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Rob Brown. Jarome Iginla. Mark Recchi. Greg Hawgood. Scott Niedermayer. These are the names of the greatest Kamloops Blazers in hockey history. Why is the great hockey city of Kamloops on my mind this Canadian holiday weekend? Because that is where I will be. Only I'll be there for soccer instead of hockey. Regardless, it is a great place to spend a long weekend.The weather will be dry and hot,

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The year is 1979. The Montreal Canadiens defeat a very solid Rangers team from New York to capture their 4th consecutive Stanley Cup. Guy Lafleur and Jacques Lemaire both score 23 points to lead the league in scoring, while defensive specialist extraordinaire Bob Gainey won the Conn Smythe trophy as playoff MVP. This would be the final Stanley Cup not only for this Canadiens dynasty, but for

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The year is 1978. The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Boston Bruins in the Stanley Cup finals again. It seems as though the Canadiens own the Boston Bruins. From 1943 through 1987 Montreal never lost to Boston in a playoff series, going 18-0! Larry Robinson is the hero this time, earning the Conn Smythe Trophy for his dominating play at both ends of the ice. In addition to his usual intimidating

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The year is 1977. The Montreal Canadiens complete the regular season with a just 8 losses. Needless to say, the Habs are the heavy favorite to win the Stanley Cup for the second time in as many years. They would face little competition in playoffs either, notching sweeps in the quarterfinals against St. Louis and in the finals against Boston. Only the up-and-coming New York Islanders offered

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The year is 1976. The Philadelphia Flyers, with their intimidating brawling style of hockey, are the two time defending Stanley Cup champions, and they're back for more. Standing in their way are the Montreal Canadiens, who are looking to restore their fire wagon brand of hockey and end the days of the Broad Street Bullies. Skill would defeat brawn, as Montreal swept the Flyers 4 games to 0. In

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The year is 1975. For the first time we have an all-expansion team Stanley Cup final, as the defending champion Philadelphia Flyers face the Buffalo Sabres. The Sabres were fueled by the famed French Connection line of Gilbert Perreault, Rick Martin and Rene Robert, along with the goaltending of Roger Crozier. But they entered the finals winless against the Flyers in the previous 13 contests.

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The year is 1974. It has been six years since the National Hockey League doubled in size from six to twelve teams. No expansion team had ever won the Stanley Cup. Until now. The Philadelphia Flyers were the talk of hockey, with their aggressive and downright dirty tactics earning the label "Broad Street Bullies." But in the spring of 1974 they would fend off the favored Boston Bruins and earn

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The year is 1973. If you have followed my year-by-year Stanley Cup capsules, you know by now that in any given year there is a good chance the Montreal Canadiens are the Stanley Cup champions. Yes, they did it again, their second of the decade with many more yet to come. Montreal outgunned their opposition this time around. They set a record with 33 goals in the finals, thanks largely to a wild

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The year is 1972. The Boston Bruins get back on top of the National Hockey League. The Bruins battle the New York Rangers, winning in six games. The Bruins high powered offense is led, as always, by Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito, who tie for the league lead in playoff scoring with 24 points each. Johnny Bucyk is third with 20, while Pie McKenzie and Ken Hodge tie for fourth, along with the Rangers

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The year is 1971. The Stanley Cup playoffs are all about one man. And he's a rookie at that, just called up a few days before the playoffs began. The Boston Bruins are led by the high powered offense of Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito. They are poised to be hockey's next great dynasty. But in 1971 they would run into the red hot rookie goaltender in Montreal. The man making the spectacular and

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The year is 1970. The above photo, perhaps the most famous photo in the history of hockey, says it all. But Jennifer Conway tells the story beautifully. I'm going to let her tell the story of the photo and of the 1970 Stanley Cup: Happy Mother's Day Mrs. Orr May 10, 1970. A fan sitting behind the Blues’ goal is holding a sign that says “Happy Mother’s Day Mrs. Orr.” Bobby’s mother has

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Don Cherry is teaming with Doubleday Canada and Al Strachan to bring us his long awaited second hockey book, Don Cherry's Hockey Stories And Stuff. "I'd like this book to be just like we're sittin' down tellin' stories in my own language," says Cherry. "I'll be criticized because for some reason people are not too thrilled with the way I speak... So don't blame Random House or Al Strachan for

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Lost amongst the many posts that create my year by year Stanley Cup capsules are many new profiles. Here's eight from recent posts. Bill Barilko - Is there a bigger playoff legend in Toronto than Bill Barilko? Les Costello - Les Costello passed up a big league career to become a priest. Roger Crozier - Roger Crozier was a stand out

