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August 1, 2012
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Once A Rivalry, Now A Reunion
Even when they were kids, they didn’t play on the same team. Eric, the oldest, usually teamed up with Jared, the youngest, against Marc and Jordan when the four Staal boys went head-to-head on the now-legendary, now-deconstructed homebuilt rink outside the family residence in Thunder Bay, Ont. Except for a Team Canada stint at the 2007 World Championship, Eric and Jordan have always been opponents, most notably in the 2009 playoffs when Jordan and the Pittsburgh Penguins swept Eric and the Carolina Hurricanes en route to the Stanley Cup. That changed when the Hurricanes, captained by Eric, with Jared playing for their American League affiliate, acquired Jordan from the Penguins in June. Jordan had just turned down Pittsburgh’s 10-year, $60-million contract offer – in part because he didn’t want to give up…
Heads: Players Win Tails: Owners Lose
By our count, the first 12 days of unrestricted free agency resulted in 38 fully-fledged NHL players changing teams, signing for a total of $386 million over a combined 114 years. Zach Parise and Ryan Suter were the biggest winners, of course, getting contracts that were each worth $65 million more than the next highest one (Matt Carle’s $33-million deal). And that didn’t even include players who stayed with their old teams, guys such as Jordan Staal, who actually changed teams 10 days prior to July 1, then signed a 10-year deal worth $60 million with his “new-old” team. As the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association conducted negotiations for a new collective bargaining agreement under a cone of silence, for the first three meetings, it provided an interesting backdrop. The same…
One Fix, One Miss
The Hockey Hall of Fame fixed an oversight, but created another when it announced its four new player inductees. Pavel Bure was finally elected in his seventh year of eligibility, while Brendan Shanahan, one of the game’s bestever power forwards and 13th all-time with 656 goals, inexplicably wasn’t. Joining Bure are Joe Sakic and Mats Sundin, both in their first year of eligibility, as well as playmaker supreme Adam Oates, who was first eligible in 2007. The big complaint was Shanahan, now an NHL vice-president, deserved priority over Sundin seeing Shanahan had more career goals, points, awards and Stanley Cups than the Toronto Maple Leaf great. Sundin, however, was well decorated on the international stage. The selection committee is prohibited from discussing the voting process, prompting some critics to call for transparency.…
ON THE MAP
THE DENVER COLISEUM is celebrating its 60th anniversary by welcoming minor pro back to town. The Denver Cutthroats, named after the state’s fish, join the Central League next season, becoming the fifth team to skate in the Denver Coliseum. Between 1950 and the arrival of the eventual two-time Stanley Cup-winning Colorado Avalanche in 1995, seven clubs came and went. But hockey has always been popular in Colorado and the third time is always the charm. The 1994-95 Denver Grizzlies were the International League’s third attempt in the city, following the Denver Mavericks (1959) and Denver Rangers (1987-89). Led by future NHLers Kip Miller, Zigmund Palffy and Tommy Salo, the Grizzlies won 57 of 81 regular season games and went 15-2 in the playoffs to claim the Turner Cup as league champion.…
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