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March 29, 2010
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HOMEMADE SCORER
STARS SUCH AS Alex Ovechkin and Ilya Kovalchuk are the modern-day heroes of Russian hockey. Ovechkin is the NHL’s reigning two-time MVP and Kovalchuk was the architect of two World Championship gold medals. The media attention another of the country’s brightest lights attracts is miniscule by comparison. His name is Danis Zaripov, a native of Chelyabinsk, a hockey factory that also produced Sergei Makarov and Sergei Gonchar. Zaripov also helped Russia win gold medals at both the 2008 and 2009 World Championships, but his best tournament was the 2007 worlds in Moscow, when he scored three goals and 12 points in nine games to finish fifth in tournament scoring as Russia claimed the bronze medal. He was the most decorated player at the inaugural KHL awards ceremony in the summer of 2009 after…
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
ONE OF THEM HAS THOSE perpetually rosy cheeks that make it look as though he has just come in from playing two hours of pond hockey. The other, while he cleans up quite nicely, has a mug shot in this year’s NHL Guide and Record Book that looks something like a cross between Charles Manson and Denis Lemieux. One of them has a single career fight – and that was against Nikolai Zherdev, so does it even really count? The other has been suspended more times than Bart Simpson for miscreant behavior ranging from cross-checking a teammate in the teeth during practice to whacking a linesman across the shins with his stick. One of them credits his father for almost all of his success. The other not only lost his father when…
MAPLE MOMENT
When my wife and I moved with our four children from Williams Lake, B.C., to Kigali, Rwanda, this past August, one of my regrets was we would miss the only Olympics that would ever be this close to home. Suffice it to say, finding a serviceable feed via the Internet to watch hockey games was a challenge. But we persevered and, with me providing makeshift play-by-play, about 20 of us gathered to watch the golden goal. The only problem is I got my forwards mixed up, so for about five minutes, we all thought Jarome Iginla was this generation’s Paul Henderson, but Crosby eventually got his due. FREE SWAG! Each issue, we’ll give a cool THN hat to the top letter.…
BEST OF THE REST
ECHL SPURGEON IS SURGIN’ It’s not unusual for crestfallen players to see their stats drop when dropping down a rung on the professional ladder. Not so for Idaho center Tyler Spurgeon. “It’s not so much a letdown as, ‘OK, we’re going to get back to work,’” the 23-year-old said. After a 20-game stint with AHL Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, Edmonton’s eighth round pick (242nd overall) in 2004 tied a Steel-heads league record with three hat tricks and had 21 goals and 54 points in 40 games. “In my 25 years of playing and coaching pro hockey, he’s one of the best,” Idaho coach Derek Laxdal told The Statesman. – MIKE MASTOVICH UNITED STATES LEAGUE ALL IN THE FAMILY Tri City forward Anthony DeCenzo has a coach for a father and an Olympian for an uncle. Mark DeCenzo played at…
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