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September 14, 2015
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PUTTING DEFENSE BACK INTO ‘BIG D’
GIVE CREDIT TO DALLAS Stars GM Jim Nill. He always makes the summer interesting. His tenure in Texas kicked off with a bang in 2013 when he swiped Tyler Seguin in a summer deal with Boston, and he followed that up by prying Jason Spezza from Ottawa one off-season later. So what did the erstwhile Red Wings executive do for a second encore? He snagged Patrick Sharp from the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks, who happened to be in a perilous cap situation. The trade, which also saw blueline prospect Stephen Johns come to the Stars in exchange for veteran D-man Trevor Daley and agitator Ryan Garbutt, had been in the works for more than a month before the two sides came to a conclusion, and Nill was open in…
REBUILDING THE MOUNTAIN
BUILDING THROUGH THE DRAFT WAS coach Patrick Roy’s message at the end of the 2014-15 season, and he and Avalanche GM Joe Sakic did just that by acquiring some of the Buffalo Sabres’ top picks from their 2012 and 2013 classes, plus their 31st selection from 2015. That’s one way of doing it. In the June 26 first-round, draft-day trade that sent Ryan O’Reilly and Jamie McGinn to Buffalo for four players, including 6-foot-5, 220-pound defenseman Nikita Zadorov, Colorado built for the now and the future. How quickly Zadorov fits in with the team will dictate how soon the Avalanche can officially celebrate a trade that made them substantially younger and deeper throughout the system. Zadorov, 20, might be the key in reshaping Colorado’s troublesome blueline, which prevented the Avalanche’s formidable forwards from…
BRANCHING OUTWARDS
Little-known fact about top 2016 draft prospect Auston Matthews: his nickname is ‘Papi.’ That’s because his mom was born in Mexico, before coming to Arizona, where Matthews was born and raised. And while Matthews appears to be a lock to go first overall next June, he could be dethroned by defenseman Jakob Chychrun, who hails from Florida originally. And when 2017 rolls around, NHL scouts will likely be keeping an eye on blueliner Max Gildon, a pure Texan. It’s been a long time since Montreal, Northern Ontario and the Prairies propped up hockey, but the diversification of the game is increasing at an incredible rate, and it’s not just in players coming from non-traditional markets in the United States. Top talent now hails from all different backgrounds and ethnicities, while the…
FROM BEACH TO BROADWAY
EMERSON ETEM IS GOING COAST-TOcoast. Literally. The 23-year-old from Long Beach, Calif., can officially store away those days when, as a teenager, he would travel hours on rollerblades, light rail and buses to train in Venice Beach. This fall, he can take a subway or grab a taxi to Madison Square Garden. Etem came to New York from Anaheim when the Rangers acquired the right winger at the draft in a surprising swap of Carl Hagelin and assorted picks. “It’s the biggest stage you can get,” said Etem, who found out about the trade while working out on the beach. “I was doing lunges and didn’t have my phone. My agent called my trainer (T.R. Goodman). I was pretty overwhelmed.” Etem, who was drafted 29th overall in 2010, had 10 points in 45…
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