Mark Spector
Senior Columnist at Sportsnet Canada
Sr. columnist, https://t.co/Zjp5zYrRVl. Past President, Professional Hockey Writers' Association. Author of Battle of Alberta and Road to Gold. Skier of bumps.
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2 weeks ago |
sportsnet.ca | Mark Spector
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Things We (Think We) Know. Series III, Volume IV. Things We KnowFlorida Panthers centre Sam Bennett “fell” on/was “pushed” into/had his heel “kicked” by Stu Skinner in Game 2, landing on an opposing goalie for the umpteenth time in these playoffs. Bennett comes to rest on goalies’ limbs and craniums the way that family of blue jays returns to nest in the backyard at the end of each day.
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3 weeks ago |
sportsnet.ca | Mark Spector
EDMONTON — It’s not supposed to be easy. It took these teams nine periods of hockey to decide the opening two games of this Stanley Cup Final, and after a double OT, 5-4 loss in Game 2, the Edmonton Oilers will lean on the experience they’ve gleaned from 13 playoff series over the past four seasons. It’s a best-of-five for the Stanley Cup now. No time for pouting. “There’s going to be some disappointment,” counselled Oilers head coach Kris Knoblauch.
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3 weeks ago |
sportsnet.ca | Mark Spector
EDMONTON — It’s a complex place, this city that hopes to break the Canadian curse and bring a Stanley Cup home to Canada for the first time since 1993. Edmonton, like a Winnipeg or a Hamilton, is a city you need to live in to love. I know this — I was born here and live here today.
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3 weeks ago |
sportsnet.ca | Mark Spector
EDMONTON — We thought the Los Angeles Kings ran a crowded neutral zone, but now you watch the Florida Panthers lay their forecheck down, and you see what a real neutral zone is supposed to look like. A Stanley Cup-winning neutral zone. It seemed like Vegas won its battles, or that the Dallas Stars had skill and goaltending. Then you play Florida, and it’s an entirely different animal.
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3 weeks ago |
sportsnet.ca | Mark Spector
EDMONTON — Even as it became clear to Zach Hyman that his wrist was not right, the hockey player inside kept telling him one thing:“Even then, you still think that whatever it is you'll be able to play through it,” he said, wearing a cast on his right wrist on the morning of a Stanley Cup Final in which he will not take part. “Quickly you realize, when I saw the doctors, that it was something that needed surgery. Something that I wasn't going to be able to play through.
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RT @taylordbaird: "Talk about Roope's injury, that was a broken foot. The biggest problem with Roope was we couldn't get it to stop bleedin…
Just filed a "Things We (Think We) Know" from somewhere over North Carolina. Write some of my best stuff when crammed into a plane seat behind reclining-seat guy. Or so I tell myself... Ha ha. Up soon @Sportsnet
With the raft of former Sabres out there who turned into excellent players, I’d say picking up a Buffalo cast off can’t be bad for business.
@SportsnetSpec Not good enough for Buffalo to sign though?
