The Utah Grizzlies begin their 5th season in the IHL this up coming season and though the
franchise has been around 6 years (1 year was spent in Denver), there is alot of history
surounding the team. The Grizzlies first year of existence was in Denver, Colorado which is no
stranger to professional hockey. The International Hockey League granted Denver their first IHL
franchise in 1959-60 as the Denver Mavericks, but due to unseen circumstances the Mavericks
ended up moving to Minneapolis to complete the season as the Minneapolis Millers. The NHL moved
into Denver with the Colorado Rockies until moving to New Jersey.
The IHL moved back into Denver as the Colorado Rangers in 1987-88 in which the Rangers lasted
two seasons. In 1987-88 the Rangers finished 5th with a 44-35-3 record for 91 points in 82
games. Todd Elik lead the Rangers in scoring with 44 goals, 56 assists for 100 points and had 81
PIM in 81 games. Also Simon Wheeldon finished the season with 99 points on 45 goals, 54 assists
with 80 PIM in 69 games. Mike Ritcher lead the Rangers goalies posting a 3.14 GAA, with 1
shutout, 68 goals against and 1298 minutes played in 22 games. In the playoffs the Rangers
defeated Kalamazoo 4 games to 3 games, but were outsted by Salt Lake in the quarterfinals 4
games to 2 games. In 1988-89 the Rangers became known as the Denver Rangers instead of the
Colorado Rangers and posted a 33-42-7 record for 73 points in 82 games. In the Playoffs the Read more »
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Sabres Report: Training Camp Preview With the beginning of the Buffalo Sabres ’99 training camp just a day away, this would be a good time to present a camp preview. The main purpose of this article will be to speculate which Sabre prospects, if any, will make a push to stay with the big club. The Sabres have seven restricted free agents, as well as one unrestricted free agent, so it is possible that some younger players will be thrown into the fire until the veterans arrive. Given the fact that the Sabres are coming off a Stanley Cup final appearance, however, it is unlikely that many of the prospects will make the Sabres roster on merit, since there would be few roster spots available without the training camp holdouts. I’m going to break down each position, listing the incumbents (veterans) and prospects at each position, and follow that with a brief analysis identifying which prospects, if any, have an opportunity to make the Sabre roster. An asterisk (*) next to a name denotes either a restricted or unrestricted free agent. There will be instances where a player’s name will appear at more than one position, which means that the player is not exclusively used at a certain position.
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Incumbents - Mike Peca, Curtis Brown *, Stu Barnes *, Wayne Primeau *, Joe Juneau *, Brian Holzinger
Prospects - Mike Zigomanis, Brad Moran, Francois Methot, Aaron Goldade, Kamil Piros, Brad Self Hockey pool book reviewWell it’s hockey pool time — the favourite time of year for some of us — and with that we find at our local newsstands a Now, there are different publications for different tastes and needs, but you can decide what you want, and where your money is best spent. But here is the order that I find the best. For my money Slam’s Hockey Forecaster is far and away the best out there. While others give you glitz and sizzle, the Forecaster gives you most of everything. For the average office poolster they give a breakdown of the best to pick and the best to avoid. Their write-ups are concise and give you their opinion on why or why not a player will produce. But where this publication shines is in their coverage of secondary players and the prospects. While the average poolie wouldn’t touch a Tom Poti last year (and for good reason) the perpetual, or rotisserie, poolies love these little things and the Forecaster gives you plenty of this. If year in year out you Read more » Prospects Tournament Game 2 – The real prospects show up
For those of you keeping track, Montreal lost the opener on Wednesday to Tampa Bay by a score of 4-3 but were totally outplayed and outshot. In the night cap game, Florida beat the Ottawa prospects by a score of 4-3 as well. In yesterday’s early game, Ottawa beat Tampa 3-2 in a shootout. After a 5 min overtime period didn’t settle matters, Petr Schastlivy beat Robert Holsinger with the only shootout goal for the win. Mathieu Chouinard was outstanding as he stopped all five Tampa shooters. Simon Lajeunesse let in two Tampa goals by Chris Gignac and Sergei Kuznetsov earlier in the game. The other goal scorers for Ottawa were British import Jonathan Weaver and Chris Neil. So with Montreal’s decisive 5-2 victory over Florida each team has won and lost a game which should make Friday’s matches very interesting. Here’s a quick rundown of what I thought of each of the Montreal Prospect’s performance in this game: Championship Game Rematch set After Blues dispose of DetroitProspect Camp RostersRostersFlorida Panthers39 Ivan Novoseltsev 41 Ian Jacobs 45 Brad Ference 46 Paul Harvey 52 Joe Dipenta 53 Travis Eagles 54 Ryan Jardine 56 Morgan McCormick 57 Chris Ovington 58 Kyle Rossiter 59 Rid Sarich 60 Denis Shvidki 61 Brad Woods 62 B.J. Ketcheson 64 Nick Smith 65 AJ Baines 67 Luke Murphy 68 Serge Payer 71 Brett Gibson 72 Curtis Huppe 73 Brad Goulet 74 Keith Delaney 75 Eric Godard 76 Paul Spadafora Goaltenders34 Alex Auld 35 Jonathan Charron 70 Jean-Francois Laniel Tampa Bay Ligtning23 Paul Mara 24 Glen Crawford 33 Curtis Tipler 34 Van Rachunekl 36 Sergei Kuznetsov 37 Chris Gagne 38 Brad Richards 40 Dimitri Afenssonkov 41 Eric Beaudoin 42 Matt Elich 43 Kyle Freaderich 45 Mark Thompson 46 Chad Cavanaugh 47 Brett Allen 48 Oak Hewer 50 Fedor Fedorov 51 Dale Rominiski 53 Justin Clark 53 Jan Sulo 54 Sheldon Keefe 56 Kyle Koss 57 Brett Schaffeimaier 58 Curtis Rich 59 Chris Lyness 60 Daniel Hulak GoaltendersA look at the Montreal Prospects camp
There’s no knight in shiny armor in the crew of Montreal prospects. Below is how each player did. Keep in mind this is only one game and they’ve probably never played together before so they did look out of place. Gordie Dwyer-Excellent fore checker, solid body checks, 1 assist, 2 fights (one win, one draw) will play in Quebec (AHL) but zero chance of any NHL time in my opinion. Konstantin Sidulov-Didn’t impress, didn’t disappoint, was pretty much invisible. He was a little on the small side. Francois Beauchemin-Brisebois, Robidas…you get the picture. May make it to NHL just because the Habs always give these guys a shot. Kind of reminds me of Brian Campbell, smallish and non-physical but a strong skater and nice passer. Matt Carkner-Raw, good size, no offensive skills, weak skater but could be the next Brad Brown which isn’t too bad really. He could play for another team down the road. Jason Lehoux- 2 fighting majors, lost one badly to Kyle Freadrich of Tampa, drew on the second. Didn’t look terribly out of place on a terrible looking team. Toronto Maple Leafs Prospect: Vladimir Kulikov Who is He Anyway? With the 211th selection in the 1999 NHL entry draft, the Toronto Maple
Those fans who read these reports felt that the Maple Leafs had passed on
Kulikov has played for CKSA in Russia, which is the former Red Army Player Profile: Sven Helfenstein(The picture is courtesy of http://www.hockeyfans.ch) Statistics: 99/00 http://www.ehc-kloten.ch/spielbetrieb/spielerstatistik/index.htm + Anticipates opposition movement well. - Puck jumps off the stick when he receives sharp passes. Playing away from the puck: + Breaks into positions to make himself available as pass receiver. - Too often he seems to be a bit reactive. Tendence: getting better. Read more » |
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