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May 24, 2005
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UNITED STATES LEAGUE
Mark Carlson has been the only coach the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders have ever had in six seasons. Winger Ted Purcell is on his third team in three years. While the former has been a constant and the latter a hired marksman, the two blended brilliantly this spring as the RoughRiders claimed their first USHL playoff title with a thrilling five-game win over the Sioux City Musketeers. Three games were decided by one goal and two went into overtime. Purcell, a St. John’s, Nfld., native and former Notre Dame Hound, was Cedar Rapids’ scoring star. Off to Maine next year, the 19-year-old Purcell led Cedar Rapids in playoff scoring with five goals and 14 points in 11 games. College-bound goalie Alex Stalock made his mark when it counted, going 72 with a .950 save…
PLUS MINUS
Best of the Hockey World NO. 1 The Czech Republic captures its fifth World Championship gold in 10 years, shutting out and shutting down Canada in convincing fashion. NO. 2 A year after being cut from Sudbury, Benoit Pouliot has a mammoth season on his way to earning No. 2 status among ‘05 draft prospects. HERE! HERE! Tough guy Tie Domi has had enough and says if Bettman and Goodenow can’t get a deal done, they should be replaced. Worst of the Hockey World BLIND EYE The IIHF sets a bad precedent in not suspending Canada’s Rick Nash after he hooked a ref and shoved a linesman. PLAYOFF POUT With all due respect to the World Championship, the NHL playoffs is the hockey we’d rather be seeing in spring. GERMANY RELEGATED Now that the Germans are in the…
Forgotten ’72 silver
Over the years, they’ve gotten used to being the forgotten ones. As the U.S. celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice this year, a group of players in the background of sports history is part of what may be the greatest hockey story never told: the 1972 U.S. Olympic team. They didn’t perform miracles, but under coach Murray Williamson, the boys of ’72 brought American hockey into the modern era. “A lot of people don’t realize it, but Murray Williamson was really the forerunner, the principal who changed the concept of training in the U.S.,” said goalie Mike ‘Lefty’ Curran, who was a member of the 1969 U.S. team that got shellacked by the Soviets, 17-2, at the World Championship in Stockholm. At first glance, the ’72 team he captained, the…
Players now willing to number crunch
When the NHL released the Levitt Report study into NHL finances in February of 2004, the NHL Players’ Association called it a sham and refused to discuss it. That both the players and league have delved into the nitty-gritty of the report over several weeks of meetings shows how far along the wide ideological gap that once divided them the players have been forced to travel. A year ago the players’ union maintained that, white it disputed the NHL’s financial numbers, team revenues weren’t relevant in any case to the broader framework of a “market-based” collective bargaining agreement. Now, as the union has implicitly acknowledged, revenues and calculation of team payrolls will be an integral part of the salary cap world to come. The full contingents of the NHL and the union met for…
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