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October 29, 2012
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Together Again
In his third game for HC Davos of the Swiss League, Rick Nash hit the boards following a check by HC Lugano defenseman Ilkka Heikkinen. Nash went on for another shift, then took himself out of the 4-2 loss for precautionary reasons. The power forward, who joined Davos with pal Joe Thornton of the San Jose Sharks, was diagnosed with a bruised shoulder and expected to return a week later. The sigh of relief on social media from Blueshirts fans resonated throughout New York. To be sure, injuries are a risk for locked-out players skating in the Kontinental League and European leagues, but Nash and Thornton, who starred in Davos during the 2004-05 lockout, knew what to expect. “Back then, they went in July,” said Joe Resnick, who represents Nash and is…
TOP OF THE WORLD
The voice at the other end of the telephone line is a little more raspy than usual, but it’s been a busy couple of weeks. First there was a week-long national team camp in Calgary, then it was a week of hanging out with P.K. Subban at the Nike World Headquarters campus in Beaverton, Ore. It sounds like fun, but long days of meeting important people like Lance Armstrong, hob-knobbing with executives and getting 3-D images of your feet to custom fit your shoes can take their toll. Such is life for 25-year-old Meghan Agosta, the best hockey player in the world you might not know. When most of us last saw Agosta, she and her Canadian teammates were a minor cause celebre at center ice in Vancouver, smoking cigars and…
SIX SIX
Balanced scoring. All coaches and GMs aim for it. They’d prefer their forward lines not be too top heavy (Pittsburgh), nor do they want to depend too much on grunts for goals (Buffalo). But balancing the scoring scales isn’t simple. Teams must optimize their offense, without sacrificing defense, to achieve equilibrium. Using our current NHL depth charts and 2011-12 scoring stats, we crunched the numbers for each team’s projected top-six and bottom-six forwards to come up with estimated goals-per-game averages. (For rookies like Edmonton’s Nail Yakupov and Florida’s Jonathan Huberdeau, who were expected to stick with their big clubs this season, we used their projected goals from our Fantasy Pool Guide.) Teams are listed based on their combined ranking.…
IMAGINING A WNHL ‘ORIGINAL SIX’
IF THE WOMEN’S PRO GAME is going to gain any traction, it will be with direct support – both financial and moral – from the NHL. What is needed is a WNHL and the only question is whether it’s something Gary Bettman and crew wish to get in on. But what would a WNHL look like? The WNBA has succeeded thanks to its ties with basketball’s most famous men’s circuit and franchises have usually been linked by ownership and, in many cases, nickname (The Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx; the Washington Wizards and Mystics, for example). For this to be worth-while, the women would have to get paid a living wage – something they currently don’t have in the largely volunteer pro ranks. But if NHL ownership groups are going to foot…
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