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/21/vancouver-2010-miracle-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/21/vancouver-2010-miracle-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7157</guid>
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In the immediate afterglow of Team USA&#8217;s 5-3 win over Canada in men&#8217;s hockey, the comparisons are already being made between tonight&#8217;s impressive upset and the 1980 Miracle On Ice win over the Soviets.
Not to detract from this win, but I don&#8217;t see it. The Americans might have been an underdog coming into these games, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AMERICAN-CANADIAN TWIG LEANINGS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/16/american-canadian-twig-leanings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/16/american-canadian-twig-leanings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:51:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7140</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For all the years I&#8217;ve been watching hockey, I&#8217;m stunned that I&#8217;ve never noticed this fundamental divergence in North American stick-curve predilections:
According to sales figures from stick manufacturers, a majority of Canadian hockey players shoot left-handed, and a majority of American players shoot right-handed. No reason is known for this disparity, which cuts across all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOING FORWARD ON THE POINT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/11/going-forward-on-the-point/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/11/going-forward-on-the-point/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7103</guid>
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I&#8217;ve thought about it, and I&#8217;ve come to this conclusion: Using a forward to man the point on a power play is nothing short of a travesty.
This isn&#8217;t the first time I&#8217;ve considered this. But of late, the news of the New Jersey Devils using newly-acquired Ilya Kovalchuk up high during the man-advantage has crystallized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE CAPS&#8217; CONTINUING WEB PLAY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/09/the-caps-continuing-web-play/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/09/the-caps-continuing-web-play/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Online]]></category>

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Deeming that the National Hockey League lost the battle to get serious television exposure long ago, Washington Capitals owner Ted Leonsis is aggressively cultivating online social media:
&#8220;Where we should be advantaged is our customers are younger, more educated, Web-savvy than the NFL audience, which is older, less wired. So let&#8217;s pick a fight we have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE LOST ART OF HOCKEY-LINE NICKNAMING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/18/the-lost-art-of-hockey-line-nicknaming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/18/the-lost-art-of-hockey-line-nicknaming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordsmithing]]></category>

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While watching the Islanders game the other night (I&#8217;m a Rangers fan and thus anti-Isles, but a game is a game), one of the announcers offhandedly proposed nicknaming the trio of Sean Bergenheim, Kyle Okposo, and Josh Bailey the &#8220;First Round Line&#8221;, owing to each player&#8217;s status as a first-round draft pick.
Nice moniker, if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THEO&#8217;S FOUR-POINT LAMENT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/08/theos-four-point-lament/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/08/theos-four-point-lament/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:36:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bloggin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6950</guid>
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Theoren Fleury is not playing in the National Hockey League this season, and he really thinks he should be:
The report says that Fleury believed that his performance at Calgary&#8217;s training camp last fall during his comeback attempt should have been enough for him to make the squad.
&#8220;At one hundred and eighty pounds, I finished 11th [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>WINTER CLASSIC&#8217;S UPGRADE-MARKETING EFFECT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/01/winter-classics-upgrade-marketing-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/01/winter-classics-upgrade-marketing-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 23:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SportsBiz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6916</guid>
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Along with catching a corker of a Winter Classic today &#8212; a thriller in which the Bruins rallied with two sweet tic-tac-toe passes to beat Philadelphia 2-1 in OT at Fenway Park &#8212; I noticed a distinct improvement in the quality of the game&#8217;s televised commercials this year. Instead of endless replays of generic national [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE WINTER CLASSIC TWO-THIRDS PLAN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/01/the-winter-classic-two-thirds-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/01/the-winter-classic-two-thirds-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:18:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Weather]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6914</guid>
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This afternoon&#8217;s weather in Boston looks snowfall-free, so today&#8217;s 2010 NHL Winter Classic should go off without a hitch. But just in case, the league has a contingency plan:
A league source confirmed to ESPN.com on Thursday that it is possible the Winter Classic could only go two periods if the weather doesn&#8217;t cooperate and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WITT-AND-RUN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/08/witt-and-run/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/08/witt-and-run/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6806</guid>
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Islanders defenseman Brendan Witt knows how to brace himself for an on-ice hit. Presumably, that professional National Hockey League training helped him literally walk away from being hit by an SUV:
Witt was crossing Arch Street [in Philadelphia] to get a cup of coffee when a gold Yukon truck made an illegal turn and hit the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>IN THE MARKET FOR AN INDESTRUCTIBLE SKATE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/11/in-the-market-for-an-indestructible-skate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/11/in-the-market-for-an-indestructible-skate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:58:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6690</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was bound to happen: Days after I took my first-ever skate on the Rockefeller Center ice rink, I&#8217;ve got the itch to buy a new pair of blades.
