An Olympiad? (Please don't say the Pro Bowl or the NHL All-Star Game.) Every spring someone trots out the claim that the flurry of buzzer beaters in the NCAA basketball tournament makes it the most riveting event in sports, and there's always the World Cup, but what's happening in tennis feels far more intimate, close up, personal.

WSJ: Jason Gay: Why Tennis Rules the Earth

Yet until this season Minnesota hadn't had an NHL team since 1993, when then-owner Norman Green moved the North Stars to Dallas.

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The Rangers, who ended Monday as the lowest-scoring team in the NHL, don't get a lot of scoring chances, because Tortorella puts a heavy emphasis on defense.

WSJ: Rangers' Crunchtime

One of the combatants was the ferocious Islanders defenseman Travis Hamonic, but the other was Evgeni Malkin, the highly skilled Pittsburgh forward who hadn't been in a regular-season or postseason fight in the NHL in nearly four years.

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