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September 22, 2000
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Suhonen anxious to begin in challenging NHL theatre
Alpo Suhonen, new coach of the Chicago Black hawks, is itching to get started on what he called the biggest challenge of his life. He has coached for 30 years, including 1,500 games in Europe and more than 300 as an assistant in the NHL and is finally getting a commander’s shot in the world’s top league. “The last lime I had the same kind of summer with an impatient feeling like this was when I was waiting to coach the Finnish national team,” Suhonen said. “The coming work keeps coming into my mind more than normally. I’m wondering what’s going to happen to me? How am I going to react?” Suhonen planned to draw on his experience as a director in Finnish theatre, which he feels has helped make him a better…
Madden anxious to repay club for his good fortune
John Madden felt like he had won the lottery, but was afraid to claim his winnings. Informed by his agent. Bill Zito, an unusual clause in his contract allowed the New Jersey Devils center to ask for a lucrative $7 million extension, Madden wondered if his sudden financial leverage might anger Lou Lamoriello and inspire the GM to trade him. “Considering how good the Devils have been to me, I was thinking: ‘Is this the right thing to do?’” Madden said. “I have morals. But my agent explained that if the shoe were on the other foot, the Devils would have used the leverage.” In his rookie season, Madden scored 16 goals in 74 games and played through a serious knee injury in the playoffs. Because he and fellow rookie Brian Rafalski were…
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So, what do you think is in store for the NHL in 2000-01? Questions abound prior to the drop of the puck every season, but there are several especially juicy topics waiting to be debated this year: □ Can Alexei Yashin and the Ottawa Senators co-exist? Does either party even want to? □ Will the Messier-Sather reunion in New York rally the Rangers? Or is the stage set for another Broadway flop? □ Is star-crossed Eric Lindros destined for disappointment? And just where is the oft-concussed all-star going to play? □ Can superstars Paul Kariya and Teemu Selanne lift the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim into the playoffs? □ Do the Dallas Stars have enough gas left for another run at the Stanley Cup? And if they get to the final, will the New Jersey Devils…
Preds’ prospects wing it with NHL job in sights
It’s clear the fast track to Nashville for the club’s youngest prospects is on the wing. Scott Hartnell, Denis Arkhipov, Jonas Andersson, Martin Bartek, Martin Erat and Konstantin Panov are getting lots of attention as the team prepares for training camp. All of them have played the wing at some point in their young careers. “We would like to have a little more size along the wall,” said coach Barry Trotz “That’s where there may be an opportunity for some of the younger-players to push our veterans. “ GM David Poile already has suggested Hartnell is ahead of where David Legwand was in 1998 in terms of being ready to play in the NHL in the same year he was drafted. Andersson might be the fastest straight-line skater in the system. And he has…
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