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It's true, Jack Edwards is one of the most biased commentators in American sports. No Bruins fan can argue that—not that it's a bad thing.

Edwards has no reason to be impartial. He is the NESN commentator for the Boston Bruins. If he isn't going to show the love for his beloved team, why is he in the booth?

People may be asking "How is Brent Burns becoming a Sharks fan favorite? He hasn't even played a game in teal yet."

While that may be true, Burns is still on his way to becoming a beloved Sharks player, and it's thanks to Twitter.

G'day to you, Dustin Byfuglien.

Nice of you to rub some of the squeaky-clean off 17-Wing Winnipeg, otherwise known as the Jets.

I mean, until you spent a few hours the other night in the Hennepen County hoosegow, River City's newly minted, aw-shucks hockey club had more squeaky-clean than a roomful of Richie Cunninghams.

Sometimes an opportunity comes along that is just too good to pass up; even if it comes at the expense of one of your dreams.

Chris Osgood officially announced his retirement on July 19th, ending a 16-year career spent mostly with the Red Wings. With that chapter finally closed, Osgood is free to return to his first love: music.

Hazing anywhere is frowned upon. This mentality is sometimes seen as a gray area in the sporting world.

It is common for veterans to tease or initiate rookies into their circle. It builds relationships, and if done in a harmless way, creates good fun all around.

Obviously, situations can be taken too far, but if the veteran group is mature, things will stay under control for the most part.

In the NHL, certain rookie rituals are commonplace in the locker room and on the road.

Here are five scenarios rookies in the NHL may encounter.

With pretty much all hockey articles this time of year centered on the NHL draft and free agency, we decided to give you something new. With so many players currently playing in the National Hockey League, we have gone and compiled a list of the players with the weirdest, coolest, most unique and best names. Here is our top 15 list...enjoy!

(note: ex-Kings goalie Yukata Fukufuji does not get a spot.)

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To those of you Capitals' fans that are lucky enough to score tickets to Round 2 of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, I have a tiny request.

Please do not make or bring fake Stanley Cups to the game.

The greatest superstition and sin an NHL player can make is touching the Cup before he has earned the right to by winning it.

As an extension of that, I feel the fans help jinx the team when they create their own version of the cup and bring it to the games.

How appropriate that one of the more bizarre and impressive comebacks happens in California on the eve of this day when I can first write about it?

In 1971, the counter-culture of the Bay Area at the end of the hippie days bore us a tradition that an element of our current population commemorates in ways that would make those hippies proud (even if some of them have become the people they despised.).

Hockey players aren't exactly known for their dashing good looks. The game simply just doesn't allow for it.

Between the elbows, slashes, high sticks, fights and the 160 km/h rock flying all over the ice, it's easy to understand why hockey players don't usually grace the cover of People Magazine.

No matter how good you may look going in, a few years in the NHL will make you age in all the wrong ways.

The following is a compilation of faces in the game that only a mother could love...and maybe a few exceptions to the rule.

So your NHL team failed to make the playoffs this year or possibly for the last five years.