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A Night For Revenge And Hate: Canucks-Blues Preview

Canucks (10-8-0) Blues (5-6-4) Game Time: 5:00 PM PST TV: Sportsnet Pacific The Enemy: St. Louis Game Time UPDATE: 10:14 AM PST: Cory Schneider has been sent down to the Moose today. Big glove tap t...

Playoff Stats are up!

It took a little while, but all of the Behindthenet stats are available for the playoffs. I'm hoping to update at least every other day.One sad note: the NHL isn't going to post shift charts from last...

Playoff Offensive Levels 1968-2008

One unsurprising result here: there are fewer goals scored in the playoffs than during the regular season. If you're down by three in the second during the regular season, you'll probably rest your be...

Playoff Performance by Age

There's no question that scoring rates drop during the playoffs, but James Mirtle wonders if it's fair to count "every game as being equal, whether those postseason games were played as an 18-year-old...

Swallowing the Whistle?

Since the early 1990s, many fewer penalties have been called in playoff games than during the regular season, with the ratio dropping as low as 74%. But for the vast majority of seasons before 1990, m...

Odds? Not in Pittsburgh's favor

The Vegas line for the Pittsburgh Penguins winning Game Seven tomorrow night in Detroit has been edging ever slowly against them. Twenty-four hours ago, a six-sports book average had them at 37.4% to ...

Did Rece Davis Just Say What I Think He Just Said?

This evening, I took my son to movie night at his elementary school, so I arrived home around halftime of the Friday night game . . . just in time to hear Rece Davis say the following as part of his "...

I Hereby Endorse Michael Adams's Candidacy for the NCAA Presidency

Personally, I think it's more than a bit unseemly to be talking about Myles Brand's replacement so soon after the sad news of his passing, but we live in the era of the 24-hour news cycle and the...

Saturday Pebble Report: Modesto clinches spot in Cal League playoffs

Colorado Springs, L 1-5Russ Ortiz: 6 IP, 8 H, 5 R/ER, 1 BB, 3 K, 1 HR. On the bright side, uh, Jason Giambi had two hits. Tulsa, L 1-4Samuel Deduno had a fight with the strike zone last night. Of his ...

Perlman Admits BCS Unfair, But the BCS Ain't Going Away On It's Own

Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman was sent to Washington as the sacrificial lamb for Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Utah's push to rectify the woes of the BCS.  Perlman made it clear t...


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