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November 3, 2014
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HORRORS ON THE KEYBOARD
DON’T LET THE IMPOSING PHOTO ABOVE fool you. Editors have fears, too. At The Hockey News, our primary dread is getting it wrong, a demon that robs us of sleep on occasion. Our credibility depends on being accurate, and it’s embarrassing when we aren’t. The small worries include spelling and grammar gaffes. Then there are errors in judgment, the journalistic calls that seemed like good ideas at the time. On covers, we’ve backed sure things (’98 Avs over the Oilers in Round 1), only to see them get eliminated before the ink dries. We wrote off others who were down 3-1 in series (yes, we’re talking about you, ’92 Pens), then saw them charge back to win the Stanley Cup. Like a Scott Stevens hammering, that stuff leaves marks. There have been…
FEAR OF FAB FRESHMEN
BOSTON UNIVERSITY COACH David Quinn is walking a fine line in recruiting and he knows it. His Terriers look much better this season than in his first year with the school, thanks to a pair of teenagers named Jack Eichel and A.J. Greer. Eichel is touted as the best American NHL prospect since Patrick Kane and will duel Canadian Connor McDavid for the right to go first overall in the 2015 NHL draft. Eichel may only be 18, but if the Terriers didn’t have space for him, who knows if he would have come to the school at all? Especially with major junior always an alternative. “Sometimes that can be part of the decision-making process,” Quinn said. “But rushing them in won’t do anybody good.” Eichel and Greer have size to go…
CAN HE MAKE THE BEST BETTER?
YOU WON’T RECOGNIZE THE name Matt Price, and the Los Angeles Kings are just fine with that. Despite being hockey’s Hollywood team, the Kings are less glitz ’n’ glamor cool and more blood ’n’ guts tough. And as their new strength and conditioning coach, Price brings the same no-nonsense, no-excuses attitude that’s been L.A.’s M.O. under GM Dean Lombardi and coach Darryl Sutter. As the team that’s played the most games in the NHL since 2011-12, the Kings have a readymade excuse if they fail to repeat as champs this season. But don’t hold your breath waiting for them to use it. They prepare to play 110 games a year, and it’s now Price’s job to keep them as durable and resilient as they’ve been the past three seasons. “There’s no question…
FEAR OF FLYINGS
JEFF O’NEILL couldn’t believe his eyes. He’d just hopped on a stationary bike at the training facility of the Carolina Hurricanes and started peddling when he turned on the TV and flipped to CNN. The first thing he saw was two planes crashing into the World Trade Centre. “I was like, ‘What the f---?’ ” O’Neill said. “I turned to (a teammate) on the bike beside me and said, ‘I just left a guy’s office who told me flying is the safest thing I can do.’ ” O’Neill was witnessing the attack by al-Qaeda in New York City. Only minutes earlier, he’d left the office of a psychiatrist who’d bombarded him with a bevy of statistics that concluded air is the safest way to travel. The shrink had tried to cure…
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