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Bryan Smale (smale@healthy.uwaterloo.ca) writes: > I was thinking about who on each of the teams were the MVPs, biggest > surprises, and biggest disappointments this year. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >                         Team           Biggest       Biggest > Team:                   MVP:           Surprise:     Disappointment: > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Hartford Whalers        Sanderson      Cassells      Corriveau  My votes (FWIW):  Team MVP: Pat Verbeek. He fans on 25% of goal mouth feeds, but he still has  36 goals after a terrible start and has been an examplary (sp?) team captain throughout a tough couple of seasons. Honorable mention: Nick Kypreos and Mark Janssens. Probably more appropriate in the unsung heroes category than MVP, but Kypreos (17 goals, 320+ PIM) has been the hardest working player on the team and Janssens is underrated as a defensive center and checker. I guess I place a greater emphasis on hard work than skill when determining value.  Biggest surprise: Geoff Sanderson. He had 13 goals and 31 points last season as a center, then moved to left wing and has so far put up 45 goals and 80+ points. He now has a new Whaler record 21 power play goals, most all coming from the right wing faceoff circle, his garden spot. Honorable mention: Andrew Cassels and Terry Yake. The kiddie quartet of Sanderson, Poulin, Nylander, and Petrovicky have been attracting the most attention, but Cassels is just 23 and will score close to 90 points this season. He has quite nicely assumed the role of number one center on the team and works very well with Sanderson. Yake bounced around the minors for a number of seasons but is still 24 and will put up about 20 goals and 50 points this season. Yake, like Sanderson, started performing better offensively once he was converted from center to wing,  although lefty Sanderson went to the left wing and righty Yake went to the right side.  Biggest disappointment: Hands down, John Cullen. Cullen had a disasterous 77 point season last year, his first full season after The Trade. Cullen started the season off of summer back surgery, and fell flat on his face (appropriate, since he spent all of his Whaler career flat on his ass, and whining about it). Cullen scored just 9 point on 19 games, was a clubhouse malcontent, commanded the powerplay to a 9% success percentage (>21% with Sanderson), and sulked his way out of town. Worst of all, his 4 year, $4M contract had three years left to run, so no one would give up any more than the 2nd round draft pick the  Maple Leafs offered to Hartford. Honorable mention: Steve Konroyd, also subpar after signing a 3 year, $2.1M contract; Eric Weinrich, who showed flashes of competence, but overall has played poorly; Jim McKenzie, who was a much better hockey player two seasons ago than he is now; and Frank Pietrangelo, who only seemed to play well when Sean Burke was out for an extended period and he got to make a number of starts in a row.
The Hawks win!!  Jermey Roenick scored his 50 th goal and the Hawks put the Leafs in their place, the losers column.  If the Leafs can not even beat the Hawks in a match that had little or no meaning I will hate to see them against the Wings.    Oh btw I laugh at rm, that jerky!!!  GO HAWKS!!!
In article <1993Apr15.140541.28465@ericsson.se> etxonss@ufsa.ericsson.se (Staffan Axelsson) writes: > > Actually, Swedish coach Curt Lundmark is thinking about leaving two > spots open for additions from eliminated NHLers. It is Mats Sundin and > Calle Johansson that Curt hopes can join the team, although in a late > stage of the tournament. Technically, I seem to recall that you can leave > spots open until 24 hrs before the WC final. > Hmmm...I also heard through the grapevine that Team Finland might try and leave a spot open for at least one NHLer. (Some guy named Sel{nne, ever hear of him? :)  They might have to be content with Kurri, though, I hope. :)
jpc@philabs.philips.com (John P. Curcio) writes: >mmb@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Michael Burger) writes: > >|> United States TV Schedule: >|> April 18   Devils/Islanders at Pittsburgh   1 EST  ABC >|> April 18   St. Louis at Chicago             12 CDT ABC >|> April 18   Los Angeles at Calgary           12 PDT ABC  Okay, here's the down side of the ESPN deal: no additional coverage. With a split contract, SCA could have at least gotten at leftovers like Canucks-Jets, Caps-whoever and Red Wings-Leafs (or whoever else is playing).  >|> April 20   Devils/Islanders at Pittsburgh   7:30   ESPN >|> April 22   TBA                              7:30   ESPN >|> April 24   TBA                              7:30   ESPN > >Does anyone know if there will be alternate games in cities where >local broadcast rights are being protected?  For our area (Islanders-Devils), it's likely to be the Bruins, since the other Adams series is Montreal-Quebec.  I'd prefer the latter myself ...  I'm under the impression that the ABC deal overrides the local deals, but if St. Louis at Chicago pops up we'll know ...  gld
>Especially when the wings player hit the rut and went into the boards injuring his shoulder and they blotted out the injury report.  The Wings player was Yves Racine, and he returned later in that same period.
