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January 14, 2000
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Faith guides tough coach
Roger Neilson will not wave a white flag and surrender in this battle. No towels on the end of a hockey stick this time. That's because Neilson’s ally in his fight of all fights-against bone marrow cancer-is God. Not Harold Snepsts or Darcy Rota. Neilson has already begun medical treatments to drive the cancer out of his body. Other than that, not much else in his life has changed. The 65-year-old coach of the Philadelphia Flyers goes about his business comforted by religious beliefs that have guided him most of his life. “I was raised in a Christian family,” Neilson said. "One day, when I was a kid, I went forward and told God I’d let him take over my life. I’ve relied on my faith all through my life. “I believe in the…
NEW HORIZONS
Call it an exercise in crystal puck gazing. In the fourth and final installment of The Hockey News’ Century Series, we ask 21 prominent hockey people to speculate and prognosticate where hockey is headed early in the 21st century. Everybody from NHL commissioner Gary Bettman–who said, among other things, that expansion to Europe is far off the radar screen–to NHL Players’ Association Bob Goodenow talked about where the game may be by the year 2010. Here are edited transcripts of what they had to say: BRIAN BURKE: Larger ice surfaces Vancouver Canucks’ GM-president “This is going to outrage and offend some of the older players, but just in terms of pure, physical skill, there are bantam players now and 16-year-old junior players that have skill levels and size and skating abilities that exceed many of…
A STRONG TEAM HAS MANY “I”MPORTANT PIECES
FOUNDED: The International Hockey league was established on Dec. 5.1945 In a three-hour meeting at the Norton Palmer Hotel in Windsor. Ont. The IHL was to provide opportunities for Detroit Windsor hockey players returning home from World War II. Four teams were formed: Detroit Auto Club and Detroit Bright’s Goodyears would play their home games at Olympia Stadium in Detroit, while the Windsor Spitfires and the Windsor Gotfredsons would play their home games In the Windsor Arena. The IHL has operated successfully since its inception and is conducting its 55th consecutive season of operation in 1999-2000 GROWTH: The IHL started with just four teams in 1945-46. but it grew to 11 teams by 1950. The league never had that many again until the 1993-94 season when 13 clubs participated. The IHL has been…
Corbet remains optimistic despite injury-filled year
Rene Corbet’s difficult season took a turn for the better when he finally returned to the Calgary Flames’ lineup just before Christmas. Corbet was the most visible of the four players Calgary received from the Colorado Avalanche Fleury last spring, but his in exchange for Theo time with the Flames has been spent mostly perched on the sidelines. In the 55 games the Flames had played since the trade, Corbet spent 22 on the injured list. And when he wasn’t sitting, he was playing hurt. Corbet was hobbled with groin problems last spring and early this season, then suffered a cracked ankle after taking a shot off the stick of teammate Marc Savard. The ankle injury side-lined him for six weeks. “It was just a wrist shot,” Corbet said, “but it caught me in…
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