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May 18, 2004
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’Company man’ Torchetti willing to stick around
Call John Torchetti a “company man” and you wouldn’t be original. The first guy to say that about Torchetti, the Florida Panthers’ interim head coach at the end of the season, would be Torchetti himself. That’s why he figures if he’s not the Panthers’ next permanent top man, he could be an assistant under former Ottawa Senators coach Jacques Martin, with whom the Panthers talked about the job. “That’s what I’ve always been,” Torchetti said. “That’s what I signed on to be. I’ve just taken over on an interim basis.” Torchetti has head coaching experience at the minor pro level…When Roberto Luongo was named a finalist for the Vezina Trophy and the NHLPA’s Lester B. Pearson Award, it gave the Panthers another shot at their first elected NHL award winner.…
HOCKEY WORLD IN BRIEF
DANTON PLEADS NOT GUILTY Mike Danton, the 23-year-old St. Louis Blues center, pleaded not guilty to federal charges of organizing a murder-for-hire plot May 5 at the U.S. District Court in East St. Louis, III. The arraignment came 17 days after Danton’s arrest in San Jose, the morning after the Blues’ elimination from the playoffs-a span he spent entirely in incarceration. At his first hearing, Danton did not look into the crowd. Blues teammates Doug Weight and Scott Mellanby attended. “He’s relieved because at least something is happening,” said Robert Haar, Danton’s St. Louis-based attorney. Haar had said earlier: “The events described in both the indictment and the complaint are inconsistent with the Mike Danton his friends and people close to him know. It is a bizarre and incomprehensible story.” Danton’s…
PLAYER POLL
Who do you think should be the coach of the year? The three finalists for the Jack Adams Award have their teams in the final four. No surprise, say NHL players. In a poll of 30 NHLers, one from each team, 12 (40 per cent) say Tampa’s John Tortorella should get the nod as coach of the year over Calgary’s Darryl Sutter and San Jose’s Ron Wilson. Players polled were not allowed to vote for their own coach. “The (Lightning) was always good, but they needed coaching and direction,” said San Jose’s Alyn McCauley. Phoenix’s Brent Johnson agrees: “I’ve heard great things about him. The season the Lightning have had speaks for itself.” “They’ve been awesome in every way,” said Pittsburgh’s Tom Kostopoulos. “They don’t trap it up like so many other teams.” “(Sutter) turned around…
Madden’s Selke candidacy counts as sweet surprise
Selke finalist John Madden said his numbers don’t reflect his performance this season with the New Jersey Devils. Madden was plus-7 in 80 games with 12 goals and 35 points. “I think I had a good season. I played well, but then one or two bad games took away from my numbers,” he said. “It’s an honor to be among the finalists this year, but it came as a surprise. I don’t think I had the same kind of year I had when I won it (in 2001). I was able to shut down some top scorers that year and I didn’t have many bad games."…The Devils and Pat Burns chose to keep the coach’s treatment for colon cancer private. GM Lou Lamoriello did not offer updates on Burns’s condition……
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