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December 1, 2000
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Ouellet flying high, just not in NHL (yet)
Maxime Ouellet has a lot of things going for him, but maybe his biggest talent is his ability to see the big picture. The 19-year-old goalie is back in the Quebec League after starting the season with the Philadelphia Flyers. Refreshingly, he has a mature understanding of why that’s not such a bad thing. “I was a bit upset to leave the NHL, but when they sent me to the Philadelphia Phantoms (American League) for conditioning, I knew that was the beginning of me coming back to junior,” said the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies’ stopper. “But that’s what I was expecting when I went there in August.’ Drafted 22nd overall by Philadelphia in 1999, Ouellet realized goalies often arrive in the NHL later than skaters. With that in the back of his mind as…
Out until December, playmaker Pettersen lucky
NOTEBOOK Lars Pettersen is one lucky Lynx. True, the 23-year-old Augusta center probably wasn’t feeling too fortunate after being sidelined until at least mid-December with a severe shoulder separation suffered in a game against the Florida Everblades in early November. But Pettersen, who tied for third in East Coast League scoring last year, knows he can count his blessings. A week before the injury, the Okotoks, Alta., native suffered a spinal cord injury and was temporarily paralyzed below the waist after a collision in a game against South Carolina. “When something like that happens, you’re not thinking about playing again, you’re thinking about walking again,” said Pettersen, who had not missed a game since the Lynx began play in Augusta in 1998-99, playing 147 consecutive games until the injury. In February, 1999, Pettersen made headlines…
Spartans’ Mason legend in own time
Michigan State’s Ron Mason is in the 35th season of his “temporary” career as a college coach. It was 1966 and Mason had finished his master’s degree at the University of Pittsburgh and was in the midst of pursuing a doctorate when he decided he needed a break from academia. He looked at the employment landscape and decided coaching might be a short-term fit while he recharged his battery before tackling yet another intellectual pursuit. “I thought I would still end up getting my PhD at Pittsburgh and end up being a professor or something else,” Mason says. When Mason decided to take a job at Lake Superior State in 1966-67, he certainly couldn’t have envisioned that at the start of the 21st century he would still be coaching and would own more…
Gilbert: Retired Ranger still earning assists
Legendary New York Ranger Rod Gilbert set a franchise record of 615 career assists over a 16-year career flying up and down the right wing for Broadway’s Blueshirts. And though his Hall of Fame career ended in 1978, the 59-year-old Gilbert is still collecting assists. Working with the Rangers as director of community relations, he organizes and attends programs for disadvantaged school children. “We entertain them in the gym with street hockey, talk to them about developing dreams and a capacity to learn and to grow up to be good citizens.” Gilbert is also president of the New York Rangers’ players’ alumni association, helping out former Rangers who’ve fallen on hard times. The Montreal native lives in New York City with his wife Judy Together they enjoy travelling to far-flung destinations in Europe and the…
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