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October 3, 2011
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CROSSWORD
ANSWERS AVAILABLE IN THE NEXT ISSUE AND AT THN.com/xword ACROSS 1 Tampa’s Martin ___ ___ 4 Columbus coach ___ Arniel 7 An OHL division was once named after Hap ___ 8 Home of the Hurricanes 10 Players no longer under contract: two words 12 Gretzky is ‘The ___ One’ 13 Trip 14 Use three players to mark a single opponent (like Gretzky?): two words 18 A forward with Dallas, he hails from P.E.I. 19 An old hockey arena 20 Lou ___ was GM with the North Stars for a decade 21 Dwayne ___ is between the pipes in Tampa DOWN 1 Injured, on the ___ 2 Stretched, ___ up 3 ‘Jake the ___’ Plante 4 Players with ___ ___ are apt to explode at any time 5 ___ State is in the same league as Michigan State 6 Was behind 9 He’s on defense in L.A., pictured 11 The Isles play at…
PLUS MINUS
+PLUS TEARY TRIBUTE KHL’s Dynamo Minsk honors Yaroslavl Lokomotiv with on-ice mass. –MINUS IT NEVER ENDS… City of Vancouver, provincial review points finger at NHL for Stanley Cup riots. Really, politicians? Really? +PLUS CORY’S STORY Back-to-back Stanley Cup winner Cory Stillman hangs ’em up after 1,025 games; joins Florida staff. –MINUS JUMPING TO CONCLUSIONS Fans and journalists use social media to run wild with unsubstantiated reports over recent tragedies.…
Getting Greener
It has been commonplace for players to select higher numbers for themselves as more sweaters are retired around the NHL. But another reason for the higher double digits is the fact more players are wearing their birth years – a scary thought when you consider Edmonton Oilers prospect Ryan Nugent-Hopkins was wearing No. 93 when his photo was taken for his first Upper Deck hockey card this summer. “I used to wear it in bantam and peewee,” he said. “Plus it’s my birth year and I really liked Doug Gilmour. There’s a lot of things that draw me to it.” Feeling old yet? Consider Nugent-Hopkins was seven weeks old when Gilmour’s Leafs were eliminated by Wayne Gretzky’s Kings in that epic seven-game Cup semifinal in 1993. Feeling old now? If not, how…
Crosby Uses His Noggin
In the past half dozen years, Sidney Crosby has, in no particular order: been integral in resurrecting the NHL’s fortunes after the lockout, won a Stanley Cup, made the Pittsburgh Penguins relevant again, provided the impetus for their new arena, established himself as the best player in the NHL, been the face of hockey and scored the goal that gave Canada its most dramatic and memorable moment in international hockey. And yes, that includes the highly overrated 1972 Summit Series, in case you were wondering. But there’s a good chance his greatest contribution to the game might have come when he was sitting in a tennis shirt flanked by his boss and two doctors the afternoon of Wednesday Sept. 7, 2011. It was then Crosby and the Penguins made it clear to…
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