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September 19, 2011
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Returning To The Pride
It’s been 15 years since the Florida Panthers were the toast of South Florida when a scrappy bunch of Cats took a three-year-old franchise to the Stanley Cup final. But the club still has ties to that 1996 team. Then-captain Brian Skrudland is now the team’s director of player development. Bill Lindsay, whose Bobby Orr-style goal beat the Bruins in the opening round of the ’96 playoffs, is the television analyst. Defenseman Gord Murphy is an assistant coach. But on July 1, the Panthers made their biggest investment in ’96 nostalgia, signing defenseman Ed Jovanovski to a four-year, $16.5 million deal. Jovanovski, top pick of the 1994 draft, is one of three still playing from Florida’s Eastern Conference championship team – though as of Sept. 1, only he and Radek Dvorak have…
Itching To Irritate
Few players can claim having an impact on a series the way Chicago’s Dave Bolland can. With his Blackhawks down 3-0 in their first round series against Vancouver, the grinding shutdown center returned from a concussion and inspired his team to knot the best-of-seven before falling in overtime of the final game. Bolland has been an integral part of the Vancouver-Chicago rivalry the past three seasons and revels in making the Sedin twins so mad they literally want to fight him. Reinstating that mental edge immediately was a given for him. “I already had that edge, coming from the past two seasons when we beat them,” Bolland said. “I’m still in their heads probably, after their loss to Boston. For myself it’s a pleasure, but it’s also something I take pride…
Carpe Diem For The Kings
There are no hard and fast rules to winning the Stanley Cup. Championship teams over the years have leaned on different combinations of offense and defense to deliver them to the summit. The Oilers won with offense and the Devils with defense. Other teams win with vastly disparate philosophies and systems and improbable bounces never to be replicated. But one thing always has been true and the Bruins proved it again last spring: Cup-winning squads peak when it counts. Try thinking of each team as a pot full of water and the eventual champs as the team that figures out how to make it boil at precisely the right time. And think of how many bubbles have to crest to achieve the boil; it takes approximately that number of roster members…
Off-Ice Struggle
The sudden death of Rick Rypien in August returned the issue of depression in hockey to the foreground. However, for those athletes who live with mental illness, the issue is never far away. Retired netminder Clint Malarchuk knows this as well as anyone. The Calgary Flames’ new goaltending coach has coped with a number of mental afflictions that don’t jut out like a broken bone or spray all over the ice the way Malarchuk’s infamous severed jugular vein did when the skate of St. Louis Blues right winger Steve Tuttle sliced through it during a 1989 game in Buffalo. Now 50, Malarchuk has struggled with depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder virtually his whole life – including his 15 years between the pipes. He’s been to Alcoholics Anonymous meetings and tried numerous medications to…
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