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June 20, 1994
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Cup champs claim awards
They made it there, they could have made it anywhere. Three people hugely responsible for the hockey renaissance in New York-Rangers’ general manager Neil Smith, New Jersey Devils’ coach Jacques Lemaire and Rangers’ rearguard Brian Leetch-have been chosen winners of THN awards. Unlike the Jack Adams Award for NHL coach of the year, voted on by members of the NHL Broadcaster’s Association at the end of the regular season, the THN awards for coach and executive of the year take playoff as well as regular-season performances into account. A third category, playoff MVP, deals strictly with post-season accomplishments. A panel of 20 voters, including 10 coaches or GMs and 10 media members, voted on the awards. Smith was the runaway winner for executive of the year, outpolling Vancouver Canucks’ coach-GM Pat Quinn. Bob Clarke,…
Hull trade rumor ‘total lie’
Brett Hull reacted harshly to a St. Louis broadcast report that said he had submitted a short list of two teams to the St. Louis Blues as possible trade destinations. The teams supposedly were the Los Angeles Kings, where Wayne Gretzky reigns, and the Boston Bruins, where former coach Brian Sutter and former linemate Adam Oates reside. Hull termed the report on KMOX radio, the St. Louis Blues’ flagship station, “a total lie.” “I don’t know where it started, or who started it, but it’s a total lie,” Hull said. “I phoned to say I have never asked for a trade. I haven’t, and I won’t. Everyone knows I love it in St. Louis.” Hull didn’t rule out the possibility he might be traded, but he reiterated that neither he nor agent Mike Barnett…
Start your checkbooks for free agent season
Every NHL team is looking for the next Adam Graves-a free agent they can sign for minimum cost with maximum return. The problem is, how do you identify such a player? Certainly the New York Rangers couldn’t have expected Graves, who scored just 23 goals in his first 217 NHL games with the Detroit Red Wings and Edmonton Oilers, to produce seasons of 26, 36 and 52 goals in Manhattan. The cost to the Rangers was just Troy Mallette because Graves was coming off a seven-goal season. “(Players and agents) all think they’re the next Adam Graves and they’re not,” said an NHL team executive. “They all see themselves as the missing ingredient for another team. Not many are, though, unless they’re a Pavel Bure and how many of those calibre players are there?” Indeed,…
Clarke’s second coming likely to trigger change
In the glory days of the 1970s, the Philadelphia Flyers belonged in spirit to a gritty, gap-toothed battler named Bobby Clarke. In the not-so-glorious 1990s, the Flyers belong to Bob Clarke, only this time in a more figurative sense. The team is hoping history can repeat itself by bringing him back. Clarke was named the team’s new president and general manager June 15. He has also given some ownership in the team. The announcement ended more than a month of speculation about Clarke’s latest return to the Flyers. Clarke was also GM of the Flyers from 1984 to 1990. Negotiations with the Florida Panthers to free Clarke from his contract as GM were difficult. The Flyers finally agreed to give the Panthers their second pick (36th overall) in the June 28-29 entry draft, plus cash,…
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