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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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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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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Finally, Bourque gets Stanley Cup DENVER — Mission accomplished. After 22 seasons of chasing the Stanley Cup, 40-year-old defenseman Ray Bourque finally hoisted the coveted trophy Saturday night in front of his family and 18,000 others who have adopted him as a Colorado native. Bourque, denied in 20 previous playoff appearances, could not have written …
This isn’t Patrick Roy vs. Ed Belfour, but it’s the matchup everyone will talk about, dissect and scrutinize. The Stars’ Ed Belfour vs. New Jersey’s Martin Brodeur. Seven years separate the two goalies (Belfour is 35, Brodeur 28), but both are going for their second Stanley Cup Trophy. Belfour is playing at the highest level …
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New research debunks Ottawa’s claim to NHL history Real first game said to have started 30 minutes earlier 18 Apr 2017, Tue The Ottawa Citizen (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) JOANNE LAUCIUS Sorry, Ottawa. Evidence unearthed by a local journalism professor and hockey history sleuth has con eluded the first NHL game started about half an hour …
Rangers’ Wayne Gretzky remains among NHL’s elite players “Boy, I got vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.” – Butch Cassidy By MIKE VACCARO Stew Writer RYE, N.Y. — The kid defenseman doesn’t have a prayer. And knows it. Eric Cairns is his name, he’s 22 years old, and he has played a …
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