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June 1, 2005
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Pittsburgh Malones produce for Penguins
At 23 and in his fourth NHL season, Greg Malone was the leader of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the late 1970s. It was the pre-Mario Lemieux days in west Pennsylvania and while their expansion cousin Philadelphia Flyers were in the midst of 16 winning seasons, the baby-blue Pens looked upon .500 as the holy grail. Malone was Pittsburgh’s go-to player in more ways than one. He led the Pens with 35 goals and 65 points in 1978-79. Early the next season, he was on constant call to go-to the hospital. Diana Malone was due to give birth to the couple’s first child in early November, 1979. Before every road game, Greg had an escape plan in every city. He wrote down the details of each Pittsburgh-bound flight from that city that day.…
PLUS MINUS
Best of the Hockey World OH, WHAT A KNIGHT The invincible London Knights skunk Rimouski 4-0 in the final to win the Memorial Cup championship. SID THE KID Rimouski’s Sidney Crosby, 17, is named top player in the Canadian Hockey League for a second straight season. KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT Junior call-ups Jeff Carter (17-12-7-19) and Mike Richards (10-5-8-13) carry the Philly Phantoms to the AHL final. Worst of the Hockey World BAD BOYE Providence’s Brad Boyes and Philadelphia’s Mike Richards and Ben Eager each suspended one AHL playoff game for brawling. STAR TREATMENT Whether it’s the Stanley Cup or Memorial Cup, it seems as though fringe players get preferential treament over the stars. TIME TABLE The Canadian Hockey League needs a system that allows both Memorial Cup finalists to be rested for the one-game showdown.…
Stop whipping the ’Canes
RALEIGH, N.C. In the absence of the NHL as we know it, I hockey fans have been asked to swallow some I spurious facts about the state of the game. One assertion that owners, players and the media seem to agree on is that we’re in this fix because teams like the Carolina Hurricanes play in bad markets. But here’s the dirty little secret the hockey cognoscenti doesn’t want you to know: Not only is Raleigh a neat little hockey market that could be a model for the rest of the league, but this lockout probably won’t help the Hurricanes nearly as much as it hurts them. If you take the words of Hurricanes officials at face value, even a $31-million salary cap would leave the team looking for millions of dollars in…
When deal is done…
In Bob Goodenow’s world, summer – any summer – is for sabre-ratting and statcrunching and shoring up support. Summer has blue skies and not a deadline that matters to be found. As a general rule, you only make nice in the summer if the other side is giving up the farm. Funny, but that’s the one thing we know for certain isn’t happening. Goodenow never bought all this talk about the revenue hit from lost season ticket sales and corporate sponsorships if things dragged on until September or January, for all the difference it makes. He believed big markets would recover from the lockout almost immediately. Some smaller markets might be in trouble, but they were in trouble to start with; if they lose another 10 or 20 per cent, what’s…
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