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April 12, 2005
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Bullies’ Mather can taste post-season
shawn Mather thought his chance to participate in an ECHL playoff run had eluded him for one more frustrating season. Forgive the high-scoring center from Chatham, Ont., for feeling snake-bit when it comes to the post-season. Three years ago in his first pro season, Mather and the New Orleans Brass dropped a one-game play-in to Jackson. In his second season, Mather joined the Johnstown Chiefs, who missed the playoffs. Last year, the Chiefs had a team record 97 points, only to finish fourth in the North Division. The Chiefs lost a one-game play-in against fifth-place Reading, a team 13 points behind Johnstown. The Chiefs fell out of contention down the stretch this year and Mather was destined for another early spring, but that changed when Atlantic City acquired him for future considerations March…
Making the Cut
Gary, we shrunk your league. We shrunk you out of Carolina and Florida and Phoenix and a dozen other fairweather hotspots that 40 years ago didn’t know a hockey puck from a Hooters girl, and were evidently no worse off for their ignorance. We shrunk you out of Philly and Edmonton and Vancouver and Buffalo, too, nice places and fine hockey towns all-but to be included in this exercise, you’ve got to be an Original. That Retro Issue If you can make it in this league, you can make it anywhere We shrunk the league back to the days of six teams and three lines and two-minute shifts, to an era of straight sticks and gap-toothed goalie grins. And we’ve got dispiriting news for a few of today’s would-be superstars who were unmasked in…
IIHF’s Fasel issues warnina
Concerned about escalating violence in European leagues, I nternational Ice Hockey Federation president Rene Fasel is calling for players to exhibit restraint before another Todd Bertuzzi-like incident occurs-or worse. In a recent editorial on the IIHF website, Fasel says he believes the sport’s image is taking a beating because of nearly daily occurrences of violence and “sickening incidents” that are leading to severe injuries. “The atmosphere around the playoffs is starting to resemble the one at a wildwest saloon where unshaved men are exercising frontier justice,” Fasel writes. “Instead of going to their best players to make them score or execute the perfect play, many coaches give unwarranted ice time to the so-called ‘character guys’ whose only objective is to take out the skilful player.” IIHF media relations manager Szymon Szemberg says his…
TWO MINUTES IN THE BOX
DAVE SCHULTZ Start the clock… What’s the funniest practical joke you’ve seen? “I was with L.A., and as one of my teammates was reading the newspaper on the bus, another guy snuck up on him and lit the thing on fire. The bus driver was less than pleased with us.” Worst motivational line a coach used on you? “One coach used to tell the guys, ‘Go up hard, come down harder.’ What that was supposed to do for us, I’m still not sure.” Best trash talk you’ve heard over the years? “My old teammate Andre Dupont had some classics. One time, he told Butch Deadmarsh, ‘You’re dead, marsh.’ I liked that one.” Your hockey hero growing up? “Dave Keon. Believe it or not, I used to have offensive skills; Dave was the type of player I wanted to be.” Funniest…
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