Former NHL defenseman Paul Shmyr dies
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SURREY, British Columbia -- Paul Shmyr, the former NHL and WHA defenseman who captained the Edmonton Oilers in Wayne Gretzky&#39;s first season with the team, has died after a battle with throat cancer.
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Steve Yzerman, who led the Detroit Red Wings to three Stanley Cups, will have his No. 19 jersey retired Jan. 2.
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NHL goaltender Sean Burke officially retired Tuesday after nearly 20 years in the league.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Former Nashville Predators center Sergei Zholtok died Wednesday in his native Latvia of an apparent heart ailment.
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Just months ago, Steve Montador was living every hockey player's dream &#151; playing in the Stanley Cup finals. Now his Calgary Flames are closed for business &#151; along with the rest of the NHL &#151; and he's chasing pucks in front of 2,000 people in a remote corner of France.
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William Wirtz, owner of the Chicago Blackhawks and president of the National Hockey League (NHL) team for more than four decades, died on Wednesday at the age of 77, the club announced.
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An autopsy confirmed that NHL player Serge Zholtok died from heart failure after playing a game this week in Belarus.
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TRINEC, Czech Republic  - It's not uncommon for  Ottawa Senators forward Radek Bonk and New York Rangers forward  Jaromir Jagr to meet up on a sheet of ice and play hockey --  unless it's in their native Czech Republic.
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Billy Reay, who played on two Stanley Cup champions with Montreal and became the winningest coach in Chicago Blackhawks' history, died at 86.
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EDMONTON - This NHL season died from neglect ages ago and on Tuesday it became obvious. Two wrongs make for last rites. The NHL and its players have accomplished nothing through 90 days of this lockout other
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Only at Madison Square Garden does No. 2 fit so perfectly between 11 and 35. It happened Thursday night when the New York Rangers retired Brian Leetch's famous number. They raised a banner next to those of Mark Messier and Mike Richter, the stellar defenseman's teammates on the 1994 Stanley Cup championship team that ended 54 years of waiting.
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Herkimer, NY (Sports Network) - Former Pittsburgh Steelers offensive lineman Justin Strzelczyk was killed in a collision with a tanker truck after leading police on a highway chase for 40 miles in upstate New York Thursday morning.
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(CP) - Veteran NHL player Sergei Zholtok died Wednesday of an apparent heart ailment. He was 31. Zholtok was playing hockey fsor the club team in his home city of Riga, the Latvian capital, when he became ill near the end of a game.
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Russian NHL veteran Igor Larionov capped a hockey career spanning more than two decades with a farewell exhibition game Monday that brought together a number of his locked-out colleagues from the Detroit Red Wings along with other former
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The last time Detroit Red Wings star Steve Yzerman played in an NHL game, during the 2004 playoffs, he had to be helped off the ice when a puck broke bones near his left eye. Yzerman vowed to return, with a visor, but didn't get the chance.
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DETROIT -- Steve Yzerman, who led the Detroit Red Wings to three Stanley Cups, will have his No. 19 jersey retired Jan. 2.
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Czech winger Jaromir Jagr has signed a  contract with Russian ice hockey champions Avangard Omsk,  leaving the Czech league where he has been playing during a  labor dispute that has shut down North America's National  Hockey League (NHL).