TORONTO (CP) – The World Hockey Association may or may not operate as an independent league next season, but if it does it will be ready to do battle with the National Hockey League for some of the best graduates of amateur ranks. The nine WHA teams still in existence after the demise of Phoenix …
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Wing is first European to win Norris Trophy TORONTO — Finally, after three straight years as runner-up; The Red Wings’ Nicklas Lidstrom has become the first European to win the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s best defenseman. With a shy smile, wearing a traditional tuxedo he already had in his closet, Lidstrom kissed his wife, …
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MONTREAL (AP) -Highscoring center, Dale McCourt of the St. Catharines Flncups, selected as Canada’s top player in the Ontario Hockey Association Major Junior League, was selected Tuesday by the Detroit Red Wings as No. 1 in the National Hockey League’s amateur draft. It took 5 3/4 hours for the 18 teams to wade through 17 …
How a young Wing Watson grounded Golden Jet Hull He was a 23-year-old utility defenseman with a big assignment: Shadow Bobby Hull in the 1966 Stanley Cup semifinals. Bryan (Bugsy) Watson was the young defenseman for the Red Wings. Hull, the father of Wings star Brett Hull, was one of the most feared scorers in …
MONTREAL (CP) — Guy Lafleur, the explosive right-winger from Quebec Rem parts of the Quebec Junior A Hockey League, today had the honor to be the first player picked in the National Hockey League’s 1971 amateur draft Lafleur, who scored 130 goals in 62 regular season games last year, was grabbed by the Stanley Cup …
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 …
He was only goalie to win MVP twice Dominik Hasek, the Detroit Red Wings goaltender known as the Dominator, retired Monday because he said he lacked the motivation for a 17th season. “I don’t feel today that I’m ready to compete on the highest level,” Hasek said during a news conference at Detroit’s Joe Louis …
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DETROIT – Terrible Ted Lindsay had no inkling, when the Detroit Red Wings captain held the Stanley Cup aloft in 1955, that lean year lay ahead. Let alone 41 of them. It was the Red Wings’ fourth Cup in seven seasons. They had some of the gaudiest names in the National Hockey League in their …
PITTSBURGH — No player has ever come from further away than Henrik Zetterberg to win the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP. The Detroit Red Wings didn’t select the Swede until late in the seventh round of the 1999 NHL draft and that decision has never looked better than right now. Zetterberg led his team …
This Stanley Cup story line worked so well last year, it may be worth repeating. An aging Hall of Famer-to-be is traded after playing for years in a city where he is a civic icon, just for the chance to win the prize that he has unsuccessfully chased his entire career. Ray Bourque, once the …
