VICTORY FOR VLADDIEWHILE FANS’ LOVE ECHOES, SO DOES THE MYSTERY CALLED FATESTANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS: RED WINGS 3, STARS 2
He sat up high in the owner’s box, wearing a warm-up suit, a cap and a smile that could not help itself. Vladimir Konstantinov, the fallen soldier. He could no longer do his old job, which was skating and hitting and shooting on a professional hockey team. He...
Our State Needs an Official Song
I love songs. Always have. There is a song in my head pretty much all the time, which sometimes causes problems, because right in the middle of, say, a big political press conference, I might drift off and begin to unconsciously warble, just loud enough for people to...
LAST ONE STANDINGFROM HITSVILLE TO SNOOZEVILLE TO CLIFF-HANGER
So which part do you want to hear about? The Dream, The Sleep, The Nightmare or The Wake-Up? You can say a lot about the Red Wings Friday night. You can’t say they didn’t give you a taste of everything.The first chunk of evening was too good to be true,...
Swede Success. Lidstrom-Holmstrom? It’S A North-South Thing
Ihand the map of Sweden to Nick Lidstrom. I ask him to circle his home town. It’s in the southern half of the country. “Vasteras,” he says. “Very nice place.”
“And where is your teammate Tomas Holmstrom from?” I ask.
“Tomas?” he says, snickering. “He’s from …up north.”
I go to Holmstrom. I hand him the map of Sweden. He circles his hometown. It is indeed in the north. “Pieta,” he says. “Very nice place.”
“And where is Lidstrom from?”
“Nick?” he says, rolling his eyes. “He’s from …down south.”
Stars Weren’T Ready To Knuckle Under Yet
DALLAS — First, he shoved the Stars’ best player, Mike Modano, and knocked him to the ice like a bully flooring a schoolkid. Then he flipped another Dallas star, Pat Verbeek, stripping his helmet as he was sent sprawling. The ref blew the whistle and pointed — you, mister, I mean you — and the Detroit Bad Boy snarled and shook his head.
And this is our goalie.
IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO REPEAL CASINOS
This is about second chances.We voted casino gambling into our city a few years ago — by a narrow margin. In the weeks after the vote, the media ran a lot of stories about what gambling does to a town. Stories about failed attempts in New Orleans and broken...
So You Want The Truth? Osgood Is Tough Enough
Maybe if he didn’t look so young. Maybe if we added crow’s feet to his eyes, gave him scars, a receding hairline, a prescription for Viagra. Maybe then, people would take Chris Osgood more seriously.
“How about if you looked like Slava Fetisov?” I asked Osgood the other day.
“No thanks,” he said, softly laughing.
JACKPOT! RED WINGS CLOSE OUT BLUES; FEDOROV CAN BANK ON ITSTANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS: RED WINGS 6, BLUES 1
ST. LOUIS — We now return you to your regularly scheduled Stanley Cup madness.After a brief interruption Sunday — in which aliens from a slow-footed planet occupied the bodies of the Detroit Red Wings — the local hockey team was back in form Tuesday...
FUHR MAKES HIS STAND; WILL WINGS MAKE THEIRS?
One shot, by Brendan Shanahan, came so hard into his chest, it lifted him into the air. Another, by Martin Lapointe, was strong enough to leave an indentation in his stomach. Darren McCarty got so close with his stick he could have sliced him like corned beef —...Stay Connected
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