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September 16, 2008
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‘ TANKS FOR NOTHING’ SAY NEW COACHES
Both men are paid to win, but their teams could benefit from a losing season WHEN A COACH STEPS behind the bench, he has only one goal in mind – win. It doesn’t matter if it’s his first pre-season game or Game 35 the day after Christmas or Game 82 with his team hopelessly out of the playoffs. The result of that game – any game – is permanently attached to his resume. So imagine how Ron Wilson must feel having signed on with the Toronto Maple Leafs, a team that has missed the playoffs three straight years, hasn’t won the Stanley Cup since The Beatles ruled the charts and could desperately use a player with star potential. And imagine how Scott Gordon feels having accepted the position with the New York Islanders, a…
EBERLE’S PERFECT PATH
BACK IN 2005, the Regina Pats were Jordan Eberle’s first pick – although the team did not reciprocate. Eberle lasted until the seventh round of that year’s Western League bantam draft before the Pats selected him 126th overall. “It was a lifelong dream to play for them,” said the Regina-born center, whose family moved to Calgary when he was 14. “I think if I would have had any other option to go to another WHL team, I probably would have second-guessed it or not even played in the WHL. “Since I got draft ed by the Pats, the first reaction was, ‘Oh yeah. Some day I want to play there.’ Now playing there and playing a significant role is really special.” Eberle was 5-foot-6 when he was draft ed. He grew four inches within…
2 MINUTES IN THE BOX
What was your ‘welcome to the NHL’ moment? My first game was against the Rangers. Lining up against Jaromir Jagr and Brendan Shanahan was pretty surreal. If you had your own theme song, what would it be? “Gloom and How it Gets That Way” by Everytime I Die. Best album of all-time? My band, Invisible Children, has a new album out called “The Pralien.” Gotta get that in there. What was your last job before becoming just a hockey player? The grounds crew at Shattuck-St. Mary’s, where I played prep hockey. That lasted about two weeks. I didn’t like getting up at 5:30 a.m. Who was your road roommate and how were they? I had quite a few. Clarke MacArthur was great, Dan Paille was great, but Derek Roy? It was all about him. If you could play for any…
OTTAWA
SUMMER VACATION While GM Bryan Murray was busy worrying about what the roster was going to look like this year, the players went their separate ways. One of the busiest was center Chris Kelly. Recovering from a broken foot he sustained at the end of the season, he spent most of May trying to get back in order so he could walk down the aisle. After signing a new four-year deal to avoid unrestricted free agency in June, Kelly and many of his teammates travelled to Mexico for a week for his wedding. But that wasn’t the only destination for the players. Captain Daniel Alfredsson went to England with his father, Hasse, to watch the British Open for a few days at the Royal Birkdale Golf Club.…
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