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• AHL Goalies Fight It Out

  October 22, 2012

  The American Hockey League is definitely worth watching now that the NHL is locked out and will be for some time and on Saturday night it lived up to expectations.

  
  

  In a match between the Syracuse Crunch and the Rochester Senators, one of the best things to ever happen in a hockey game occurred. Crunch goaltender Robin Lehner and Senators goaltender Riku Helenius duked it out on the ice.

  
  

  Helenius appeared to get the better of Lehner and dragged him down to the ice. It was a nice goalie fight, but it wasn't Osgood v. Roy. You have to take what you can get, I guess.

  
  

  Oh, also a hockey game was played and the Syracuse Crunch defeated the Rochester Senators, 6-5.

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• 51 Year Old Goalie Suits Up For Wild

  November 23, 2011

  The Minnesota Wild has signed a 51 year old rec league goalie Paul Deutsch to an amateur tryout contract.

  The Wild were out of options at goaltender when they turned to the rec league goalie. Number one goaltender Niklas Backstrom was unavailable due to personal reasons and the goalie Matt Hackett, who was recently called up from the AHL's Houston Aeros, couldn't make it because his flight into St. Paul was scheduled to land at 6:30. So the Wild didn't have any other choice.

  Deutsch didn't play goalie until he was 37, when most NHL goalies tend to break down. Deutsch said the reason he picked up goaltending was because in senior men's hockey if there's no goalie, there's no game.

  When Deutsch isn't playing goalie and suiting up for the Wild, he runs a screen printing business in Richfield, Minnesota.

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• Ryan Miler Suffers Concussion; Out Indefinitely

  November 14, 2011

  Buffalo Sabres goaltender Ryan Miller is out indefinitely after suffering a concussion when Boston Bruins winger Milan Lucic collided into him.

  Lucic and Miller collided in the first period after a puck just went out of Lucic's reach as Miller was trying to knock it away. Lucic was assessed a two minute charging minor for the hit. Miller stayed in the game giving up three more goals before being pulled in the second.

  The Sabres have called up goaltender Drew MacIntyre from their AHL affiliate, the Rochester Americans. There is no timetable for Miller's return. Miller went on to call Lucic "gutless" and "a piece of (expletive)".

  Lucic is to meet with NHL disciplinarian Brendan Shanahan on Monday afternoon to review the hit and talk about any further punishment, if necessary.

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