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| East meets West in 53rd annual NHL All-Star Game |
NHL Hockey |
02/02/2003 |
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| ned with a bruised ankle since December 3. The Eastern/Wales Conference holds an 18-7-1 advantage over the Western/Campbell in the all-time series. FIRST-TIMERS Fourteen players will be making their All-Star Game debut, including Dany Heatley of the Atlanta Thrashers. Heatley won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year last season and has built upon his stellar freshman showing. The University of Wisconsin product is tied for 20th in the league in scoring with 49 points (23g, 263a). Other first-time All-Stars fo |
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| Rangers lose in Sather's return to bench |
NHL Hockey |
01/31/2003 |
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| ntic Division. With the 11th seed in the Eastern Conference, the Rangers are on the way to their sixth straight season without a playoff berth despite the league's highest payroll. New York has lost four straight games, including a pair to the lowly Atlanta Thrashers. This will mark the third coaching stint of Sather's professional career, following two separate coaching runs with the Edmonton Oilers (1977-78 through 1988-89 and 1993-94). Sather guided the Oilers to 12 straight playoff appearances -- WHA and NHL |
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| Sather replaces Trottier as Rangers coach |
NHL Hockey |
01/30/2003 |
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| tic Division. With the 11th seed in the Eastern Conference, the Rangers are on the way to their sixth straight season without a playoff berth despite the league's highest payroll. New York has lost three straight games, including a pair to the lowly Atlanta Thrashers. This will mark the third NHL coaching stint of Sather's professional career, following two separate coaching runs with the Edmonton Oilers (1979-80 through 1988-89 and 1993-94). Sather guided the Edmonton Oilers to 12 straight playoff appearances, |
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| Rangers axe first-year head coach Trottier |
NHL Hockey |
01/29/2003 |
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| tic Division. With the 11th seed in the Eastern Conference, the Rangers are on the way to their sixth straight season without a playoff berth despite the league's highest payroll. New York has lost three straight games, including a pair to the lowly Atlanta Thrashers. "After the last three games we made the decision that the team is sliding in the wrong way," Rangers general manager Glen Sather said during a conference call. "I just felt that I had to do something and had to do it quickly if we were going to sal |
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| Report: Rangers fire Trottier |
NHL Hockey |
01/29/2003 |
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| . TSN-Canada reported that Trottier, who has guided the Rangers to a disappointing 21-26-6-1 first-half record, will not make it through his rookie coaching season. New York has lost three straight games, including a pair of convincing losses to the Atlanta Thrashers. Trottier was named the 30th head coach in Rangers' franchise history on June 6, 2002. The 46-year-old had been an assistant coach with the Colorado Avalanche during the previous four seasons. He scored 524 goals and had 901 assists during his 18-ye |
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| Leafs hope to halt three-game slide |
NHL Hockey |
01/29/2003 |
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| ive action. Alexander Mogilny last scored, 54 seconds into the third period of a 3-1 loss to the Flyers on January 21. The Leafs, whose coach, Pat Quinn, will celebrate his 60th birthday today, are 9-11-2-1 on the road this season. They'll visit the Atlanta Thrashers on Thursday to lead into the All-Star break. And speaking of the All-Star break, for the first time since the league began holding a regular All-Star Game in 1947 there will not be a Toronto Maple Leafs player in the game. Ed Belfour will sit out th |
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| Thrashers attempt to match franchise-record unbeaten streak |
NHL Hockey |
01/28/2003 |
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| Atlanta, GA (MySportsbook) - The Atlanta Thrashers try to match their franchise-record unbeaten streak this evening when they welcome the New York Rangers to town in the second meeting between the two in four days. Atlanta, which is 2-0-1 in its last three, last went unbeaten in four straight from October 21-28, 2000 (1-0-3-0). Dany Heatley's second career hat trick lifted Atlanta to a 4-1 victory over the Rangers on Saturday. Vyacheslav Kozlov had three assists for the Thrashers, who improved to 4-1-1 under |
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| Rangers Team Report: Lost weekend |
NHL Hockey |
01/27/2003 |
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| (MySportsbook) - If Saturday's loss to the Atlanta Thrashers was not bad enough, Sunday's 7-2 setback to the Washington Capitals proved that the New York Rangers still has a ways to go if it plans on returning to the postseason for the first time in six seasons. "There's still a lot of season left and plenty of time to catch fire," said Matthew Barnaby. "But definitely losing these two games is huge and doesn't help us any." Jamie Lundmark provided both New York goals in Sunday's rout, but the Rangers allowed |
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| Blues Team Report: Thrashed in Dixie |
NHL Hockey |
01/22/2003 |
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| (MySportsbook) - The St. Louis Blues got a taste of what the future holds in store for the NHL on Tuesday when two of the most promising young scorers in the league led the Atlanta Thrashers to an 8-4 win. Dany Heatley, playing on his 22nd birthday, had two goals and an assist, while 19-year-old Ilya Kovalchuk scored twice and also added an assist for Atlanta, which scored a team-record five times in the first period. Keith Tkachuk had two goals for the Central Division-leading Blues, who had their two-game w |
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| Rangers Team Report: Trottier's return a memorable one |
NHL Hockey |
01/22/2003 |
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| anks to a little help from New York Jets quarterback Chad Pennington, who dropped the ceremonial first puck, the Rangers dominated in every aspect of the game on their way to their first regular season shutout over the Isles since November 23, 1985. However, the Rangers also blanked the Isles in the first two games of the postseason on their way to the Stanley Cup in 1994. WHAT'S AHEAD The Rangers head to Nashville on Thursday to face the Predators before welcoming the Atlanta Thrashers to Broadway on Saturday. |
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