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October 1, 2002
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INTERMISSION
NHL TRANSACTIONS Transactions include NHL personnel moves from September 14-20. ANAHEIM Sept. 18 Chuck Fletcher named GM of Cincinnati (AHL). ATLANTA Sept. 16 Lane Manson, 0, returned to Moose Jaw (WHL). Greg Black, RW, returned to Seattle (WHL). Charles Linglet, RW, returned to Bale-Comeau (QMJHL). Sept. 19: David Kaczowka, LW, Andreas Karlsson, C, Derek Mackenzie, C, Judd Medak, LW, Krzysztof Wieckowski, C. Dallas Eakins, D, Paul Flache, D, Luke Sellars, D, Libor Ursturnl, D, Michael Garnett, G, and Norm Maracle, G, assigned to Chicago (AHL). BOSTON Sept. 19: Peter Hamerlik, G, Adam Hauser, G, Kevin Dallman, D, Peter Metcalf, D, Keith Aucoin, F, Carl Corazzini, C, Jeff Giuliano, F, Paul Harvey, RW, Pat Leahy, RW, Chris Paradise, RW, and Darren Van Dene, LW, assigned to Providence (AHL). BUFFALO Sept. 16 Daniel Paille, LW, returned to Guelph (OHL). Michael Tessier,…
Capitals eye fast start
The Washington Capitals will have more success this season than last because of the lessons that have been painfully learned after a thoroughly disappointing 2001-02 campaign that can only be described as a total failure. The reason is simple. Bruce (Butch) Cassidy, the Capitals’ first-year coach, will not allow a festering situation to reach the point of no return, as happened last season. Cassidy, who has demonstrated he is far more open and communicative with his players that any Washington coach of the past two decades, appears to have the sense to recognize when the ship is sinking, and get his players together behind closed doors to have a heart-to-heart talk. It is amazing what a little dialogue will accomplish. Last season the players, left clueless about most matters until they happened,…
Help arrives for Kariya
Paul Kariya smiled. He smiles a lot these days, in the dressing room and on the ice. The sight of Adam Oates, not to mention Petr Sykora and Fredrik Olausson, has put the giddyup back in Kariya’s step. Aside from his role in Team Canada’s gold medal performance in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Kariya hasn’t had much to smile about the past three years. Neither has anyone else in Anaheim, where the Mighty Ducks have gone from being one of the most promising expansion teams in league history to being among the NHL’s most pitiful laughingstocks. With former coach Bryan Murray replacing dictatorial GM Pierre Gauthier–who was booted after last season’s miserable 29-42-8-3 effort–the Ducks seem to be headed in the right direction. Murray signed free agents Oates…
Atlanta looking for W’s
The fact that the Atlanta Thrashers’ annual win • total has gone from 14 to 23 to 19 in three seasons would lead most bottom-line observers to ask,”So where is the progress?” And until there’s significant improvement in the standings, Atlanta GM Don Waddell won’t go looking for a debate. But there is at least one area in which “improvement” can be gauged. “(Ilya) Kovalchuk just bought a $140,000 Mercedes V-something, so his neighbor (Dany Heatley) had to go buy a Porsche 911,” Waddell said. “The first year in the parking lot, we had a lot of Fords and Chevys. The parking lot has been upgraded.” Problem is, the Thrashers will have to go beyond giving fans a tour of their players’ fleet of. luxury cars if they want to appease the Thrashers’…
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