Which I need like a hole in the head. I&#8217;ve got little enough time as it is for eating and breathing, practically &#8212; scheduling ice time is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TRAPEZOID, OR NO-TOUCH?</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/10/trapezoid-or-no-touch/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/10/trapezoid-or-no-touch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6686</guid>
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Apparently, recent goal-line injuries in the National Hockey League have created a groundswell of sentiment for a rule change that allows goaltenders to handle the puck outside the crease. Thankfully, the league&#8217;s general managers don&#8217;t agree:
The merits of potentially eliminating it were discussed, but didn&#8217;t gain much momentum. The trapezoid rule was introduced as part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOCKEY MASK-IVERSARY, PRE-13TH</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/01/hockey-mask-iversary-pre-13th/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/01/hockey-mask-iversary-pre-13th/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6634</guid>
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Today is a big day in hockey history: The 50th anniversary of the late Montreal great Jacques Plante being the first goaltender to wear a protective facemask during a National Hockey League game. Thus changing the face of the NHL, literally and figuratively.
It&#8217;s worth noting that this golden anniversary falls during a November that, in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FURTHER BUDS FOR OIL, AKA NHL ALTERNATE HISTORY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/12/further-buds-for-oil-aka-nhl-alternate-history/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/12/further-buds-for-oil-aka-nhl-alternate-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Greg &#8220;Puck Daddy&#8221; Wyshynski saw fit to link back and expand upon my little post on what might have been had the Edmonton Oilers and Toronto Maple Leafs swapped cities/arenas in the early 1980s, the proposal of which recently has been alleged by former Oilers owner Peter Pocklington. Much thanks to Wysh for the added [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GREAT ALMOST-WAS CANADIAN FRANCHISE SWAP</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/11/the-great-almost-was-canadian-franchise-swap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/11/the-great-almost-was-canadian-franchise-swap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:49:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6520</guid>
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To adapt a current-day political statement for hockey purposes, call this &#8220;Buds for Oil&#8220;: A long-ago proposal to simultaneously relocate two Canadian-based NHL teams.
The biography of one-time Oilers owner Peter Pocklington says the scheme called for the entire team to move to Toronto to play in Maple Leaf Gardens. The Leafs, in turn, would have [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>EARLY-SEASON NO-ICE SUNDAY (1 OF 2)</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/04/early-season-no-ice-sunday-1-of-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/04/early-season-no-ice-sunday-1-of-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6483</guid>
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I was in hockey heaven yesterday, with National Hockey League games on television pretty much continuously from noon until the wee post-midnight hours of Sunday morning.
I was able to watch all that Saturday extended ice-time thanks to the annual season-opening NHL Center Ice free preview, which is running to nearly the end of October this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOLE-SCUFFING MY PERSONAL GOALIE CREASE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/09/30/sole-scuffing-my-personal-goalie-crease/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/09/30/sole-scuffing-my-personal-goalie-crease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6471</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I wonder how the bottoms of my dress shoes manage to get smoother with wear-and-tear? It would make more sense to me that they get coarser.
I guess that&#8217;s why, when I&#8217;m on the sidewalk, I try to walk around with slight scuffing motions, in an effort to gain more traction. This, despite knowing that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>X MARKS THE PRESEASON</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/09/18/x-marks-the-preseason/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/09/18/x-marks-the-preseason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:24:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>

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This is new to me: TSN is tagging the National Hockey League games currently being played as &#8220;NHL-X&#8221;, like like in this headline.
