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September 11, 1998
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Blake talks get serious
Last season, Los Angeles Kings’ defenseman Rob Blake balanced every aspect of his game so well, he won the Norris Trophy. As he and the Kings got into serious contract talks in late August, Blake was trying to balance his desire for a lengthy deal against his desire not to lock himself in if the NHL’s salary scale continues its rapid escalation. “We’re pretty open to anything,” said Ron Salcer, Blake’s agent. “A long-term deal is nice because the security is nice, but we think Rob is going to be a solid Norris Trophy candidate every year and we don’t want to have a deal where he isn’t going to be getting what the market value is. Rob can be an unrestricted free agent three years from now and what would a…
Sheldon Kennedy finds catharsis in in-line marathon
Sheldon Kennedy’s 5,000-mile in-line trek across Canada might have been called the Getting to Know You Tour. Thousands of well-wishers have lined streets and highways to greet him and shake his hand, to tell him their own stories of abuse. Then there is the man himself, eating up pavement like a steamroller, finally at peace with his past and juiced about his future, able to open up to the world for the first time in years. For Kennedy, too, this journey is also about new acquaintances. In a funny sort of way, that’s true most of all in places such as Swift Current, Sask., population 17,000, where you’d think there wasn’t a soul left for him to meet. The Prairies, after all, are his home. The biggest difference between blading through Manitoba,…
Hull denies remarks
Once the author of a slapshot heard around the world, Bobby Hull is now denying having made disparaging comments heard around the world. The Moscow Times ran an interview with ‘The Golden Jet’ in which he was quoted as saying the Nazi plan to create a master race was not without merit. Hull was in Russia in mid-August as a guest of the organizers of the annual Spartak summer hockey tournament. Hull, who was in Northern Ontario for an appearance tour when the paper hit the streets, denied the report, which quoted him as saying: “Hitler, for example, had some good ideas. He just went a little bit too far.” The story also said Hull made disparaging remarks about the U.S. black population. “Nothing that was quoted was true,” Hull told the Sudbury…
Kennedy hopeful of return to NHL
“I used to have to be so sharp because I was living a he,” Kennedy said. “I always had to try to remember the little lies that I told the guys the week before in case I’d run into them that day…And now I can hardly remember my eight years that I played, the whole time in the NHL. I can hardly remember that. And that’s why I think I got the feeling to go back, because I don’t remember playing there. “I’m not scared that I won’t make it at all,” he continued. “I totally played on natural talent, that’s it If a guy has got natural talent he has got natural talent…People told me on an ongoing basis, ’What is wrong with you, you’ve got so much talent why…
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