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February 19, 1999
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NHL TEAM REPORTS
Goalie Guy Hebert could have waited to test the unrestricted free agent market this summer, but the original Mighty Duck decided he didn’t want to leave Anaheim and signed a three-year deal for about $12 million instead. “I could have tested the market and most likely ended up in a different city,” said Hebert, 32, who was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent July 1. “But my priority was to stay in Anaheim, if at all possible, as long as I didn’t have to take a serious pay cut to do that. You want to get your market worth, but also want to be happy.” Hebert, who is making $2.6 million this season, will get a raise to an average of about $4 million a season. He probably could have got…
NHL TEAM REPORTS
Veteran forward Mikael Andersson knows what the NHL’s last-place team is up to. The Tampa Bay Lightning wants to get younger, and faster. Toward that end, Tampa Bay acquired Michael Nylander from Calgary on Jan. 19 and Alexandre Daigle in a three-way deal involving the Philadelphia Flyers and Edmonton on Jan. 29. All of which leaves Andersson, a steadfastly loyal Lightning Original, with a reduced role. But don’t for a minute think the 32-year-old Swede isn’t a respected and highly regarded member of the organization, or that the Lightning won’t miss him as he sits out with a knee injury sustained in practice Feb. 4-for as long as six weeks. “He understands his role,” said Lightning coach-GM Jacques Demers. “He’s not a kid anymore.” Andersson is confident and wishful he can still be an every-night…
Hurme blows through Detroit and finds home with Cyclones
Jani Hurme came to North America to pursue his lifelong dream of playing in the NHL. It didn’t take him long, however, to discover the road to stardom would be paved with potholes. The Finnish-born 24-year-old goalie, a 1997 second round pick of the Ottawa Senators, has been traded from their Detroit affiliate, not once, but twice, in just over a year. Hurme made his North American debut last season with the Vipers, but after six games was dispatched to the Indianapolis Ice. This season, Ottawa tried again and sent him back to Detroit. But after 12 games he was dealt to the Cincinnati Cyclones along ’ with left winger Phil Crowe for goaltender Geoff Sarjeant. The whole situation was not, however, what one might think, according to Senajtors’ GM Rick Diftiley And Dudley,…
Minor leaguer charged in spearing incident
A defenseman in the West Coast League was arrested and charged with using his stick as a deadly weapon. Dean Trboyevich of the Anchorage Aces speared Jacques Mailhot of the Fresno Falcons in the face Feb. 2 sparking a bench-clearing brawl that led to the ejection of 11 players. Trboyevich received a high-sticking major and a match penalty for spearing. Mailhot, who wasn’t injured and continued playing, made a request during the first intermission that Trboyevich be arrested. An off-ice official called authorities and Trboyevich was arrested at his hotel after the game. Trboyevich posted $20,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in Fresno Country court Feb. 10. The charge can be treated as a misdemeanor punishable by up to a year in jail, or a felony punishable by two to four years…
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