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March 3, 2014
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In The CARDS
ENFORCERS II IS THE FOLLOW-UP to the 2011-12 set from In The Game Trading Cards. It focuses on former players who were all too willing to answer the bell and drop the gloves. Enforcers II offers more of what made its predecessor popular, with some new twists. A box costs about $70 and contains 12 cards, featuring the controversial blood-splattered design used in the first set. Four cards per box have autographs of past pugilists, while three have swatches of game-used jerseys. The last five are a mix of base cards, with themes like Tag Teams, Crease Conflicts and Bloody Battles.…
WACKY LOONIE TAKING A DIVE
THERE WAS A TIME WHEN NHL teams north of the border would have been thrilled with a 90-cent dollar. That, of course, was back in 2001 when the dollar bottomed out at just over 63 cents compared to its American counterpart. But now that Canada has been on par or, in some cases, trading higher for the better part of seven years now, it’s not such pleasant news. Since the Canadian dollar drew even in the fall of 2007, it has been great news for the NHL and its (now) seven Canadian teams. But the dollar has been in a free fall according to analysts and isn’t about to rebound back to par any time soon. When the puck dropped to open the season in October, the Canadian loonie was worth…
A DIFFERENT DIRECTION
HAVING GONE AROUND THE NHLblock a few times, Michael Cammalleri feels a sense of calm with the coming NHL trade deadline. The Calgary Flames left winger, a pending unrestricted free agent whose goal-scoring touch would help a litany of teams during the Stanley Cup chase, is well aware his name is being bandied about in the rumor mill. Even with a young family and some roots in Calgary, Cammalleri insists he’s not fretting about what transpires before the March 5 trade deadline. “Maybe it’s experience, having gone through it, gone through the experiences I have,” Cammalleri said. “I don’t feel it’s worn on me this season. I was young going through this before and it’s a different mentality now.” It would be a surprise if the 31-year-old winger re-signed with the Flames,…
BULL MARKET GOES BEARISH
LIKE SAND CASTLES ON A BEACH, ECHL franchises are fleeting, as San Francisco Bulls players and fans found out recently. On Jan. 27, the Bulls were swept away after just one-and-a-half seasons on the shores of San Francisco Bay. With losses estimated at $2 million and attendance numbers falling to the low hundreds at an 8,500-seat arena, the writing was on the wall for the San Jose Sharks’ ECHL affiliate. The Bulls were 15-20-5 and in eighth place after 40 games in the ECHL’s Western Conference when the league put them out to pasture and wrote them out of the schedule. Coach, GM and president Pat Curcio delivered the news to his players. “You walk into the dressing room and you just start crying,” he says. “You’ve got 22 early adult…
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