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June 1, 2012
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Fashion Footnote
When the playoffs reach the Stanley Cup final, nothing is more exciting than a series that goes seven games. It becomes a one-night showdown for all the marbles. After the final buzzer sounds and the winning team celebrates on the ice, it’s amazing how quickly players don T-shirts and hats announcing them as Stanley Cup champions. This must mean championship gear has been made for the other team, too. But what happens to the losing squad’s duds? The official licensed dressing room T-shirts and hats for the 2011 Cup final featuring the Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins were produced by Reebok-CCM, which has the rights for championship gear in alternate years. The T-shirts and hats (less than 100) made for Canucks players and staff were destroyed after the team lost to…
Nashville Must Face The Music
The NHL adopted a salary cap specifically for teams like the Nashville Predators. And for the most part Nashville has benefited from the labor agreement forged through the lockout that cancelled the 2004-05 season. The Predators have routinely maintained a payroll in the league’s bottom third and have been bolstered by revenue sharing. They made the playoffs in each post-lockout season except ’08-09. However, following a secondround loss to Phoenix, GM David Poile and his staff are in an uncomfortable position. They must figure out how much they can spend and which players they can afford to keep. “There’s a lot of moving parts right now,” Poile said. “Our first order of business is to talk about the players we have here. I’m not saying everybody’s coming back, but we’re not dissatisfied…
Oldtimer Hockey
Aside from a brief stint with the Middleton High School hockey team in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley, Charlie Spurr focused on raising a family of five with his wife Margaret. It wasn’t until he turned 50, far too old to be named rookie of the year, when he took the game up seriously as a founding member and player with the Burlington (Ont.) Oldtimers Hockey Club. Spurr, who died in April at age 88, took a regular shift on left wing, sometimes playing as many as 50 games a season, and was 83 before he hung up the blades. At 81, Charlie was chosen by Toronto’s City-TV as its Athlete of the Week. Spurr once said he never felt out of breath. “Hockey is an anaerobic exercise,” he explained. “We have three…
Recurring Nightmare
Having worked at The Hockey News for nearly 23 years, I’ve come to subscribe to a variation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s theory of eternal recurrence. Or as the Barenaked Ladies sang, “it’s all been done.” Over and over. Playoff upsets, bad goals, blown calls, story ideas and magazine headlines. Somewhere, at some point, it invariably feels like it’s already happened before in hockey. That’s not a complaint, but an observation. So it goes in 2012, as the NHL scales popularity heights, with rocketing ratings and soaring revenues, with the New York marketplace gripped by Rangers fever. And looming in the backdrop, dark and ominous, is an expiring collective bargaining agreement. Say hello to 1994. Nice to see you again? Well, no. Not really. There is still some excitement to be had this summer: a…
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