By JOHN MARSHALL AP Sports Writer DENVER—Colorado’s Patrick Roy is retiring, ending the 18-year career of one of the greatest goaltenders in NHL history. Roy will make the announcement at a news conference today, team spokesman Jean Martineau said. A four-time Stanley Cup champion, Roy leaves as the NHLs career leader in victories with 551 …
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) — Dale Hawerchuk and Joe Mullen, two of the National Hockey League’s top scorers in the 1980s, found new homes Saturday in a pair of draft-day trades. Hawerchuk, Winnipeg’s all-time leading scorer, was traded to the Buffalo Sabres in a four-player deal in which the Jets got Phil Housley. The trade …
Hall of Famer Gordie Howe did it all in career that spanned five decades In a country where hockey is king, Gordie Howe ruled for decades. A Canadian icon, Howe grew up in the Great Depression playing hockey on prairie ponds – on hand-me-down or jerry-rigged skates. He went on to become Mr. Hockey, a …
Gretzky Worth Every Penny Wayne Gretzky — as he promised when he arrived five years ago — has truly made Southern California mad about hockey. Babe Ruth, I always thought, came to the New York Yankees with the World Series trophy attached. I figured it was a package deal from the Red Sox: $125,000 cash …
With an assist in a 5-4 loss to the L.A. Kings, Boston Bruins defenseman Bobby Orr became just the second player in league history to record two 100-point seasons. The first player to do so was his Bruins teammate, Phil Esposito, who accomplished the feat just two weeks earlier. Orr finished the previous season (1969-70) with 33 goals, 87 …
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