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MVP Premiere Issue
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Pantheon of Greats
The Boston Bruins have a history of producing better players than teams. Five of the best 30 players in NHL history—as selected by The Hockey News-made their marks with the Bruins. Only the Montreal Canadiens, 23-time Stanley Cup champions, have more representatives with nine among the top 30. Boston has won just five Cups. The Bruin legends are defensemen Bobby Orr (No. 2 all-time behind Wayne Gretzky), Eddie Shore (No. 10) and Ray Bourque (No. 14), plus centers Phil Esposito (No. 18) and Milt Schmidt (No. 27). Each was a seminal player in his time. Orr and Shore defined their eras, the 1960s-70s and 1920s-30s; the still active Bourque earned an NHL-high 17 consecutive all-star honors; Phil Esposito rewrote the record book during the 1960s and '70s and; Schmidt was the consummate twoway…
work-in-progress
Anson Carter’s off-season sounds enviable: Last summer, the Boston Bruins’ free agent right winger hung around with movie stars and drove around in a Mercedes; he bunked in a cavernous beach house and baked in the California sun. But for all the perks of the West Coast lifestyle, for all the fun of playing shinny with Cuba Gooding Jr. and cruising the strip in a German convertible, Carter also experienced plenty of pain. On any given summer day, after all, he didn’t enjoy a game of beach volleyball until he endured a dose of boot camp. While the West Coast slackers snoozed, Carter rose just after sun-up. And while the Hollywood types practiced yoga with their personal trainers, he hired a professional drill sergeant to push him through a daily grind of musclebulging…
GUTS & GLORY
It was half-a-century ago and an exasperated Ebbie Goodfellow had seen enough of Milt Schmidt. “What difference does it make who plays the wings with Schmidt?" asked the Chicago Blackhawks’ coach. “I could go out there myself and get a couple of goals playing with the greatest center in hockey.” Goodfellow was 43, nine years removed from a Hall of Fame career, and dead on. Schmidt, the Boston Bruins’ captain and most industrious player, entered the 1950s as the most complete forward in the game and probably the best two-way forward in the game’s history to that point. The passage of time and the emergence of other magnificent all-around physical centers-Bryan Trottier, Eric Lindros and Peter Forsberg stand out as the best-have combined to obscure the memory of Schmidt. That’s a shame because long before…
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…
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