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HERSHEY’S KISS
HERSHEY BEARS SEASONS 73 REG. SEASON TITLES 8 CALDER CUPS 11 LOST IN FINAL 11 PLAYOFF GAMES 556 AVG. ATT. ’10-11 9,800 Hershey, Pa., is best known for a certain confection. But it also has a rich hockey history and tourists shouldn’t feel obliged just to visit the iconic chocolate factory for a fun day out. The Hershey Bears are the American League’s longest-running franchise, joining in 1938 after first being known as the Hershey B’ars of the Tri-State League in 1932. A total of 2,280 regular season and playoff games were hosted by the Bears at Hersheypark Arena from 1936-2002. In 1962, the building also hosted Wilt Chamberlain’s NBA record 100-point game, but much more hockey was played in the old barn – replaced in 2002 by the current Giant Center. In 2010, the Bears won their 11th Calder…
BARON OF BLUELINERS
Ask a good number of young blueline prospects who their NHL mentor is and the answer will be Nicklas Lidstrom. In some cases the style of play fits, in others you’re left to wonder if they just gave the answer they thought they were supposed to give. Either way it’s a pretty big compliment for the sublime Swede – youngsters know that to play like Lidstrom is to welcome success. A stalwart in Detroit for nearly 20 years now, Lidstrom’s trophy case is well-stocked, with the 2011 Norris making it seven for the Red Wings rearguard. But it’s astonishing to think that if hockey hadn’t worked out for Lidstrom, his educational background was telecommunications. Meaning, that if he hadn’t become the best European hockey player ever and the second-best defenseman behind…
BRO STREET BULLIES
PHILADELPHIA FLYERS | 1974-75 When Fred Shero wrote the famous “Win today and we walk together forever’’ line on his office message board the morning of May 19, 1974, little did the coach know his Flyers team would not only win a Stanley Cup that day, but another the following year. Corny as it might sound, it was a family. It was the last all-Canadian team to win a Stanley Cup and without that camaraderie, that esprit de corps, the rare feat of back-to-back crowns might not have happened. Shero, always a proponent of challenging a player’s intellect rather than his physical talents, worked harder than ever at the mind game. He watched film of the Soviet Red Army team, how it played as a cohesive unit and instituted those same principles. “Toughness…
ONE SLICK SWEDE
LINUS OMARK AGE 23 BORN OVERTORNEA, SWE. HT 5-10 HT 174 TEAM EDMONTON NHL SEASONS 1 DRAFT 97TH, 2007 It takes the hands of a surgeon, the mind of an artist and the guts of a tightrope walker. And skin as thick as a gator’s doesn’t hurt, either, because when those fancy hot-dog shootout moves don’t work, there’s a long line of opponents and haters waiting to shove that failure in your face. But when they do work, and Linus Omark’s conversion percentage is making them worth the effort, Internet traffic shifts into overdrive and a cult hero is born. “If he’s got the jam to be that creative and do something extraordinary, great,” said Oilers coach Tom Renney. “It’s entertainment and 19,000 people have a hell of a time watching. I’m sure goalies think ‘what’s this little bugger going…
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