That &#8220;X&#8221; stands for &#8220;exhibition&#8221;, of course, given that regular season doesn&#8217;t start until October (as usual). I suppose they could have gone for &#8220;NHL-PRE&#8221;, to signify the preseason (that sounds more French, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PATRICK KANE&#8217;S PENMANSHIP PUNISHMENT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/27/patrick-kanes-penmanship-punishment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/27/patrick-kanes-penmanship-punishment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 00:52:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[True Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6293</guid>
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What do I think of Chicago Blackhawks star forward Patrick Kane&#8217;s court-ordered penalty for assaulting a taxi driver in Buffalo?
The 20-year-old player and his 21-year-old cousin, James Kane, were given conditional discharges, meaning they will avoid any penalties if they stay out of trouble for a year and write apologies to cabbie Jan Radecki.
That written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LIGHTNING TWEET-TRADE: CLOSER TO THE FUTURE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/13/lightning-tweet-trade-closer-to-the-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/08/13/lightning-tweet-trade-closer-to-the-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 01:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basketball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Online]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6181</guid>
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Once again, I must cite Bill Simmons&#8217; bold prediction on the future of sports journalism, as published by ESPN The Magazine:
&#8230;I see a day when the following sequence will be routine: Player demands trade on blog; team obliges and announces deal on Twitter; player thanks old fans, takes shots at old team and gushes about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 FREE AGENT FRENZY: THE DAY AFTER</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/07/02/2009-free-agent-frenzy-the-day-after/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/07/02/2009-free-agent-frenzy-the-day-after/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:16:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5769</guid>
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Yesterday was the commencement of the formal free-agency signing period in the National Hockey League, and it went off with a bang: A record number of players switched teams, with the usual long-term dollars committed with an eye toward salary-cap impact.
The detailed rundown is available from here to ESPN.com. Here are a few of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE HYPE-FREE PRE-DRAFT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/26/the-hype-free-pre-draft/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/26/the-hype-free-pre-draft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basketball]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5728</guid>
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I never thought I&#8217;d lament the absence of rumor-mongering and mostly-clueless talent assessment, but that&#8217;s exactly the void I&#8217;m feeling heading into the 2009 National Hockey League Entry Draft, which starts tonight.
I mean, it&#8217;s been extremely quiet all week. All that&#8217;s cropped up is an iffy Phil Kessel-for-Tomas Kaberle trade proposal from the Bruins to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE ISLANDERS&#8217; ULTIMATE DRAFT META-STRATEGY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/25/the-islanders-ultimate-draft-meta-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/25/the-islanders-ultimate-draft-meta-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5724</guid>
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I was hoping my offhand quip about who the New York Islanders should select No. 1 overall in tomorrow&#8217;s 2009 NHL Entry Draft would slip past the goalie. But since some other Puck Daddy readers seemed to like it, I&#8217;ll reproduce it here, in all it&#8217;s crackpot-conspiratorial glory:
The master plan on Long Island: They draft [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APPLYING &#8220;MELT VALUE&#8221; TO CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHIES</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/20/applying-melt-value-to-championship-trophies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/20/applying-melt-value-to-championship-trophies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 23:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basketball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5682</guid>
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No doubt, it takes a load of chutzpah for Cash4Gold to horn in on both the National Hockey League&#8217;s and National Basketball Association&#8217;s championship seasons by:
- Appraising the Stanley Cup at a &#8220;melt value&#8221; of $7,500, based on photographic examination and an assumption that it&#8217;s made of solid silver. (Obviously, not only did the company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STANLEY CUP 2009: RINK RATINGS BONANZA</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/16/stanley-cup-2009-rink-ratings-bonanza/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/16/stanley-cup-2009-rink-ratings-bonanza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basketball]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5638</guid>
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Your National Hockey League is on a real roll right now: On the heels of a court victory affirming its control over franchise ownership and relocation vis-à-vis the Coyotes and Jim Balsillie, it got confirmation that the just-completed Stanley Cup playoffs this year featured some of the highest television ratings in 36 years.
