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STELLAR IN SILVER
THE RESONATING quote by Gaius Cassius Longinus also applies to Finland at the 2006 Turin Olympics. As the leading instigator in the plot to kill Julius Caesar 2,000 years ago, Cassius later died in a follow-up battle. “In great attempts,” Cassius said on his way down, “it is glorious even to fail.” The Finns rated No. 6 by The Hockey News entering the 2006 Games. They won all five round-robin games by a combined score of 19-2, beat the U.S. 4-3 in the quarterfinal, blanked the Russians 4-0 in the semis, then in the gold-medal game versus Sweden, well, Cassius said it best. Or at least former NHLer Christian Ruutu did: “The most solid performance from the Finns came in Turin, but the (3-2) loss in the final against ‘the dear enemies’…
MISSED CONNECTION
NOT ONLY WAS 1974-75 a breakout season for the Buffalo Sabres, it was also a coming out party for the famed ‘French Connection’ line. Led by the trio of Rene Robert, Gilbert Perreault and Rick Martin, who combined for 291 regular season points (89 more points than the season prior), the Sabres won 49 games. In the semifinal, Buffalo bested the juggernaut Montreal Canadiens – who began a run of four-straight Stanley Cups the next year – and advanced to the final for the first time in franchise history. Up against the Philadelphia Flyers, the Sabres lost the first two games on the road and entered a virtual must-win situation at home in Game 3. But the ‘Broad Street Bullies’ weren’t the only obstacle the Sabres had to overcome to secure a victory.…
BROADWAY BRIDESMAIDS
BEING ONE OF THE 12 teams in the NHL to have never won a Stanley Cup makes reminiscing about the glory days bittersweet. The 1993-94 Vancouver Canucks’ run to the final was, ultimately, a footnote in the history books that weaves a tale of a New York Rangers team poised and determined to end a 54-year Cup drought. Led by captain Trevor Linden, the Canucks started the season with a 7-1-0 run. By the all-star break, however, the Canucks had slipped to .500, despite Linden’s team-leading 24 goals. Linden wilted in the second half of the season, managing just eight goals in his final 39 games. Fortunately for the Canucks, they entered the playoffs with another offensive gem: Pavel Bure, also known as ‘The Russian Rocket.’ After an average first half, Bure…
NO. 16 1948-49 TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS
THE NHL’S FIRST DYNASTY TOOK place when the Toronto Maple Leafs won six Stanley Cups in 10 years between 1942 and 1951 while employing vastly different lineups. But despite not being the most proficient regular season team, the most impressive of those six champions was Toronto’s 1948-49 squad. And it wasn’t just because the Cup win marked the first time any organization had won three consecutive championships. It was also due to the fact – in spite of The Hockey News making Toronto its pre-season Cup favorite – the ’48-49 Cup was the Leafs’ most unlikely NHL championship of that era and the victory stemmed from the squad coming together as a true collective with few, if any, individual standouts. The team – the NHL’s youngest that year at an average age of…
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