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Top 90 of the ’90s
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TOP 90 OF THE ‘90S: 26-31
>26. JOE NIEUWENDYK C | CGY, DAL 1990s STATS: 643 GP | 288 G | 294 A | 582 P | 390 PIM His trade from the Flames in exchange for prospect Jarome Iginla goes down as one of the best ever (for both teams) and eventually led to a Stanley Cup in Dallas. Nieuwendyk won just over 60 percent of his faceoffs in the ’90s and earned the Conn Smythe Trophy in the Stars’ 1999 championship run. >27. SCOTT STEVENS D | NJ, STL 1990s STATS: 752 GP | 81 G | 318 A | 399 P | 979 PIM When you think of defensemen from this era, Stevens has to be one of the first names on the list. His devastating hits were all legal at the time, and his leadership helped the Devils win…
PUCK CULTURE
1. COSMIC CRAZINESS 1996-97 Fleer Metal Universe If you collected hockey cards in the 1990s and wished they pictured your favorite players skating through the cosmos, busting through walls or shooting lasers, then the 1996-97 Fleer Metal Universe was the set to collect. The 200-card offering featured some of the most bizarre cards ever made. Metal Universe included cards of Felix Potvin catching an exploding puck, Steve Yzerman with cybernetic attachments, Theo Fleury on an alien planet covered by giant plants, Dave Manson at the nucleus of an atom and Curtis Joseph fending off a swarm of giant flying eyeballs, among other ridiculousness. Each card was printed on shiny, metallic cardstock, putting Metal Universe over the top. 2. PUCK POGS 1994-95 Canada Games NHL Pogs Perhaps no collectible was more emblematic of the mid-1990s than…
THE GOOD FIGHT
MARC TARDIF HAS A hard time choosing which shining moment in his illustrious hockey career stands out as his favorite. You can hardly blame the guy for having to think it over. He won just about every major team trophy he could in his career, taking home a Memorial Cup with the Montreal Jr. Canadiens in 1969, two Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens (1971, 1973) and an Avco Cup with the WHA’s Quebec Nordiques in 1977. And it was with the Nordiques where he became the third pro player – after Phil Esposito and Bobby Hull – to score more than 70 goals in a season. He remains the WHA’s all-time leading goal-scorer. “There were so many amazing things and great friendships,” Tardif said. “It’s impossible to pick just one…
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.…
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