NBC’s Game 7 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>BALSILLIE BOMBS AT BANKRUPTCY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/15/balsillie-bombs-at-bankruptcy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/15/balsillie-bombs-at-bankruptcy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5635</guid>
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So much for the Hamilton Coyotes. Bankruptcy court rejected Jim Balsillie&#8217;s attempt to buy the Phoenix NHL franchise and relocate it to southern Ontario:
[Judge Redfield T.] Baum shot down the claim by Coyotes owner Jerry Moyes and Balsillie that failure to allow the team, over the objection of the NHL, to move would violate antitrust [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>MSG SUPERSUITES IT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/05/msg-supersuites-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/05/msg-supersuites-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basketball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5563</guid>
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If you&#8217;ve got more friends-slash-clients than can comfortably fit into a standard luxury box in Madison Square Garden, good news: The arena is super-sizing one of its suites to hold 300 people, as part of a 2-3 year renovation.
[MSG Vice Chairman Hank] Ratner said no decisions had been made on pricing, including for the 20 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>CUP RATINGS GET A BACK-TO-BACK BOOST</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/02/cup-ratings-get-a-back-to-back-boost/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/06/02/cup-ratings-get-a-back-to-back-boost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5531</guid>
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For all the hand-wringing over the unconventional back-to-back gamenights start to this year&#8217;s Stanley Cup Finals, the strong Nielsen numbers from this past weekend indicate that the format is probably now a permanent feature:
The NBC telecast [of Sunday's 8PM airing of Game 2] drew a 3.4 rating and a 6 share. That&#8217;s up from the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>2008-09 STANLEY RE-CUP</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/28/2008-09-stanley-re-cup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/28/2008-09-stanley-re-cup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 15:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5507</guid>
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Yup, this year&#8217;s Stanley Cup round is, improbably enough, a repeat performance between last year&#8217;s finalists, right down to home-ice advantage for Detroit. There&#8217;s a reason why this hasn&#8217;t happened since 1983 and 1984, when the Oilers and Islanders split championships &#8212; with 28 other teams in the mix, the odds are pretty daunting against [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>NHL AS A MAJOR LEAGUE SPORT &#8212; TESTIFIED!</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/19/nhl-as-a-major-league-sport-testified/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/19/nhl-as-a-major-league-sport-testified/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 01:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Basketball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[True Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5445</guid>
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Being a hockey fan, I&#8217;m well-accustomed to the denigration of the sport in general and the National Hockey League in particular, to the point where they&#8217;re not considered to be on the same relevancy level as the major-league editions of football, baseball, and basketball. So it is that, for instance, a dissection of the identity [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>MOST RECENT BIG-LEAGUE TEAM RELOCATIONS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/17/most-recent-big-league-team-relocations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/17/most-recent-big-league-team-relocations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 21:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5431</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Just for fun, here&#8217;s a brief league-by-league rundown of the last time (to date) that franchises in the National Hockey League, National Football League, Major League Baseball, and the National Basketball Association have left one city/market in favor of another:
NBA &#8211; 2008: The SuperSonics leave Seattle in July and become the Oklahoma City Thunder
MLB &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>THE SEDINS: WILD FOR THE TWIN CITIES?</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/14/the-sedins-wild-for-the-twin-cities/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/14/the-sedins-wild-for-the-twin-cities/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 21:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5401</guid>
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The Vancouver Canucks are out of the playoffs, so now&#8217;s the time for team management to make roster decisions for next season.
Particularly when it comes to star forwards &#8212; and twin brothers &#8212; Daniel and Henrik Sedin, who are unrestricted free agents come July 1:
What makes testing the open market so difficult for the Sedins [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>THE BACK-TO-BACK YANNI EFFECT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/10/the-back-to-back-yanni-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/10/the-back-to-back-yanni-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 02:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5379</guid>
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When criticism hit over a Yanni concert in Pittsburgh forcing the scheduling of uncommon (but not unheard of) back-to-back playoff games this weekend for the Penguins and Capitals in their National Hockey League playoff series, I highly doubt that anyone expected the singer musician himself to weigh in on the situation:
Yanni didn&#8217;t express apologies or [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>BALSILLIE, COYOTES, AND COUNTERING CONSTRICTION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/06/balsillie-coyotes-and-countering-constriction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/05/06/balsillie-coyotes-and-countering-constriction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 15:29:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Football]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5352</guid>
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Unwilling to let a little thing like the Great Recession keep National Hockey League action out of the Golden Horseshoe, BlackBerry billionaire (C$) Jim Balsillie has pounced upon the Phoenix Coyotes with an offer to buy the bankruptcy-declared team and move it to Canada.
