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January 14, 2000
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One last look at 1999
As far as lists go, this one is heading six feet under. In every issue The Hockey News published in 1999, we made an addition to our Millennium Time Capsule. We’ve done our best to include snapshots like Pavel Bure’s debut in Florida while still keeping an eye on the bigger picture like the plight of the Ottawa Senators-on and off the ice. Now it’s time to bury it until Y3K. Here is the list of our deposits, in chronological order: Jan. 8: Russian gold medal. Russia captures the World Junior Championship with thrilling overtime win against Canada. Jan. 15: Tear Drop. Doug Wickenheiser, the No. 1 pick in 1980, succumbs to brain cancer. Jan. 22: Panthers’ Jan. 20 game sheet. Pavel Bure scores twice in his debut with Florida. Jan. 29: All-Star Truck. Wayne…
Shanahan pitches in when injury bug nips at Wings
Injuries can have an upside. If not for their rash of injuries, the Detroit Red Wings probably wouldn’t be playing left winger Brendan Shanahan about six additional minutes a game (up to 20 minutes), and it’s a good bet he wouldn’t have 20 goals. If it weren’t for injuries, specifically the hernias that sidelined wingers Kirk Maltby and Dairen McCarty, they may not have signed free agent right winger Pat Verbeek and then placed him on the line with Shanahan and Steve Yzerman. Shanahan, Yzerman and Verbeek, with 1,506 career goals between them, are proving to be just as magical together as they have been separately through their careers. “I think we keep things simple,” Verbeek said. “We work hard. For me, it’s been a good fit mainly because there’s no restrictions on the…
Titan owner Morrissette may sue league over fine
Acadie-Bathurst Titan owner Leo-Guy Morrissette said he’s prepared to take the Quebec League to court. The flamboyant Morrissette made the declaration Dec. 20, just three days after league president Gilles Courteau announced Bathurst was guilty of completing an illegal trade with the Chicoutimi Sagueneens last season. Morrissette, also the Titan’s GM, contends he wasn’t given a fair hearing. “After consulting with our attorneys, we have been advised the procedure followed by the league appears to be irregular, illegal and absolutely null,” Morrissette said in a release. “In fact, the league and the president have imposed very serious sanctions without having given us the right to be heard, to a full defense, and without even providing us with the information and proof underlying the decision.” Courteau ruled the Titan and Sagueneens violated article 2.16.81, which…
Unsettled Nedved fights to get his game on track
The transition to No. 1 center has been difficult enough for Petr Nedved. The swirling trade rumors, which had the New York Rangers dealing Nedved in a package for Carolina Hurricanes’ restricted free agent center Keith Primeau, have made it worse. Rangers’ president-GM Neil Smith told Nedved he hadn’t offered him to anybody, but that didn’t mean Nedved’s name hasn’t come up in trade talks. “Whether you like it or not, it’s going to be on your mind,” Nedved admitted. “But let’s not make it as an excuse for me not to play well. You don’t have control over that, and that’s going to happen. If management feels that’s going to help this team, that’s the way it’s going to be. You live with that. If it happens, it happens.” Part of Nedved’s problems…
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