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 — The Boston Bruins had waited 39 years for another drink from the Stanley Cup, and Tim Thomas was awfully thirsty. When the Bruins and their brilliant goalie barged into a hostile Canadian rink surrounded by another 100,000 screaming fans outside for Game 7, they emerged with the championship they wanted. Thomas …
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There is precious little that Patrice Bergeron hasn’t won in his career, including his gold medal, and MVP award, playing with Team Canada at the World Junior Championship in 2005. The rest of Bergy’s Big Haul includes the Stanley Cup in 2011, another gold medal with. Team Canada at the World Championship (2004), two Olympic …
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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Panthers ‘scared of Peter,’ says Patrick Roy It is called “the general manager’s game,” and they play it everywhere this time of year, even in the jungle heat of Florida. If you had to pick one player to start a team with, which would it be: Eric Lindros or Peter Forsberg? Two years ago, such …
33-year wait finally over Shootout victory over Finland brings world title to Canada Team Canada 2Team Finland 1(Team Canada wins world hockey title) MILAN. Italy (CP) — Canada rules the hockey world. Canada’s 2-1 win Sunday over Finland in a sudden-death shootout that determined the world hockey championship ended 33 years of embarrassment and frustration. …
25 Feb 1980, Mon The Tribune (Scranton, Pennsylvania) LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (UPI) – It’s something that will take a while to sink in. A group of brash young American hockey players, put together less than seven months ago but playing as if they’d been together for years, took on the best the world had to …
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Defenseman Mike Ramsey played his 1,000th NHL game, a milestone reached by only 98 others. Ramsey is most remembered for winning the gold medal at the 1980 Olympic games and the Miracle on ice. Ramsey was one of two players still in the NHL who played on the ’80 U.S. team that surprised the world …
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