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September 9, 2003
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HOCKEY WORLD IN BRIEF
CANADIAN PLAYERS IN SWEDISH JAIL STOCKHOLM Two Canadian-born players from Germany’s top league are in a Swedish jail as they await possible rape charges. Brad Bergen, from Prince Albert, Sask., and Yvon Corriveau, from Welland, Ont., were pulled off the Eisbaren Berlin team bus as it was about to leave Tyringe, Swe., where the team was playing an exhibition game Aug. 23. The two players are accused of raping a 20-year-old Swedish woman in their hotel room. Under Swedish law, a suspect can be detained for two weeks in jail while an investigation continues. Corriveau, 36, played 280 NHL games for three teams until 1994. Both players have said they have not done anything wrong. AMERICANS WIN UNDER-17 TITLE PRIEVIDZA, Slo. The U.S. under-17 team won its second straight gold medal at…
NOTEBOOK
Two hockey veterans have bought majority ownership of the Lakeland (Fla.) Loggerheads and will be running the team’s front office. Rick Ladouceur, who last season was coach-GM-owner of the Jr. A Ottawa Senators, and Tony Zappia, who was coach-GM of the Jr. A Kanata (Ont.) Stallions, will run the team. Ladouceur will act as Lakeland’s coach-GM while Zappia will serve as director of operations and associate coach. “This is too good an opportunity to pass up,” said Ladouceur to the Ottawa Citizen. “I would hate to look back on it and say I gave up the chance.”…
SNAPSHOTS
From around the NHL NHL owners backed down from a salary cap in the 1994 collective bargaining negotiations because they believed it would cost the entire season. Jeremy Jacobs is vowing this time will be different. “There will be cost-certainty,” said the reclusive owner of the Boston Bruins, breaking a media silence of several years at a charity fund-raiser. “It will be very interesting when there is a cap and we all have to worry about the way we manage our teams.” Critics of Toronto’s imminent hiring of John Ferguson, Jr. should know this: 10 of the past 11 Stanley Cup-winning GMs had no previous NHL managing experience before building their eventual championship team. A battle in the corners we can’t wait to see: Jordan Tootoo versus Tuomo Ruutu. Pittsburgh’s oldest goalie under…
Pronger, Blues banking on D-man’s return to form
In summertime moves, the Blues subtracted considerable depth from the collection of scoring forwards and did little, if anything, to buttress the roster for those losses. Yet, it’s hard to ignore one addition: Chris Pronger. Should Pronger regain his form-not last season’s form, or even the season before, but his best-in-the-biz form-the Blues might survive their inert off-season. For the first time since the current management team arrived, they enter the season with a bona fide No. 1 goaltender in Chris Osgood. The Blues hope Osgood brings stability to the position and can channel his Detroit success. The Blues have not energized enthusiasm-inside or outside the rink—because cost-cutting is hard to sell, but with Jamal Mayers and Pronger returning there are flickers in the fans’ overtaxed optimism. PLAYERS TO WATCH 1. Chris Pronger,…
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