WILD’S GABORIK TO HAVE HIP SURGERY MONDAY; OUT 10 WEEKS »
ST. PAUL, Minn. - When Marian Gaborik undergoes hip surgery on Monday, his highlight-filled and injury plagued career with the Minnesota Wild could be going right with him.
The star winger will have surgery on his left hip that will keep him out a minimum of 10 weeks, the team said Friday.
The last original member of [...]
Red Wings 6, Blackhawks 4 2009 Winter Classic at Wrigley Field »
CHICAGO (AP)—The atmosphere was electric. Bundled-up fans got a chance to extend their New Year’s Eve parties and watch hockey in a venerable stadium where baseball usually fills the seats.
If the setting was different, the results were the same Thursday. The Detroit Red Wings beat the Chicago Blackhawks again, this time out in the cold [...]
Gaborik surgery potentially on the horizon »
Posted on January 1st, 2009 – 2:09 PM
By Michael Russo
Yesterday afternoon, I received an email from an always iron-clad source telling me that Marian Gaborik went to Colorado to see a specialist over the break. I wrote that in today’s paper because I got it confirmed from a secondary source.
What I didn’t write today is that [...]
RUSSIAN INVESTIGATORS SAY CHEREPANOV WAS ‘DOPING’ »
MOSCOW - Blood and urine samples show former hockey star Alexei Cherepanov took performance-enhancing drugs, Russian investigators said in a statement Monday.
Cherepanov, 19, collapsed Oct. 13 while on the bench for Omsk club Avangard in Russia’s Continental Hockey League, or the KHL as it is known. The player, a top prospect of the NHL’s New [...]
WILD TELL GABORIK TO TAKE TWO GAMES OFF »
Minnesota Wild star Marian Gaborik will miss the next two games, but it was not his idea. Wild assistant general manager Tom Lynn told the Star Tribune on Tuesday night that Gaborik was being held out by the team in order to let his troublesome groin rest and heal.
“Marian’s going to take the Christmas break [...]
Zambonis arrive as Wrigley Field takes shape ahead of Winter Classic »
CHICAGO - Usually at Wrigley Field, it’s a big Zambrano (Carlos) that draws the attention, the six-foot-five, 255-pound ace of the Chicago Cubs’ pitching staff.
On Thursday, two weeks before the Winter Classic outdoor hockey game between the Detroit Red Wings and Chicago Blackhawks, it was the Zambonis everyone was watching.
As the two ice resurfacing machines [...]
CROSBY, MALKIN, CHASE ALL-STAR VOTING RECORD »
Montreal Canadiens fans appeared to be stuffing the ballot box early, but now Penguins fans have taken over. In fact, Pittsburgh stars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin are both threatening to break Jaromir Jagr’s all-time record for the most votes received in one year of NHL All-Star fan balloting.
On Tuesday morning, Crosby and Malkin were [...]
LUONGO SPEAKS OF HIS INJURY; NO TIME FRAME FOR RETURN »
Vancouver Canucks captain Roberto Luongo spoke to the media on Sunday for the first time since pulling himself off the ice on the team’s road trip last week.
He said the injury is simply not where he wants it to be and there was no point in continuing to skate any further.
The netminder has been sidelined [...]
AVERY TO CONTINUE COUNSELING, WON’T REJOIN STARS »
Even with his six-game suspension being over, troubled Stars forward Sean Avery will not be returning to Dallas.
The Stars said on Sunday that representatives for both Avery and the team said they would continue to work together in support of Avery during “this critical time” for the player.
All parties said there is a clear understanding [...]
VANEK SCORES TWICE AS SABRES DOUBLE UP ON DEVILS »
NEWARK, N.J. - Thomas Vanek and the Buffalo Sabres withstood the New Jersey Devils’ best punch in the second period.
The Devils struck for two goals in a span of just over four minutes, taking a 2-1 lead in a potential momentum changer. The Sabres didn’t get rattled, scoring the next three to pull out a [...]
