TORONTO (CP) — Mario Lemieux has two important dates this summer. First, he’s getting married June 26. Then he’ll check into the hospital in July for more surgery on a back that has slowed him slightly the last two years. “It will be minor surgery to take scar tissue out of there,” he said after …
This Day In Hockey History-June 13, 2000-Claude Lemieux, Rick Tocchet, Mark Messier Left Unprotected, Don’t Expect Wild, Blue Jackets to Bite
Doug MacLean chose a doughnut shop in Edmunston, N.B., in the middle of the night to pour over lists of players to be made available in the NHL expansion draft next week to his new Columbus, Ohio, team. “I was driving my family back to the cottage in Prince Edward Island and we’d stopped but …
This Day In Hockey History-June 10, 1993-McSorly’s miscue will ‘stick’ in his mind forever
Illegal stick didn’t cost Kings the series, but it’s the turning point everyone will remember IT WAS LIKE one big wound, the Los Angeles Kings’ dressing room, and when you walked into it, you could feel the hurt. There was Tony Granato, hard-nosed the previous three hours, soft-spoken now. ‘I’ve never had to swallow a …
This Day In Hockey History-June 2, 1993-Behind Net, Gretzky Is The King
Goalies Can’t Turn Their Backs On Him MONTREAL — Wayne Gretzky didn’t discover the little slab of ice behind the net. Bobby Clarke, the old Philadelphia Flyer, did. Gretzky just made it fashionable. Set up shop there, set down an easy chair. Also built a shelf that, to date, holds four Stanley Cups but has …
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This Day In Hockey History-May 29, 2018- Great One Wayne Gretzky Recalls Greatest Game
For Gretzky, his greatest game is frozen in time Third Period Hat Trick by Gretzky Put Kings in Stanley Cup Final. The details come back to Wayne Gretzky as if he just finished a shift at old Maple Leaf Gardens. The passion is in his voice, the memories still glowing. To listen to him talk …
This Day In Hockey History -February 14, 1999 – Last Game in Maple Leaf Gardens
Fans, players say goodbye to Maple Leaf Gardens TORONTO – The Chicago Blackhawks finished what they started – winning the last NHL game at historic Maple Leaf Gardens just as they won the first 68 years ago. “Unfazed by the hoopla of a gala goodbye party, the Blackhawks dominated all but a few moments in …