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Too much of the outdoors for fans?

Pierre LeBrun

...SC Langnau in February 2007. This spring, the International Ice Hockey Federation is getting into the act. The opening game of the 2010 World Championships will see the host Germans take on Team USA at...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 2009

Happy times nearing in KHL-NHL relationship?

Pierre LeBrun

...different status, National team level competitions, including Olympic Games and World Championships, club level competitions and the future of the European-based Champions Hockey League. The two sides reached an understanding of the need...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 12, 2009

You vented ... I'm answering

Pierre LeBrun

...them metamorphose (just in time) into a team that took fewer chances and played smarter, playoff-style hockey. But they had to go down 3-1 in the first-round series before they figured it...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 03, 2009

Scoring? Cooking? Stamkos a master of both lately

Pierre LeBrun

...in nine games at this past year's world championship in Switzerland, where Stamkos helped lead Canada to...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 23, 2009

Penguins find defensive answer in Jay McKee

Pierre LeBrun

It was back in June at the NHL awards in Las Vegas when your humble hockey hack ran into Pittsburgh Penguins GM Ray Shero after the show. It didn't take long before...

Blog Entry | Conversation | October 12, 2009

My not-so-wide-awake report from Helsinki: GM Sexton earning right to stay with Panthers

Pierre LeBrun

...all-too-familiar smell of hockey equipment. Near the elevators was...day (I covered the 2003 world championships here six years ago). In...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 29, 2009

Friends, and enemies, will be made in 2010

Pierre LeBrun

...against Chicago Blackhawks teammate Patrick Sharp in the world championships and the Team Canada forward's warning Kane...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 26, 2009

Green and Robidas: Two defensemen on different paths, but their Olympic goal is the same

Pierre LeBrun

...week at the Canadian Olympic hockey camp, and beyond, in their...s team at the 2001 world championship in Hannover, Germany, a team...

Blog Entry | Conversation | August 26, 2009

Latest rumblings: Radulov's Russian dilemma, Biron's future and who needs D

Pierre LeBrun

...blueliner Shea Weber at the world championships in Switzerland in April, apparently...retribution from the people running hockey in his mother country when...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 03, 2009

'Captain Canada' Ryan Smyth receives Olympic orientation camp invite, and rightfully so

Pierre LeBrun

...junior gold medal, a 2002 Olympic gold medal, 2003 and 2004 world championship gold medals and a 2004 World Cup of Hockey championship. All told, he has played 85 games at the national level...

Blog Entry | Conversation | July 02, 2009

Nieuwendyk says he's ready for new GM role; Cliff Fletcher hopes to stay on in Toronto

Pierre LeBrun

...are heady days for veteran hockey executive Cliff Fletcher. First, his...to Burke before the IIHF world championship in Switzerland last month, and...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 31, 2009

Pat Quinn receives much-deserved second chance to coach in the NHL

Pierre LeBrun

...ESPN.com on Tuesday. The Hockey Canada president helped revive Quinn...gold in Russia at the world under-18 championship. Eight months later, Quinn was...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 26, 2009

What will the Red Wings look like in Post-Lidstrom Era?

Pierre LeBrun

...the best defenseman at the world championships a few years back. So...a team in the National Hockey League, I want Kronwall on...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 25, 2009

A break from the playoff action to give you this message from the KHL

Pierre LeBrun

...executive director Paul Kelly had a meeting with Kontinental Hockey League president Alexei Medvedev at the world hockey championships in Bern, Switzerland, and got quite a bit of news from the controversial Russian hockey leader...

Blog Entry | Conversation | May 10, 2009

MacTavish is out, so where will Oilers turn for replacement?

Pierre LeBrun

...staff for Canada's IIHF world championship entry in Switzerland with Ruff...Olympics, 2004 World Cup of Hockey and 2006 Torino Olympics. Those...

Blog Entry | Conversation | April 15, 2009