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March 3, 2014
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EVERYONE GETS NEW JERSEY
MARTIN BRODEUR CAUSED A STIR when he told Star-Ledger reporter and THN contributor Rich Chere he would consider waiving his no-trade for the right opportunity. There was buzz on the Internet and airwaves, but there wasn’t massive shock. We’ve come to accept, if not expect, star players, even greatest-ever types, to change laundry at least once in their careers. In fact, if Brodeur stays put until the day he retires, he’ll be one of the rarest of exceptions: a Hall of Fame goalie of the modern era who played his entire career with the same franchise. The only other net-minder of that ilk – one who played a chunk of his career post-1967 expansion – is Montreal’s Ken Dryden, who became an honored member more than 30 years ago, in 1983.…
EVERYONE CAN PLAY
AS PAT FLICK WALKED OUT OF the dressing room at Toronto’s Grandravine Arena, he saw a father of one of his players in tears. Flick had done in three attempts what the father had tried for 13 years: teach his special needs son to tie his own skates. “We didn’t treat them like the handicapped because I didn’t know how to treat a handicap,” Flick says. “I figured I might as well treat them like hockey players.” Flick, 74, is the founder of the Grandravine Tornadoes, an organization that gives six- to 60-year-olds with disabilities the chance to play. Back in the 1980s, Flick was the director for the house and rep leagues that ran out of Grandravine Arena. The idea of a league for the developmentally challenged came to him…
Behind THE NAME
SAN FRANCISCO BULLS (2012-2014) The ECHL’s recently defunct San Francisco franchise played at the Cow Palace in Daly City, Calif. The team added some horns and, voila, the Bulls were born. Originally called the California State Livestock Pavilion, the Cow Palace got its name during the Depression when plans for it were being laid. A San Francisco Chronicle writer asked, “Why, when people are starving, should money be spent on a palace for cows?”…
Ice CHIPS
Three of the NHL’s TOP 20 goal scorers are European. Ten years ago, there were 12 ALEX OVECHKIN ALEXANDER STEEN MARIAN HOSSA 2003-04 SCORERS ILYA KOVALCHUK PATRIK ELIAS MARIAN HOSSA MILAN HEJDUK MARKUS NASLUND DANIEL ALFREDSSON MATS SUNDIN SERGEI FEDOROV JAROMIR JAGR MARTIN HAVLAT PAVEL DATSYUK ROBERT LANG The FLORIDA PANTHERS have scored nearly 84 percent of their goals at even strength, the highest percentage in the NHL. Of course, they also have the worst power play at 9.1 EVOLUTION of Dion Phaneuf Since his fun-loving draft year in 2003, ‘Neon Dion’ has gone from gleeful to glum in his NHL promo photos. Why so serious? 227:22 Shutout streak of ARIZONA SUNDOGS goalie Andrew Engelage in mid-January, the second-longest in Central League history. He was 11:10 shy of breaking Mark Guggenberger’s record set in 2011-12 491M Amount of money the NEW YORK YANKEES committed to free agents this off-season, which is more than…
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