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December 31, 2012
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Forbes Finance
Business magazine Forbes recently released its annual list of NHL team values. Original Six clubs took the top six spots and accounted for 40 percent of the combined value of all 30 franchises. The other 24 teams, the highest of which was Vancouver ($342 billion), made up 60 percent. HOLIDAY TOURNAMENTS 2012 Spengler Cup • Dec. 26-31; Davos, Switzerland • Teams: Canada, Davos, Adler Mannheim, Vitkovice Steel, Salavat Yulaev Ufa, Fribourg-Gotteron 2012 NCAA Great Lakes Invitational • Dec. 28-29; Detroit, Mich. • Teams: Michigan, Michigan State, Michigan Tech, Western Michigan 2012 NCAA Three Rivers Classic • Dec. 28-29; Pittsburgh, Pa. • Teams: Robert Morris, Ohio State, Miami, Penn State…
CROSSWORD
ANSWERS AVAILABLE IN THE NEXT ISSUE AND AT THN.com/xword ACROSS 1 The WHA’s championship trophy 4 British Columbia Junior Hockey League: abbrev. 7 ___ Stanley’s Mug 8 The first ‘A’ in NCAA 10 Michigan’s NCAA team 12 Mike Ilitch is ___ of the Red Wings and Tigers 13 A New York team, briefly 14 Attackers 18 ‘Red’ ___ coaches 10 Across 19 Canadian Amateur Hockey Association: abbrev. 20 Championship teams get them 21 New York’s other team DOWN 1 Give up 2 Home of the Hurricanes 3 Former Canuck and Bruin ___ Skriko, pictured 4 Home of the OHL’s Bulls 5 They won 1 Across three times 6 Where players stash their stuff during games 9 Talks on behalf of a player at contract time 11 Where the Coyotes are based 12 The NHL season typically starts this month 15 Ex-Cane captain Rod Brind’___ 16 They were Cup winners in 1999 17 Hockey legend ___ Blair LAST…
Time To Be A Kid Again
As the crooning dude in the song belts out, this is indeed the most wonderful time of the year. It’s a respite when we have a built-in excuse to revert to childhood and put the real world on simmer. We play with our kids more frequently, we indulge in decadent food without studying labels, we book off work for a few days, maybe even extended periods. We shave less, sleep later and laugh easier. And as hockey fans, we get the added bonus of the World Junior Championship, which takes on heightened prominence in this, the season of Greedgate 3. The WJC would bring joy at any point on the calendar, but it has now become synonymous with the holiday period. And in a year when it’s played overseas (really, really…
A COLD WAR VET
THEO FLEURY ONCE SAID he played more than 1,000 NHL games and never faced an opponent as strong as Pavel Kostichkin. As Fleury recalls it, Kostichkin had him in a “death grip” during the infamous ‘Punch-up in Piestany’ in 1987. Kostichkin pretty much remembers it that way, too. There are those who believe Kostichkin started the brawl that led to black eyes on the players and a black eye for hockey, with Canada and the Soviets getting kicked out of the 1987 World Junior Championship. But that distinction belongs to Evgeny Davydov, who was the first to jump off the Soviet bench. Kostichkin was already on the ice when the mayhem erupted and was squaring off with Fleury. The enduring memory is of Kostichkin on top of Fleury raining punches on…
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