Washington visits Detroit Tuesday night with Ovechkin seeking a goal in his fourth straight game – No. 484 to move him past former Red Wings star and Capitals teammate Sergei Fedorov – as Mike Green faces his former team for the first time.
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“I’m just thrilled. Chris is a wonderful man, a dear friend and I’m glad how quickly they recognized one of the five greatest defensemen that ever played”.
In this case, a Wings’ trainer explained that digit was long retired, the providence or Gordie Howe. As expected, Lidstrom delivered a flawless speech to go along with his near ideal career, dusting off the Swedish phrase that “Things never turn out the way you imagine”.
Nickson was a year out of Ithaca College and working at WBBF in Rochester, N.Y., when his father, Nick, who spent 60 years in broadcasting on the air and in management, told him the minor-league hockey team had an opening for a play-by-play announcer and asked if he’d be interested.
I’m honoured to say I’ve played with and against a few of them during their storied National Hockey League careers. “Basically at that time, I had knee issues, so I’d just get the puck to Sergei and let him carry it through the neutral zone, let him do all the work down low. It takes a team in all aspects”. “He’s just a guy you want to be around”.
Scotty Bowman attended the event. And I’ll be honest – I don’t believe anyone thought he was going to be back in the series. “For me, as a Swedish-born player, he’s always been one of my idols and I got to play with him in one tournament, in Vancouver”. There was no love lost on either side as we fought for every inch of ice.
Comprised of four major categories designated for players, both male and female, builders and on-ice officials, the Hall now honors 268 total players, four of which are women, as well as 104 individuals in the builder category and 16 officials.
Ted Lindsay, whose 50th anniversary of being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame is next year, was in the town where in 1956 his life was threatened by Maple Leafs fans if he played in a semifinal game of the Stanley Cup playoffs. He also guided Edmonton to the 2006 Finals in his only season with the Oilers.
“He was running the first two or three games”. “Chicago had to break up their line. They’re special, special players and special people”. On Saturday afternoon at the annual fan forum, inductees Pronger, Nicklas Lidstrom, Sergei Fedorov, Phil Housley and Angela Ruggiero traded plenty of barbs with each other and those in attendance.
Fedorov thanked both his first coach and his most famous coach with the Detroit Red Wings.
Fedorov thanked Wayne Gretzky for letting him stay at his house in his early days in North America and his wife, who is expected to give birth to the couple’s first child.
I had the luxury of playing with Chris Pronger for more than three years in St. Louis and we’ve always maintained a very close friendship.
Pronger wrapped by telling the crowd, “I appreciate the support over the years”.
“Sorry about your gambling losses there”, Pronger said with a smile. He should have been playing with the Wings till the end of his career, but that happens.
Karmanos was part of the Hartford Whalers’ ownership group, before relocating the franchise south to Carolina and building a championship team with the organization now known as the Carolina Hurricanes.
Along the way, he built a reputation as one of the most fearsome defencemen in hockey history.
Karmanos recalled he and partner Thomas Thewes pooled tax refund cheques in 1973 and formed the software company Compuware, leading to one the U.S.’s great grass roots minor hockey sponsorship programs.
Because it has been more than three years since his final game, the Hall of Fame clarified its bylaws to make Pronger eligible in 2015. “I said it was an accident because Phil was impossible to hit because he was so smooth….” “We were a blue-collar family who struggled to get to the rink.”…
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In player safety, it’s Pronger’s job to help Stephane Quintal and the rest of the department dole out fines and suspensions.
