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Hockey World Will Converge In Windsor For Ferguson Memorial

by Paul on 07/17/07 at 08:45 AM ET
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from the Windsor Star,

A memorial service scheduled Saturday for the late John Ferguson Sr. is likely to attract a who’s who of the hockey world to pay tribute to the Montreal Canadiens tough guy who made the Windsor area his home.
Ferguson, 68, the father of Toronto Maple Leafs general manager John Ferguson Jr., succumbed to prostate cancer Saturday.
There will be no private service, Ferguson’s daughter Christina Ruhl said Monday, but they are anticipating a strong turnout from the hockey fraternity for the Saturday memorial.
“My brother (John Jr.) has been receiving quite a few phone calls,” said Ruhl.
“A lot of people have said they want to come and it’s just a question of getting flights and everything. We put it later in the week to give people time to get here.”

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added 6:49am, from the Ottawa Citizen,

Hull respected Ferguson for his work as an NHL enforcer, although it might have cost Hull’s Blackhawks a Stanley Cup. In the 1960s and ‘70s, the Canadiens and Blackhawks met three times in the final, and Montreal won all three.
But in that ‘65 meeting, it was a beating put on Eric Nesterenko by Ferguson that swung the series. Whether accidentally or with a purpose, Nesterenko brought his stick down on Ferguson’s head in Game 5 of the series - and paid for it with three vicious rights to the face by Ferguson.
Bleeding profusely, Nesterenko went off for “repairs,” and did return, but sheepishly. Montreal won the game 6-0, and though the Blackhawks pushed the series to the limit, their will was gone. Chicago fell meekly in Game 7, 4-0.

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Comfortable In Carolina

by Paul on 07/17/07 at 08:04 AM ET
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from the News & Observer,

Ten years after the team arrived in North Carolina from Connecticut, the Triangle is starting to become a destination for many current and former NHL players, attracting free agents to sign with the Hurricanes and retaining those who played here.
(Aaron) Ward signed with the New York Rangers after the Hurricanes’ 2006 Stanley Cup run and was traded to the Boston Bruins in midseason.
He kept his house in Cary and this summer moved to North Carolina for good from suburban Detroit.
Ron Francis is the most notable, but he’s joined by current NHL players such as Ward and Toronto Maple Leafs forward Bates Battaglia, who owns the Glenwood South bar Lucky B’s.
Former Hurricanes Steve Halko and Robert Kron chose to settle in the Triangle after completing their NHL careers, and Tom Barrasso, who played only five months for the Hurricanes during the 2001-02 season, has looked into buying a house here.

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We Have An Anniversary

by Paul on 07/16/07 at 09:55 PM ET
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Today Wayne Gretzky and Janet Jones-Gretzky celebrate their 19th wedding anniversary.
To read more about the wedding and actually see a video of the day, check out the CBC archives.

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Bad Example

by Paul on 07/16/07 at 02:05 PM ET
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from Adam Proteau of the Hockey News,

How proud the NHL must be to know one of its players has been hosting a camp that instructs kids as young as 12 how to physically decimate their opponents with their fists.

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in case you missed the story Adam is referring to, you can read it here...

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One Last Good Time

by Paul on 07/16/07 at 12:45 PM ET
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from John McGourty at NHL.com,

To hear Tom McVie tell it, John Ferguson Sr., who died Saturday after a lengthy battle with prostate cancer at age 68, liked to be surrounded by family and friends, hockey and horse-racing people, good food, good music and good horses.
Understanding that Ferguson was losing his battle to cancer, a group of life-long friends gathered with John and his wife, Joan, back in March for one last good time.

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from Dave Stubbs at the Montreal Gazette,

Four decades ago, because of John Ferguson, I was sent to bed without supper and docked a week’s allowance.
And while I long ago forgave the Montreal Canadiens’ hard-rock winger whom we sadly lost to cancer on Saturday at age 68, I’m not so sure about my sister.
Fergy was one of my childhood heroes; nothing unusual about that for a Montreal schoolboy in the mid-1960s who thought the Stanley Cup was loaned autumn through spring by the Canadiens to the National Hockey League.

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Hockey In July

by Paul on 07/16/07 at 10:32 AM ET
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from the Ynetnews,

Ice hockey evokes associations of snow, freezing temperatures and an audience wrapped in heavy coats. Yet, Sunday, in the middle of the boiling, humid, Israeli summer, the Jewish world’s ice hockey championship was opened in Metula….
Competing teams represent the US, France, Israel and Canada. In Sunday’s first game, held yesterday the US beat France 6:4, although as long as the Jews win, who cares.

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Player In Sharks Orginazation Survives Plane Crash

by Paul on 07/15/07 at 09:26 PM ET
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from the Vancouver Sun,

Two men — one of them a San Jose Sharks draft pick — are lucky to be alive after their plane crashed south of Port McNeill on Vancouver Island, Saturday, killing the pilot….
Warrant officer James Warden said it took about 10 minutes to get through the dense bush, carrying medical equipment.
They hadn’t even spotted the wreckage when they heard one of the men responding to their call for survivors.
The voice belonged to Glenn Olson, a left-wing free agent with the NHL’s Sharks, Warden said.

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Hot Dogs & The Cup

by Paul on 07/14/07 at 06:15 PM ET
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frm Larry Brown Sports,

We all know how the Stanley Cup goes to each player of the Cup-winning team for a day. Well, the Ducks won it, and low-and-behold, it appeared on the front page of the LA Times on Thursday. Chilling at Pink’s Hot Dog in Hollywood. How tight is that?

continued... and to follow the travels of the Cup this summer, don’t forget to check out NHL Connect - Stanley Cup...

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Just Say No

by Paul on 07/14/07 at 10:54 AM ET
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from the CBC,

Canada’s so-called Prince of Pot said he’s received a legal notice from the CBC telling him to stop promoting a hockey game screening event as Hockey Night in Vansterdam.
The CBC alleged Marc Emery has violated its trademarks….
Emery had purchased a 50-inch (125-cm) plasma-screen TV and decided to start showing playoff hockey games at the B.C. Marijuana party’s Vapour Lounge earlier this year.
The reason for the move, said Emery, was that there are plenty of places in Vancouver to have a beer and watch a game but nowhere to smoke pot and enjoy some sports viewing.

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The Art Of Decking An Opponent

by Paul on 07/14/07 at 10:13 AM ET
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from the Pioneer Press,

Thursday night, about two dozen players ages 12-18 paid $50 apiece to learn from the Boogeyman and his protégé, Aaron, his youngest brother and a former Wild prospect now under contract to the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The kids learned how to leverage their strength when decking an opponent, protect themselves against punches from various angles and condition their bodies for the physical play that is the cause of, and solution to, the NHL’s identity crisis.
The second “Derek Boogaard Fighting Camp,” which includes T-shirts splotched with blood-red dye, was staged inside a stuffy miniature rink with boards, glass and plastic ice.

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added 12:07pm, from Russo’s Rants,

Trevor Lakness, who runs Puckmasters and first had the idea for the Boogaard’s to run the camp, has received several complaints from parents about the Boogaard’s teaching children how to fight.
The Drew Remenda Show on CJME has also received calls from angry parents referring to it as a “Goon School.”
Boogaard, however, says he’s not trying to teach kids how to fight or “hurt people.” He feels fighting is inevitable in hockey and he’s trying to teach these children how to defend themselves and not to get hurt.

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