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Mustangs dump Moose, clinch playoff spot

Last updated Friday, February 10, 2012 - 11:07pm

OGDEN -- A 3-1 win over the visiting Park City Junior Moose was all it took for the Mustangs to lasso a seat in the Western States Hockey League postseason after a roller coaster inaugural season.

With six regular season games left Ogden's junior hockey team now has piece of mind that those won't be their last.

"The boys deserve it and they've earned it," Coach Joe Pfleegor said. "Not only did the boys fight hard to get to this point but if you look at the owners and what they've done for Ogden, it's incredible."

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Sharks' Thornton views himself as 'just a passer at heart'

Mark Emmons San Jose Mercury News

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 7:32pm

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Whenever Wayne and Joe Thornton talk hockey, the advice from father to son is always the same.

Shoot the puck.

"Pretty much before every game I have to remind him," Wayne Thornton said. "But he doesn't shoot enough. He never has."

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Mustangs hit road block in playoff quest

Gentry Reinhart Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 5:40pm

OGDEN -- Ogden had an opportunity to clinch a division playoff spot and make up ground on thid-place Cheyenne with a win over the second-place Boulder Bison during their three-game series at the Weber County Ice Sheet.

Boulder had other plans as their quest to catch first place Idaho got a boost with a 12-5, 6-3, and 6-3 sweep of the Mustangs over the weekend.

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Brendan Morrison, newest Blackhawk, looking forward to a Stanley Cup run

Chris Kuc Chicago Tribune

Last updated Sunday, February 5, 2012 - 6:28pm

EDMONTON, Alberta -- Brendan Morrison was just coming back from fishing off Vancouver Island, British Columbia, during the All-Star break when he got the call informing him he was headed to the Blackhawks.

A couple of days later Morrison caught up with his new teammates in Vancouver, never getting a chance to say goodbye to his old ones on the Flames. He got that opportunity Friday night when the Hawks visited Calgary

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Gordie Howe's dementia fight is personal and public

Donna Spencer The Canadian Press

Last updated Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 4:28pm

At 83, Mr. Hockey is still in demand and on the move. Gordie Howe is about to embark on another series of fundraisers to support dementia research.

It's a personal cause. The disease killed his wife, Colleen, in 2009 and is beginning to affect him.

"He's a little bit worse than last year, but pretty close to about the same," son Marty said. "He just loses a little bit more, grasping for words.

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Road beckons for Blues, among NHL's best

R.B. Fallstrom The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 7:03pm

ST. LOUIS -- Well past the halfway point of the season, the St. Louis Blues are in great shape. They return from the All-Star break with a record that is close to the NHL's best.

The rest of the way, they can't let up a bit.

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Ducks' Perry is one low-profile MVP

Lisa Dillman Los Angeles Times

Last updated Tuesday, January 31, 2012 - 10:00pm

LOS ANGELES -- Most valuable player equals mostly vanishing privacy.

You would think a league MVP in a major, celebrity-driven market would see his privacy vaporize in a dizzying flurry of red carpets, photo drive-bys and TMZ blurbs.

Thankfully, there are rare exceptions to that expected course of events.

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Wearing jersey honoring the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force, the Ogden Mustangs take on the Dallas Snipers at the Ice Sheet in Ogden Friday, January 27, 2012.(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)

Ogden Mustangs host Dallas Snipers, January 27, 2012

Matthew Arden Hatfield

Last updated Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 6:23pm

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(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)
An Ogden Mustangs player celebrates a goal against the Dallas Snipers at the Ice Sheet in Ogden on Friday. The Mustangs won 5-3.

Mustangs sweep Snipers in weekend series

Gentry Reinhart Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 6:26pm

OGDEN -- Break out the brooms 'cause the Mustangs are cleaning up.

Ogden picked up their fifth-straight win and swept the Dallas Snipers over the weekend with 5-3, 8-4 and 4-3 decisions.

With 10 games left in the season the wins put the Mustangs well ahead of last place Park City in the division chase and provides a full head of steam as Ogden looks to postseason play.

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Jack's journey: The mission to make hockey safer

Dave Campbell The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, January 29, 2012 - 10:04pm

MINNEAPOLIS -- Swishing skates. Clacking sticks. Pucks pinging off the goal pipe. The sound of hockey is unmistakable.

It also can be frightening, as the parents of Jack Jablonski learned last month. The 16-year-old was paralyzed by a check from behind that sent him headfirst into the glass.

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Growth means Southern hockey not just for NHL now

Teresa M. Walker The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 9:23pm

FRANKLIN, Tenn. -- Children fill every bench and sprawl over the floor lacing up hockey skates, eager to hit the ice. Parents hold jackets and patiently wait. Just another typical Saturday morning at the rink.

Except this is in the middle of Tennessee.

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NHL's All-Star game missing top all-stars

Dan Gelston The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 6:31pm

When the NHL hatched the plan for an All-Star game draft, it seemed like a can't-miss way to generate buzz for the weekend.

Who would you pick first if starting a team from scratch?

Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby? Washington's Alex Ovechkin? Chicago's Jonathan Toews? Maybe Edmonton rookie sensation Ryan Nugent-Hopkins? Surely, they'd go 1-2-3 in some order.

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Adam Foote, retired National Hockey League player and former captain of the Colorado Avalanche, signs autographs for Gavin Lee, back, 6, and Max Tracy, 6, of Ogden, on the red carpet at the Luc Robitaille Celebrity Shoot Out hockey game at the Park City Ice Arena Sunday, Jan. 22, 2012. Other retired NHL players joined celebrities, including Cuba Gooding Jr., Alan Thicke and Andie MacDowell in a friendly game to benefit Stacia and Luc Robitaille's charity Echoes of Hope. (Erin Hooley/Standard-Examiner)

Luc Robitaille Celebrity Shoot Out hockey game

Erin Hooley, Standard-Examiner staff

Last updated Wednesday, January 25, 2012 - 11:09pm

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Mustangs extend lead over Moose in sweep

Jon McBride Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 22, 2012 - 5:13pm

PARK CITY -- The Ogden Mustangs defeated the Park City Junior Moose 4-1 on Friday and 4-2 on Saturday to gain some much-needed momentum going into a long home stretch.

The Mustangs play 11 of their final 13 games of the Western States Hockey Lague regular season on home ice and have themselves in good position for a playoff spot.

"When you can get two road wins like this, knowing that your coming back to playing at home, that's just huge," said Ogden coach Joe Pfleegor. "Talk about a positive. The boys are going to really feed on this."

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Hockey coach accused of sex with boy

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, January 20, 2012 - 8:43am

PHILADELPHIA -- A Ukrainian hockey coach accused of having sexual contact with a 14-year-old boy in Pennsylvania is due before a federal magistrate for a detention hearing.

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