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25 Faces Only Jim Harbaugh Makes
One of the more incredible phenomenons in the NFL is that of Jim Harbaugh and the faces he makes. Passion, hatred, anger, concentration, determination all while looking like flying off the handle during San Francisco 49ers games is a very unique blend only one head coach in the league has right now.
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Pittsburgh Penguins – Sidney Crosby Can Make it Seem Too Easy
The Toronto Maple Leafs simply don’t look like a very good team this early in the season, which posed no problem for the Pittsburgh Penguins, led by Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin, to make an easy road game out of their visit to Canada, beating the most underachieving team in the NHL 5-2.
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Blackhawks Over Stars – Shootout to Start the Season Well
The Chicago Blackhawks are a popular pick for Stanley Cup champions this season, like they were last year. The season opener against the Dallas Stars didn’t exactly go smoothly, coming down to a shootout, won by a single goal from Patrick Kane, while Corey Crawford was the main cause their first game didn’t start out with a loss.
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NHL – New York Rangers Don’t Let Stanley Cup Depression Get Them Down
The New York Rangers weren’t swept, but they were severely outplayed in last season’s Stanley Cup series. In their 2014-2015 NHL season opener, it didn’t seem to affect them, with another big game from Rick Nash, which is only natural once he faces the St. Louis Blues.
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Red Wings Over Bruins – Destroying a Perfect Start
There’s plenty of less than subtle aim at revenge matches as the 2014-2015 NHL season opens. One of them is between the Detroit Red Wings, beating the Boston Bruins 2-1 with goals from Justin Abdelkader and Gustav Nyquist, coming back from behind after an early mistake.
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Pittsburgh Penguins – Sindey Crosby & Pascal Dupuis Make Sure it’s a Happy Season Opener
The visiting Anaheim Ducks sure didn’t make it easy for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the season opener for both teams, but a great game from Sidney Crosby and Pascal Dupuis made sure that after a turbulent summer with plenty of changes, their 2014-2015 NHL season started out rather smoothly, if you can call a 6-4 come from behind victory smooth.
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Sharks Over Kings – Ruining the Banner Celebration
It started out with raising the banner for the Los Angeles Kings and ended with the San Jose Sharks beating them 4-0 with two great goals by Tommy Wingles, and awful performance for goalieJonathan Quick and generally a terrible way to start the new season for the defending Stanley Cup champions.
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NHL – Boston Bruins Came to Win, Philadelphia Flyers to Fight & Lose
A big game from Tuukka Rask at goal and a late winner from Chris Kelly pulled the Boston Bruins through a chippy season opener against the Philadelphia Flyers, coming away with a 2-1 victory.
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NHL Season Opener – Montreal Canadiens Lucky to Beat the Toronto Maple Leafs
For the Montreal Canadiens, the new season is about trying to get back where they stopped last year and advance a bit. For the Toronto Maple Leafs it’s just about showing any kind of progress. The 4-3 win by Habs thanks to a lucky bounce at the very end of the game was somewhat symbolic to the current state of the rivalry between the two teams.
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Utah Jazz Make Everyone Feel Good by Signing JP Gibson
It’s NBA preseason kicking off, but not everything has to be about basketball. The Utah Jazz were about more than that when they signed 5-year old JP Gibson, diagnosed with lymphoblastic leukemia, on a one day contract so he can wear the jersey and play with the team on the annual preseason intrasquad scrimmage.