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December 6, 2002
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Mayers gone for year as Injury woes mount
Call it the curse of the No. 1. The moment a Blues player even approaches being the best at his role on the team, he tumbles to injury. Like No.l goalie Brent Johnson, No. 1 defenseman Chris Pronger and No. 1 forward Keith Tkachuk before him, Jamal Mayers sustained an injury just as he was making strides towards being the Blues’ top faceoff man and penalty-killer. Rewarded for their play in a 5-0 loss to Edmonton, Mayers and his linemates were out on the power play when, with less than 90 seconds remaining, a teammate fell on Mayers’ leg. Two ligaments in his right knee were shorn and there was significant cartilage damage, ending Mayers’ season. It halts what had been the best stretch of his career, and coach Joel Quenneville said he…
Inability to score goals has Canes concerned
The Carolina Hurricanes are 8-0-3-0 in games when they score more than one goal. It’s hard to figure out what’s more shocking about that - the statistic itself, or the fact Carolina has scored more than one goal in only 11 of 20 games. After appearing to find a new scoring touch in a 4-4 tie with Ottawa Nov. 19 to end a nine-game homestand, the Canes headed out on the road and scored only one goal in a 3-1 loss to Boston ending an 11-game streak with at least one point. By the time the Boston game was over, Jeff O’Neill, Carolina’s leading goal-scorer the past three seasons, had been taken off Ron Francis’s right wing and dropped to the third line. O’Neill has scored once in nine games, after scoring once…
Visorless Hnidy lucky following eye scare
Ottawa Senators defenseman Shane Hnidy was lucky Just as the Senators were wrapping up their morning skate Nov. 21 at the Corel Centre with a fun rebound drill they’ve done a thousand times, the day turned into a nightmare as a puck accidently deflected directly into Hnidy’s eye. While the Senators later learned Hnidy isn’t going to lose any vision after being rushed to Ottawa Hospital to stop the bleeding in and around his eye, the incident before they faced Montreal was hard for everybody involved. “I was on the ice when it happened and the scariest part was his reaction when it took place,” said assistant coach Perry Pearn. “He went down and he said: ‘I’m blind…I’m blind.’ When it happened everybody on the ice just stopped.” Hnidy is one of nine…
UNITED LEAGUE
The UHL’s attempt to speed up games has worked too well. Games are 14 minutes shorter this season, which has left many teams scrambling to find time for all their radio commercials and announcements. As a result, the league has instituted a one-minute timeout after the first whistle following the 10minute mark of every period to let teams catch up on announcements. Games have been shortened by speeding up faceoffs and by allowing only the starting lineups to take the ice after the first and second intermissions.…
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