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March 6, 2017
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FIVE BEST DESTINATIONS FOR JAROME IGINLA
I’VE ALWAYS LIKED Jarome Iginla. I’m not sure I know anyone who doesn’t. Even if he never played for your favorite team, he’s one of those guys you have to at the very least respect, if not outright admire. And so, it goes without saying, his situation this season is sad. The Avalanche are awful, and while a struggling Iginla hasn’t helped much, he deserves better. So let’s figure out a way to set him free. Let’s run down the five best destinations for when he inevitably waives his no-trade clause in the lead up to this year’s trade deadline. To be fair, these aren’t necessarily the best destinations for Iginla himself, but rather the ones that would be the most entertaining for us, the fans. Still, he’d go into this year’s playoffs…
EXTRAORDINARY 2017? JUST ORDINARY
PITY THE BRAIN trust in Las Vegas right now. The Golden Knights enter the league in a draft year not blessed with a sure thing like Connor McDavid or Auston Matthews, but with absolute chaos and tempered expectations. “Seven or eight guys could go first overall (in 2017),” one scout told me. The most likely candidate is still Brandon Wheat Kings center Nolan Patrick, who returned from a lengthy stint on the IR no worse for wear (he scored four points in his first game back). But Swiss national Nico Hischier raised eyebrows at the World Junior Championship, as the Halifax Mooseheads center nearly dethroned the eventual gold medallists from Team USA in the quarterfinal. So where does that leave defenseman Timothy Liljegren, who had been considered a bullet at No.…
AS NASTY AS YOU NEED HIM TO BE
WHILE PLAYERS SUCH as Troy Terry and Tyler Parsons rightly got a lot of credit for Team USA’s world junior gold medal, it was impossible to miss left winger Jordan Greenway throughout the tournament. The 6-foot-5, 230-pound Minnesota Wild prospect (drafted 50th overall in 2015) was a menace to opponents, combining brute force with a nice dose of skill around the net. “He’s kinda like Big Papa Bear,” said Team USA coach Bob Motzko. “He’s comforting. He owns the corners and he does it with authority. He commands respect, and he’s got a great disposition in the room – guys like him. Great personality, and he plays a hard game.” That’s a game he honed at the U.S. National Team Development Program and has since taken to Boston University. Now in his…
FOCUSING ON MOTOR SKILLS
IT’S A COACH’S job to get the most out of his or her players, and that can require a certain level of problem solving and innovation. So leave it to Joe Quinn, a former Jr. A coach, to find a solution for training methods he felt were falling behind. As advances were made in the way the game was played – specifically with a focus on speed – and equipment technology, Quinn noticed his players’ practice habits weren’t following suit. Instead, practices continued the same way they had for years: pylons, power skating, lots of space and too much time. He saw a need for change. “I just got tired of the old techniques, and I wanted more of a challenge for my players in small spaces,” Quinn said. “I had…
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