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March 15, 1996
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OPENING FACEOFF
There’s far more to hockey than the game itself, and that’s what we explore in this issue of Kid Line. On pg. 7, for instance, we take a look at the personal side of hockey trades. Players are not just names in a hockey pool; they have real lives, too, and those are often turned topsy-turvy by a deal. That’s something to consider when you’re mulling over the swaps at this year’s trade deadline. Things can get tense in the dressing room, too, when the generation gap kicks in. We take you inside the Boston Bruins’ changing digs on pg. 4 for an inside look at a different kind of turf war: Who rules the CD player? And on pg. 6, we talk to the Calgary Flames’ Sandy McCarthy, who’s getting ready to stand…
Then there was one
Brent Sutter said being the last remaining Sutter brother playing in the NHL is no big deal. Then again, Brent said it was no big deal among family members when he and his five brothers patrolled NHL rinks at the same time. It was simply something they did in winter, just as they tended to the family farms in Viking, Alta., in the summer. Six brothers playing in the NHL generated a lot of publicity. But now the fact there is only one left playing has gone all but unnoticed. “Surprisingly, nobody has really mentioned much about me being the last one,” Sutter said. There have been more high profile brother acts in the NHL-Maurice and Henri Richard, Bobby and Dennis Hull, Phil and Tony Esposito among them-but the Sutters have strength in numbers. Brian…
Lemieux wins 50/50 proposition
The timing of Jaromir Jagr’s 50th goal of the season couldn’t have been better for the Pittsburgh Penguins, because it provided the margin of victory in a 54 win over the Hartford Whalers. Jagr couldn’t be blamed for wishing he’d picked it up just a bit earlier, however. For while No. 50 came in time to clinch the game, it was too late to win a wager with teammate Mario Lemieux. Both scored their 49th goals earlier in that game, so Lemieux went to Jagr with a proposition. “We had a little bet about champagne,” Jagr said. “When I got my 49th, he came to me and said, ‘Hey, kid, let’s bet who’s going to be first to get to 50.’” Lemieux did it-and became the first NHL player to get 50 this season-but he…
Battle of bands in Bruins’ dressing room
When Dave Reid was a junior hockey player, he worked at a Toronto record store on Saturdays. He was a big hit with his teammates, because he’d bring all of the latest tapes on the bus for road trips. Today, Reid is 32, and his musical tastes—the Eagles, the Beatles, Queen, Paul Simon, the Who, Elton John—are considered too moldy for lengthy CD play time in the FleetCenter dressing room, in the opinion of one Boston Bruins teammate. “There’s a big generation gap,” says 18-year-old rookie defenseman Kyle McLaren, whose tastes run to Green Day, Guns N’ Roses, Stone Temple Pilots and the like. “We’ll get in little battles now and then, (as to) who’s in charge of the CDs,” Reid says. “Kyle McLaren, he’s there every day with the CDs. I’ve got…