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2014 Season Commemorative
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THE DEVIL’S ASCENSION
IT HAS BEEN A YEAR SINCE CORY Schneider received a text from a friend at TSN telling him to turn on his television. As he tuned into the NHL draft, he found out the Vancouver Canucks had traded him to the New Jersey Devils for a first-round pick. After a season sharing the goaltending duties with Martin Brodeur, Schneider still wonders if he’s better off now than he was a year ago. “We’ll find out,” Schneider said with his typical honesty. “I’m probably 50 or 75 games short of where I would have liked to be as far as career games played. That’s a result of splitting the time in goal in Vancouver as well as last year. I was hoping to step into that (No. 1 role) earlier. “If I can…
THE LONG ROAD TO SUCCESS
TYLER JOHNSON USED TO SHUFFLE out of his house during the late hours on Friday nights, hockey gear in tow, during the summer months and climb into the backseat of his parent’s car. After clicking in his seatbelt, Johnson would settle into his seat, lay back and nod off to sleep. By the time the sun rose and the youngster rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, the seven-hour drive from his home in Spokane to Vancouver would be complete and a weekend full of hockey awaited the then nine-year-old before the family returned home late Sunday night. Those long miles logged between Washington and British Columbia in the summer months paved the path that led to Johnson’s NHL career. He finished off his rookie season with the Tampa Bay Lightning and…
JerseyHOUND
The Quebec League’s Titan had a pretty cool sweater in the first place, but this new version is quite sharp. The shield-and-Viking-helmet logo has been replaced by a gladiator-style helmet and the color scheme has been reworked. Now simplified to red and gold (black is gone), the Titan sweater looks more distinct than in the past and more intimidating.…
CROSSWORD
ANSWERS AVAILABLE IN THE NEXT ISSUE AND AT THN.com/XWORD ACROSS 1 Places one pad atop the other, ___ the pads 4 Display remarkable skill, put on a ___ 9 Caused an opponent to fall 10 Kind of hat once sported by Jacques Plante 11 Toss out 12 First-year players 13 The great Jean Beliveau’s number 15 Game (or, to go out with) 18 Boston’s ___ Bergeron 21 Former Blackhawk coach ___ Yawney 23 The letters on Finland’s sweaters 24 Home of the WHL’s Chiefs 25 ___ hockey is a Paralympic sport 26 Philly’s Mark ___ DOWN 1 He’s coach in L.A. 2 Still in contention 3 ‘Kopi,’ pictured, is a King 5 Release: two words 6 Gustav ___ toils for the Red Wings 7 Goalie’s area 8 Tom ___ was with Rockies, Penguins in 1970s 14 Result 15 Where ‘The Joe’ is 16 Sudden contractions 17 The Cup-winning Flyers were dubbed ‘The Broad ___ Bullies’ 19 Sending…
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