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March 11, 2008
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STOPPER STUFFING NOT THE PROBLEM
OOOH, THE NHL IS TALKING tough these days when it comes to clamping down on goaltending equipment. Enough is enough, say the powers that be, we’re getting serious now. Therefore, you can expect some tangible results right around the time Charlie Brown finally decides to slap Lucy upside the head for continually pulling the football away. Every piece of goaltending equipment worn these days undergoes a CSI-like examination by the NHL before it is worn. It is meticulously measured, photographed and documented and goalies can have their gear inspected at a moment’s notice. If a goalie is found guilty, the NHL rulebook states the league’s hockey operations department, “shall report its findings to the Commissioner for his disciplinary action.” Scary stuff. Oh yeah, and if you illegally download music, you could very…
OTTAWA’S BIG RED (BEARD) MACHINE
I’m 2-for-2 and I’d love to make it 3-for-3 GET READY FOR THE BEARD. You know, the big, red, bushy beard that made it all the way to the Stanley Cup final both times it has appeared in the NHL playoffs. Most people assume the Ottawa Senators traded for Cory Stillman to give the team the secondary scoring it so lacked, but the truth of the matter is what the Sens really wanted was the beard. That is, the big, red, bushy beard that adorns defenseman Mike Commodore’s mug at the most critical time of the season. The hulking 6-foot-5, 230-pound native of Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., joined the Sens Feb. 11, along with Stillman, and is poised to make a run at winning his second Cup. Commodore was an emerging defender with Calgary when…
ASK THE EXPERTS
What’s keeping you up at night, hockey fans? If you’ve got a question about the game, drop us an email we’ll give you the inside scoop. THN, Do you think the NHL will ever try the wire cam used by the NFL? Imagine the shots you would get, putting the fans on the ice. Ryan Tucker, London, Ont. Ryan, The NHL has in fact experimented with a camera on a wire above the ice during the 2004 conference finals and Stanley Cup final, but the results weren’t good enough. Here was the problem: in football all the action is going in one direction at a time, whereas in hockey, any turn-overs would result in the wire cam missing the action. It’s too much back-and-forth. THN, If a player gets high-sticked in the face and he…
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WHEN I FIRST HEARD ABOUT a player-led proposal to radically redesign goalie jerseys by putting advertising logos on them, I just about blew a head valve out of anger. My initial thought was, I expected such a brazen cash grab from the likes of J. Jacobs or G. Bettman, but not from a group of solid NHL citizens like Marty Turco, Martin Brodeur and Dwayne Roloson. Not from players who claim to have the sport’s best interest in mind. I even had all my jokes – e.g., I guess now we know why goalie equipment has grown so massive in recent years: more ad space – to sprinkle throughout this column. And really, I thought, if the NFL, NBA, and Major League Baseball – the John, Paul and George to the NHL’s Ringo…
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