NHL
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Drafted by the Washington Capitals in 2014, the hard work for the forward is only just beginning as he looks to break Australia’s final frontier in US sports
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While some athletes stand apart because of their physical gifts, others are just as adept at annoying the hell out of their fellow professionals
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After taking a puck in the head in April, the Rangers winger fractured his skull and lost the ability to speak. But now he’s back – and he leads the team in points
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A new study claims fans prefer hockey games without fights. But like it or not, fighting’s a part of the fabric – and it would take something drastic to change
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David Lengel: On the professional fields, courts, diamonds and ice of North America, classic uniforms live alongside colossal failures: we look at a half-dozen of the worst
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Mathias Ask: Everything about the Islanders’ Brooklyn debut on Friday at the Barclays Center was a success, even if the Stanley Cup holders failed to accommodate
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Greg Couch: As the Stanley Cup holders opened their title defense amid a euphoric home crowd, the silence about the Patrick Kane rape investigation was deafening
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Will the Blackhawks repeat? Who will nab the Hart trophy? Is Gary Bettman even worse than Roger Goodell? Guardian writers on what’s coming up this season
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District attorney overseeing case against NHL star calls mother’s claim of finding an evidence bag in her doorway ‘a bizarre hoax’
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EA Sports is dropping Chicago Blackhawks star Patrick Kane from promoting its NHL 16 video game because he is under police investigation over rape allegations
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Defenseman, 18, taken 172nd in NHL Draft by Islanders team owned by Shanghai-born Charles B Wang
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Trenčín is the birthplace of NHL stars Marián Hossa, Zdeno Chara and Marián Gáborik – and now it could rename one of its streets after Lord Stanley’s Cup
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The Bulls, Bears and Cubs all have their problems, but the Hawks keep getting it done – and the record-breaking attendances show a team at the very top
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Colin Horgan: Three Stanley Cups in six years have made the Blackhawks the class of the post-lockout, hard salary cap era. The secret? Better players and more of them
Joshua Harris’s Philadelphia story offers insight to Crystal Palace fans