Remembering Brad McCrimmon . . .
The Detroit Free Press has a story right here.
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Keith Gave of the Detroit Free Press has a neat Brad McCrimmon memory right here.
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Ryan Pyette of QMI Agency attended Saturday’s funeral service in Farmington, Mich. His story is right here.
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Craig Custance of espn.com also was in Farmington and he remembers the beauty of the Beast right here.
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JUST NOTES: The Red Deer Rebels got their roster down to 31 players by assigning F Dexter Bricker, 16, to the midget AAA Swift Current Legionnaires and F Scott Feser, 16, to the midget AAA Red Deer Optimist Rebels. The Rebels have five players still with NHL teams. . . . The Spokane Chiefs got D Brenden Kitchton back from the camp of the New York Islanders but still are missing F Blake Gal (Calgary), F Darren Kramer (Ottawa) and F Dominik Uher (Pittsburgh). . . . Kelowna G Jordan Cooke, 18, finished his superb exhibition season with a 36-save performance Saturday in Ladner, B.C., as the Rockets got past the Vancouver Giants 2-1 in a shootout. Kelowna head coach Ryan Huska is of the belief that Cooke and veteran Adam Brown, 20, give his club the best 1-2 goaltending punch in the league and it’s hard to argue with him at this point. . . . How did Cooke do in the exhibition season? He went 5-0-0, 2.30, .930.
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Victoria makes its return to the WHL on Friday when the Royals meet the Giants in Vancouver. The teams will play again the next night in Victoria. Cleve Dheensaw has an interesting look at the decision-making process on the part of RG Properties that resulted in the franchise moving from Chilliwack to Victoria. That piece is right here.
Dave Dakers, the president of RG Properties sports and entertainment division, told Dheensaw that the ECHL’s Victoria Salmon Kings, a franchise that was folded to make room for the Royals, had an annual operating budget of $3 million, with the Royals’ running at "15 to 20 per cent less" than that.
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James Christie of The Globe and Mail attended a seminar — Outcomes following Concussion in Hockey — at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto on Saturday.
Dr. Shree Bhalerao told the seminar that concussion patients “don’t want to return to the ice. They have a feeling of panic . . . the elements of an acute stress disorder.
“Eighty-seven per cent have cognitive changes in short-term memory and problems in what have become known as executive functions: problems in sequencing organization, attention and planning.”
Dr. Michael Cusimaro, a neurosurgeon who specializes in brain injury management, said: “There's still an attitude out there that brain injury is like a broken arm. You can't take your brain for granted.”
During the seminar, Christie writes, “Dr. Michael Hutchison, a post-doctoral fellow in injury prevention at St. Mike's, said a videotape study of almost 200 concussions in the NHL from 2007 to 2010 showed most are caused by head shots initiated by shoulder, elbow or gloves. Only about one in 10 were the result of fights, he said.”
Christie’s complete piece is right here.
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Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Another chapter in hockey's ugly summer
THE MacBETH REPORT:
F Bernhard Keil (Kamloops, 2010-11) has been assigned on loan by the Straubing Tigers (Germany, DEL) to Regensburg (Germany, Oberliga). Keil had five goals and three assists in 46 games with the Blazers last season. The DEL starts its regular season on Sept. 16; the Oberliga starts Sept. 23.
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D Yuri Urychev and F Daniil Sobchenko, who died in Wednesday’s crash of the plane carrying the KHL’s Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, played for Team Russia in last season’s Subway Super Series.
They also played for the Russian team that won the 2011 World Junior Championship in Buffalo.
In the Super Series, Urychev had three assists in the six games, including two helpers in a 7-6 shootout victory over the WHL in Kamloops.
Sobchenko finished the six games with a goal and three assists. He scored once in the game in Kamloops and added another in the shootout.
Sobchenko was a sixth-round selection by the San Jose Sharks in the 2011 NHL draft and later attended their development camp.
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For a look at the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl roster, you can click right here.
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For a pictorial look at the roster, you can click right here.
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Jesse Wallin, the GM and head coach of the Red Deer Rebels, talking to Red Deer Advocate sports editor Greg Meachem:
“This hits pretty close to home. Brad was a tremendous human being, a mentor for me when I was growing up. He and Kelly had a cabin at Jackfish Lake near North Battleford and he used to come by and pick up some of us young guys and take us down to the track to train (for the next hockey season). . . .
“Brad was from the Kindersley (Sask.) area where my mom and dad grew up so we kind of had some family connections. My family had known the McCrimmons for some time.
