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December 3, 2012
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Good-bye Guys
Books can be written about collateral damage caused by the NHL work stoppage. But one vein seldom discussed is that about 100 regulars from 2011-12 will never again play in the NHL if 2012-13 is lost to lockout. Some will be among those standing in solidarity behind NHL Players’ Association boss Donald Fehr as he addresses media. They’ll have sacrificed their 2012-13 salary in the name of remaining unified only to be transferred to the retired players category of the NHL Guide and Record Book. Here’s what we know from the previous lockout. In 2003-04, there were 1,010 players with at least one game played. Research shows 240 of them (23.8 percent) never played another game in the NHL after the lockout was settled. About half were bit players (114 skaters with…
DO IT LIKE DAD
The hockey gods sometimes do things in mysterious ways. And they don’t always stick to the script. If they did, it would have been Ted Nolan bringing the Stanley Cup home to the Garden River First Nations Reserve in Northern Ontario for a daylong celebration this past summer. Or perhaps even Nolan’s oldest son, Brandon, once a junior scoring star with the Oshawa Generals whose pro career was derailed by a nasty concussion after seeing only six NHL games. Nope, it wasn’t Ted or Brandon. It was Jordan Nolan, just 23 and the youngest of the Nolan clan, who brought the Cup home. Jordan admittedly had a rather cavalier approach to making hockey his career throughout most of his junior days, split between Erie, Windsor and Sault Ste. Marie, but once…
DAUGHTERS OF THE REVOLUTION
Parents have forever burdened their children with tales of how hard things were back in the day, but for the daughters of the NHL’s first generation of Russians, that divide is extra-pronounced. Anastasia Fetisova studies film in New York, but her father, multiple Stanley Cup-winner Slava Fetisov, grew up in a one-room apartment with his family in the Soviet Union. Water came in a bucket and froze in the winter. To slake his thirst, the young Fetisov would lick the cube. His skates cost his parents several months pay. The hardships he overcame to reach the NHL are not lost on his daughter – one of a group of young women who have grown up in North America after their fathers became trailblazers in the NHL. “He talks to me all…
West Coast Offense
Without the actions of the Patrick brothers, Frank and Lester, the NHL wouldn’t be what it is today. In the early 20th century, the Patricks created and built the Pacific Coast Hockey Association into a viable, thriving counterpoint to the dominant, eastern-based NHL. They also guided hockey’s evolution by creating a fleeter, skillful game in the PCHA – a style that went a long way to revolutionizing the sport in a much-needed way. “The continuation of the league saved the development of professional hockey, says Craig Bowlsby, whose new book, Empire of Ice, chronicles the PCHA. “The Patricks were the key innovators of ice hockey and if they had been forced to retreat from the front lines, it would have taken decades longer to make the game as fast and…
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