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The year is 1969. The Montreal Canadiens' "Quiet Dynasty" again sweeps Scotty Bowman's St. Louis Blues in the Stanley Cup finals. It is Montreal's 4 Stanley Cup championship in the past 5 seasons. Serge Savard was the star of the finals, with fantastic play in both ends of the ice. For his efforts he was rewarded with the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP. Dick Duff continued his strong playoff

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The year is 1968. The NHL looks much different. Having completed the first season of expansion, the 12 team NHL allows 8 teams to qualify for the revamped Stanley Cup playoffs. This results in a third round, lengthening the run to the championship significantly. Teams would have to be victorious in the quarter-finals and semi-finals before competing for the Cup in the finals. In order to

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The year is 1967. All of Canada is celebrating the centennial year of the country's existence. What better way to celebrate than to have an all-Canadian Stanley Cup final between the legendary Toronto Maple Leafs and Montreal Canadiens. The Canadiens had won the previous two Stanley Cups, and were in the midst of what would quietly become another dynasty as they would win 5 Cups in 7 years.

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The year is 1966. Ace defenseman Jean-Claude Tremblay is the key player as the Montreal Canadiens defend their Stanley Cup championship. Tremblay leads all Canadiens players in point scored during these playoffs, tallying 11 points including 1 goal and 6 points in the finals against Detroit. His defensive effort was also supreme. He seemed to always be on the ice for the many crucial situations

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The year is 1965. A familiar name is engraved on the Stanley Cup. The Montreal Canadiens barely knock off the Chicago Black Hawks in 7 games. But the names belonging to the Canadiens were in no way familiar to Stanley Cup lore. While the likes of Jean Beliveau and Henri Richard were holdovers from the great Canadiens teams of the 1950s, the team was mostly made up of a new generation of stars.

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The year is 1964. The Stanley Cup championship is played under the slimmest of margins, as the two-time defending champion Toronto Maple Leafs edge Gordie Howe's Detroit Red Wings 4 games to 3. Two games were decided in overtime, with the teams splitting decisions. Two other games were literally decided in the dying seconds of the game. Bob Pulford scored, shorthanded nonetheless, with just 2

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The year is 1963. It is the only year in NHL-controlled Stanley Cup history (1927 to present) that not a single playoff game went into overtime. The Toronto Maple Leafs easily defend their crown as Stanley Cup champions. They posted the best regular season record and followed that up with an 8-2 playoff record, dusting off Montreal and then Detroit in the finals. The Leafs were led by goaltender

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The year is 1962. A new Leafs dynasty, this one of epic proportions, rises. The Toronto Maple Leafs defeat the defending champion Chicago Blackhawks 4 games to 2. The Leafs would win three Stanley Cup titles in succession, and four in six years. The Leafs are led by their coach. Punch Imlach instituted a style of play that always has been the hallmark of champions. His game plan is nothing fancy

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Eastern Conference (2) Pittsburgh (47-27-8, 102 pts) (6) Philadelphia (42-29-11, 95 pts) RESULTS OF 2007-2008 REGULAR SEASON MEETINGS DATE SCORE NOV. 7 PHILADELPHIA 3 AT PITTSBURGH 1 NOV. 10 PITTSBURGH 2 AT PHILADELPHIA 5 DEC. 11 PITTSBURGH 2 AT PHILADELPHIA 8 JAN. 24 PITTSBURGH 3 AT PHILADELPHIA 4 FEB. 10 PHILADELPHIA 3 AT PITTSBURGH 4 MAR. 16 PHILADELPHIA 1

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Well, I looked bad in round two, going just 1 for 4. That brings my prediction tally to 7-5. A few thoughts on round one - SJ - Evgeni Nabokov's incredible save on Brad Richards has to be save of the year. If the Sharks somehow managed to win the series, that would have been the defining save of the franchise's history. DAL - Brendan Morrow has always been a horse. Now he is entering Jarome

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NHL Playoffs: Longest OT games DATE FINAL SCORER OT TIME 1 3/24/36 Detroit 1, Maroons 0 Mud Bruneteau 116:30:00 2 04/03/33 Toronto 1, Boston 0 Ken Doraty 104:46:00 3 05/04/00 Philadelphia 2, Pittsburgh 1 Keith Primeau 92:01:00 4 4/24/03 Anaheim 4, Dallas 3 Petr Sykora 80:48:00 5 4/24/96 Pittsburgh 3, Washington 2

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