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April 30, 1993
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FIRST CLASS ACT
To fully appreciate the talent of the 1992-93 NHL rookie class, we take you on a trip to the future. The date, June 26, 1997. The speaker (sorry), is Alan Thicke: “And there you have it, the 1996-97 NHL award winners: Eric Lindros (Hart), Teemu Selanne (Art Ross), Scott Nieder-mayer (Norris), Felix Potvin (Vezina), Joe Juneau (Lady Byng) Dallas Drake (Selke) and from the Stanley Cup-champion New York Rangers, Alexei Kovalev (Conn Smythe).” Not only are all these future award winners part of the star-studded ’92-93 crop of freshmen, they represent only the surface of the NHL’s best rookie class ever. “All you see in the national (sports) publications is how basketball, with the retirement of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird, got rejuvenated with a great rookie class,” says San Jose Sharks’ director of…
Holy Toledo! Raging Storm rolls over Wheeling for title
Midnight madness in Toledo brought the city’s first minor-league hockey championship in a decade. The Toledo Storm defeated the Wheeling Thunderbirds 7-6 in a double-overtime thriller at Toledo Sports Arena April 18 to capture the Riley Cup. Toledo rebounded from a two-game deficit to win the best-of-seven series for the East Coast League title 4-2. Mark Deazeley shoved a cross-ice pass from Iain Duncan behind Wheeling goalie Francis Ouellette just before the clock struck midnight. Deazeley’s eighth playoff goal came 40 seconds into the second extra period to end the four-hour, 20-minute marathon. Toledo’s last championship was in 1983, when the Toledo Goaldiggers beat the Milwaukee Admirals to win the International League’s Turner Cup. “This has been four years in waiting,” said vindicated Toledo coach Chris McSorley. McSorley was fired by the T-Birds when they were…
Playing with power
Brendan Shanahan can do it all. That, until this year at least, has been the problem. At 6-foot-3 and 215 pounds, the 24-year-old left winger for the St. Louis Blues is a hockey hybrid: he has surgeon’s hands and a bouncer’s body But despite the variety of his talents, he struggled with his role on the ice. “In the past,” Shanahan said, “if I scored a goal and we still lost, I would be told I wasn’t physical enough. Then, if I got into a fight and threw some hits and we lost. I was told I wasn’t thinking enough about offense. “Now, I don’t drive home and bang my head against the wall thinking about it.” He doesn’t have to. Shanahan finished the season with career highs in goals (51), assists (43), points (94)…
Atrocious start snowballs into season to forget
As the Edmonton Oilers lurched into their first idle post-season in the team’s 14-year history, it was time to look back on a season of discontent. MVP: Goalie Bill Ranford won just 17 games this season, his lowest total since he won 15 with Edmonton in 1988-89, but he is the only choice for MVP. Ranford won the award for the most three-star selections and on most nights, was the best player on a poor team. If he stood on his head, the Oilers had a chance to win. If he was average, they lost. Turning point: When a team loses a franchise-record 50 games, allows a franchise-record 337 goals and scores a franchise-low 242 in an 84-game season, one loss or one trade cannot possibly be looked at as a turning point. The…
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