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May 4, 2004
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Staois has change of heart
Steve Staios’s first reaction was “thanks, but no thanks.” The Oilers had just been bumped from the final playoff spot when Team Canada called and a devastated Staios was in no mood for hockey. After taking a few days to cool off, he knew he had to go. “I was just such a wreck at the end of the season, especially emotionally,” said Staios, making his third straight trip to the World Championship. “But after a few days I decided I didn’t want to have any regrets at the end of my career and not going when I’d been asked to play for my country would have been one of them."…Oilers governor Cal Nichols says the team is putting all its hopes in a new collective bargaining agreement: “If we…
The Eagle’ soars
Moments after his team had eliminated Ottawa from the playoffs for the fourth time in five years and about an hour before his 39th birthday goalie Ed Belfour sits in the quiet confines of an equipment room in the basement of Toronto’s Air Canada Centre and calmly revels in the glory that is all his. And why not? He beat the Senators. Many, including The Hockey News, chose Ottawa to win the Stanley Cup this season, but Belfour would have no part of it. Say what you will about the Leafs pulling together as a group with Mats Sundin and Owen Nolan out with injuries and speedy Alexander Mogilny hampered by a tragically sore hip, it was Belfour’s spectacular play that was responsible for setting off a wild, somewhat embarrassing celebration in…
State legislators consider arena deal
Pennsylvania lawmakers have taken an interest in a $160-million arena plan proposed by Sports Finance & Management Group of Los Angeles. State representative Frank Dermody wanted to study the proposal, which would build the arena with private funds. “We ought to determine whether or not they can do what they say they can do,” Dermody said. SFMG would lease the arena to the Pens, who have questioned the plan because, among other things, it doesn’t include adequate luxury boxes. Besides which, SFMG and team officials hadn’t yet spoken.. .Marc-Andre Fleury’s debut with Wilkes-Barre (AHL) didn’t go well. Fleury gave up five goals on 21 shots in a 5-4 loss to Bridgeport in Game 2 of the first round series…The Pens are believed to be targeting Russian center Evgenii Malkin with…
Hockey hiatus helps Hajt
The most important year in Bill Hajt’s hockey career was one in which he didn’t even play. Four days into his first training camp after being drafted 33rd overall (in 1971) by the Buffalo Sabres, the rugged defenseman from the Western League’s Saskatoon Blades decided to take a year off from the sport he loved. “It was a combination of being homesick and intimidated,” said Hajt, a Radisson, Sask., native. “During that year off I went to school and got married. It was the turning point in my life.” The following year Hajt returned to the Sabres and played two seasons for Xtheir American League affiliate in Cleveland. He made the jump to the bIHL in 1974-75 a season that turned out to be one of his most memorable. As a rookie…