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August 2, 2010
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ACROSS 1 He’s in goal in Calgary, pictured 8 Relaxed 9 Former Chicago owner ___ Wirtz 10 Many teams are looking for their ___ Cups (many have never won one) 11 They represent players at contract time 12 Newspaper article 14 ‘___ the Magnificent’ Lemieux 17 Slightly injured, ___ up 19 Trophies are handed out on ___ Night 20 Russians 21 Legendary blueliner ___ Shore 22 Another hockey legend, dubbed ‘Phantom’ DOWN 2 Sending the puck the length of the rink 3 Former goalie ___ Melanson 4 A 1967 expansion team 5 Another team that joined the NHL in 1967 6 Dwayne ___ is with the Isles 7 He penned The Game 11 He was Brett Hull’s feeder in St. Louis 13 Florida city that has hoops but not hockey 15 Atlanta’s ___ Pavelec 16 Senator sparkplug ___ Alfredsson 17 Carolina’s cheerleaders are the ‘___ Squad’ 18 Mark ___ is an Islanders defender ANSWERS AVAILABLE IN…
RAISING CALIFORNIA
IT WAS ONE OF THE loudest ovations given on the first night of the NHL draft in Los Angeles, followed by one of the greatest cascades of boos. With the 29th pick – the second-last selection of the evening – the Anaheim Ducks tabbed California-born center Emerson Etem from the Western League’s Medicine Hat Tigers. As soon as the words “from Long Beach…” were uttered on stage, the Los Angeles crowd erupted. When the largely partisan audience of Kings fans then realized Etem was the newest member of their hated Anaheim rivals, they booed lustily, as they had a minute earlier when the Ducks brass walked up on stage. But that brief barrage of cheering was something to behold and for Anaheim, it was another step in building grassroots hockey in California.…
Anaheim
IT TOOK a while, but Emerson Etem finally heard his name at the draft when the Ducks took him at No. 29. The hope is they’ve found a fast player who can become a dynamic goal-scorer some day. “Whether I feel that I should have been picked higher, I know the type of player I am and I know what I can bring to the Ducks organization and that’s speed,” Etem, 18, said. “And that’s grit. Goal-scoring ability. I think that’s what the Ducks and the NHL need right now and I’m just here to do it.” Etem also brings some marketing appeal thanks his Southern California roots and ethnicity. He grew up 20 miles from Anaheim in Long Beach with a white father and African-American mother.…
BIG LEAP OR JUST RIGHT?
THAT RYAN JOHANSEN is a young hockey player on the rise is not up for debate. The real question is, when will he finish rising? “I think I’m done growing,” Johansen said. “My dad is only 5-foot-11, so I got my size from my mom’s brothers. I should be done.” The Columbus Blue Jackets grabbed the 6-foot-3, 194-pound Johansen with the fourth overall pick in the 2010 draft, when many expected he’d be taken more toward the bottom of the first 10 selections. His ascent up the draft charts directly correlated to his literal growth as a person. “In my bantam draft I was 150 pounds and 5-foot-9, so my skating stride was a little out of whack there for a couple years, I had the baby moose legs going on,” Johansen said.…
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