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June 19, 2017
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IN RECOGNITION OF ERIK THE GREAT
WITH KEN CAMPBELL @THNKENCAMPBELL BRIAN SAMUEL IS one of Ottawa’s finest. During Game 2 of the Senators’ first-round playoff series against the Boston Bruins, he was working outside the arena and missed Dion Phaneuf’s overtime goal. He missed most of the game, in fact, because he was busy breaking up fights between drunk people, including a lubed-up Bruins fan who got into it with a Senators supporter at Bert’s, the sports bar inside the Canadian Tire Centre. The guy ended up with a busted nose and there was blood all over the place. Good family fun. Sgt. Samuel is also something of a local legend in Canada’s capital, for one rather inauspicious reason. He was there in 2008 in the stands with his buddies at Scotiabank Place – that’s what they were…
GOING LONG
FOR MICHAEL PECA, it’s the best way he knows to say thank you. This summer, Peca and 39 other men from Buffalo will try to break the Guinness World Record for the longest hockey game. To do it, they’ll need to play for just more than 250 consecutive hours, with the goal of raising $1 million for Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Dubbed the ‘11-Day Power Play,’ puck drop takes place at 9 p.m. on June 22 at Harbor- Center and the game is scheduled to conclude at 7 a.m. on July 3. Players will eat and sleep between shifts, and they’re not allowed to leave the arena for the duration of the event. Peca, who played 363 of 864 NHL games in Buffalo, is now GM of the Jr. Sabres and still lives…
NEW JERSEY?
ONLY IN VIDEO GAMES PITTSBURGH Imagine seeing Kovalchuk play the wing with compatriot Evgeni Malkin or, gasp, Sidney Crosby? Goals galore. WHERE THERE’S SMOKE THERE’S FIRE FLORIDA The most recent rumors suggest Kovalchuk wants to play for the Panthers. Maybe he’ll have an amazing second NHL career, a la Jaromir Jagr. CAN WE HAVE A DO OVER? LOS ANGELES He slipped through the Kings’ fingers in 2010 when he looked like a lock to sign. Maybe they get their man this time? IF MONEY GREW ON TREES MONTREAL The Habs need scoring. Radulov worked out great after returning from the KHL and has publicly lobbied for a Kovalchuk signing. THE BORING CHOICE NEW JERSEY The Devils still have his rights, so he could return to his most recent NHL home. But why play for a team in the process of bottoming out?…
DRAFT LOTTERY REDUX WHAT COULD’VE BEEN
THE NHL’S 2017 draft lottery certainly shook up the selection order, with four of the league’s worst teams suffering the dreaded three-spot drop while the New Jersey Devils, Philadelphia Flyers and Dallas Stars moved up. We probably should have seen it coming. Prior to the draft lottery, I predicted the Devils would win because they had the most unbeatable good-luck charm: Taylor Hall. He was drafted with a lottery-winning choice, he stuck around Edmonton for multiple lottery wins, he was eventually traded for another player taken with a lotterywinning choice, and now he’s willed his team to yet another No. 1 pick. Hall had some fun with the Devils’ jackpot, tweeting: “Officially adding ‘NHL lottery ball specialist’ to my hockey resume.” But were the draft lottery results really inevitable? Maybe not. The…
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