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February 5, 1999
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Thrifty ways paying off for Bruins 13 years later
Poor Barry Pederson. They way I figure it, he still has a good 10 years or so to be reminded again and again of the trade. That’s because Sergei Samsonov and Kyle McLaren have at least another decade or so of high level hockey ahead of them. As long as the two Boston Bruins’ kids contribute to the success of the team, the trade GM Harry Sinden made some 13 years ago, sending Pederson to the Vancouver Canucks for young right winger Cam Neely and a first round draft pick, will continue paying dividends. It’s the trade that keeps on giving. “You never really know for sure how a trade will end up,” said Sin-den, known as’Dirty Harry’ by those he has fleeced in the trade market. “You just make the deal that you…
Weight survives first test on road back from injury
The game had already been won and Doug Weight’s triumphant return from reconstructive knee surgery was all but complete. Nearly 11 weeks after Weight blew out the MCL in his right knee, there he was, back on the blades, darting and dashing around Skyreach Centre like nothing happened. One last shift in a 4-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings Jan. 17 and he’d call it a night. Suddenly, every jaw in the place hit the floor at once. With less than a minute to play, Weight got tied up with Wings’ defenseman Jamie Macoun and slid hard into the boards. Knees first. He laid on the ice for a moment, then slowly climbed to his feet and limped towards the bench, favoring his right knee. It turned out to be the best thing…
Fatigued team firing blanks when they’re firing at all
It the devil is always in the details, the Buffalo Sabres latest woes can be traced to one rather devilish detail. They can’t score. In a five-game January stretch, the Sabres managed just seven goals. Nol surprisingly, they were below .500 (12-2) in those games. And in a Jan. 16 game against the Ottawa Senators, they suffered the ugly indignity of recording no shots on goal in the third period of a one-goal game (2-1 loss). “That was an embarrassment,” saic Sabres’ coach Lindy Ruff. “It’s not just the schedule. We’re mentally tired, too. We’re not playing with that mental confidence, that sharp ness that we had earlier.” The schedule, a four-game Westen road swing in early January, two home games and then a stretch of four game: in five nights-three of them on the road…
Hackett helps save Habs
For just one brief, shining instant, Jeff Hackett felt a little bit like Michael Jordan. Rest assured it wasn’t while Hackett was depositing his pay check. Rather, it was the first time he faced the media, en masse, as the newest member of the Montreal Canadiens. “I was a little bit overwhelmed with the number of reporters gathered around me,” Hackett said. “You have people telling you what it (the media) is like in Montreal, but to me, it’s like when people tell you what to expect when you have your first child. They tell you how much it’s going to change your life. You go,’Yeah, yeah, yeah,’ like you know what they’re saying. But until you actually have the kid, you have no idea what they’re talking about. “In Chicago, I would watch…
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