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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PARRY SOUND, Ont. (CP) — The fans went wild. It was Bobby Orr day Saturday and folk from his hometown were out to welcome the All-Star defenceman with Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. Bobby Orr Day, sponsored by the town of Parry Sound was simply that—a big day for Bobby. Orr’s trophies—the Norris …
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Tim Thomas was never the Golden Boy. You kidding? He didn’t start a game in the NHL until he was 28 and he didn’t become anyone’s regular goalie until he was 31. Until very recently, he would have been recognized on the street in Finland more readily than in downtown Boston. …
NEW YORK — Mark Messier kissed th^ Stanley Cup as more than 18,000 long-suffering Rangers fans danced in the aisles of Madison Square Garden. They broke into a gleeful chorus of what only teasing opposition fans had chanted in the past.“1940, 1940, 1940, 1940.” Then, in the dressing room, New York’s 54-year-old championship curse was …
Young star Malkin makes up for the lacklustre 2008 post-season to capture Conn Smythe with the most playoff points since 1993 One year after taking heavy criticism for his disappearance on hockey’s grandest stage, Evgeni Malkin was hailed as the grandest performer of them all Friday. Malkin, who had the highest post-season point total since …
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The New Jersey Devils’ dreams of a historical comeback were all but dashed less than 11 minutes into Game 6 of the Stanley Cup final. Just 10:10in, Steve Bernier drilled Los Angeles defenceman Rob Scuderi from behind into the end boards and essentially took his club out of the game. Bernier was given a major …
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MONTREAL -(AP)- Bobby Orr, Boston’s peerless defenseman, won the National Hockey League’s Norris Trophy for a record seventh straight time Tuesday, while his teammates Phil Esposito and Johnny Bucyk, plus Henri Richard of Montreal and Denis Potvin of the New York Islanders, also received honors for the 1973-74 season. The 26-year-old Orr’s selection made him …
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MONTREAL (CP) – For the first time in the National Hockey League, a New York team has won three individual awards in one season. Results of the voting for five-player awards were announced today. Bryan Trottier of New York Islanders became the youngest forward and second-youngest player Io win the Hart Trophy as the most …
TORONTO — This long season was over, and there was Kirk Muller, crying, and talking about what this Stanley Cup victory was all about. “It’s not the name on the Cup,” Muller said after a 4-1 victory locked up the Stanley Cup final in five games against the Los Angeles Kings. “It’s not the ring. …
It has been four years since Jean-Sebastien Giguere won the Conn Smythe Trophy, and the Anaheim Ducks goaltender’s outstanding memory of it was that it felt lousy. So when the media horde descended on the Honda Center after the charter flight from hell on Tuesday afternoon, and began bandying candidates’ names about for the Stanley …
