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March 29, 2005
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Aeros defend title
The Toronto Aeros won their second consecutive title at a Canadian women’s championship tournament that had more controversy than organizers would have liked. Jennifer Botterill’s goal with 1:14 remaining was the difference in a 2-1 win over the Brampton Thunder in Sarnia March 13. As host province, Ontario was per-mitted to ice two teams in the tournament, which got off to a rocky start when big-name players expressed unhappiness over its format. Deriding the event as little more than “a beer-drinking party,” national team captain Cassie Campbell told the Toronto Star she was disappointed in organizers’ unwillingness to address player concerns about competitive balance. The tournament features strong club teams playing against less talented “all-star” teams. “It is unfortunate, but we want to make a point,” said Campbell, who also plays for the Calgary…
Second debut a sweet one for Bronco Erickson
Western Michigan junior Mike Erickson’s trip to the CCHA was a long one. The Eden Prairie, Mirm. native’s career started like a dream: he scored in his college debut with Minnesota in 2001, was a member of the Golden Gophers national title squad that season and was drafted 72nd overall by Minnesota in 2002. But a broken ankle halfway through his freshman season set Erickson back and he had trouble cracking the lineup his sophomore year. “I was living a Minnesota kid’s dream,” Erickson said. “Things were going well until I got hurt. Minnesota has such great depth and I didn’t like sitting on the bench. I knew I could be a Division I player so 1 went back to junior and started the recruiting process again.” After a year with Des Moines (USHL),…
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ACROSS 1 ‘The Great One’s’ first NHL club 4 A minor sends a player to the box for four minutes 9 Legendary coach ‘The Cat’ 10 Undeserved goal 11 All goalies wear protector: 12 Georges is a great fighter 13 Dallas player 15 Unmarked 18 Ron helped the Leafs win three Cups in the 1960s 21 Number retired by the Bruins 23 Line up 24 Jittery 25 Beginners are said to skate on them 26 Cup awarded in Canada based on three-star selections DOWN 1 A team’s executives are its front 2 Retire 3 Ex-Rangers’ goalie Mike 5 Bid 6 He wore 77 in Boston 7 ‘Mess’s 1 number 8 United States Hockey League: abbr. 14 Pictured, was in goal for the Soviets in 1972 15 The 0 in OHL 16 An OHL city 17 Al was Caps’ netminder in the 1980s 19 60s Ranger Brown 20 The other Esposito 22 Shares lodgings with a teammate, with…
Top option to NHL lockout is NHL back on the ice
The Hockey News FROM THE EDITORS few words of advice to players hopeful that North American alternatives to the NHL will suddenly burst onto the scene, like flowers in springtime: Don’t believe the hype. If a new league were easy to pull together it would have been done a year ago at this time, before fans became thoroughly disgusted with NHL players and owners alike. That it didn’t happen wasn’t due to a lack of effort. The reborn World Hockey Association tried to get off the ground last October. It failed. The Original Stars League had the more modest goal of providing NHLers with a place to play as long as the lockout lasted. It failed. Another Canada-based start-up attempt with an intended start in the fall of 2003, putatively named the Federal Hockey…
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