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April 30, 2012
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Skipper Scale
We charted each coach based on his style and there’s clearly more than one way to helm a winning team. Taskmakers like Ken Hitchcock have Stanley Cup rings, but so do tacticians like Mike Babcock. Many coaches also incorporate more than one style. The lack of rings for players’ coaches suggests coddling doesn’t breed champions. 1 Bruce Boudreau (ANA) 2 Claude Julien (BOS) 3 Lindy Ruff (BUF) 4 Brent Sutter (CGY) 5 Kirk Muller (CAR) 6 Joel Quenneville (CHI) 7 Joe Sacco (COL) 8 Todd Richards (CLB) 9 Glen Gulutzan (DAL) 10 Mike Babcock (DET) 11 Tom Renney (EDM) 12 Kevin Dineen (FLA) 13 Darryl Sutter (LA) 14 Mike Yeo (MIN) 15 Randy Cunneyworth (MTL) 16 Barry Trotz (NSH) 17 Peter DeBoer (NJ) 18 Jack Capuano (NYI) 19 John Tortorella (NYR) 20 Paul MacLean (OTT) 21 Peter Laviolette (PHI) 22 Dave Tippett (PHX) 23 Dan Bylsma (PIT) 24 Ken Hitchcock (STL) 25 Todd MacLellan (SJ) 26 Guy…
GET TO KNOW YOUR LEAGUE
TROPHY THE RAY MIRON PRESIDENT’S CUP STATES REPRESENTED: 9 1 ARIZONA, 2 SOUTH DAKOTA, 3 KANSAS, 4 OHIO, 5 INDIANA, 6 ILLINOIS, 7 MISSOURI, 8 OKLAHOMA, 9 TEXAS WEIRDEST TEAM NICKNAMES MACON WHOOPEE (defunct) RIO GRANDE KILLER BEES YEARS OF OPERATION 20 NUMBER OF TEAMS 14 ACTIVE 26 DEFUNCT PLAYOFF FORMAT 8 OF 14 TEAMS QUALIFY – 4 PER CONFERENCE THREE ROUNDS OF BEST-OF-SEVEN SERIES ALL-TIME LEADERS: TOTAL POINTS: 985 RW JOE BURTON TOTAL GOALS: 565 RW JOE BURTON TOTAL ASSISTS: 639 LW DOUG LAWRENCE TOTAL PIM: 1,964 LW DOUG LAWRENCE NHLERS: NICK STAJDUHAR, CHRIS FELIX, JASON LAFRENIERE, BATES BATTAGLIA, DAMIEN SURMA, LARRY HOPKINS, TAYLOR HALL (NOT THAT TAYLOR HALL), MIKE BERGER, DON MACIVER, KEITH AUCOIN, RAITIS IVANANS, DAVID SCHLEMKO, BRAD LUKOWICH OTHER TIDBIT: WICHITA THUNDER AND TULSA OILERS ARE THE ONLY TWO ORIGINAL FRANCHISES LEFT. WICHITA HAS TWO TITLES WHILE TULSA HAS ONE. NEITHER HAS WON SINCE 1995.…
DAVID PERRON
THE ST. LOUIS BLUES’ TENT IS bursting with phenomenal stories, but David Perron’s could be the best. Forced to the sidelines for nearly 400 days by post-concussion symptoms, Perron returned to action Dec. 3 and scored on his first shot on net against Chicago, the same team on which he scored his first career NHL goal in 2007. He called that night “the most nervous I’d been in my entire career,” but the real turning point in his return to the game came some four months earlier, far from the eyes of fans and Blues officials. In August, during a breakfast meeting in the Sherbrooke, Que., area with his agent, Allan Walsh, Perron was at a low point. He hadn’t strapped on equipment since November 2010. And he told Walsh his brother…
NUMBER Crunch
0 PIM When his team was eliminated from the playoffs April 1, Acadie-Bathurst right winger Zach O’Brien did something no player had done before: finish his entire career in the Quebec League without recording a single penalty minute. O’Brien played 126 regular season games and 10 playoff games without sitting a second in the sin bin. In 2011-12, the 19-year-old Titan winger finished second in league scoring with 101 points in 63 games. A similar streak occurred in the NHL. Kyle Wellwood went 159 games, spanning parts of four seasons, without a trip to the box. He received a penalty April 11, 2006 as a Toronto Maple Leaf and didn’t take another until Feb. 17, 2009 when he was a Vancouver Canuck.…
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