It's Tuesday

It's Tuesday. Here's what's happening.

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Today is February 12th, the 43rd day of 2013. There are 322 days left in the year.

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Rinne's brilliance makes him Hart favorite so far.

NHL reschedules postponed Bruins/Lightning game.

Visit the official league website, http://www.nhl.com/.

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Today's Birthdays: Joanna Kerns (Growing Pains) is 60; Arsenio Hall is 58; Josh Brolin (Milk, No Country for Old Men) is 45; Christina Ricci is 33.

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Tampa, FL. -- It doesn’t matter how one gets to the NHL, some say, it’s just important that one gets there.

In the case of Richard Panik, he is almost sure to wholeheartedly agree.

Read the rest here.

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Mountain Dew has a new morning soda to start your day off right. It's called Kickstart. Kickstart is a "sparkling juice beverage" that contains only 5 percent real juice and 95 percent... uh. For the record, the 16-ounce version of Kickstart has less than a third the caffeine of a Starbucks coffee drink.

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Quinnipiac University Earns No. 1 in USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men's College Hockey Poll USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine 2012-13 Men's College Hockey Poll - #18(first-place votes in parentheses) Rank School Last Week's Ranking 2012-13 Record Weeks in Top 15 1 Quinnipiac University, 503 (28) 2 21-3-4 10 2 University of Minnesota, 470 (6) 1 19-5-4 19 3 Miami University, 424 3 18-7-5 19 4 Boston College, 402 4 16-7-2 19 5 University of New Hampshire, 377 5 16-7-3 16 6 Western Michigan University, 338 6 18-7-5 19 7 University of North Dakota, 316 7 16-8-6 19 8 St. Cloud State University, 259 10 18-11-1 7 9 Yale University, 238 9 13-6-3 10 10 Minnesota State University, 185 13 18-9-3 6 11 University of Denver, 164 8 15-9-5 19 12 University of Notre Dame, 136 12 18-11-1 19 13 Boston University, 78 11 13-11-1 19 14 Niagara University, 70 14 18-5-5 2 15 UMass-Lowell, 55 NR 14-9-2 10 Others receiving votes: University of Nebraska-Omaha, 29; Dartmouth College, 13; Merrimack College, 9; University of Alaska, 7; University of Wisconsin, 7. NOTES: Quinnipiac University takes the top spot in the poll for the first-time ever this week ... Minnesota shared the preseason No. 1 with Boston College ... Niagara University enters the poll for the first time this season ... The Western Collegiate Hockey Association leads all conferences with five ranked programs this week. The Hockey East Association has four ranked teams while the Central Collegiate Hockey Association boasts three ranked programs, ECAC Hockey has two ranked squads and Atlantic Hockey has one ranked representative ... A total of 20 teams received votes. ABOUT THE POLL: The 18th annual USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Men’s College Hockey Poll is conducted each week in conjunction with the American Hockey Coaches Association. The poll includes input from coaches and journalists representing each of the five NCAA Division I ice hockey conferences, as well as composite votes from officers of the AHCA and USA Hockey Magazine, the most widely distributed hockey magazine in the world.

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