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August 3, 2009
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LIFE FINALLY GRAND?
DOUG JANIK DIDN’T need a Facebook page last season to inform friends of where he was or what was new in his hockey life. The daily transaction column in the newspaper or online worked just as well. Now the eight-year veteran defenseman is hoping he’s found stability by signing as a free agent with the Detroit Red Wings and Grand Rapids Griffins this summer. A sense of normalcy is something he didn’t have a year ago, especially coming out of camp. Janik signed with the Chicago Blackhawks as a free agent in July 2008, but, as camp was ending, was put on waivers for the purpose of sending him to Rockford of the AHL. The Dallas Stars claimed him, then waived him for the purpose of sending to the AHL. The Blackhawks claimed him right…
Starting from 5
5FIVE Goaltender Simeon Varlamov took the top job in Washington in the playoffs. If he keeps it, the Calder could be his. 4fOUR Ville Leino is the most mature among our top crop and will be counted on to provide offense in Detroit. 3THREE Four goals in eight NHL games for Nikita Filatov will be a tough pace to keep, but this Blue Jacket is electric. 2TWO John Tavares may be the frosh to beat, but the Islanders will have to be more than a one-man/boy show. 1ONE Cody Hodgson, the reigning CHL player of the year, has a skate up on the Calder competition as a Canuck.…
CROSSWORD
ANSWERS AVAILABLE IN THE NEXT ISSUE AND AT THN.com/xword ACROSS 1 Goalie’s glove 4 Boston blueliner ___ Chara 7 THN recently named him the NHL’s Best Player (with 8 Across) 8 See 7 Across 10 Snapshot (one taken with a camera, that is) 12 Daniel or Henrik 13 Summarize 14 Bobby Orr’s birthplace 18 NHL teams now play an 82-game ___ 19 Former Colorado coach ___ Crawford 20 Ted ___ was coach of the year in 1997 21 Floaters DOWN 1 Muscle pain 2 Comes through, delivers ___ ___ 3 Albany is home of hockey’s ___ Rats 4 Minneapolis-born winger with the Devils 5 Nickname of the first Edmonton team to challenge for the Cup 6 Confessed: 2 words 9 Another Devil, he’s won two Cups 11 On target 12 Craig ___ led playoff scorers in 1990 15 This Backstrom was 1959’s top rookie 16 They surprised the Sharks in the opening playoff round 17 Boston’s…
A COLORADO ROCK
‘Quoteless Joe’ may have been the ultimate quiet leader on the ice, but he’s no robot. He’s passionate and funny and will be missed TEN BUCKS HE WOULD, one reporter said. Ten bucks he wouldn’t, and it was a bet. And of course, neither would collect. Joe Sakic choked up a fair bit early in his retirement speech, but the only water that flowed near his face proved to be from a plastic bottle, not his eyes. “Right down the middle,” Sakic said when his July 9 speech, two days after his 40th birthday, was over. “It was a little touch and go there, but I held’er together.” Always right down the middle, that was Sakic, at least on the outside. He seemingly had an anchorman’s neutrality, but the Vancouver native (he was born…
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