In article <1q9noa$d90@hsdndev.harvard.edu> nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder 432-4219) writes: >In article <IflYr6y00WB4A6F60A@andrew.cmu.edu> Mamatha Devineni Ratnam <mr47+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes: >> >>Does anyone know if all the Patrick division games are going to be televised >>on ESPN and ABC? If some games are going to be left out(Or blanked out by >>dumb southern ABC affiliates), I was wondering if anyone out there knows >>of any sports bars in Atlanta which are frequented by hockey fans. I don't >>want to miss out on any of the Pens games. I am sure that there are some >>Islander fans(now that the rangers are dead) who would want to watch every >>Pens-Islanders game in Atlanta. > > >Circle Tuesday,April 20th on your TV calendar. ESPN will carry Game#2 >from Pittsburgh's Civic Arena or as they are advetising it : Pittsburgh vs. >4th place Partick Div. finisher. Personally, Bruins-Buffalo or Montreal- >Quebec City is a much better matchup but ESPN is hoping for a spoiler >in the Pens series which it's not likely to get the way Mario has been >playing for the past month or so.  I'd personally prefer Buffalo-Boston, as a birthday gift from ESPN, but I don't think the folks at ESPN will accomodate that for me ;-) ESPN has this inexplicable affinity for the Patrick division, it seems.
And now, I interrupt your regularly scheduled news reading to bring you  another message sponsored by the Department of Really Mundane Statistics:  I passed the final individual player stats posted here the other day through a filter to average out games, goals, assists, points, and penalty minutes for the mythical average NHL pro who played in the league this season. (Why? Because it's Monday and I didn't feel like writing any REAL code...)  Anyway, after I wiped out the 60-odd goalies in the list, I came up with:  NHL average:		55 GP      11 G      19 A      30 Pts      69 PIM  Then I passed the list through a second time to come up with the players who had the smallest percentage difference in each of the categories.  Marty McInnis (NYI)	56 GP (1%) 10 G (9%) 20 A (5%) 30 Pts (0%) 24 PIM (65%) Igor Kravchuk (EDM)	55 GP (0%) 10 G (9%) 17 A (10%) 27 Pts (9%) 27 PIM (53%)  These two are close in games, goals, assists, and points, but are too far off in PIM. This leaves, as the most average player in the NHL:  Bobby Carpenter (WAS)	65 GP (18%) 11 G (0%) 17 A (10%) 28 Pts (6%) 63 PIM (8%)  What an honor.  I also passed the list through with the goalies still included. Kravchuk and Carpenter were still in the top three, but Rob DiMaio came flying up from  behind to take the title:  NHL average:		53 GP      10 G      17 A      27 Pts      64 PIM Igor Kravchuk (EDM)     55 GP (3%) 10 G (0%) 17 A (0%) 27 Pts (0%) 27 PIM (50%) Bobby Carpenter (WAS)   65 GP (22%) 11 G (10%) 17 A (0%) 28 Pts (3%) 63 PIM (1%) Rob DiMaio (TB)		54 GP (1%) 9 G (9%) 15 A (11%) 24 Pts (11%) 62 PIM (3%)   It's all really kind of underwhelming when you think about it.  -SG
I was thinking about who on each of the teams were the MVPs, biggest surprises, and biggest disappointments this year. Now, these are just my observations and are admittedly lacking because I have not had an opportunity to see all the teams the same amount. Anyway....    MVP = most valuable player to his team both in terms of points and       in terms of leadership ("can't win without him")    Biggest surprise = the player who rose above expectation -- the player       that may have raised the level of his game to a new height, even       if that new level doesn't necessarily warrant an allstar berth       (includes those players who at the outset of the season, may not       even have been in the team's plans).     Biggest disappointment = the player from whom we expected more (e.g., I       picked Denis Savard in Montreal because with the new emphasis on       offence brought by Demers, shouldn't Savard have done better?)     -----------------------------------------------------------------------                            Team           Biggest       Biggest Team:                   MVP:          Surprise:    Disappointment: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Boston Bruins           Oates          D.Sweeney     Wesley Buffalo Sabres          Lafontaine     Mogilny       Audette (jinx?) Calgary Flames          Roberts        Reichel       Petit Chicago Blackhawks      Roenick        Ruuttu        Goulet Detroit Red Wings       Yzerman        Chaisson      Kozlov Edmonton Oilers         Manson         Buchberger    Mellanby Hartford Whalers        Sanderson      Cassells      Corriveau Los Angeles Kings       Robitaille     Donnelly      Hrudey Minnesota North Stars   Modano      Tinordi(not expected back)  Broten Montreal Canadiens      Muller         Lebeau        Savard New Jersey Devils       Stevens        Semak         MacLean New York Islanders      Turgeon        King(finally) Marois New York Rangers        Messier        Kovalev       Bourque Ottawa Senators         MacIver        Baker         Jelinek Philadelphia Flyers     Lindros/Recchi Fedyk/Galley  Eklund Pittsburgh Penguins     Lemieux        Tocchet(even for him)  Jagr Quebec Nordiques        Sakic/Ricci    Kovalenko     Pearson San Jose Sharks         Kisio          Gaudreau      Maley St Louis Blues          Shanahan       C.Joseph      Ron Sutter Tampa Bay Lightening    Bradley        Bradley       Creighton/Kasper Toronto Maple Leafs     Gilmour        Potvin        Ellett/Anderson Vancouver Canucks       Bure           Nedved(finally)    Momesso Washington Capitals     Hatcher        Bondra/Cote   Elynuik Winnipeg Jets           Selanne        Selanne       Druce ----------------------------------------------------------------------    As I mentioned up top, these are my *impressions* from where I sit. I would welcome any opinions from those fans nearer their teams (in other words, *anywhere* away from a Toronto newspaper!)
ee0i+@andrew.cmu.edu ("Ethan Z. Evans") writes: :  : Of course, penalties will have to be changed: :  : Roughing:	Chauvanistic Males Being Aggressive : Slashing:	Chauvanistic Males Venting Frustration : Fighting:	Proof That Males Cannot Cope With Their Feelings :   NO NO NO! since all the penalties fall into three classes, there should only be three penalties:  1. Foul (Any illegal contact with the other player or his stick with your    body or stick). If you get 5 you are out for the game.  2. Unsportsmanlike contact. (An intentional foul). This inlcludes all the    current flavours of roughing, fighting and boarding. If you get two you    are thrown out of the game, and fined.  3. Technical foul. Bad mouthing the ref, by player or coach. Penalty shot    is awarded. Two and you are thrown out of the game.  Besides the penalty shot for one technical, if the team gets 5 penalties in a period, the opposing team gets a penalty shot for every additional one, until the end of the period. The victim gets two shots if he/she was in the act of shooting when the foul ocured.  This works well for several reasons. First, penalty shots are the most exciting thing in hockey, right? So, it follows that the more the better. Next, when the player is setting up for a penalty shot, the network can take a commercial. Finally, with only three penalties, the network announcers (Don Meredith, Dick Vitale, John Madden, Pat Summerall, and Marv Levy, among others) will be able to tell the viewers what happened before the PA announcer says it.  Oh, one other rule. When a goal is scored (10-20 times a period), the play cannot resume until the PA announcer announces it. This way, the network can sneak in a few more commercials. Then, once the PA announcer has told them who scored, the TV announcer can tell you the viewer, and even have a  chance of pronouncing his name right.  Seriously, though, I actually went to see a NBA basketball game last week, for the first time in my life. I was amazed how boring it was. The play is so slow they actually had fans come out for things like free-throw shooting contests DURING THE PERIOD!. Of course the 'Laker Girls' get to do their  routines at least 6-8 times during the game, and not just between periods either. There is a whistle every 30 seconds on average, maybe less. The game is 48 minutes, with 2 minutes between quarters 1-2 and 3-4 and a 10 minute halftime, and it still takes over 2 hours.  The reason for this has to be TV. There is plenty of room to throw in commercials, and have the announcer jabber while nothing else is happening. On TV, basketball is fairly entertaining, IMHO. But, it is better to watch it on TV than to be there. If this is the road the NHL is following, then it truly is a sad day.  Enough for now.
In article <1993Apr19.171223.11311@Virginia.EDU> mjr4u@Virginia.EDU ("Matthew J. Rush") writes: > I forgot to ask: Is this the highest points total Francis has >had in a season?  Has he ever had a 100 point season before, >either with the Pens or the Whalers? >  Francis got 101 in 89-90, his last full season with Hartford.
