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Islanders first practice at Barclays, Brooklyn

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Islanders first practice at Barclays, Brooklyn

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Pierre McGuire with another insightful interview.

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An Austrian ice hockey team will get to become gladiators when matches are played inside one of the best preserved Roman arenas in the world later this month. The ice pitch will be placed inside the ancient Roman Arena in the western Croatian town of Pula to host Croatian champions Medvescak Zagreb as well as their foreign opponents Vienna Capitals from Austria - and Telemach Olimpija from the Slovenian capital Ljubljana.

Source: Austrian Independent 

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"Gopher hunting at my mothers house." - Derek Stepan

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"Before doing breakaways today @RealStamkos91 told me he ALWAYS goes top glove,1st shot he went low blocker..Never trust a sniper.." - Henrik Lundqvist

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Dustin Penner vs. Conan O’Brien

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Iron on the green.

"Because there wasn't enoguh time to play 54" - Grant Fuhr, after being asked how could he play 36 holes of golf in the middle of the Stanley Cup Finals.

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Hockey Player; New York, 1970 

Photo by Arthur Tress

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Airing out hockey gear from a second floor suburban apartment. Poor neighbors. 

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97 days til the NHL hits Brooklyn.

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"My buddy Carmine (yes, everybody in New jersey has a buddy named Carmine) is a bit of a loudmouth. He went to Game 5 at the Prudential Center and ended up betting this Kings fan $100 that the Devils would take the Cup."

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heel to toe; catch the snow

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The Austrian Hockey League is going to play a game in Croatia's 2,000-year old Roman amphitheater.

Pula Arena is the only remaining Roman amphitheatre to have four side towers and with all three Roman architectural orders entirely preserved. It was constructed in 27 BC - 68 AD and is among the six largest surviving Roman arenas in the World.

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One of our heros/fellow New Yorker Neil deGrasse Tyson has this to (appropriately) interject:

Congrats to the LAKings' NHL title. Is it just me, or does the HubbleTelescope look like the StanleyCup?

Yeah we know the picture_illustration is an untimely yet appropriate pic of six-time Vezina Tropy winner; two-time Hart Memorial Trophy winner crazy Czech goalie Dominik Hasek.

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Meet Cy Wilson, Seattle’s 86-year-old hockey player. Proving that age ain’t nothing but a number!