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March 11, 2008
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A JOURNEYMAN’S ABRIDGED JOURNAL
Bruce Boudreau played 1,112 games and coached another 1,045 in the minor pro leagues. Here are some of the highlights of his tenure in hockey’s backwaters: TOUGHEST PLAYER? “Val James was an animal. Binghamton used to have 100 of them. When I first came to the AHL, the Maine Mariners were mirror images of the Philadelphia Flyers. They had 10 heavyweights on their team and you didn’t want to play them.” BEST PLAYER NEVER TO MAKE THE NHL? “Reggie Thomas was as good a left winger as I’ve ever had. He was smart enough and tough enough and he paid the price.” EVER HAVE A PAYCHECK BOUNCE? “Yup, one in Minnesota in the WHA. I was so naive because when we got the last paycheck, I didn’t cash it for five days…by then,…
Starting from 10
We count down the top 10 players traded at last year’s deadline that their previous team may want back. 10 Buffalo gave up a pick which became WHL scoring ace MARK SANTORELLI. 9 Even if it was a cap thing, SHANE O‘BRIEN is worth more than the Ducks got. 8 Sports hernia aside, JASON WILLIAMS for Kyle Calder was a Chicago steal. 7 Peter Forsberg did little in Nashville, but SCOTTIE UP-SHALL is happy as a Flyer. 6 ROBERT NILSSON has been a serviceable ballast in the Ryan Smyth deal. 5 Kings got a nice pick from Vancouver in WAYNE SIM-MONDS for Brent Sopel. 4 The pick Chicago got for Bryan Smolinski? Big-time prospect AKIM ALIU. 3 Flyer fans love BRAYDON COBURN; ‘Zhitnik’ is a four-letter word in Atlanta. 2 Detroit traded perhaps the next Todd Bertuzzi, SHAWN MATTHIAS,…
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…
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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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