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April 29, 1994
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‘Shan the Man’ takes licking, then lets his play do talking
In St. Louis, Blues’ winger Brendan Shanahan is referred to as “Shan The Man,” a takeoff on the nickname of St. Louis baseball hero Stan “The Man” Musial. In the final game of the season April 14, Shanahan lived up to his nickname with a gutsy performance. Midway through the second period, Keith Tkachuk of the Winnipeg Jets inadvertently sliced Shanahan’s upper lip, cracked a tooth and pushed another back with a high stick. Shanahan skated off the ice with blood pouring down his chin. Doctors used 40 stitches to close the wound and a dentist made temporary repairs to his teeth. Shanahan returned to the ice one minute into the final period and scored two goals in a 3-1 win. Then he sought revenge. He tackled Tkachuk and hit him with three punches…
Team Wilson exceeds first-year expectations
Before the season began, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim coach Ron Wilson thought 18 wins was a reasonable goal for his team to attain. But much to his surprise, the Ducks broke through for 33 wins, sharing the NHL record with the Florida Panthers for wins by an expansion team. The NHL record for wins by a first-year team was 31 by the 1967-68 Los Angeles Kings and Philadelphia Flyers. The Kings and Flyers played a 74-game season, but entered the league with four other expansion teams. Included among the Ducks’ achievements in their first season: □ Set an NHL record for road victories by an expansion team with 19. □ Finished with 71 points and stayed in the playoff race until April 1. □ Swept the season series with the New York Rangers, Winnipeg Jets,…
THE DRAFT’S DAILY DODBLES
The Edmonton Oilers, Quebec Nordiques and Washington Capitals each have two picks among the top 16 at the June 28-29 NHL entry draft in Hartford. Edmonton has the Winnipeg Jets’ first pick (fourth) and Quebec has the Philadelphia Flyers’ pick (10th), as a result of the Dave Manson and Eric Lindros trades, respectively. Washington has the rights to the St. Louis Blues’ first pick (16th) for the fourth year in a row because of the latter’s signing of since-departed free-agent defenseman Scott Stevens. Washington also has the Blues’ first choice in 1995. In the table below, we tell you two things. On the left is the order of selection in the first round. On the right is the ranking of all draft prospects (names and positions only) according to Red Line Report,…
Mullen reunited with flashy duo
Pittsburgh Penguins’ coach Ed Johnston wasn’t out to please Joe Mullen when he overhauled his lines in the days leading up to the NHL playoffs. It just worked out that way. Johnston reunited the Kevin Stevens-Mario Lemieux-Rick Tocchet line before Game 1 of the Pittsburgh-Washington Capitals series, then put Ron Francis between Jaromir Jagr and Mullen. Johnston had been playing Jagr with Lemieux so Lemieux wouldn’t have to spend so much time and energy lugging the puck while getting over his back troubles. But Johnston deemed Lemieux ready to shoulder his normal workload in the post-season. A side effect of that decision was reassembling the Mullen-Francis-Jagr unit that was so effective when it played together earlier this season. “(Jagr) makes things happen,” Mullen said. “I had most of my success this year when I was…
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