CrashingTheGoalie

by Ron Spence
We mentioned – in our last trivia blog – that Claude Lemieux is tied for the most Stanley Cup wins with three different teams.
Should the Sharks win this June, he will have won Cups with four different teams.
Lemieux has a reasonable chance of surpassing two other NHL records and is a longshot for a third.
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by Ken Wiebe (The Winnipeg Sun)
Coming into the campaign, there was only one possible scenario where Guillaume Desbiens could envision himself scoring 20 goals.
“Obviously, it’s awesome to get there,” said Desbiens, who scored his 20th on Wednesday night as the Manitoba Moose earned a 5-3 victory over the Syracuse Crunch. “There’s no way at the [...]

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by desertdawg
You’ve heard it a zillion times: Age and treachery will always beat youth and talent.
A line that is oft repeated by those who must compete against youth…youth with all the attendant marvels that being young can offer. Like speed, energy and emerging talent. And that state of affairs best describes these youngblood Hawks.
After playing lights [...]

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by Ken Wiebe (The Winnipeg Sun)
“By making 35 saves in a 2-1 overtime victory over the Hamilton Bulldogs on Friday night at the MTS Centre, Cory Schneider moved past Wade Flaherty into sole possession of top spot for most [Manitoba Moose] wins in an American Hockey League season with 27.
“We’ve had such a great team [...]

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by Ron Spence
“You feel for Craig, he’s a good man, a friend of mine and a very good coach,” said Panthers coach Pete DeBoer. “A lot of this job is circumstance. I know having had talks with Craig when we played [against each other], he was doing everything he could to get that team turned [...]

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by desertdawg
Tommy Larscheid calls it “learning how to win.”
I’d say it’s learning to be consistent. Whatever you want to call it, it’s a mental attitude that translate into winning hockey.
Every team goes through peaks and valleys, even the Detroits and the New Jerseys (check the results tonight). But the troubling fact about [...]

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by desertdawg
You had better pay attention to detail when you are playing the Blues from St. Lou. They have a great power play and an aggressive penalty kill. If we play loosey-goosey they will bury us tonight. And we’d better skate because the Blues are a very fast team.
And attention to detail really means keeping [...]

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by Ron Spence
The Canucks are facing two back-to-back series over the next couple of weeks and they should be aware of one critical thing: Jason LaBarbera shouldn’t play against the Avalanche. He is 0-6 against Colorado in his career, and 0-4 against Peter Budaj.
We have tracked his wins and losses against some of the NHL’s [...]

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by Ron Spence
Six players have won at least three Stanley Cups from three different teams.
Three of them won one of their Cups with the Habs.
Three others played on three other teams besides Montreal.
Who are the three players who won one Cup with the Canadiens?
Who are the three other players?
Claude Lemieux and Mike Keane won three [...]

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by desertdawg
I’m sure you’ve heard this expression before, but when we used to have little to report, we’d scour the news services for filler tidbits to pop into the newspaper. The expression was, of course, “a slow news day.”
And I have to figure that it must be a slow news day with all the [...]

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