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March 25, 2008
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CAMPBELL SOUPS UP SAN JOSE’S ATTACK
ON THE DAY defenseman Brian Campbell first appeared in San Jose’s dressing room, he down-played his arrival. “I’m going to come in here and try to fit in as quietly as possible,’’ he said. Yeah, right. Anyone who saw Campbell’s first home game as a Shark knows there was nothing quiet about the goal he scored against Montreal. First came the deft spin-o-rama move to elude defenseman Mike Komisarek, then came the perfect backhand shot that slid underneath Carey Price’s pads. Quiet? The crowd roared. “You don’t see guys pull that move every day,’’ said center Joe Thornton, who played summer hockey with Campbell from age 7 to 14. “It’s so beautiful to watch. He just adds a new element to our offense.” Sharks GM Doug Wilson had to send right winger Steve Bernier and a first…
BEST OF THE REST
ECHL Another Aubin in Cincinnati Mathieu Aubin is a second-generation Cincinnati pro hockey player and like his father, Normand, the younger Aubin has produced. Mathieu, 21, had 20 goals and more than a point-a-game in 30 contests with the Cyclones this season, his second in the ECHL. He also split time with Hamilton in the AHL. Aubin had a key role at the latter end of Cincinnati’s ECHL-record 17-game winning streak, as he scored eight goals and 11 points in the final six games of the run that ended March 2. Normand Aubin played for the Central League’s Cincinnati Tigers in 1981-82. He split that year with the Toronto Maple Leafs, the first of his two NHL seasons. – MIKE MASTOVICH NORTH AMERICAN LEAGUE NCAA shot finally coming Ben Warda can stop waiting. The 20-year-old St.…
ARNOTT STANDS UP FOR THE PREDS
When you looked at our roster, it was like, ‘Who’s going to be the goal-scorers?’ WHILE THE OTHER 29 TEAMS were doing everything possible last summer to ensure success this season, the Nashville Predators were being set up for failure. The NHL made sure of that. In what ultimately wound up being one of the most preposterous ownership changes in league history – a Canadian billionaire’s mega-bucks offer being spurned by NHL commissioner Gary Bettman for fear the franchise would be shifted to Canada where people actually like hockey – the Preds were sold for a lesser amount and only after they rid themselves of many of their best players. That’s one interesting way of trying to sell big-league hockey in a non-traditional hockey market. The team that finished third overall with 110 points last…
DEFENSE WINS NEXT-LEVEL JOB
AN ABUNDANCE OF GOD-GIVEN TALENT is there, as it has been since the first time Rob Schremp ever laced up a pair of skates. The rest of his game is steadily catching up. In his second full professional season, Schremp continues to move toward becoming the player the Edmonton Oilers envisioned when they drafted him 25th overall in 2004. Though the progress hasn’t been as quick as his hands, the organization feels Schremp is closer than ever to cracking the NHL roster. “He’s going to make it just on his skill, but at the same time, he’s got to be responsible and everything else,” said ex-Oiler Kelly Buchberger, in his first season as coach of the Springfield Falcons, Edmonton’s top farm team. “He’s got a lot of skill. He’s got great vision and he’s a great…
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