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July 1, 2000
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Chairman of the boards
Chris Pronger wasn’t the least bit surprised when Pittsburgh Penguins’ right winger Jaromir Jagr was named winner of the Lester B. Pearson Award. “Are you kidding?” Pronger said. “Hell, I voted for him.” Jagr captured his second straight Pearson Award June 15, presented annually to the NHL’s outstanding player as voted by members of the NHL Players’ Association. Jagr’s most impressive feat in 1999-2000 was winning his third straight scoring title—and fourth of his career-despite playing just 63 games. The 28-year-old native of the Czech Republic was equally dangerous in the playoffs, scoring eight goals (four game-winners) and 16 points in 11 games, all while playing through a nagging groin injury. For the ninth time in the Pearson’s 30-year history—but the first since 1989—the winner of the Pearson did not claim the Hart Trophy…
Philadelphia Freedom?
He stood before the world, tears rolling down his cheeks that June, 1995, night in Toronto and told fans in Philadelphia it was only going to get better. Eric Lindros had cause to be optimistic that evening. At 22, he was poised to take over from Mario Lemieux and Wayne Gretzky as The Next One. In only his third season, Lindros had led the Flyers to the Eastern Conference final and earned the Hart Trophy as league MVP in the process. But it never got better. It only got worse. Over the next five years, there were more valleys than peaks for the franchise player. Even his finest accomplishment-powering the Flyers to the 1997 Stanley Cup final-ended in acrimony. The Flyers were swept by Detroit and Lindros made no secret of his contempt…
New Colts’ coach vows ‘zero tolerance’ to be enforced
Bud Stefanski took no time laying down the law after being named coach of the Ontario League champion Barrie Colts June 27. “We’re going to have the attitude of zero tolerance,” said Stefanski, who signed a one-year contract. “For any player who wants to play for this organization, it’s a privilege and not a right. Anyone who doesn’t want to abide by that, he can look for a new address.” Stefanski, 45, was promoted from assistant coach. He replaces Bill Stewart, who resigned June 15. Mike McCann, a scout for the Colts since they entered the league in 1995, was promoted to GM. McCann was acting GM after Stewart was stripped of those duties by OHL commissioner David Branch in January. Stewart twice smuggled 17-year-old Ukrainian Vladimir Chernenko across the Canada-U.S. border in the luggage…
Sauvageau behind bench for Canada’s 2002 team
Daniele Sauvageau has turned in her gun for a whistle. Sauvageau was named coach of Canada’s national women’s team through the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The announcement, made June 22, gives the Montreal police officer her second chance at guiding the six-time defending world champions. Sauvageau was an assistant coach to Shannon Miller at the 1997 World Championship and the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, where Canada finished second to the United States. She was also the head coach for Team Canada at the 1999 World Championship. And last season, Sauvageau became the first woman coach in Canadian Hockey League history when she was named an assistant with the Quebec League’s expansion Montreal Rocket. Melody Davidson, who coached Canada to its most recent gold at the worlds, last April…
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