Hockey Night in Canada
HNIC Mailbag: Why goalies love butterfly style
Goaltending styles evolve over time. Some of this evolution is based on the success of goalies who have a certain style that gives them success and then other goalies play the copycat game.
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5 Questions: Wilson sowed seeds of his demise
Glenn Healy says that Ron Wilson didn't adequately tailor the team's system based on the talent he had at hand, while also answering questions on the Habs, the length of the NHL schedule, and scouting players already in the NHL.
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5 Questions: Home-ice advantage
Hockey Night in Canada's Glenn Healy takes questions this week on the advantages of playing on home ice, the difference between playing hockey at the Canadian junior level versus college in the United States, and what the Leafs should or shouldn't do come deadline day.
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Five Questions: Quebec City as an NHL city, plus Oilers
Glenn Healy takes questions this week on the All-Star game format, whether Quebec City will get another crack at the NHL, and if the Edmonton Oilers can turn things around in the second half.
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Five Questions: Leafs near the playoffs and safer equipment
Twice a month, Glenn will take the time to answer your questions about the game. All you have to do is send them to cbchockeyonline@cbc.ca.
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5 questions: Outdoor games & Chara's equipment
Twice a month Glenn will take the time to answer your questions about the game. All you have to do is send them to cbchockeyonline@cbc.ca. This week, you asked about outdoor games, hitting from behind and Chara's equipment.
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5 Questions
This week, Glenn Healy dips into the mailbag to answer questions about shots on goal, re-jigging the standings, Bob Hartley, and Boston's reputation with on-ice officials.
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Healy's 5 questions: Iginla's future, shootout rant
This week Glenn takes questions on how Jarome Iginla's career will play out, and
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Leafs make amends by honouring Sundin
The Toronto Maple Leafs will pay tribute to Mats Sundin in a pre-game ceremony on Feb. 11, 2012, raising the former captain's familiar No. 13 to the rafters at the Air Canada Centre.
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Glenn Healy answers your 5 questions
Twice a month Glenn will take the time to answer your questions about the game. All you have to do is send them to cbchockeyonline@cbc.ca. Here are your first queries.
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NHL sets high standard of enforcement
Brendan Shanahan is going to find out quickly that the job he now occupies as Senior VP in charge of player safety is not a lot of fun.
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A goaltending duel
The most anticipated series of the East begins tomorrow with all kinds of storylines. For the 33rd time in NHL history the Montreal Canadians will take battle with the Boston Bruins. The focus for me is on Carey Price and Tim Thomas.
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It's time for the NHL to grandfather visor use
Glenn Healy was in the arena when Steve Yzerman and Bryan Berard suffered serious eye injuries, and the recent incident involving Vancouver Canucks centre Manny Malhotra has the Hockey Night in Canada analyst pushing for the league to mandate that all new NHL players wear visors.
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Flames' resurgence a question of culture
One of the best stories so far this season has to be the resurrection of the Calgary Flames. Sitting in 14th place for nearly a month, the Flames are now sitting in a playoff spot. Why the change? It's all a matter of culture.
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We were the benefactors of great stupidity
The game was changed forever on August 9, 1988 when Wayne Gretzky was traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings. At
the time I was a goaltender for the L.A. Kings and could not believe that
the unthinkable had happened, and that we were the benefactors of such
stupidity.
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Tip for all-star captains: Pick for "intangibles"
Trying to dress up the NHL All-Star Game can be, at times, like putting makeup on a pig. The game is what it is.
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The most important man to the Winter Classic
"'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring not even a mouse."That
was the case in Dan Craig's house on the 24th of December. Who might
you ask is Dan Craig? At this moment, Dan Craig is the most important
person to the jewel we call the Winter Classic (Jan. 1, CBC,
CBCSports.ca, 1 p.m. ET). He is the best icemaker on the planet
and is under the most trying of all Winter Classic circumstances in
order to get a sheet of ice ready for the players to perform.
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2 Cups in a row an impossible task
The Chicago Blackhawks sit three games over .500 at just past the quarter pole of the year. Was this not the best team on the planet last year? The reason for the mediocre start is the current hockey system and the fact that they were so good last year. What does last year have to do with the start this year? Let me explain.
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Stamkos example is for Hall to follow
As I watch the early struggles of Edmonton's Taylor Hall it reminds me so much of another first to be called to the podium player by the name of Steven Stamkos.
Let's take a look back at how the Stamkos era began in Tampa Bay.
Glenn Healy
Glenn Healy brings almost 20 years of experience as an in NHL player, broadcaster and an NHLPA executive to his role as an analyst on CBC’S HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA. Healy appears in broadcasts between the benches to report all the action from on the ice, and is a contributor to CBC’S HOCKEY NIGHT IN CANADA pre-game show Scotiabank Hockey Tonight along with The Hot Stove - the popular second intermission feature.
