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January 14, 2013
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PLUS MINUS
+PLUS ‘GENO’ BEATS EVERYONE Metallurg’s Evgeni Malkin grabs most votes for the KHL All-Star Game. –MINUS HARVARD CRIMSON NOW SHORTHANDED Four players, including three NHL draft picks, leave Harvard in the wake of a growing cheating scandal. +PLUS THESE GOPHERS CAN’T BE HOSED The University of Minnesota women’s team wins first 20 games; Amanda Kessel’s on pace to beat the NCAA points record, which stands at 114. –MINUS LIFE OF RILEY ISN’T VERY FUN RIGHT NOW Red Wings prospect Riley Sheahan pleads guilty to “super-drunk driving” in a Teletubbies costume.…
The Show Must Go On
CONCUSSION ISSUES FOrced Brett Lindros out of hockey at 20, just two years and 51 NHL games after being drafted by the Islanders ninth overall. He would have struggled transitioning to everyday life a lot more without the popular Be A Player TV show. The NHL Players’ Association-initiated, weekly half-hour show took you behind the scenes into NHL dressing rooms to give you a taste of players’ day-in, day-out lifestyles. Lindros would also have a sit-down interview with one featured player a week. The show ran for seven successful seasons from 1997 to 2004. “People love the show,” Lindros says. “I get stopped all the time about it. Fans, cab drivers. I don’t get recognized very often, but when I do people always mention the show and they ask, ‘Why don’t…
No. 4 At 64: Still Making His Mark
Bobby Orr is in a good place. His legacy within the confines of hockey arenas is cemented; he is the best defenseman ever to play the game and it’s difficult to conceive of anyone besting him. In his second career, success is present and forthcoming. As president of the Orr Hockey Group player agency, the man who can simply be referred to as “No. 4” steers the futures of the past two players to receive exceptional status in the Ontario League, Barrie Colts defenseman Aaron Ekblad and Erie Otters center Connor McDavid. Ekblad is a frontrunner in the 2014 draft while Mc-David is favored to go No. 1 in 2015. In fact, the super-talented 15-year-old forward was expected to sign an unprecedented endorsement deal with Reebok, the same company that inked…
Exorcizing Demons
THE PRESSURES AND POLITICS of an elite young hockey player’s life are difficult enough to handle. But when you’re the son of an NHL legend and Hall of Famer like Ryan Sittler is, you have to deal with a much more complex combination of ups and downs. Sittler, now 38, lives in Florida. His story is one of egregious mistakes and inspirational redemption, of sucker punches from opponents and gut punches from life itself. But when he was an 18-year-old phenom playing college hockey at Michigan and a high first round NHL draft pick (seventh overall in 1992), the London, Ont., native believed he was all but invincible, as most young people do. “You think you’re going to play forever, stay in hockey forever,” says Sittler, the only son of Maple…
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