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June 23, 2014
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TOP 10 PERFORMERS
IN THE CREASE//PRESENTED BY SUBARU >No. 1 TUUKKA RASK GP: 58 RECORD: 36-15-6 GAA: 2.04 SP: .930 SO: 7 Rask is the NHL’s beast of the crease, using his lanky 6-foot-2 frame to cover the net and leave opponents with little but the big bad Bruin to shoot at. He’s the perfect mix of sound positional play and highlight-reel reflexes, which is why he’s the Vezina Trophy favorite. >No. 2 JONATHAN QUICK GP: 49 RECORD: 27-17-4 GAA: 2.07 SP: .915 SO: 6 Quick had a second consecutive “off” year after his otherworldly 2011-12 campaign that culminated in L.A.’s first Stanley Cup. But he’s widely regarded, and rightly so, as one of the best goalies in the world, and is by far the NHL’s most acrobatic netminder. >No. 3 CAREY PRICE GP: 59 RECORD: 34-20-5 GAA: 2.32 SP: .927 SO: 6 Price is Antarctic cool when…
In The CARDS
MAPLE LEAFS DEFENSEMAN BILL BARILKO scored the series-clinching goal in the 1951 Stanley Cup final. Sadly, he died in a plane crash on a fishing trip that August. The Leafs didn’t win another Stanley Cup until 1962, the year Barilko’s body was found. A few cards have been made of Barilko’s memorable goal, but a hand-colored photograph of ‘Bashin’ Bill’ – flying mid-air as the puck crosses the goal line – stands out in the 1951-52 Parkhurst set. Forty years later, Pro Set issued a card using a sepia-toned version of the famed photo.…
NUCLEAR DETERRENT
NATHAN PERROTT IS NO STRANGER TO THE TRIALS OF TRAINING camp. His NHL career started at Nashville’s in 2001 and ended when he was released from New Jersey’s in 2006. He’d been through plenty of gruelling hockey trials, but nothing that could help him in the preparation needed for his current job: use of force, gun training, shooter situations, rapid troop deployment and advanced counterterrorism tactics. It’s all Jack Bauer 24-type stuff, crammed into 12 weeks of boot camp at a military base. Not your typical NHL training camp and not your typical job. As a former NHL enforcer, Perrott used to get paid to defend his teammates with the Predators, Toronto Maple Leafs and Dallas Stars, but now he’s part of a paramilitary team paid to defend the world’s second-largest…
WINNIPEG JETS
HOW TO FIX THE WINNIPEG JETS? IF YOU could snap your fingers and reduce goals against, get better goaltending and more consistent play from the team’s core, you’d be most of the way there. The impatient, hair-on-fire crowd that seems to be getting more vocal in Winnipeg would like to start yesterday, but that exercise in what-ifs and maybes seems like a lot of hot air. Why? Because there’s no evidence GM Kevin Cheveldayoff is into high-risk transactions. His three years have seen tinkering at the edges – trading defenseman Johnny Oduya for a pair of 2013 draft picks; the acquisition of wingers Devin Setoguchi and Michael Frolik – but also a more-fervent-with-time message that the Jets will be a draft-and-develop team. So the attempted fix will almost certainly come from within. Yes,…
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