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April 16, 1999
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Fighting’s all right by THN readers
The anti-fighters have taken one on the chin. In the final installment of The Hockey News’ recent three-part series on fighting in the NHL, readers were asked the following questions in a Puck Poll: 1. If fighting should be punishable by automatic ejection; 2. How their interest in the game would be affected should the NHL take steps to reduce fighting; and 3. Why there is fighting in the NHL. The results were not really surprising given fans’ favorable reaction during games when fights break out. An overwhelming majority of respondents (85.3 per cent) felt fighting should not be punishable by automatic ejection. In other words, fans enjoy a good punch-up despite the fact it has been proven serious injuries, sometimes career-ending ones, do occur. “I think interest in the NHL would go…
Kariya hits comfort zone for first time all season
Mighty Ducks of Anaheim captain Paul Kariya has played well by NHL standards this season. But according to an authority-himself-he’s just starting to play up to his own higher standards. “I’m starting to feel better,” Kariya said. “It has been up and down a lot of this season. I’m starting to feel more comfortable and starting to do things I should have been doing all year. Sometimes it takes time after an injury, but it feels a lot better now.” Kariya played just 22 games last season due to a lengthy contract dispute and a bout with post-concussion syndrome. “It took a lot longer than I thought it would,” Kariya said of returning to the level he was at during the end of 199697. “But I did everything I could in the summer…
Another bad blow for Lindros as he suffers collapsed lung
Seven years into his NHL career, Eric Lindros hasn’t known a complete regular season. The latest blow came April 1-no fooling-in a game against the Nashville Predators. Lindros sustained a collapsed lung, apparently on a cross check. When he woke up later that night, he was experiencing chest pains and went to Baptist Hospital in Nashville. That’s when doctors discovered a puncture. GM Bob Clarke said nearly three quarts of blood filled the space where the lung collapsed and doctors were draining the blood out with a chest tube. “He was checked in the ribs on the right side,” said Flyers’ team physician Dr. Gary Dorshimer. “He either suffered a rib fracture of there was enough force with the sudden impact trauma that it caused a small microtear in the lung.” Lindros, 26, was…
Stewart praises Linden’s leadership, but captain mired in brutal slump
Everywhere the New York Islanders go, fans, opposing players and reporters ask the same question: What’s wrong with Trevor Linden? His offensive futility mirrors the Islanders’ season. Playing on a one-year $2.5-million contract in a season in which he wanted to lay groundwork for a multi-year deal, Linden lost his scoring touch and has seemed disinterested at times. After getting 11 goals and 24 points in his first 34 games, he went 3-14-17 in his next 41. As of April 1, he was 0-6-6 in an 18-game stretch. His season totals were 14 goals and 41 points in 75 games. “He has to go to the net,” said injured enforcer Gino Odjick, a teammate and friend of Linden’s for eight seasons with the Vancouver Canucks. “I know you can’t score from the comers.” On…
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