CHICAGO (Reuters) - The National Hockey League grew tired of waiting for a white knight to save its bankrupt Arizona team from Canadian billionaire Jim Balsillie and decided this week to take matters into its own hands.

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Hockey Canada released its Red and White rosters Friday, in anticipation for the Canadian Olympic orientation camp, which begins Monday.

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The deal is reportedly worth $1.5 million. Bertuzzi had 15 goals and 44 points in 66 games with the Flames last year. With the loss of Marian Hossa, Mikael Samuelsson and Jiri Hudler up front, the Wings need some offensive help.

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The United States isn't looking for another Miracle on Ice when it takes on Russia Friday in the semifinals of the ice hockey world championships. That, after all, would mean classifying themselves as major underdogs, which isn't something this team is about to do.

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Lake Jyvasjarvi will melt any day

Temperature stays above 0 even during nights, and snow can be found only in "kinos" (I'm not sure if there is an English word for that). Lake Jyväsjärvi has lost it's ice fast and is likely to loose it's ice totally during this week.

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BERN, April 28 (RIA Novosti) - Defending champions Russia topped their group at the International Ice Hockey Federation World Championship in Switzerland after defending the hosts 4-2 on Tuesday.

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After throwing fellow Scandinavians around the ice rink in two games, Finland is facing the first real challenge. Finland - Czech game is actually the only tough game in the beginning series as Sweden, Russia and Canada are all in different groups.

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Well, it's hard to beat "Zamboni." On a recent evening, Brewer, 41, had fulfilled the dream of many an ice skater, hockey fan and gearhead by driving an actual Zamboni Ice Resurfacer, the brand-new $85,000 Model 545 belonging to the Herbert Wells Ice Rink in College Park.

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Richmond Renegades, a minor league ice hockey team, have decided to go out of business.

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TORONTO -- A senior hockey player has died after spending nearly three weeks in a coma after hitting his head on the ice during a fight.

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Back in the locker room a vote is taken after the game was complete, and a unanimous decision is made by this young team to skip this flight and stay one more day. They make arrangements to check back in the hotel and on a frozen Sunday morning charter two buses that have no he …

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Brad Boyes scored a tiebreaking goal midway through the third period and St. Louis Blues beat the Atlanta Thrashers 4-2 Sunday. The Blues came back on a pair of power-play goals.

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Once again, people: It is illegal to operate a motor vehicle when your blood alcohol level is above the legal limit. Even if that motor vehicle happens to be a Zamboni on an empty rink. The Canadian Press reports that a 34-year-old Kingsville, Ont.

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5:4 in OT!

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QUEBEC CITY, May 17 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's national ice-hockey side has beaten Finland 4-0 in the semifinals of the 2008 IIHF World Championship in Canada, and will now face the hosts in the final on May 18.

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QUEBEC CITY, May 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia have beaten Switzerland 6-0 to progress to the semifinals of the World Hockey Championships in Canada.

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Mattias Weinhandl scored the game winner in overtime as Sweden beat the Czech Republic 3-2 in the quarter-finals of the World Ice Hockey Championships on Wednesday.

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Finland's ice hockey team narrowly beat the US in overtime and has thus secured a place in the World Championship semi-finals. The Lions opened strong, leading most of the game 2-nil. But the Finns fell asleep in the third period, allowing the US to tie up the game at 2-2.

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Alexander Ovechkin scored with six seconds left as Russia rallied to beat Olympic gold medallists Sweden 3-2 in a qualifying round game at the World Ice Hockey Championships in Quebec City on Saturday.

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Finland's hockey team progressed from the Preliminary Round at the IIHF World Championships in Canada at the head of Group C, after winning an ultimately nervy victory over Slovakia on Wednesday. The match ended 3-2 (2-2, 1-0, 0-0), but for the greater part of the third  …

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It feels so good to watch the Bruins again. Although I've followed them faithfully since I was a kid, this season was the most satisfying in over a decade.

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The second-longest game in hockey history was played last weekend, as host Kölner Haie beat Adler Mannheim, 5-4, in the sixth overtime of their German DEL quarterfinal, a contest that lasted a total of 168 minutes 16 seconds.

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Nottingham Panthers lifted the Challenge Cup after completing a 9-7 aggregate win over Sheffield Steelers. The Panthers, who led 6-3 after the first leg, triumphed despite losing 4-3 at home in the second leg on Wednesday.

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This hockey players mom starts going off because her son get into a fight during a game.

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Finnish ice hockey player Jere Karalahti has been slapped with charges of aggravated drug crimes.

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