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September 3, 1999
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Comeback kid Elliott aims for junior berth
Paul Elliott awoke to doctors pinching his legs, asking if he could feel anything. While it sounds bad, this was actually good news for a couple of reasons. First, he was alive. Second, he could feel the doctors’ hands squeezing his limbs, which meant he wasn’t paralyzed. Elliott was a passenger in a car driven by teammate Dave Cameron on their way to a practice with the Western League’s Lethbridge Hurricanes Jan. 23, 1997, when they were broadsided by another automobile. The impact slammed Elliott’s car into a third vehicle, breaking his back and pelvis. It would be months before Elliott, then a 16-year-old defenseman, would skate again. He missed the last 20 games of the regular season and watched as his team won the WHL championship before losing to the Hull Olympiques in the…
Low finds his schedule busy with ’parallel’ move to Aeros
He has championship-sized shoes to fill in Houston, but then again, Ron Low has plenty of experience with tackling big projects. Low was named coach-GM of the Turner Cup-champion Houston Aeros Aug. 4, succeeding Dave Tippett, who has become an assistant with the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings. Low, the 49-year-old Birtie, Man., native, had coached the Edmonton Oilers since 1995 and orchestrated first round playoff upsets of the Dallas Stars in 1997 and Colorado Avalanche in 1998. After the Oilers were eliminated by the Stars in last spring’s post-season, Low declined a one-year offer worth a reported $450,000 to continue coaching the Oilers. He also passed on an assistant coach’s position with the Ottawa Senators before accepting a three-year deal with the Aeros. “I don’t consider this a step back,” Low said about his…
Expansion issues old hat for Rocket coach Therrien
Starting from scratch in training camp is nothing new for Gaston Therrien. The 39-year-old coach of the Montreal Rocket is with his fourth Quebec League team in five years and helped launch the Rimouski Oceanic franchise, formerly the St-Jean Lynx, in 1995. His experience has made the task of taking the expansion Rocket through its first days a little easier. “It looks like when we started in Rimouski, with all new guys,” said Therrien, who has also coached the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies and Vai d’Or Foreurs. “So far, so good. Everybody looks happy to be with the Rocket. We have about 25 players who played in the league last year and we’re not going to keep that many on our team, so they’re a little bit nervous.” Montreal opened its training camp Aug. 14 at…
Thanks, Dudley ’Do-Right’: Top pick now seven player;
New Tampa Bay Lightning GM Rick Dudley hat been busy this summer, revamping the roster of the NHL’s last-place team and padding its thin depth chart. Dudley’s biggest post draft move was an Aug. 4 trade in which Tampa Bay acquired four players, including 21-year-old defenseman Andrei Zyuzin, the No. 2 pick of the 1996 entry draft. “Zyuzin is one of the most dynamic young defensemen in the league,” Dudley said of the deal’s key figure. The trade also brings Tampa Bay veteran defenseman Bill Houlder and veteran left winger Shawn Burr-both of whom played previously for the Lightning—and left winger Stephen Guolla who was named MVP of the American League following the 1997-98 season. They join several other Lightning off-season acquisitions with NHL International League and/or AHL experience. But Dudley is most pleased with…
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