In article <19930423112743.cvincent@poolman.ucs.mun.ca> cvincent@morgan.ucs.mun.ca  (Carl Vincent) writes: >In Article <1993Apr23.020006.583@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> "ua256@freenet.Victoria.BC.CA (Tom Moffat)" says: >>  >> Can some on e give me some stats on Forsrg in the World Championships >>  >> If sao mail to ua256@freenet.victoria.bc.ca >>  >> --  >> Tom Moffat >> Victoria B.C. >> Canada >>  >Here are the top point getters in the World Jr Hockey Championships:	 >    >                  G   A  P   >Forsberg,SWE      7  24 31 <<I am SOOO glad I have both these guys on my >Naslund,SWE      13  11 24 <<rotisserrie team.  But then again, w/ Mario, >Vyborny,CZE-SLO   6   9 15   Bure, Gretzky, Neely, P. Turgeon, Damphousse, >Sundstrom,SWE    10   4 14   Lebeau and Juneau, dunno how much time >Lehtinen,FIN      6   8 14   they'll get.. :) :) :) >
In article <gp2011-200493132808@m248-68.bgsu.edu>, gp2011@andy.bgsu.edu (George Pavlic) wrote: >  >  > Sorry to everyone for wasting space.  Matt, the other day you posted that > you were doing a mailing list of playoff stats.  I lost your address.  > Please put me on that list.  Thanks. >  > George   Sorry again.  I guess you need my address.
In article <1993Apr6.044323.22829@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> daniell@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Daniel Lyddy) writes: > >You know, you're absolutely right.  I think we should round up all those >players of European descent and ship 'em back to where they came from.  Let's >see, with whom should we start?  I dunno, Lemieux?  Hmmm...sounds like he >has *French* blood in him!!!  Hey!  France is part of Europe!  Send that >Euro-blooded boy back!!! >  Don't you Americans study history...the French settled in North America as early or before the British...Lemieux can probably trace back his North American heritage back a lot further than most of us.
In <1993Apr5.185633.17843@ists.ists.ca> dchhabra@stpl.ists.ca (Deepak Chhabra) writes:  >Implicitly you are assuming that goals scored against Winnipeg with Selanne >on the ice can be blamed on him...Roger, he is a FORWARD.  Winnipeg has a >lousy defensive record anyway.  Let's put it another way.  John Cullen's +/- >is terrible.  What's your excuse for him?  That his powerplay points don't >count?  Neither do Selanne's...   Are you comparing Cullen to Salami?  I would say that that is valid.  If Winnipeg is such a lousy defensive team then why the hell does Salami stand around the other team's blueline when the puck is in his own end?  >>The object of the game is not to feed Selanne - it is  >>to win.  And feeding Selanne does not contribute in any meaningful way >>to winning.  >Knowledgeable hockey observers the world over would agree that >feeding Selanne so he can score does contribute in a meaningful way to >winning.   Excuse me?  Are the Jets playing .500 hockey?  Let me check...yes - but just barely.  They have allowed more goals than they have scored.  Sounds an awful lot like Salami's +/- to me.  Sounds like they would be just as well off - or better - if he played the solid two-way game that our friends in Finland claim he is capable of.  But if he did that he wouldn't be chal- lenging for the league lead in goals would he?  The Bi-Planes might be challenging for first however...  >You're worried about Teemu when you have Glenn Anderson on your team?  Now let's see...you have compared Timo to Anderson and Cullen.  Who's next?  Mike Foligno?  >>We DON'T KNOW what Selanne does best.  We do know what Jet's management >>wants.  And again, the object of the exercise is not to allow Selanne to >>do what he does best, it is to win hockey games.  >What he does best is score...so I refer you to my comment above.  Some of our Finnish friends who have watched him play claim that he can play a solid two-way game.  I would have to say that this style of contribution would be more conducive to winning.  Or don't you  think so?  >>As it is now, Selanne >>is a grandstanding goal suck.  Did you see the way he parades around >>with his arms outstretched after scoring a goal?  You would think the >>Messiah had returned...  >Nope, didn't see it.  I was too busy watching Foligno jump up and down after >_his_ goal....  I don't believe it!  You did compare him to Foligno!  (And I honestly hadn't read this far).  It would help if you used a little discrimination in your thinking.  Your contributions would be more highly valued if we could see that you weren't trying to be merely argumentative.  cordially, as always,  rm
In article <C5L3EC.F2v@acsu.buffalo.edu> hammerl@acsu.buffalo.edu (Valerie   S. Hammerl) writes: > In article <93289@hydra.gatech.EDU> gtd597a@prism.gatech.EDU (Hrivnak)   writes: > > > >	Here are the results after three days of voting. Remember 3pts for  > >1st, 2 for 2nd, and 1 for 3rd. Also, you can still turn in votes! And..   if > >the guy isn't a regular goalie or he is retired, please include the   team!  > >Thanks for your time, and keep on sending in those votes! >  > > Glenn Healy (NYI), Tommy Soderstron (???), Ray LeBlanc (USA). >                      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >  > Soderstrom plays with Philly, but he doesn't have a moulded mask. > He's got the helmet and cage variety, in white.  Or at least that's > what he wore thirteen hours ago. >  Yeah but Soderstrom's mask has always appeared to be a lot bigger than the   average helmet-and-cage variety.  It has a certain appeal on its own  josh
So if Potvin can pound on Dino, what happens when Dino pounds  on him?  If Dino gets his legs slashed, can he slash Potvin in return?  This year at a UM-LSSU hockey game, a UM player was called for a slash when he hit the goalie's glove with his stick.  Is that slashing, while hitting someone's ankles isn't?  How do the refs know what to call?  Do the goalies get more liberties than other players?
