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September 14, 2015
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LAST MINUTE OF PLAY
Guess WHO! “I beat out Brad Richards and Martin Havlat to win the Calder as 2000-01’s top NHL rookie.” “I was born in Kazakhstan but am a Russian citizen. I played for Russia in two Olympics.” “The San Jose Sharks picked me 219th overall in 1994. I am their all-time wins leader.” Separated AT BIRTH ZDENO CHARA Graced THN Fear Issue as NHL’s scariest player. Started 2011 playoff run, hoisted Stanley Cup 24 games later. CILLIAN MURPHY Spread fear toxin around Gotham as Scarecrow in Batman Begins. On run from zombies in 28 Days Later. Email your suggestions to sab@thehockeynews.com WHO AM I: EVGENI NABOKOV CROSSWORD ANSWERS AVAILABLE IN THE NEXT ISSUE AND AT THN.com/XWORD ACROSS 1 Gordie Howe appeared in a record 23 ___-___ Games 4 What Cup winners wear 7 Not pre-recorded 8 Pest in hockey 10 He was GM when the Isles were champions 12 Take…
GET IN THE GAME
THE JETSONS AND BACK TO THE FUTURE II sure missed the mark depicting our future. Sassy robots don’t serve us breakfast, skateboards still have wheels and, for the love of God, cars do not fly. Standing on the ice at Toronto’s MasterCard Centre last summer, however, could almost trick the mind into believing we’d realized popular fiction’s utopian future. Maple Leafs defenseman Morgan Rielly and Montreal Canadiens sniper Max Pacioretty darted around the ice clad in black suits, covered in reflective balls. As the players deked, shot and play-fought, cameras surrounding the rink bounced light off the balls, triangulating the visual information. Instantaneously, on a TV screen just behind the boards, video game avatars mimicked each player’s movement in real time. Voila, motion-capture technology, the lifeblood of EA Sports’ insanely…
NOT WILLING TO WAIT AROUND
BEING ONE WIN AWAY FROM PLAYING for the Stanley Cup isn’t enough for Bob Murray to stick with the status quo. So there will be an altered look to the Anaheim Ducks this fall. “We didn’t win,” Murray said. “The object is to win, isn’t it?” Free agency saw left winger Matt Beleskey and defenseman Francois Beauchemin push aside contract offers from the Ducks and depart to Boston and Colorado, respectively. Knowing he could lose Beauchemin, Murray traded for Kevin Bieksa as a replacement, reuniting him with former Canucks roommate Ryan Kesler. “I’m looking forward to playing with ‘Kes’ again,” Bieksa said. “It’s funny, when he left last year I still felt like we had a couple years left. I felt like we’d cross paths again at some point.” Murray wasn’t just…
EVOLUTION REVOLUTION
CITIUS, ALTIUS, FORTIUS. IT’S a term that belongs to the Olympics – the International Olympic Committee has wisely had its motto trademarked – but it could just as easily describe hockey. It would be impossible to look at today’s NHL player and argue he’s not faster, higher, stronger, not to mention more skilled, better coached, better equipped, better nourished and better prepared than ever. The good old days might harken to a time when players were less complex and more like the common man, but they weren’t nearly as good. In today’s game, we have freaks of nature like Zdeno Chara, who can shoot the puck in excess of 100 miles per hour. We have cyborgs such as Duncan Keith, who can log enormous minutes playing in every situation and never…
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