Archive for September, 2008
Tyler Cuma having great camp with Minnesota Wild NHL
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Minnesota Wild top draft pick Tyler Cuma from the Ottawa 67s makes latest roster cut. Minnesota Wild top draft pick Tyler Cuma makes latest roster cut – TwinCities.com
Canadian Hockey League Jerseys For SaleJunior stars P.K. Subban and Olivier Fortier were among 18 players cut from the Montreal Canadiens training camp Subban, Fortier among players cut by Canadiens
The game winner came from the son of former NHL player Peter Bondra, David Bondra, who was the 300th and the final pick of the 2008 Ontario Hockey League Draft.Junior Showcases « Maine Hockey Journal
Guelph Storm forward Luke Pither has been named the Ontario Hockey League player of the week after scoring three goals and adding three assists in three games.The Canadian Press: Joel Broda named Western Hockey League player of the week
Peter ‘Mad Dog’ Di Salvo made 30 saves, records first career OHL shutout. Colts trotted to a 2-0 win against the Peterborough Petes. The Barrie Examiner – Ontario, CA
So, the first season after being relocated to Mississauga was a successful one. They made the OHL Cup playoffs, but their experience was brief.Confessions of a Hockey Fanatic: Dedication to a Special Saint 08
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Hockey Trade Rumours Report – Calgary Flames NHL
Hi gang, Rick Ostler here with OHL Hockey News, bringing you the Hockey Trade Rumours Report. Lots of NHL trade rumours swirling around the start of the Calgary Flames camp.
Hockey Trade Rumours Report – Calgary Flames NHL Trade Rumours
Adrian Aucoin isn’t some rube as green as a bushel of brussels sprouts. The Calgary Flames defenceman is in fact pretty sharp — a perfectly bilingual chap who attended Boston University. Aucoin broke into the National Hockey League with Vancouver in 1995, which is 13 years — or, if you prefer, five Canucks sweater modifications — ago.
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So when he looks around the locker-room and sees eight rearguards with a combined 3,709 contests of NHL experience and only seven jobs available, he knows there’s a problem.
When he takes note of eight one-way contracts worth a total of $25 million, he realizes something has to give. “A lot of guys are thinking about it,” said Aucoin, who will make $4 million in the final season of a deal signed with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2005, “but something’s going to happen sooner or later. I think everybody knows they have to do what they do best and something’s going to happen.
“Obviously, (general manager Darryl Sutter) will have to make a hard decision. It’s not going to be easy, but hopefully whoever it is, he’s going to find some greener grass somewhere else.” One report suggested Aucoin, despite no-trade protection, would be the guy to go, with the Los Angeles Kings the most likely suitor.
Adrian Aucoin enjoys NHL Trade Rumours gossp!
“Oh yeah, I’m sure,” laughed Aucoin, who admits he actually enjoys trade gossip. “They need money (in Los Angeles in order to get up to the salary floor). There’s going to be rumours. It’s going to happen a lot more now when you see older guys in their last year that there’ll be rumours about them. I mean it’s always been like that, but even more now.”
The situation on Calgary’s back end might be tricky, but all visible evidence suggests it’s anything but awkward. Guys battling for the same job kid with each other and, as was the case Friday when Rhett Warrener went after the Florida player who cross-checked Anders Eriksson, stick up for one another.
“That’s the type of players that we have here,” said Aucoin, a 35-year-old Ottawa product. “You look at our D corps and you’re not going to find many better guys in the league as persons. Even though you’re in competition with the other guys out there, we never see it as that.”
The 2007-08 season was as good as it’s been for Aucoin since the lockout. After two miserable, injury sabotaged seasons with the Blackhawks, he played 76 games and notched 10 goals and 25 assists in his first Calgary season.
