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Top 90 of the ’90s
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WORTH ITS WAIT IN GOALS
THE OFFSIDE THAT WIPED out a Zach Hyman goal in a January contest between the Edmonton Oilers and Chicago Blackhawks wasn’t a matter of a foot but the smallest fraction of an inch. From where Connor McDavid was sitting, the entire situation – the review, the time it took to rule on the offside, and the resulting no-goal call – felt farcical. “If it takes you 15 minutes to determine if it’s offside or not, it probably doesn’t matter,” McDavid said. “I talked to the linesman after. Ultimately, it’s not their call, I guess. Obviously, they said it came down from the league. You zoom in, you zoom in, you keep zooming in until you can’t zoom in anymore, and I guess it’s offside.” If McDavid is displeased with the almost Zapruder-esque…
TOP 90 OF THE ‘90s: 39-44
>39. JEREMY ROENICK C | CHI, PHX 1990s STATS: 730 GP | 343 G | 444 A | 787 P | 962 PIM Physical, skilled and outspoken, Roenick was a top-10 goal-scorer in the ’90s, and let’s not forget, the most iconic video-game player ever thanks to his NHL ’94 avatar. Three straight seasons of 100-plus points with Chicago included a run to the Cup final, where the Hawks lost to Mario Lemieux’s Penguins in 1992. >40. LARRY MURPHY D | PIT, DET, TOR, MIN 1990s STATS: 773 GP | 134 G | 432 A | 566 P | 429 PIM The sixth-highest-scoring defenseman of the era, Murphy racked up 566 points in the ’90s, paving the way for two second-team all-star honors. He earned a lot of team hardware, too, winning the Stanley Cup four times:…
LADY MINTO, HOCKEY PIONEER AND PATRON
ON MARCH 26, 1899, the wife of Canada’s governor general impressed in a hockey game that pitted representatives of Government House (also known as Rideau Hall, the governor general’s residence in Ottawa) against members of Ottawa’s 400, the city’s social elites. Men, women and children played on the frozen Ottawa River in one of the earliest co-ed hockey games on record. Lady Minto, the wife of Lord Minto, Canada’s eighth governor general (1898-1904), was hosting one of the earliest of her famed skating parties, which became a fixture of the capital city’s social scene at the turn of the 20th century. “Lady Minto played at cover point, and the manner in which she went up the ice was a revelation to some of the other players,” according to the Ottawa Citizen.…
TOP 90 OF THE ‘90S: 32-38
>32. RON FRANCIS C | PIT, CAR, HFD 1990s STATS: 760 GP | 229 G | 585 A | 814 P | 398 PIM Synonymous with the Whalers in the ’80s, Francis didn’t find team success until he got to Pittsburgh, where he helped the Pens win back-to-back Cups in the early ’90s. ‘Ronnie Franchise’ was a superb playmaker and ranked 10th in scoring in the decade (814 points). He had two 100-point seasons in that time. >33. CLAUDE LEMIEUX RW | NJ, COL 1990s STATS: 720 GP | 248 G | 261 A | 509 P | 1,008 PIM Love him or hate him, Lemieux is one of the NHL’s all-time great playoff performers and earned the Conn Smythe Trophy in 1995 for New Jersey en route to his first Stanley Cup. The agitator won another…
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