Plenty of reaction since this hit the fan last night. Let me [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>2009 FIRST-ROUND PLAYOFFS WRAP</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/30/2009-first-round-playoffs-wrap/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/30/2009-first-round-playoffs-wrap/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 01:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5315</guid>
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I always find the first round of the National Hockey League playoffs (or any sport&#8217;s first-round playoff, for that matter) to be the most exciting. With a full field of 16 teams in action, it&#8217;s truly got the variety that the subsequent thinning-out by elimination lacks. (On the other hand, I guess quantity gets traded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY 2009 PUCKS PLAYOFFS PREOCCUPATION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/15/my-2009-pucks-playoffs-preoccupation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/15/my-2009-pucks-playoffs-preoccupation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:10:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5212</guid>
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Tonight&#8217;s the opening night for this season&#8217;s National Hockey League playoffs. And right off the bat, there are four first-round games on the tube, between league cable partner Versus and &#8212; thanks to two of the three local clubs making the postseason &#8212; MSG Network.
Toss in NBC&#8217;s coverage, and it looks like I won&#8217;t be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SLAP SHOT SIGNING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/05/slap-shot-signing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/04/05/slap-shot-signing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=5134</guid>
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Life imitates art, a generation and a hockey league removed: Christian Hanson, the son of Dave Hanson of Slap Shot fame, recently jumped from NCAA college hockey to the NHL by signing a two-year deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Damn sight better than his dad could have hoped for, even if the Johnstown Chiefs had [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>THE QUEENS ISLANDERS?</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/30/the-queens-islanders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/30/the-queens-islanders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
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The New York Islanders have found a relocation option more feasible than their trumped-up Kansas City/Sprint Center canard, and it&#8217;s right across the county border: New York City&#8217;s Queens borough is dangling Willet&#8217;s Point, near the Mets&#8217; new Citi Field, for a new hockey arena complex.
Transportation is key:
The Queens Chamber of Commerce is pitching Willets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE ELDER SKATESMAN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/24/the-elder-skatesman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/24/the-elder-skatesman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m sure this term&#8217;s been around since the twilight of Gordie Howe&#8217;s extended career; but I&#8217;ll still give credit to the announcers for tonight&#8217;s Versus NHL game for invoking it:
The conspicuously 40-something player still hacking it in the National Hockey League? Dub him the &#8220;elder skatesman&#8221;.
His on-ice role may or may not involve statesman-like diplomacy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OVECHKIN&#8217;S STICK ON FIRE, AT STICKS-OF-FIRE-LAND</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/20/ovechkins-stick-on-fire-at-sticks-of-fire-land/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/20/ovechkins-stick-on-fire-at-sticks-of-fire-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Florida Livin']]></category>
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Washington Capitals winger Alexander Ovechkin caused a predictable NHL talking-heads ruckus over his 50th-goal &#8220;hockey stick on fire&#8221; celebration during the 5-2 Caps win over the Lightning:

Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m wondering:
Taking into account that this happened on the road at Tampa Bay, do you think that, somehow, Ovechkin knew that the name &#8220;Tampa&#8221; is derived from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LE NOUVEAU ROY, DANS LES DEUX SENS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/18/le-nouveau-roy-dans-les-deux-sens/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/18/le-nouveau-roy-dans-les-deux-sens/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:31:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
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Not to get overly carried away with Martin Brodeur&#8217;s NHL-record 552nd goaltending win last night, but during the game broadcast, a newspaper headline flashed onscreen, and I liked it:
LE NOUVEAU ROY
I know only enough French to get my face slapped, but I could translate this phrase easily enough: THE NEW KING.
