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December 7, 2004
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EYE ON EUROPE
Future and former NHLers are playing in Europe this season. Here are four such players with NHL rights in parentheses: • Ladislav Kohn, 29, RW (free agent). A veteran of 176 NHL games and a Stanley Cup winner with Detroit in 2001-02, Kohn leads all scorers on Espoo of the Finnish league with nine goals and 23 points in 22 games. • Martin Gelinas, 34, LW (Calgary). Gelinas, who has played 1,052 NHL games, is with Morges of the Swiss second league, where he leads the team with 18 goals as well as 28 points in 16 games. • Yan Stastny, 22, C (Boston). The son of legendary Slovak center Peter Stastny and picked 259th overall in 2002 by Boston, Yan Stastny has a team-high 19 points in 18 games with Nurnberg of…
Walk-on Curry steals top spot in Terriers goal
John Curry was an unknown at the start of 2004-05. But Boston University’s recruited walk-on (non-scholarship) goaltender isn’t an unknown anymore. Curry won the starting job after Stephan Siwiec and Karson Gillespie struggled in their debuts. Curry made 12 saves and didn’t allow a goal in a mop-up role against Michigan (7-2 loss) and then made 24 saves in his first start, a 4-1 win over Vermont. He was 5-1-0 with a 2.15 goals-against average and. 915 save percentage as the Terriers surged to the top of the Hockey East standings. “Coming in, I had high expectations,” Curry said. “I knew I could play at this level…I was pretty determined.” His performances against Michigan and Vermont further fueled his confidence and he is quick to point out that his teammates’ strong defensive work has…
Hockey’s unwritten code
It was a one-sided game in the mid-1990s between the Northeast Division-rival Buffalo Sabres and Montreal Canadiens. Pat LaFontaine was at his freewheeling best and the Sabres were running up the score. As the Habs’ frustrations mounted, so did the frustration inside rugged Montreal blueliner Lyle Odelein. His rage burned for an outlet. Odelein’s solution to the problem was obvious, at least to him: it was time to tango. He figured the Sabres owed him that much. Problem was, Buffalo coach Ted Nolan believec otherwise. Shift after shift, Odelein would get on the ice only to find Rob Ray and Brad May and Matthew Barnaby stapled to the Buffalo bench. Both teams knew there was no way Odelein would go after any of the Sabres’ more skilled or less physical players; that would be…
NHL TEAM REPORTS
EURO NHLers There are 255 NHL-proven players who are in Europe, according to the International Ice Hockey Federation’s website in late November. Atlanta has the most players overseas, with 15 Thrashers in Europe. Four NHL teams have just five players in Euro leagues. St. Louis Blues right winger Eric Boguniecki is racking up the air miles this season. Boguniecki scored five goals (and added 47 penalty minutes) in 10 games with Langenthal in Switzerland’s ‘B’ league before transferring to Nurnberg in Germany’s elite league in early November. Boguniecki, 29, was born in New Haven, Conn., spent four seasons at the University of New Hampshire and was drafted by the Blues in the sixth round (193rd overall) in 1993. St. Louis didn’t sign him, though, and his first NHL glimpse was a four-game stint…
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