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Stanley Cup Issue 2015
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MORE THAN MONEY OFF DAYS – JUNE 4-5, 2015
WITH TWO DAYS BETWEEN games and temperatures hov; ering in the 90s with the hu; midity, it’s difficult to escape that feeling of being sticky and fat. It can be tough to get a hockey vibe, but Tampa is getting there. Even though after 23 years and a Stanley Cup in the market the news; papers still feel compelled to run a ‘Hockey 101' column in which they explain faceoffs, icing and changing on the fly, Tampa has come a long way. Game 1 of the final got a local TV rating of 18, compared to Game 7 of their 2004 Stanley Cup final triumph, which scored in the single digits. Jeffrey Vinik’s rather unpretentious of; fice in Amalie Arena looks over a bar named Ferg's, one of the places where…
FROM THN TO TSN TO HHOF
THERE ARE MORE THAN A MILLION reasons Bob McKenzie is headed for Hockey Hall of Fame recognition. One for each of his followers on Twitter – although those who know McKenzie best could never imagine him asserting such command of a medium that parcels out information 140 characters at a time. Because while it’s true the former editor in chief of The Hockey News is a character, he has never been a man of few characters. His greatest talent for writing – recognized with the 2015 Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award – is most definitely not brevity. It is, rather, an ability to gather, distill and disseminate massive amounts of information that has propelled him to the pinnacle of hockey journalism with his writing in print and electronic media. In the interests of…
READY TO SHOULDER A BIGGER LOAD
IN HIS FIRST SEASON AS PITTSBURGH GM, Jim Rutherford got only a small sampling of Olli Maatta’s work, just 20 games. Still, what Rutherford saw on and off the ice left him with no qualms about elevating the young Finn to the rarefied status of being of the Penguins’ core players entering 2015-16, Maatta’s third season. Up front, Pittsburgh has Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. In goal, Marc-Andre Fleury. On defense, Kris Letang – and now Maatta. “We’re going to rely on him heavily and more like a veteran player,” Rutherford said. “We are going to transition our defense into younger guys, but we’ll lean on him a lot.” Maatta, 21, is recovering well from Jan. 14 shoulder surgery – the same procedure he had after 2013-14. “I tried to rehab it…
BIG DREAMS GAME 4 – JUNE 10, 2015
LONG BEFORE HE WAS A MAN-CHILD IN THE NHL, Brandon Saad was a 15-year-old kid who was terrorizing goalies in youth hockey in Pittsburgh, dreaming of one day playing in the same league as his heroes, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. Bob Mainhardt recalls sitting in the Saad family’s kitchen trying to get George Saad’s two sons, George Jr. and Brandon, to commit to playing for his junior team. Mainhardt remembers George Sr. telling him point blank that if his two sons decided to commit to playing for the Mahoning Valley Phantoms of the North American League, Brandon would be his leading scorer. Mainhardt thought highly of Saad, but he also had a veteran-laden team that was a contender for the national championship. He admired the father’s chutzpah but didn’t put…
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