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July 4, 2006
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2006 Playoff Stats
Significant movements for June 8 - 21 ANAHEIM June 9 Teemu Selanne, RW, re-signed one-year contract extension. June 14 Travis Moen, LW, re-signed one-year contract. June 19 Joe DiPenta, D, re-signed one-year contract. ATLANTA June 14 Acquired 2007 fourth-round pick from Vancouver for Tommi Santala, C, and a 2007 fifth-round pick. Acquired future conditional pick from Minnesota for Petteri Nummelin, D. June 21 Eric Boulton, LW, Brad Larsen, LW, re-signed contracts. Cory Larose, C, signed contract. BOSTON June 8 Mariusz Czerkawski, LW, signed with EV Zug (Swi.). June 15 Acquired Petr Tenkrat, RW, from Toronto for 2006 seventh-round pick. Tenkrat signed one-year contract. June 19 Eric Nickulas, RW, signed with Hannover (Ger.). BUFFALO None. CALGARY June 19 Kristian Huselius, LW, re-signed contract. CAROLINA None. CHICAGO June 8 Bruce Cassidy, assistant coach, fired. June 12 Mark Hardy named…
Executive sweet
There weren’t many who picked the Carolina Hurricanes to make the playoffs this season, The Hockey News included. But Jim Rutherford and the rest of the Hurricanes braintrust had other ideas. “You don’t know if you have a chance to win the Cup at the start of the year,” Rutherford said. “But coming out of camp we knew we had a good enough team to be in the playoffs.” Based on the moves he made to get them not just in the post-season but on top of the mountain, The Hockey News has picked Jim Rutherford as its choice for NHL executive of the year. The 57-year-old native of Beeton, Ont., shed some light on how the Hurricanes’ championship season started brewing, beginning with the methods of the man Rutherford chose to run his…
Franchise Highlights
It was a Whale of a ride from the franchise’s early days in New England to the Stanley Cup in 2006. Here are some Whaler/Hurricane moments of note: Nov 1971 – The WHA awards a franchise to Howard Baldwin, John Colburn, Godfrey Wood and William Barnes. April 1972 – Larry Pleau becomes first player to sign. May 6, 1973 – Whalers defeat Winnipeg Jets 9-6 on national television (CBS) to win WHA championship. May 23, 1977 – Whalers show-up NHL by signing Gordie, Mark and Marty Howe. Jan 18, 1978 – Hartford Civic Center roof collapses under weight of snow and ice. Whalers play in Springfield, Mass., for two years. Jan 22, 1979 – Whalers join NHL with three other squads – Edmonton, Quebec, Winnipeg – as NHL grows to 21 teams. June 28, 1994 – Whalers…
Ohlund stepped up when mates took ill
MVP There was a changing of the guard in Vancouver as center Henrik Sedin emerged as the team’s MVP. He pivoted the team’s most consistent line with twin brother Daniel and right winger Anson Carter. Henrik also became a strong penalty killer and top faceoff man. BEST D-MANWith Ed Jovanovski and Sami Salo missing large chunks of the season due to injury, Mattias Ohlund was the Canucks’ top blueliner pretty much by default. The veteran played in all situations and was always out against the opposition’s top forwards. BEST ROOKIE Left winger Alex Burrows made a name for himself after a mid-season call-up. He established himself as an agitator but also showed a scoring touch, capped off by a hat trick against L.A. in March. UNSUNG HERO Defensive defenseman Bryan Allen finally asserted…
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