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June 30, 2000
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Blizzard blows south to Memphis
The East Coast League is taking another southern tilt. The Huntington Blizzard, which had spent the past seven seasons in West Virginia, is moving to Memphis, Tenn., where it will play in the MidSouth Coliseum in 2001-2002. The dormant franchise will be suspended next season and it’s likely Blizzard players will become free agents. When a season ticket campaign to sell 1,500 tickets for 2000-2001 fell well short of its goal, David LeFevre, chairman of Beacon Sports Properties, announced May 19 that Huntington was out of business. Four days past the deadline, the club had taken deposits on 818 tickets. Although the Blizzard recorded, the most wins in its history (35) this past season, Huntington was last in attendance (2,385). The presence of Marshall University football in Huntington contributed to the demise. “A lot…
New Jersey be-devils Dallas
DALLAS-You have, by now, likely heard everything you want to hear about ‘The Tirade’-Larry Robinson’s angry outburst that was the catalyst for the New Jersey Devils rallying to beat the Philadelphia Flyers in the Eastern Conference final and ultimately defeat the Dallas Stars to win the Stanley Cup. Now, you need to hear about ‘The First Meeting.’ “It was his first day as head coach,” said Devils’ forward Bobby Holik of Robbie Ftorek’s dismissal and Robinson’s ascension from assistant coach March 23, with only eight games left in the regular season. “Larry just met with us and said, ‘We’re too good a club to play as (badly) as we’ve been playing.’ He said we owed it to ourselves to play as well as we can.” Robinson didn’t kick any garbage cans. He never…
Moosehead Reid bound for Vai d’Or as part of ‘futures’
Hosting the Memorial Cup has come at a high price for the Halifax Mooseheads. Fans of the Quebec League team found that out as word spread of Brandon Reid’s imminent trade to the Val d’Or Foreurs to complete a deadline deal that brought center Benoit Dusablon and winger Nick Greenough to the Mooseheads. The trade, which also includes 16-year-old Halifax defenseman Jonathan Jolette, was officially announced at the June 10 midget draft, though both sides were talking about it after Halifax’s season ended at the Memorial Cup. “It just came back to me in the last minute of the game,” said Reid, 19, who scored 124 points in 62 games this past season. “It was pretty emotional. I didn’t want to get off the ice.” Reid, one of the league’s most explosive players, was…
Nine Things You Need To Know About Rocket
1 BIRTH OF THE ROCKET Maurice Richard was bor006E Aug. 4,1921, and grew up in working class Montreal, the eldest of eight children, son of a railway worker, Onesime, and his wife, Alice. Though a prolific scorer at a young age, Richard was not a boyhood legend of the super-hyped Wayne Gretzky or Bobby Orr variety. Richard actually took boxing lessons in his mid-teens to compensate for his slight stature. He eventually was directed to one of the Canadiens’ junior teams, the Verdun Maple Leafs, and his success there led to two seasons with the senior Montreal Royals. Richard was first assigned number 15 with the Canadiens in 1942-43, and he wore it for 16 games before a broken ankle ended his rookie season. The next year it was Rocket’s play that…
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