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August 1, 2006
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It’s a cold business
“If a wife is unhappy…does she not have the option of speaking up?” How soon they forget. A week after he led the Oilers to within a game of winning their first Stanley Cup in 16 seasons, Chris Pronger is Public Enemy No. 1 in Edmonton. Make that 1A. His wife, Lauren, is 1B. All because the Prongers had the audacity to request a trade. It happens all the time, players requesting to be moved, but for some reason, Edmonton fans took this one as a personal affront. Heaven forbid somebody should not want to live in Edmonton. The organization was aware of Pronger’s desire to be moved early in the year, yet it rode him all the way to Game 7 of the Stanley Cup final. That’s because even though he wished he were…
Bruising Corrente has Devils smiling
TOP PICK Matthew Corrente, D (30th overall). If their projections are correct, the Devils found a modern-day Ken Daneyko who skates better than the original. A 5-foot-11, 189-pound defenseman who had 172 penalty minutes in 61 games last season, Corrente said he patterns his game after Ed Jovanovski. With his solid right-handed shot and skating skill, he can score more than the six goals and 24 assists he had last season. But the Devils see a gritty style they lost when Daneyko retired. DRAFT RECAP Replenishing their defense was the Devils’ primary goal. They did that with Corrente and 6-foot-3, 220-pound Russian Kirill Tulupov (67th overall) with their first and third picks. But their most interesting selections were left winger Alexander Vasyunov (58th overall) and right winger Vladimir Zharkov (77th overall).…
Johnson leads Yankee charge
VANCOUVER, B.C. When Erik Johnson was playing for Team USA last January at the World Junior Championship, he was booed often and mercilessly by the crowd at GM Place. But when he was thrust into the spotlight under the same roof at this year’s NHL draft, the reaction from the peanut gallery was drastically different. “It’s a really amazing feeling,” said the 18-year-old Johnson, who received one of the loudest cheers of the entry draft when the St. Louis Blues selected him first overall June 24. “I think (the WJC catcalls) happened because we were playing in Canada and it was their hometown. (But) I respect that and it feels good to be back here and get the respect I got today.” The first defenseman taken first overall since Ottawa chose Chris Phillips in…
Prime time lies ahead
Zach Hamill clearly recalls his first meeting with the Everett Silvertips – a casual, 10-minute chat prior to a Vancouver Giants game at Pacific Coliseum in 2002. At the time, the expansion Silvertips were looking to lay the foundation for their franchise and Hamill – in the midst of a 203-point bantam AAA campaign – seemed to fit the bill. “I didn’t think anything of it,” Hamill said of the meeting. “I was pretty young then and just tried not to say anything I shouldn’t.” Unbeknownst to Hamill, he wowed the Silvertips that day. The team took him third overall in the ’03 WHL draft. “He blew us away with his maturity, well beyond his 14 years at the time,” said Scott Scoville, Everett’s director of player personnel. “He was our guy from the…
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