In a day when free-flowing hockey is all the rage, Aucoin admits he’s a bit of a dinosaur. “I’m all right (with the way the game is played today) just because I can move the puck,” he said. “That’s what helps my style of game. But personally, I still prefer the clutch and grab. I’m not the slowest guy, but I’ve always been really good with my stick and using it to tie up (opponents’) hands and grabbing and pushing and getting under guys’ skins. NHL Trade Rumours…Thanks to Jean Lefebvre, Calgary Herald for this;Aucoin knows numbers game
Adrian Aucoin Player Profile
Defense
Born Jul 3 1973 -- Ottawa, ONT
Height 6.02 -- Weight 210 -- Shoots R
Selected by Vancouver Canucks round 5 #117 overall 1992 NHL Entry Draft
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Season Team Lge GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
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1991-92 Boston University NCAA 33 2 10 12 62
1992-93 Canadian National Team Intl 42 8 10 18 71
1993-94 Hamilton Canucks AHL 13 1 2 3 19 4 0 2 2 6
1993-94 Canadian National Team Intl 63 5 12 17 82
1994-95 Vancouver Canucks NHL 1 1 0 1 0 4 1 0 1 0
1994-95 Syracuse Crunch AHL 71 13 18 31 52 -- -- -- -- --
1995-96 Vancouver Canucks NHL 49 4 14 18 34 6 0 0 0 2
1995-96 Syracuse Crunch AHL 29 5 13 18 47 -- -- -- -- --
1996-97 Vancouver Canucks NHL 70 5 16 21 63 -- -- -- -- --
1997-98 Vancouver Canucks NHL 35 3 3 6 21 -- -- -- -- --
1998-99 Vancouver Canucks NHL 82 23 11 34 77 -- -- -- -- --
1999-00 Vancouver Canucks NHL 57 10 14 24 30 -- -- -- -- --
1999-00 Canadian National Team Intl 2 0 0 0 2
2000-01 Vancouver Canucks NHL 47 3 13 16 20 -- -- -- -- --
2000-01 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 26 1 11 12 25 -- -- -- -- --
2001-02 New York Islanders NHL 81 12 22 34 62 7 2 5 7 4
2002-03 New York Islanders NHL 73 8 27 35 70 5 1 2 3 4
2003-04 New York Islanders NHL 81 13 31 44 54 5 0 0 0 6
2004-05 Modo Hockey Ornskoldsvik SEL 14 2 4 6 32 6 1 0 1 16
2005-06 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 33 1 5 6 38 -- -- -- -- --
2006-07 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 59 4 12 16 50 -- -- -- -- --
2007-08 Calgary Flames NHL 76 10 25 35 37 7 0 3 3 4
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NHL Totals 770 98 204 302 581 34 4 10 14 20
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Hockey Trade Rumours Report – Claude Lemieux eyes NHL Comeback
Hi gang, Rick Ostler here with OHL Hockey News, bringing you the Hockey Trade Rumours Report. This is more like a hockey comeback rumour report out of Denver, Co.
Hockey Trade Rumours Report – NHL Comeback for Claude Lemieux
He is 43 years old and hasn’t played in the NHL in five years. But Claude Lemieux says he is in better shape than he was when he played for the Avalanche in the late 1990s, and says he will attempt a comeback to the game he loves.
“I got the passion back, and I know I can do it,” Lemieux said Thursday. Lemieux retired from the NHL after the 2002-03 season with Dallas, partly because of injuries to his groin and ankle. He then played briefly in Switzerland in 2003-04, before quitting as a player to become the president of the Phoenix Roadrunners of the East Coast Hockey League.
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Lemieux tired of the front-office duties and departed the Roadrunners, and has since done things like run a hockey school in the Phoenix area. He said he decided two and a half months ago that he wanted to give it a shot at a comeback to the NHL. “I skated with some guys from the Coyotes, including one that played with the Avs for a while, Steve Reinprecht. After a scrimmage, he said to me, ‘You’re flying out there, you going to play again? And I said, ‘You think I should?” and it kind of went from there,” Lemieux said.
Claude was a huge start in the Quebec Major Junior League palying for Trois Rivieres Draveurs and the Verdun Junior Canadiens before turning pro.
Lemieux, a four-time Stanley Cup winner who scored 80 goals and 158 points in 233 career playoff games, said he will act as his own agent and call teams to ask for tryouts. He expressed great interest in returning to the Avalanche, and believes his former team, or any other in the NHL, wouldn’t be sorry if they give him a chance.
Lemieux has been working out daily with noted fitness trainer Andrew Urban — who is living in Lemieux’s house — and said he would play for a team’s minor-league affiliate first if that’s what it takes.
“I’m not doing this just to play one game in the NHL and that’s it. I really think I can still help a team make the playoffs, and into the playoffs. It would sure be nice to get that fifth Stanley Cup,” he said. “I’m going to give myself two to three weeks to see if any team will give me a chance, but even if that doesn’t happen, it’s a long year and I plan to keep working out hard. The biggest thing is that I know I can still play with guys who are still playing now for teams, and I know what it takes to win.”
