One of the goals of the NHL next season is to speed up games. They'll try to cut the amount of time between whistles and things like that, but one way would be to amend the icing rule.
Linesmen are bright guys.
Yankees manager Joe Torre is expected to realign his starting rotation so Roger Clemens won't have to start at Shea Stadium when the Yanks play the Mets in a couple weeks. It would have been Mets' pitchers first chance to get back at Clemens, who beaned Mets star Mike Piazza last year and then threw a broken bat at him in the World Series. The American Hockey League tomorrow is expected to announce the absorption of six International Hockey League franchises. You never know where you are going to find a hockey player. When Avs coach Bob Hartley was coaching Cornwall of the AHL, he got a call from a reporter at Le Journal de Montreal about a kid who was playing roller hockey.