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2014 Season Commemorative
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MODANO MAKES 3
Mike Modano will make it a hat trick of first-year eligible players selected to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Or so goes the prevailing wisdom. The 18 members of the Hall’s selection committee meet June 23, with up to four former players with at least 75 percent of the vote receiving the green light. Dominik Hasek and Peter Forsberg are shoo-ins, while Modano, the highest scoring U.S.-born player in NHL history, is a heavy favorite. Modano places in the top 30 in all-time goals (561), assists (813) and points (1,374) and scored 30 or more goals in nine of his 21 seasons. He guided Dallas to the Stanley Cup in 1998-99. Other former players eligible for Hall selection for the first time are Mark Recchi, Doug Weight, Owen Nolan, Adam Foote, Chris Osgood…
THE WINDY CITY MAN-CHILD
BRANDON SAAD LOOKED OLDER THAN his age the moment he joined the Blackhawks, so odds are his performance in the 2014 post-season wasn’t a fluke. Chicago’s ‘Man-Child,’ 21, has arrived as a big-time NHL power forward. “With the step he made in the playoffs, along with consistency we saw this year, the upside is huge,” said coach Joel Quenneville. More than Saad’s playoff beard caught fans’ eyes in Game 5 of the Western Conference final against Los Angeles. The defending Stanley Cup champs were down three games to one and Quenneville put Saad on a line with Patrick Kane and Andrew Shaw. The trio clicked, and the 6-foot 1,210-pound Saad found a higher gear on a big stage. Shift after shift, he bulldozed through traffic with the puck. At other times,…
GAME FIVE
JUNE 13, 2014 HE DOES NOTHING SPECTACULARLY, but he does everything well. He raises his game at the most crucial times, and his ability to make clutch plays is uncanny. He’s a proven winner and, with his performance in 2014, he has ensured his spot alongside Hall of Fame players and his place in history. We’re talking, of course, about Justin Williams, the club champion at the 106-year-old Whitemarsh Valley Country Club in Lafayette Hill, Pa. Took the title last summer, he did. And since it was match play, in which his opponents had to look him dead in the eye, of course they never stood a chance. As the champion, his name will forever be on the trophy that graces the clubhouse, alongside that of Chuck Bednarik, who is in the…
PLUS MINUS
+PLUS CONN ARTIST Unheralded and underrated Justin Williams takes home the Conn Smythe thanks to record-setting (see pg. 9) clutch play throughout. – MINUS T-SHIRT CANON Williams was MVP, but he evidently wasn’t that important. His name was left off several team shirts featuring the L.A. roster at the NYC NHL Store. +PLUS BIG APPLE, BIG HEART New York fans raise money to get a heartbroken father, whose infant daughter had passed away, tickets to Game 4 at Madison Square Garden. –MINUS CHIN MUSIC Blue-chipper Sam Bennett spawns a slew of silly articles when he fails to complete a chin-up at the combine. Luckily, he’s really good at hockey……
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