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January 25, 1991
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SENATORS COULD BE READY TO JOIN NHL NEXT SEASON
The Ottawa Senators are preparing to make their NHL debut. And they say they’ll be ready by 1991. But the question is, does anybody want them? The Ottawa Sun reported Jan. 8 that the Senators were ready, willing and able to ice a team by October and would contact the league for approval. Quoting an anonymous NHL source, the Sun said the team’s chances of lacing up their skates at the Ottawa Civic Centre eight months from now were 50-50. Ottawa, along with Tampa Bay, was granted an expansion franchise to begin play in the 1992-93 season. A rumor circulating had the Senators taking the place of the San Jose Sharks, who were granted a franchise to begin play in 1991. The Sharks have sold about 5,000 season tickets in seven months. The Senators sold about 9,000…
RINGETTE, HOCKEY OFFERED AT CALGARY SCHOOL
In the summer of 1991, the Olympic Oval Hockey and Ringette Schools will continue to offer top-flight hockey and ringette instruction to young athletes. The facilities at the University of Calgary are world class and you will train at many of them. These include the Olympic speedskating and oval complex, a new 3,000-seat gymnasium, state-of-the-art weight-training facilities, and big-screen video-analysis rooms. In concert with the University of Calgary hockey program, the hockey school will offer three five-day hockey sessions at the finest hockey training facilities in North America, along with superb instruction from one of Canada’s finest university programs. Off-ice teaching includes pre-practice sessions that introduce sport psychology concepts such as mental imagery, visualization and relaxation techniques, an introduction to current weight-training concepts and current sport medicine concepts of injury rehabilitation and prevention. University…
MILBURY MESS IS THE NHL’S FAULT
Mike Milbury is not to blame for his shortsighted, petty, and certainly unnecessary AllStar additions. The NHL is to blame. This is their game. They should control it. Allowing coaches to make decisions which require anything more than changing lines is allowing them too much power in a game that belongs to the fans. This year’s All-Star mess is not about Mike Milbury and Chris Nilan and Gary Galley. It’s about Pat Quinn adding Paul Holmgren back in their Philadelphia tough-guy days. It’s about Glen Sather making sure he takes the wrong Flame just to anger their organization. It’s about Terry Crisp taking a player in a slump, hoping the All-Star invitation will turn his season around. The purpose is lost in the pettiness, and if there is something NHL coaches are adept at…
THE SAD AND LONELY LIVES OF DEFENSIVE DEFENSEMEN
More than 180 skaters have been recognized as NHL players of the week since 1980. Not one of them has earned the honor on the basis of defensive excellence. Oh sure, eight rearguards have been chosen a total of 13 times. But it’s clear the reasons for their selections were based more on offense than defense. Every one of them earned at least seven points during the weeks they were chosen. The only defensemen to be named players of the week have been Kevin McCarthy, John Van Boxmeer, Mike O’Connell, Paul Coffey (five times), Scott Stevens, Chris Chelios, Mark Howe and Ray Bourque (twice). Each was chosen by the league after impressive production of goals and assists—not the prevention of them. Clearly, there is no more unheralded position in the NHL than that of…
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