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December 19, 2006
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Kozlov kicks it up, son a tennis terror
DID YOU KNOW? At 34 and in his 15th NHL season, left winger Slava Kozlov is on a pace for a career season. Kozlov is tied with teammate Ilya Kovalchuk for ninth in the NHL in points with 34 in 29 games, but he has never recorded more than 73 in a season. (See cover story on pg. 16 for more on Kozlov.) The Russian attributes this to playing for Detroit teams that were loaded with talent. In fact, Kozlov did not even receive much time with the Thrashers’ first power play unit last season. But with the departure of Marc Savard, Kozlov has picked up much of the slack, as his 14 power play assists are tied for third in the NHL. Kozlov is an avid tennis player and his 10-year-old son,…
Blazing comeback the stuff of legend
There are thrilling last-second victories and then there’s what the Oklahoma City Blazers pulled off against the Laredo Bucks. Trailing 3-1 in a November game, Blazer center Gordon Bell scored with 14 seconds left in regulation. With less than one second to play, Blazer defenseman Mike Burgoyne tied the game. Then, 30 ticks into overtime, Blazer left winger Jared Dumba got the winner. That’s three goals in 44 seconds. Laredo coach Terry Ruskowski, in the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, described the ambush as “one of those stupid things that happened – it was just unbelievable.” Ironically, only 48 hours earlier, the Blazers had set a franchise record with three goals 47 seconds apart in a 5-4 win over Wichita.…
Multiple factors collide to form fog over Boston
Boston University’s Jack Parker and Boston College’s Jerry York have coached more than 2,300 games between them. But both found themselves in a fog Dec. 1. Literally. Due to unusually high temperatures outside, an overflow crowd and the fact Boston College’s Conte Forum doesn’t have air conditioning, fog forced the postponement of their game for safety reasons at 10:21 of the first period. There was no score. The players were summoned off their respective benches to skate around in an attempt to disperse the fog, but it didn’t work. The game will be replayed in its entirety Jan. 24. “I’d never seen anything like that in my life,” Parker said. “(Goalie) John Curry said he couldn’t see the puck along the dasher. When I looked across the ice, I could…
Uncoiled Snakes get back on track
Championships aren’t won in the first month, but they can be lost. Just ask the Columbus Cottonmouths, who got off to a 0-4-2 start in 2005-06 and wound up with a 34-16-6 record, four points behind eventual league champion Knoxville. “I look back at where we were last year and I’m pretty happy – well not happy but happier – than I was last year,” said Columbus coach Jerome Bechard, whose team is 8-5-0 after a sub-.500 start. The Cottonmouths are notoriously slow out of the gate. “The only thing I can put my finger on is I have a pretty offense-minded team and everybody is trying to score goals,” Bechard said. “Basically, like every year, I have to re-drive my (defensive) system into their minds.”…
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