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June 28, 2002
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2002 STANLEY CUP FINAL
GAME 1 at Detroit TUES. JUNE 4, 2002 OVERTIME WINNING GOAL Ron Francis 0:58 OT Carolina shocks Detroit with OT win Given the wackiness and unpredictability of this year’s playoffs, perhaps the result in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final shouldn’t have been a surprise. But when Ron Francis scored 58 seconds into overtime, the thought that the upstart Hurricanes could win the Cup, not just compete for it, didn’t seem so strange. With Detroit attempting to become the first team to win nine straight games in the final since the 1981-83 Islanders, things appeared on course when Sergei Fedorov gave the Wings a 1-0 lead at 15:21 of the first period. The Canes tied it at 3:30 of the second period with the Wings two men short as Dominik Hasek surrendered his first goal in 143:40 on…
Plays of the Playoffs
Success can be measured in many different ways. Come NHL playoff time, a good indicator is facial hair length. Mere stubble is the sign of a first-rounder, the unkempt look indicates a second-rounder, a full growth is a giveaway for a third-rounder and Grizzly Adams lookalikes are Stanley Cup finalists. Despite the assortment of beards, goatees and van dykes, there were plenty of close shaves and great saves in the 2002 playoffs. Here is our list of the top 10 plays of the post-season. 1. OLD AND WISE Detroit at Carolina, Game 3, June 8: Calling it the biggest goal of his career, Red Wings center Igor Larionov ends the third longest game in playoff history when he beats Arturs Irbe with a high shot at 14:47 of the third overtime period. Larionov…
Beating Maple Leafs on top of wish list
Determined to make the next step, the Ottawa Senators are spending the summer trying to find a way to do it. While they had playoff success by knocking off the Philadelphia Flyer in the first-round, the Senators couldn’t get past the hated Toronto Maple Leafs and now they’ve got to find the pieces to the puzzle to make it work. THREE BURNING QUESTIONS 1. Can Radek Bonk be a No. 1 centre? Yes, he had 25 goals and 70 points last season, but didn’t show up in the playoffs and the Senators have to decide whether to move him to get a bonafide top man. Headed for arbitration for a new contract, the Senators could decide they want to go in a different direction. 2. Will Jacques Martin take the Senators to the next…
Rocket relocation still on front burner
Lift-off is not coming easily for the Montreal Rocket. The owners of the third-year franchise are anxious to relocate the team, but two attempted moves have stalled on the launch pad. The Rocket first tried to transfer to Charlottetown, P.E.I., but Quebec League commissioner Gilles Courteau wouldn’t approve it. Courteau cited an informal “first-right of refusal” for the Sherbrooke Castors to move to Charlottetown next year and the Jr. A Charlottetown Abbies’s plans to host the 2003 Royal Bank Cup national chamipionship as the primary obstacles. Less than three weeks after the Charlottetown bid failed, the Rocket made a tentative deal to move to Cornwall, Ont. But the Ontario League’s refusal to transfer territorial drafting rights within a 50-kilometer radius of the Eastern Ontario town to the QM JHL torpedoed the transfer. The club…
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