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March 7, 2011
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Slight Brings Sight
Zack Phillips felt slighted after being listed the Quebec League’s 11th best prospect for the 2011 draft in NHL Central Scouting’s preliminary rankings and used it to propel a season to remember. “That lit a fire under me,” said the Saint John Sea Dogs center. “I thought I deserved to be ranked higher than that. I try not to focus on those lists, but when I saw that it did bother me a little. It definitely motivated me to have a good season and prove myself. I took off after that.” That is indeed the case. Thanks in big part to Phillips, Saint John sat atop the QMJHL and was No. 1 in the CHL rankings in early February. Phillips has emerged as a force and soared to No. 12 among North…
POLLRESULTS
Who of these six is the best 2011 UFA? Brad Richards 66% Ilya Bryzgalov 11% Christian Ehrhoff 8% Andrei Markov 5% Tomas Vokoun 5% Tomas Kaberle 5% Vote on polls from everything top to bottom in the world of hockey at thehockynews.com…
All About Daniel
It seemed like a simple enough assignment: Write a story on Canucks sniper Daniel Sedin without mentioning his mirror-image setup man. If the All-Star Game and scoring race can separate the Sedins, surely THN can, too. Turns out it might be easier to split an atom. If you thought it was hard to tell the twins apart, try talking about one without the other becoming part of the conversation. “This is a good interview, it’s like seeing a psychiatrist,” Daniel said with a laugh five minutes into the latest attempt to split them up. “It’s tough. If you want to talk about our play on the ice, we’re on the same line and we’re a big part of each other’s games. And off the ice, we’re very similar, too, so you…
There Will be Blood
We often joke about a cover curse at The Hockey News. Grace our front page and odds are decent, sometime in the near future, you’ll suffer an injury, tumble into a deep slump, get suspended, run afoul of the law, get caught in a sex scandal. You get the idea. One player has been immune to our black magic, however: Nicklas Lidstrom. Of all the remarkable achievements the Wings star has compiled during his career, his indestructibility may be the most underplayed. At 40, he has appeared in an incredible 98 percent of his team’s games, using a combination of smarts, elusiveness and fortune to line up for the singing of the anthems, night-in, night-out. Senior writer Ken Campbell profiles the superhuman, super nice guy in this issue’s cover story, beginning on…