Tanguay, Zednik join NHL&#39;s influx to Europe
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Toronto, ON (Sports Network) - Colorado Avalanche left wing Alex Tanguay and Montreal Canadiens right wing Richard Zednik have both signed with European teams, joining a growing list of talent who will play overseas during the NHL&#39;s current labor dispute.
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The Thrashers sent the rights to free agent forward Keith Tkachuk back to St. Louis on Tuesday, reacquiring the conditional first-round pick they traded to the Blues in a deadline deal that helped Atlanta reach the playoffs for the first time.
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With North America's season on hold, ice hockey stars are coming to Europe. But will they stay?
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The New York Rangers stole the spotlight from longtime rival Philadelphia yesterday as both teams made huge splashes in the NHL free agency pool on an eventful first day of the shopping season during which most of the top-echelon players hitting the market were signed.
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The Islanders signed the veteran left wing Ruslan Fedotenko to a one-year, $2.9 million deal.Fedotenko, 28, had 32 points in 80 games with the Tampa Bay Lightning last season. In 2004, he scored 12 goals in 22 playoff games, including both goals in the Lightningâs 2-1 victory against Calgary in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals.
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The New York Islanders are buying out the remaining four years on Alexei Yashin's 10-year contract in the first step of an offseason overhaul they hope will include re-signing Jason Blake and Ryan Smyth.
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It was almost the perfect ending for the Florida Panthers. In their first game since forward Richard Zednik had his neck cut by teammate Olli Jokinen's skate in Buffalo on Sunday, the Panthers blew a third-period lead, were flat at the start of overtime and the Montreal Canadiens took advantage and earned a 2-1 victory on Wednesday night.
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For the first time, Americans were taken with the top two picks in the NHL draft.
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Man, is it quiet. With just over two weeks to go before the NHL trade deadline, general managers are moving little more than office furniture (tossing desk chairs in frustration?), further underscoring that the new collective bargaining agreement has turned the building of roster chemistry into strictly a midsummer exercise around free agency.
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Miikka Kiprusoff is carrying the weight of a small European country aching for athletic success. Finland has a rich hockey tradition, but in recent years that history hasn&#39;t included a lot of winning.
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Five more locked-out NHL players agreed Saturday to play in Europe, bringing the total to 185.
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Hope for an end to the nearly three-month-old National Hockey League lockout, which has hurt Pittsburgh-area businesses and forced some Penguins players to find work overseas, got a boost Thursday when the NHL Players&#39; Association said it would make a new
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Kazan, Russia (Sports Network) - Alexei Kovalev, Brad Richards and Nikolai Khabibulin were the latest locked out National Hockey League players to head abroad, as all three signed on to play for Russia&#39;s AK Bars Kazan.
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The NHL will return to Europe to open next season, announcing Saturday that two games each will be played in Prague and Stockholm.
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Luc Robitaille and Sergei Fedorov scored 29 seconds apart in the second period Thursday as the Worldstars opened their tour of Europe with a 4-2 victory over Riga 2000.
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Nashville Predators right wing Adam Hall and Buffalo Sabres center Tim Connolly signed with European teams, making it 200 NHL players who have headed overseas during the lockout.
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Toronto's Nik Antropov, Philadelphia's Michal Handzus and Pittsburgh's Steve McKenna became the latest NHL players to head to Europe during the lockout.