Wow, this guy seems to be out to prove something to his old team, Boston. Which Sweeney you ask...well, of course Bob Sweeney, the one that Boston let Buffalo get a hold of (they still have 2 Sweeneys which makes things slightly confusing).  Game winner in OT in game 1, and another BIG goal (seconds after Fuhr made 3 point blank saves -> this is why Grant has 5 rings!!!) to put Buffalo ahead in the 3rd.  Yes, Neely countered a minute later, but hadn't this course of Buffalo going ahead after being tied and shutting down another few great scoring opportunities, I think Boston would have notched their first win of the series.  Well, the Sabres haven't made it to the end of this series yet, but I certainly feel they've got Boston right were they want them...actually, they've got them in a position that neither Buffalo nor Boston felt that would come about.  One more astronomical game by Fuhr, a few more heroics by the rest of the team (this is a team sport afterall) and I think Borque, Neely, Jouneau (sp?), and Company are gonna be swinging a new stick (Weather is perfect for golf season) real soon.  I'm not gonna waiger anything on this, because I've seen some really strange things happen in both pro and college hockey.  Talking about golf...was that a hockey swing, golf swing or baseball swing that Hawerchuck used in the last shot of the game that Khmylev deflected in for the BIG ONE?  The whole OT (all 1 minute of it!) was a tesiment to Buffalo's ability to really be persistent and grind it out in the end (something they weren't necessarily in the regular season).  The Sabres pushed hard and forced Borque to blatently take down Bodger in the opening seconds.  I don't normally like penalties being called in such ultra-critical points, but this was BLATENT.  Finally, the Sabres won a faceoff (they weren't that hot in this dept the rest of the game) when LaFontaine scooped at the puck 3 times.  When Hawerchuck took his shot (quite a boomer, but Blue stopped this one) he took a few steps over to get his own rebound and slapped at it again, without setting it up.  I didn't realize it went in until the announcer started screaming, "They score, THEY SCORE!!!".  The best was seeing LaFontaine jumping up and down, skating a little bit, jumping some more, and then skating over to Brad May who he jumped on.
In article <1r8u6v$prv@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, twork@egr.msu.edu (Michael Twork) writes: >>roots in Detroit.  He would be a valuable asset to the Wings and Perhaps the >>Rangers could get a Zombo in return? >  >    >   > Wake up and smell the Norris!!  Rick Zombo was traded to the Blues for Vince > Riendo (sp?) last season.   >  > - Mike >  Sorry Mike! What defensemen would the Wings be willing to give up for Beezer?
FINAL 1992-93 AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUE STANDINGS  NORTHERN DIVISION	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA	LYF* Providence Bruins	46	32	2	94	384	348	56 Adirondack Red Wings	36	35	9	81	331	308	84 Capital District Isles	34	34	12	80	280	285	75 Springfield Indians	25	41	14	64	282	336	94 New Haven Senators	22	47	11	55	262	343	--  SOUTHERN DIVISION	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA	LYF Binghamton Rangers	57	13	10	124#	392	246	91 Rochester Americans	40	33	7	87	348	332	86 Utica Devils		33	36	11	77	325	354	74 Baltimore Skipjacks	28	40	12	68	318	353	66 Hershey Bears		27	41	12	66	316	339	83 Hamilton Canucks	29	45	6	64	284	327	--  ATLANTIC DIVISION	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA	LYF St John's Maple Leafs	41	26	13	95	351	308	90 Fredericton Canadiens	38	31	11	87	314	278	96 Cape Breton Oilers	36	32	12	84	356	336	82 Moncton Hawks		31	33	16	78	292	306	74 Halifax Citadels	33	37	10	76	312	348	67  *- Last year's point total #- League record total