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January 12, 2009
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Tower power
THE NEXT TIME YOU ATTEMPT to get your good-for-nothing teen-ager to maybe clean his room and straighten up and fly right, consider the case of young Victor Hedman. He turned 18 in December, but three months ago moved into his own apartment with his girlfriend (all right, so you’re probably not so crazy about that part) where he pays his own bills, cooks his own food and keeps his surroundings from looking as though they’ve been hit by a hurricane. “I really like cooking and my girlfriend does, too,” Hedman said. “I think it’s nice to do your own laundry and stuff like that. I think it’s good and I don’t see it as a problem for me. My parents helped us to find an apartment and they’re really supporting me to…
ASK Adam
Adam, I know it is still early in the season, but will the Bruins lock up Phil Kessel to a long-term deal? And what about a contract for Tim Thomas? Jason, Boston Jason, If the Bruins allow Kessel or Thomas to sign with another team next season, much of the goodwill they’ve accumulated this season will be for naught. However, they already have about $43 million in cap space committed for 2009-10 – and the Bruins also need to sign restricted free agents such as Matt Lashoff, Matt Hunwick and David Krejci – so keeping them all in the fold will be quite the juggling act for GM Peter Chiarelli. Adam, I’m sitting at home watching the Wings-Coyotes game and every so often during play I hear this eerie Coyote howl. What gives? It’s gotta be distracting…
Ask away
THE ANSWERMAN RETURNS to ponder the state of the NHL, as the calendar flips over to 2009… Q: So you’ve dusted off your crystal ball and have all the answers for the coming year. Excellent, I’m heading to Vegas soon. Presumably, this is the year I can count on the Sharks finally winning the Stanley Cup? A: Starting with a sore spot right away, eh? OK, so you know, I’ve picked the Sharks to win every year since they’ve become a contender. Just to guarantee it actually happens, this year, I applied the vote of confidence/kiss of death to the Red Wings and predicted they would repeat. No, the safest bet in the NHL today revolves around a labor play, although you probably won’t find any odds posted on the big board at…
Down to final four
The Champions Hockey League semifinals began with two KHL teams, Salavat Yulayev Ufa and Metallurg Magnitogorsk, squaring off in one semifinal (as per regulations not allowing two teams from the same country to reach the final) and Finland’s Espoo Blues and the ZSC Lions Zurich from Switzerland in the other. The semifinals are home-and-home, total-goal series. Ufa and Zurich have the upper hands after 2-1 and 6-3 victories in Magnitogorsk and Zurich. The second games are set for Jan. 7. The latest reincarnation of European club competitions has been met with enthusiastic response, both at the box office and in the media. Many games have been sold out and the semifinal tickets in Zurich were snapped up in just two hours. Berlin’s coach, Don Jackson, noted the importance of the new league for…
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