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November 5, 2012
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No Regress In Ness
Usually players pile up points in college and ratchet down expectations once they hit pro. Not so for Bridgeport’s Aaron Ness, whose American League numbers are on par with those he put up at the University of Minnesota. The blueliner tallied five goals and 27 points in 69 games during his first full campaign with the Sound Tigers last year, on pace with his goals- and points-per-game with the Gophers in roughly half the contests. “It’s more of a skilled game in the AHL,” Ness said. “College can be more dump-and-chase, guys flying around, playing out of position.” The Minnesota native made his NHL debut last season with the Islanders, playing nine games – including a tilt in Winnipeg that allowed friends and family to drive up from his hometown of Roseau…
AHL Predictions
AHL EAST 1. Syracuse Crunch 2. St. John’s IceCaps 3. Portland Pirates 4. Springfield Falcons 5. Connecticut Whale 6. Bridgeport Sound Tigers 7. Binghamton Senators 8. Albany Devils 9. W-B/Scranton Penguins 10. Norfolk Admirals 11. Worcester Sharks 12. Manchester Monarchs 13. Providence Bruins 14. Adirondack Phantoms 15. Hershey Bears AHL WEST 1. Oklahoma City Barons 2. Toronto Marlies 3. Chicago Wolves 4. Charlotte Checkers 5. Hamilton Bulldogs 6. Milwaukee Admirals 7. Lake Erie Monsters 8. Abbotsford Heat 9. Rochester Americans 10. San Antonio Rampage 11. Houston Aeros 12. Rockford IceHogs 13. Peoria Rivermen 14. Texas Stars 15. Grand Rapids Griffins…
Blueline To Pipeline
For Scott Niedermayer, the idea of an oil pipeline cutting through pristine wilderness in his home province of British Columbia doesn’t still well. Neither does a high volume of oil tankers penetrating the waters in and around the pacific temperate rain forest of coastal B.C. That is why he’s lending his voice to the opposition of the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines Project in Western Canada. The proposed pipeline is undergoing an economic and environmental assessment by a joint panel as mandated by the Canadian government. But if the project goes ahead, the pipeline will stretch across the middle of B.C. from Alberta. “In my understanding, this bitumen is almost impossible to clean up,” said Niedermayer, who works as a hockey operations consultant with the Anaheim Ducks. “If an accident were ever to…
NHL Trilogy Stats Slasher
If NHL Lockout, Part III ends up lasting the entire season, Martin St-Louis will have lost $10 million for the three-part series. And there’s a good chance he’ll end up losing something no amount of money can replace – a plaque in the Hall of Fame. As the NHL and the NHL Players’ Association exchanged proposals and nasty words in mid-October, the focus was on how much money both sides had to lose by putting a $3.3-billion industry on the shelf for another season. That is certainly not insignificant. But neither is the fact two lockouts in eight years are seriously going to affect the lasting legacies of some of the game’s best players. And you could argue nobody has more to lose than St-Louis, who was coming off a season in…
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