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March 21, 2011
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Hot Hand On Deck
Michael Grabner’s stock has been rising dramatically since winning the fastest skater contest at the NHL All-Star Game’s skills competition. The New York Islanders rookie leapt to the top of the freshman goal-scoring race in February; not too shabby for a player who was traded and then plucked off the waiver wire before the start of the season by GM Garth Snow. Grabner, a Vancouver first round pick in 2006, was dealt at the draft to Florida in a package deal that featured D-man Keith Ballard going to the Canucks. The Panthers had high hopes for Grabner, 23, to be a top six forward this season, but it wasn’t the case. Grabner, a self-admitted slow starter, lamented, “It was all my fault. I didn’t create any offense. They had to do…
Sons Of Flame Lighting It Up
For the record, a 4-1 victory by Kootenay over Edmonton on Oct. 19, 2010 was the first Western League contest to feature all three Reinhart brothers. It will certainly not be the last. The three sons of former Flame Paul Reinhart – Max, Griffin and Sam – are already making an impact in the ‘Dub,’ despite the fact the eldest was just drafted into the NHL last summer. Max, Calgary’s top pick last summer (64th overall), is Kootenay’s top center and scorer and a pure competitor, according to his dad. “They’re all good athletes,” Paul said, “but Max is driven by sports.” Paul recalled a two-yearold Max even emulating the wind-up and stretch of a pitcher on TV during the World Series that year. Griffin, draft eligible in 2012, is the middle son…
Swap Shock
With a number of able-bodied greenhorns changing sweater colors, every one in the game is celebrating the exciting return of the “hockey trade.”OK, maybe not everyone. “When I was a player and you’d see these – it’s not fun,” said Mike Johnson, who hung ‘em up in 2008 after 661 NHL games and more than one transaction. Trades like the swap that sent 2006 first overall pick Erik Johnson with Jay McClement to the Colorado Avalanche for tough goal-scorer Chris Stewart and rookie defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk represent a departure from the type of in-season deals we’ve grown accustomed to in the post-lockout era, which for the most part have featured a clear buyer and seller coming together to serve vastly different mandates. But for a number of reasons, trades made with an…
THEBIGPICTURE
Cold Shower Flames netminder Miikka Kiprusoff got a face full of the white stuff at the Heritage Classic in Calgary.…
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