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more than just a pretty face
Sex symbols are for tennis. That’s right, let Pete Sampras pose in GQ. Let Andre Agassi hawk cameras and date movie stars. Let them have the big teeth and moussed hair and Armani suits. A sex symbol in hockey shouldn’t have teeth at all. He should have the straggly hair of Mike Ricci and wear something from Roots. Now, that’s what hockey fans value-unshaven sexy, broken nose sexy, tough sexy. And therein lies the problem with Mike Modano. He’s tennis sexy, he’s auto racing sexy, he’s pretty boy sexy. And that doesn’t make it in the world of hockey. “It’s something that, at times, has been brutal to deal with,” says the Dallas Stars’ poster boy center. And yet Modano has made the most of his good looks. He’s kept his teeth, he’s kept his…
home is Where the HEART is
Much has changed in the 10 years since Jaromir Jagr Left Czechoslovakia to join the NHL. Jagr’s home country split peacefully into two nations in 1993, becoming the Republic of Czech and Slovakia. Meanwhile, Jagr went from being the fifth overall draft pick in 1990 to being the world’s best player in 2000. One thing hasn’t changed, though. Jagr always goes home. He returns to Kladno each summer after the NHL season and plans to return there full-time after retirement. The 28-year-old Pittsburgh Penguins’ superstar could play another decade and still remain faithful to plans of raising a family in Czech. “If I’m going to have children,” he says, “It might be in four years. If everything is going well, I’d like to retire at 38. My children would be five or six…
next WAVE
Meet Generation Y2K rob SCHREMP The spotlight has a way of finding Rob Schremp, a 14-year-old wunderkind who has people wondering just how good He’ll be in a few years. “He has outstanding natural ability,” says Kevin McLaughlin, director of youth hockey for USA Hockey. This season, the 5-foot-ll, 189-pound center is suiting up for the Tier II Syracuse Jr. Crunch and will play against opponents ranging in age from 15 to 19. It’s the third straight season he is playing up at least a year and he expects a rough ride, but Schremp isn’t intimidated. “I have some big guys on my team and they'll protect me,” Schremp says. What’s important in Schremp’s development is where he plays after Tier II. There’s no doubt he would be welcome by major junior teams, but he finds…
Style on the Isle
The phone call came early last season. It was Jim Craig, the “golden goalie" on the USA’s 1980 Olympic gold medal team who was calling his ex-college coach, Boston University’s Jack Parker, about a problem. The problem was with Parker’s defense. Craig noticed that whenever BU defensemen skated back into their zone to take a puck from freshman goalie Rick Di Pietro, the defensemen were just getting in the goalie’s way. “Have the defensemen skate away from him…you’ve got to treat him like a third defenseman,” said Craig who was agog at DiPietro’s puckhandling and passing skills. Parker took Craig’s advice and DiPietro went on to win the team MVP Award, while BU rebounded from 14-k 20-3 in 1998-99 to 25-10-7 in 1999-2000. The freshman rang up a sparkling 18-5-5 record, a…
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