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December 4, 2007
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CROSSWORD
Answers available in next issue ACROSS 1 Flyer who got 25 games for a cross-check to the face 8 Mike ___ won his only Cup with Colorado, pictured 9 Pivoting 10 Nickname of Saginaw’s Ontario League team 11 Five-minute penalties 12 Former Habs’ GM ___ Savard 14 Ted ___ is Isles’ coach 17 Bryan ___ was drafted first overall in 1995 19 Sideline 20 Youth players 21 Patrick Roy won his ___ Conn Smythe Trophy in 2001 22 Colby ___ is a winger with Pittsburgh DOWN 2 Johnny ___ was a rookie with the Devils last season 3 Home of the Ontario League’s Knights 4 Arenas 5 Explodes 6 Player in 7 Down led NHL ___ last season 7 Sidney Crosby is known as ‘___ ___ ___’ 11 Where they are ‘Wild’ about hockey 13 Tommy ___ spent 18 seasons in the NHL 15 State without a big-league team (that is actively seeking…


SAVING GAME? LITTLE CHANGE
THE FUTURE OF HOCKEY IS IN JEOPARDY, NOT JUST IN THE U.S. I’VE ALWAYS LOVED HOCKEY. Some of my earliest memories are of watching the game and some of my fondest memories are of playing it. When my career ended due to injury in 2003, I spent a lot of time reflecting on my favorite sport. Two years later, I ended up writing a book. The book relived beautiful aspects of the game, delved deep into recent developments and pursued its biggest issues and their solutions. Saving the Game was completed just as the NHL came back after the lockout, with its new financial system and new rules in place. And as I look at the game now, after two full NHL seasons and off-seasons, the book has virtually nothing in it…


NHL TEAM REPORTS
GRADES BY POSITION A better-than-anticipated start by the Coyotes was largely due to Mikael Tellqvist’s netminding and timely scoring by underrated forwards. PHOENIX IT IS DIFFICULT TO GIVE GOOD marks to a last-place team, but the Phoenix Coyotes are worthy of an exception. With expectations as low as they’ve ever been, the fact the Coyotes were close to .500 through mid-November makes them one of the early season’s biggest surprises. Coach Wayne Gretzky’s gang started a disappointing 2-6-0 at home, but a winning mark on the road (5-3-0) – generally the sign of a good team – buoyed Phoenix’s hopes for continued success. IN THE SPOT LIGHT GOALIES B In a three-way battle for the No. 1 spot in training camp, Mikael Tellqvist confidently said he was the best man for the job. He delivered the same message…


starting from 10
10 NIGEL DAWES is finding the net in New York, moreso than some other Rangers. 9 When Dan Boyle went down in Tampa, MIKE LUNDIN was ready to launch his career. 8 Statistically tops in Atlanta, goalie ONDREJ PAVELEC has filled in for Lehtonen. 7 Dallas has always had solid ‘D’ and MATT NISKANEN has stepped right in. 6 TORREY MITCHELL has been a pleasant surprise in San Jose. 5 JARED BOLL is quickly making Columbus a painful place to play a road game. 4 Phoenix sparkplug DANIEL CARCILLO is putting up points and fighting majors. 3 He’s not Calder-eligible, but Nashville sure is happy to have DAN ELLIS in net. 2 We knew about Erik Johnson, but what about STEVE WAGNER in St. Louis? 1 Atlanta’s TOBIAS ENSTROM has logged several 25-minute-plus games already.…