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January 23, 2012
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SILVER LINING
It would have been a pretty nice storyline for Russia to return to Ufa for the 2013 World Junior Championship with a third straight gold medal on the line on home ice, but it was not to be. What has been established, however, is that the program is in good hands under the tutelage of coach Valery Bragin, who has taken the team to two straight gold medal games after it fell apart in Saskatoon in 2010. Goalie Andrei Vasilevski is eligible to return for the Russians next year, though it was his older counterpart Andrei Makarov who played remarkably in this year’s final after Bragin believed Vasilevski had played too many physically and mentally exhausting games in a row. Makarov, who went unclaimed in the Quebec League’s dispersal draft of Lewiston,…
MOST POINTS IN A SEASON FOR PLAYERS 40+
ISN’T EVERY YEAR supposed to be “the year” Teemu Selanne’s production finally falls off (or retires)? Last season, at 40, ‘The Finnish Flash’ rattled off 80 points in 73 games. A year later, his 36 points in 38 games put him on pace for 77. Several other elder statesmen have bucked Father Time, too. 103 GORDIE HOWE (1968-69, AGE 40) 83 JOHNNY BUCYK (1975-76, AGE 40) 80 TEEMU SELANNE (2010-11, AGE 40) 71 ALEX DELVECCHIO (1972-73, AGE 40) 71 GORDIE HOWE (1969-70, AGE 41) 62 NICKLAS LIDSTROM (2010-11, AGE 40) 61 MARK RECCHI (2008-09, AGE 40) 59 RAY BOURQUE (2000-01, AGE 40) 52 GORDIE HOWE (1970-71, AGE 42) 48 MARK RECCHI (2010-11, AGE 42)…
CBA WATCH
DAYS UNTIL EXPIRATION WITH PLAYER FINES as small as $2,500, some feel NHL justice is too lenient. In the next CBA, will the league and NHLPA agree on harsher fines and suspensions? Perhaps to a degree, one player agent said, but he added imagining season-long bans for egregious incidents is pie-in-the-sky. “If you asked most players if they wanted more impactful supplementary discipline, they’d say yes, but only for repeat offenders with horrendous reputations – the guy Matt Cooke has been,” he said. “But the grand majority of players believe the game moves so quickly, levelling huge suspensions as a rule of thumb would financially victimize guys who don’t deserve it.” The owners could demand more punitive measures, but aren’t likely to make them a priority. “There might be a couple owners –…
CROSSWORD
ACROSS 1 Hockey great Nels ___ was dubbed ‘Old Poison’ 4 John-Michael ___ is now a Leaf 7 Questionable 8 The battle for final playoff spots 10 In song, he’s ‘The greatest of them all’ (it’s not Gretzky) 12 Turn quickly 13 Small cuts (or, Kypreos and namesakes) 14 He coaches the born-again Jets 18 A badly ___ ankle may sideline a player indefinitely 19 Former Canuck coach ___ Crawford 20 Dan Kelly called Blues’ games on ___ 21 Suited up DOWN 1 Steven Stamkos’ junior team 2 Player who’s expected to fight 3 Chiclet 4 Simon Gagne is one 5 Carries the puck, ___ it 6 Brent, Brian, Darryl, Duane, Rich and Ron 9 Sabre previously with Philly and Detroit 11 Goalies who resemble gymnasts 12 Home of hockey’s Spitfires 15 Trip 16 Put on skates, ___ up 17 ___ Richards is now a Ranger, pictured ANSWERS AVAILABLE IN THE NEXT ISSUE AND AT THN.com/xword LAST…
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