“I spent a lot of time with him as a teen and I know he was a great resource for a lot of young guys coming through Brandon. Kelly (McCrimmon) had him at (Wheat Kings) training camp for a lot of years. He liked working with the young guys. Here was a guy 15 years into his career and he’d walk into a room, see a young guy sitting in the corner and walk over and start a conversation. That’s just the kind of person he was.”
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A tweet from former NHL/WHL/Team Canada goaltender Corey Hirsch: “I’m at a loss for words about this plane crash. Played with or against most of them. Beast, your giant smile will never be forgotten.”
Beast, of course, was Brad McCrimmon's nickname throughout hockey's world.
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Ron Hextall is the Los Angeles Kings’ assistant GM. He is a former Brandon Wheat Kings goaltender who was a teammate of McCrimmon’s in Philadelphia. Here’s Hextall, to Helene Elliott of the Los Angeles Times: “When I think of the teammates I had over the years and great teammates, Brad McCrimmon is at the top of the list. Any athlete wants to be remembered as a great teammate. He truly was.”
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Eric Duhatschek of The Globe and Mail, who knew McCrimmon perhaps better than any other journalist, offers up his thoughts right here.
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Allan Maki of The Globe and Mail, who like Duhatschek is based in Calgary, says goodbye to McCrimmon right here.
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Craig Custance of Sporting News has a solid read right here.
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Mark Spector of sportsnet.ca takes a look at NHL players and something that goes unspoken as they prepare for yet another in a season’s worth of plane flights. That piece is right here.
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Finally, for a completely different angle on Wednesday’s tragedy check out this entry from a blog named ACHICKSPERSPECTIVE.
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F Bernhard Keil (Kamloops, 2010-11) has been assigned on loan by the Straubing Tigers (Germany, DEL) to Regensburg (Germany, Oberliga). Keil had five goals and three assists in 46 games with the Blazers last season. The DEL starts its regular season on Sept. 16; the Oberliga starts Sept. 23.
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D Yuri Urychev and F Daniil Sobchenko, who died in Wednesday’s crash of the plane carrying the KHL’s Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, played for Team Russia in last season’s Subway Super Series.
They also played for the Russian team that won the 2011 World Junior Championship in Buffalo.
In the Super Series, Urychev had three assists in the six games, including two helpers in a 7-6 shootout victory over the WHL in Kamloops.
Sobchenko finished the six games with a goal and three assists. He scored once in the game in Kamloops and added another in the shootout.
Sobchenko was a sixth-round selection by the San Jose Sharks in the 2011 NHL draft and later attended their development camp.
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For a look at the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl roster, you can click right here.
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For a pictorial look at the roster, you can click right here.
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Jesse Wallin, the GM and head coach of the Red Deer Rebels, talking to Red Deer Advocate sports editor Greg Meachem:
“This hits pretty close to home. Brad was a tremendous human being, a mentor for me when I was growing up. He and Kelly had a cabin at Jackfish Lake near North Battleford and he used to come by and pick up some of us young guys and take us down to the track to train (for the next hockey season). . . .
“Brad was from the Kindersley (Sask.) area where my mom and dad grew up so we kind of had some family connections. My family had known the McCrimmons for some time.
“I spent a lot of time with him as a teen and I know he was a great resource for a lot of young guys coming through Brandon. Kelly (McCrimmon) had him at (Wheat Kings) training camp for a lot of years. He liked working with the young guys. Here was a guy 15 years into his career and he’d walk into a room, see a young guy sitting in the corner and walk over and start a conversation. That’s just the kind of person he was.”
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A tweet from former NHL/WHL/Team Canada goaltender Corey Hirsch: “I’m at a loss for words about this plane crash. Played with or against most of them. Beast, your giant smile will never be forgotten.”
Beast, of course, was Brad McCrimmon's nickname throughout hockey's world.
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Ron Hextall is the Los Angeles Kings’ assistant GM. He is a former Brandon Wheat Kings goaltender who was a teammate of McCrimmon’s in Philadelphia. Here’s Hextall, to Helene Elliott of the Los Angeles Times: “When I think of the teammates I had over the years and great teammates, Brad McCrimmon is at the top of the list. Any athlete wants to be remembered as a great teammate. He truly was.”
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Eric Duhatschek of The Globe and Mail, who knew McCrimmon perhaps better than any other journalist, offers up his thoughts right here.
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Allan Maki of The Globe and Mail, who like Duhatschek is based in Calgary, says goodbye to McCrimmon right here.
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Craig Custance of Sporting News has a solid read right here.
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Mark Spector of sportsnet.ca takes a look at NHL players and something that goes unspoken as they prepare for yet another in a season’s worth of plane flights. That piece is right here.
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Finally, for a completely different angle on Wednesday’s tragedy check out this entry from a blog named ACHICKSPERSPECTIVE.
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