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October 15, 2012
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No NHL? No Worries
The prospect of any stretch without NHL games scares some people. While that’s understandable – it’s only natural to miss the best league and the athletes in it – you don’t have to lose out on a positive hockey experience this winter just because some boardroom soap opera is playing out in super-agonizingly slow-motion. I’ll be finding ways to enjoy the sport in the NHL’s absence and hopefully you’ll find some ideas to help you forget the more crass financial elements of the game. (I’d call it a lockout survival guide, but the truth is these are hockey-centric things all fans of the game can and should look into regardless of any labor war.) I’ll be reading more hockey books. Hey, remember books? Paper versions of small sections of the Internet? Yeah,…
A Fabulous Forum For All
In our previous issue, senior writer Ken Campbell opined the Summit Series is overrated, that it was an exhibition set of games featuring out-of-shape NHLers who, along with the rest of their nation, received a rude wake up call. He asserted the 1987 Canada Cup, which gets the oral history treatment on pg. 30 of this edition, was more compelling and should rank higher than 1972 in the pecking order of great international tournaments. If we didn’t realize it prior to publication, we do now. There is vocal opposition to Campbell’s minority report. One subscriber, in fact, was so offended by Campbell’s position, he demanded an apology and retraction. (He won’t get either, but he will get a response and an explanation). Similarly, we recently received an email criticizing us for printing…
Gone And Forgotten
In a perfect world, Marty Murray would not be sitting at the back of a bus as the coach of something called the Minot Minotauros, an expansion team in the North American League that won just seven games last season. At least not yet. The plan for Murray at this stage of his life was to be playing the final years of a long and productive NHL career. After all, he had the pedigree as a former junior star, captain and the best player on the 1995 Canadian World Junior Championship team, a team some would argue was the best ever assembled for the tournament. But Murray has the previous lockout – that’s what it has come to, we’re numbering the lockouts now – in part to thank for the fact his…
Ott Feels At Home
The Sabres’ lollygagging had grown wearisome. They needed a competitive makeover. Enter Steve Ott. The center’s hatred for losing mirrors opponents’ disdain for him. There shouldn’t be many easy nights in Buffalo anymore. “I want to bring my consistency of being hard to play against every single night,” Ott said. “I’ve done that since the start of my career and I have a ton of game left. I haven’t even reached part of my peak yet.” The 30-year-old became a fan favorite during his nine seasons in Dallas with a pugnacious attitude. Buffalo decided Ott’s grit was needed more than Derek Roy’s skill, so GM Darcy Regier made the swap. “More than anything else, we needed to move the balance of skill versus the physical nature of our game, being a tougher team…
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