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February 26, 1993
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Prospects for new home suddenly much brighter
The Tampa Bay Lightning waited more than two years for Tampa Coliseum Inc., officials to make good on their promise of a new 18,500-seat arena. Finally, it appears the wait is coming to an end. After paying another $500,000 into an escrow fund and buying an additional 30 days to secure financing for the project, Tampa Coliseum officials declared Feb. 8 they will meet the March 8 deadline to secure the $114 million needed to build the Lightning’s new home. “We’re in the red zone now,” said Tampa Coliseum Inc., president Jim Cusack. “This deal will be completed successfully. Virtually all of the pieces are in place and when it’s all done, Tampa Bay will have, in the words of former NHL president John Ziegler, ’The finest arena in North America.’” The $500,000…
AHL
The American League’s annual mid-winter meeting took place in Montreal during the NHL’s all-star weekend and the surrounding hoopla apparently sparked creative thinking. With NHL festivities as the backdrop, the AHL’s board of governors initiated plans for its own All-Star Game beginning next season. For years the AHL resisted offers from the International League for an inter-league All-Star Game. Many AHL owners were also against a game within their own league. “There was a group that remembers when the AHL used to do an All-Star Game (in the 1960s) and it wasn’t successful financially,” said league marketing director Bob Ohrablo. p The IHL’s success with an all-star contest apparently has changed their thinking, though there has been no official announcement on the matter. “It’s still in the discussion stages,” Ohrablo said. “If it can…
Paddock predicted letdown
Like any respectable NHL coach, John Paddock has made a few predictions, even if most of them are done privately. It wasn’t exactly a proclamation when the Jets were the league’s hottest team at one point in January, but Paddock said he was worried about how “easy” the team’s schedule appeared to be after a testy first month of the New Year. Those words rang painfully true Feb. 14, when the Jets allowed the San Jose Sharks to snap an NHL-record-tying losing streak at 17 games with a 3-2 win on Winnipeg ice. “I hate to make myself a prophet but this was the part of the schedule I was worried about,” Paddock said. “Yes, we’ve had injuries but our players have been playing very poorly. If we were sharp and hungry, we’d…
Corson plays on in honor of dad
Edmonton Oilers’ center Shayne Corson will continue to play the game the only way he knows how, the way his father wanted him to play. Full speed. Hard-nosed. Emotional. On the edge. But it won’t be easy. Corson’s father Paul died Feb. 12 in Barrie, Ont., at the age of 45, losing a two-year battle with cancer. In the end. he could barely speak as fluid filled his lungs and morphine eased the pain. “I talked to him three or four times,” Shayne said a day after. “They connected a phone up in his room. He couldn’t really talk, his lungs were full of (fluid). All I could say is ‘I love you’ and ‘keep fighting it.’ He sputtered out he loves me. “At that point there was nothing else to say. He knows…
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