The Avalanche had no immediate comment if it has any interest in signing Lemieux. Hockey Trade Rumours Report thanks Former Av Lemieux trying comeback – The Denver Post
Claude Lemieux
Right Wing
Born Jul 16 1965 -- Buckingham, PQ
Height 6.00 -- Weight 215
Selected by Montreal Canadiens round 2 #26 overall 1983 NHL Entry Draft
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Season Team Lge GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
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1982-83 Trois Rivieres Draveurs QMJHL 62 28 38 66 187 4 1 0 1 30
1983-84 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL -- -- -- -- -- 2 1 0 1 6
1983-84 Montreal Canadiens NHL 8 1 1 2 12 -- -- -- -- --
1983-84 Verdun Juniors QMJHL 51 41 45 86 225 9 8 12 20 63
1984-85 Montreal Canadiens NHL 1 0 1 1 7 -- -- -- -- --
1984-85 Verdun Junior Canadiens QMJHL 52 58 66 124 152 14 23 17 40 38
1985-86 Sherbrooke Canadiens AHL 58 21 32 53 145 -- -- -- -- --
1985-86 Montreal Canadiens NHL 10 1 2 3 22 20 10 6 16 68
1986-87 Montreal Canadiens NHL 76 27 26 53 156 17 4 9 13 41
1987-88 Montreal Canadiens NHL 78 31 30 61 137 11 3 2 5 20
1988-89 Montreal Canadiens NHL 69 29 22 51 136 18 4 3 7 58
1989-90 Montreal Canadiens NHL 39 8 10 18 106 11 1 3 4 38
1990-91 New Jersey Devils NHL 78 30 17 47 105 7 4 0 4 34
1991-92 New Jersey Devils NHL 74 41 27 68 109 7 4 3 7 26
1992-93 New Jersey Devils NHL 77 30 51 81 155 5 2 0 2 19
1993-94 New Jersey Devils NHL 79 18 26 44 86 20 7 11 18 44
1994-95 New Jersey Devils NHL 45 6 13 19 86 20 13 3 16 20
1995-96 Colorado Avalanche NHL 79 39 32 71 117 19 5 7 12 55
1996-97 Colorado Avalanche NHL 45 11 17 28 43 17 13 10 23 32
1997-98 Colorado Avalanche NHL 78 26 27 53 115 7 3 3 6 8
1998-99 Colorado Avalanche NHL 82 27 24 51 102 19 3 11 14 26
1999-00 New Jersey Devils NHL 70 17 21 38 86 23 4 6 10 28
1999-00 Colorado Avalanche NHL 13 3 6 9 4 -- -- -- -- --
2000-01 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 46 10 16 26 58 -- -- -- -- --
2001-02 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 82 16 25 41 70 5 0 0 0 2
2002-03 Dallas Stars NHL 32 2 4 6 14 7 0 1 1 10
2002-03 Phoenix Coyotes NHL 36 6 8 14 30 -- -- -- -- --
2003-04 Zug Swiss 7 2 3 5 4 5 1 3 4 8
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NHL Totals 1197 379 406 785 1756 233 80 78 158 529
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Hockey Trade Rumours Report, Los Angeles Kings
Hi gang, Rick Ostler here with OHL Hockey News, bringing you the Hockey Trade Rumours Report. Are NHL trade rumours building up in the Los Angeles Kings camp with former OHL all-star Patrick O’sullivan?
Hockey Trade Rumours Report – Los Angeles Kings NHL Trade Rumours
Team continues to try to work out a deal with the third-year forward, but General Manager Dean Lombardi says the offer won’t be for anything less than three years. As the standoff continues between the Kings’ front office and the agent for third-year forward Patrick O’Sullivan, the likelihood of General Manager Dean Lombardi conceding on a one-year contract grows slimmer.
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Patrick played 4 years for the Mississauga IceDogs 2000-2005 after coming from the U.S.A. Junior National Team.
Patrick O’Sullivan remains away from Los Angeles Kings camp
Every day that O’Sullivan is held out of training camp, his conditioning and development suffer, Lombardi said. As a result, it’s more likely that the team’s fourth-leading scorer from last season won’t be at full strength until early next year.
Anze Kopitar, the team’s leading scorer last season who played on the same line as O’Sullivan, will become a restricted free agent in the off-season. He’s hoping he doesn’t get caught up in the same mess.
“Hopefully, we can get a deal done before that,” he said. “But my mind is on hockey right now, where it should be.” NHL Trade Rumours Report thanks; Patrick O’Sullivan remains away from Kings camp – Los Angeles Times
Patrick O'Sullivan
Center
Born Feb 1 1985 -- Winston-Salem, NC
Height 5.11 -- Weight 190 -- Shoots L
Selected by Minnesota Wild round 2 #56 overall 2003 NHL Entry Draft
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Season Team Lge GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
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2000-01 U.S. National Under-18 Te NAHL 56 22 35 57 57
2001-02 Mississauga IceDogs OHL 68 34 58 92 61 -- -- -- -- --
2001-02 U.S. Jr. National Team USHL 1 1 0 1 2 -- -- -- -- --
2002-03 Mississauga IceDogs OHL 56 40 41 81 57 5 2 9 11 18
2003-04 Mississauga IceDogs OHL 53 43 39 82 32 24 12 11 23 16
2004-05 Mississauga IceDogs OHL 57 31 59 90 63 5 0 4 4 6
2005-06 Houston Aeros AHL 78 47 46 93 64 8 5 5 10 4
2006-07 Los Angeles Kings NHL 44 5 14 19 14 -- -- -- -- --
2006-07 Manchester Monarchs AHL 41 18 21 39 12 16 8 9 17 10
2007-08 Los Angeles Kings NHL 82 22 31 53 36 -- -- -- -- --
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NHL Totals 126 27 45 72 50
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