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World Juniors 2016
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THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
ROBERTO LUONGO WAS stuck. Saddled with what he called an “untradeable contract,” handcuffed to a team that didn’t seem to want him anymore. For some time, Luongo and agent Pat Brisson worked on freeing the all-star goalie from the Canucks. Talks went nowhere. Trade rumors were just that. Luongo eventually gave up on his hopes of ever returning to play in his adopted home of South Florida with his old team, the Panthers. Then, on March 4, 2014, while at the Vancouver team hotel in Glendale, Ariz., Brisson called and woke Luongo from his pre-game nap. “Get up,” Brisson told him, pack up and head to the airport. Luongo had been traded. He was coming home. “It was two years in the making,” Luongo said. “At first I thought it was possible, but…
THROWING ’EM INTO THE FIRE
CANADA IF THE CROP OF ELITE HOCKEY PLAYERS born in 1996 were a vintage, it wouldn’t find its way into the collections of too many high-end wine connoisseurs. And that is the case worldwide, not just in Canada. With that in mind, much of the core of Canada’s 2016 World Junior Championship team will be comprised of 1997-born players, those who have turned 18 in the past calendar year and were selected in last June’s NHL draft. And while conventional wisdom has suggested that the WJC is beyond the depth of most 18-year-old players, Canada and much of the world will have to turn that notion on its ear in 2016. Likely with only three returnees on the roster in center Brayden Point, left winger Lawson Crouse and defenseman Joe Hicketts, Canada will…
‘OLD’ DESERT DOG FINDS NEW TRICKS
THE ADDITION OF YOUTH TO THE Coyotes roster hasn’t necessarily rejuvenated center Martin Hanzal. Back surgery earlier this year accomplished that. Instead, playing alongside the likes of Max Domi and Anthony Duclair has reminded the 28-year-old he’s no longer a novice in the NHL. “It’s great to see those young kids playing really well right now,” Hanzal said. “When you have a lot of young kids around you, it makes you feel old, but I actually feel really good right now – on the ice, off the ice – so it’s a good feeling.” Hanzal may feel like an aging veteran when he gazes around the Coyotes dressing room, but he isn’t playing like one. The 6-foot-6 Czech Republic native was an offensive force through the first quarter of the season, averaging…
PLENTY TO PROVE
UNITED STATES A TWO-WORD PHRASE MADE FAMOUS by Seinfeld sums up Ron Wilson’s life over the past three years: “serenity now.” He’s lived in peace and off the grid since the Toronto Maple Leafs fired him from his fourth NHL head coaching job in March 2012. He’s been golfing, boating and relaxing with wife, Maureen, at their home in Hilton Head, S.C. Wilson has barely set foot in an arena since leaving Toronto. He’s popped up on TSN to voice his opinion about the Maple Leafs, most notably castoff Phil Kessel last season, but that’s it. Wilson sounds rejuvenated. You can hear it in his voice. He’s talkative and friendly, nothing like the image of the prickly deadpanner in Toronto. “Oh, definitely I feel refreshed,” he said. “When I first got fired,…
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