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March 15, 2005
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UNITED STATES LEAGUE
While attending the game between the Indiana Ice and the Sioux City Musketeers - played before a USHL record crowd of 14,892 fans at the Conseco Fieldhouse, home to the NBA’s Indiana Pacers - league president Gino Gasparini couldn’t hide his glee. Yet he used the event to issue a chal lenge to his other UHSL teams at the same time. - “What a night,” said Gasparini of ‘Pack the House Night,’ which raised $30,000 for local charities. “The entire USHL can learn from this…and I would like to see all of our franchises use this event as a model of their own.” The Chicago Steel will try and do just that March 19, when it hosts the Des Moines Buccaneers at the United Center, home to the NHL Chicago Blackhawks. The Steel had…
Brown Impresses Monarchs, Kings
After the NHL season officially was canceled, Kings GM Dave Taylor hit the road for a scouting trip. “We’re still staying busy,” Taylor said, “but the atmosphere certainly is different.” Taylor said he was encouraged by the play of right winger Dustin Brown at Manchester (AHL). Brown, the team’s top pick (13th overall) in the 2003 draft, is playing at a point-a-game pace and displaying the physical style that landed him a roster spot with the Kings at the beginning of last season. He missed most of last season with a sprained right ankle, but has been healthy this year. NOTEBOOK The Kings’AHL affiliate in Manchester has remained atop its division all season, often without many of its best players. Four players returned in early March, however - left wingers Ryan Flinn and Tom…
The Chiefs a scary, sad ride
If you get to see only one hilarious, heartbreaking movie about a real-life, Slap Shot-like team in the Quebec semi-pro league this year, don’t miss The Chiefs. The documentary, which already has garnered awards in four different film festivals, chronicles the day-to-day drama that comes with playing in the infamous North American League (the same one Flyers enforcer Donald Brashear was banned from earlier this season). And whether you’re a fisticuffs fan or not, you won’t soon forget the plight of players who never will be mistaken for selfish, overpaid modern-day athletes. The movie centers on a handful of enforcers on the Laval Chiefs - and yes, the team wears the same jersey used in the Paul Newman cult classic—who live in a barely refurbished space underneath their arena’s bleachers. Bursting with bloodlust, the…
NOTEBOOK
There are rivalries, and then there is the Central League’s annual hate-fest between the Tulsa Oilers and the Oklahoma City Blazers. In the soap opera’s latest chapter, Oilers all-star defenseman Mario Joly picked up a 12-game suspension for an off-ice altercation with Blazers coach Doug Sauter following a game at Oklahoma City’s Ford Center in February. According to reports, Joly and Sauter got involved in a pushing match in the tunnel outside the players’ dressing rooms. The altercation was also described as a “fight.” Sauter, who said Joly was verbally harassing Blazer players, was fined an undisclosed amount. The second-longest penalty by the CHL this season forced Tulsa to play with one fewer man dressed during the first 10 games of the suspension.…
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