But that&#8217;s only the surface [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A KILL DIVIL, FOR THE KING DEVIL</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/17/a-kill-divil-for-the-king-devil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/17/a-kill-divil-for-the-king-devil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 01:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

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In honor of Martin Brodeur achieving his National Hockey League-record 552nd career goaltending victory in New Jersey&#8217;s 3-2 win over the Blackhawks tonight, I&#8217;m enjoying a cocktail: The appropriately-named Kill Divil.
And that&#8217;s as close as this New York Rangers fan is going to come to expressing a kind sentiment about a Devil &#8212; even a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 TRADE DEADLINE DAY-AFTER: RANGERS REVAMP, LIMITED</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/05/2009-trade-deadline-day-after-rangers-revamp-limited/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/05/2009-trade-deadline-day-after-rangers-revamp-limited/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
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The annual carnage that is the National Hockey League trade deadline ended yesterday at 3PM EST, and the biggest news was the relative lack of big-name moves.
Not that there was no action. Calgary is the consensus big winner, with its acquisitions of Olli Jokinen and Jordan Leopold supposedly thrusting the Flames to an equal tier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEAN AVERY AND THE RANGERS: A SLOPPY-SECOND ACT</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/03/sean-avery-and-the-rangers-a-sloppy-second-act/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/03/03/sean-avery-and-the-rangers-a-sloppy-second-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4888</guid>
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You&#8217;d be tempted to conjure up F. Scott Fitzgerald&#8217;s oft-quoted maxim that &#8220;there are no second acts in American lives&#8221; while absorbing the news that Sean Avery is back in the National Hockey League as the New York Rangers claimed him on re-entry waivers from the Dallas Stars today, a move long expected.
But then, Fitzgerald [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TORTURE-ELLA COMES TO RANGERSLAND</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/02/23/torture-ella-comes-to-rangersland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/02/23/torture-ella-comes-to-rangersland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
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When I decamped from Florida three years ago for New York, little did I suspect that Tampa Bay Lightning then-head coach John Tortorella eventually would follow the same path north.
Yes, Torts is the new bench boss for the New York Rangers. He has 21 games to instill a Camp Torture-ella environment among the Blueshirts, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>KYRGYZ BIRDCAGE-MASK GOALTENDING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/02/10/kyrgyz-birdcage-mask-goaltending/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/02/10/kyrgyz-birdcage-mask-goaltending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

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I sure as hell don&#8217;t agree with the &#8220;Why We Love Winter&#8221; sentiment that accompanied the above photo (never have been a fan of the bone-chilling cold). But I like the picture itself, taken by news photog Vyacheslav Oseledko, very much.
The photographic subject is a young goaltender in Kyrgyzstan, sporting a homemade mask as he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PLAYING WHERE&#8217;S WALDO ON MONTREAL ICE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/02/01/playing-wheres-waldo-on-montreal-ice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/02/01/playing-wheres-waldo-on-montreal-ice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2009 22:26:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4746</guid>
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In a National Hockey League pre-Super Bowl matinee today, the Boston Bruins visited the Montreal Where&#8217;s Waldos. As you can surmise from the photo above.
Seriously, I appreciate hockey history, and applaud the Canadiens for celebrating their century of existence. That doesn&#8217;t mean they have to don all the long-ago uniform designs the club has sported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ALL-STAR SUNDAY RUMINATIONS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/01/25/all-star-sunday-ruminations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/01/25/all-star-sunday-ruminations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Basketball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4732</guid>
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With the National Hockey League in the midst of the 2009 All-Star Game festivities in Montreal, now&#8217;s as good a time as any for me to take a varied, mid-season assessment on various of-the-moment topics. In no particular order:
- The All-Star Game itself has generated a good amount of nattering over the fan voting irregularities, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOCKEYTOWN ON THE POTOMAC</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/01/24/hockeytown-on-the-potomac/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/01/24/hockeytown-on-the-potomac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SportsBiz]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=4729</guid>
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The Washington Capitals joined the National Hockey League in 1974. And now, only 35 years later, DC is coming around to hockey, with sellouts and sports-talk chatter to prove it.
And they have star power to thank for it, in the guise of Alex Ovechkin. A Stanley Cup or two would help things along, too:
[Mario] Lemieux&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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