Classic always thrill for real fans.Byline: Bill Ballou COLUMN: AHL AHL American Hockey League AHL Action Half-Life (Half-Life modification) AHL Acyl Homoserine Lactone AHL Aramark Harrison Lodging AHL Acylated Homoserine Lactone AHL Association for the History of Language AHL Architects Hawaii Ltd It was cold and snowy in Syracuse - redundant, I know - on the morning of Feb. 11, 1998, and I had just gone out the door of a downtown breakfast nook Noun 1. breakfast nook - a place for light meals (usually near a kitchen); "the breakfast nook had a built in table and seats" breakfast area area - a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided when a gentleman tapped on my shoulder from behind and asked, "Do you know how to get to the Hotel Syracuse from here?" In the midst Adv. 1. in the midst - the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?" midmost of saying, "Two blocks north, one block west," I realized I was giving directions to Jim Craig Jim Craig can refer to:
Craig and I were both there that wintry win·try also win·ter·y adj. win·tri·er also win·ter·i·er, win·tri·est also win·ter·i·est 1. Belonging to or characteristic of winter; cold. 2. morning for the annual American Hockey League
Hockey doesn't really have fans as much as it has cult members, and the upcoming events in and around the DCU Center  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . on Sunday and Monday will be a hockey follower's dream. If Craig isn't around - and who's to say he won't be? - Gerry Cheevers Gerald Michael "Gerry" Cheevers (born on December 7, 1940, in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a former goaltender in the National Hockey League and World Hockey Association between 1961 and 1980. will be and who doesn't still get excited about seeing the goalie who turned stitches into an art form? The All-Star Game itself is on Monday night - it'll be fun and everybody will go home happy - but the game mostly serves as a reason to bring everybody together in minor league hockey's version of the Democratic National Convention. The DCU Center stands and concourse will be filled with some of the most recognizable faces in the game. Yes, that's Harry Sinden over there talking with Ron Hextall and, sure, Jim Schoenfeld and Paul Stewart just walked past a minute ago. The All-Star Classic is built around the NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there Stars of tomorrow, and seeing as though players like Dennis Wideman, Martin St. Louis Martin St-Louis (born June 18, 1975 in Laval, Quebec, Canada) is a French Canadian professional ice hockey right winger Playing career A diminutive player by NHL standards at 5-foot-9, St-Louis has played six seasons as of the 2006-07 NHL season for the Tampa Bay , Kari Lehtonen, Jason Spezza and Ryan Miller - among others - have played in it, the premise is a good one. But like any convention, the Classic really ties the players and coaches of today with the ones who came generations before. For the dedicated hockey fan, and there really are no casual hockey fans, it is going to be a remarkable weekend in Worcester. And if someone stops you and asks for directions, if you're extra nice, he might show you his gold medal. All's well for Sharks The Sharks are in Springfield tomorrow night, then at Lowell on Saturday night and have a chance to transform what has been a good road trip so far into an historic one. Worcester has earned five of a possible eight points to date and is playing two teams it has combined to go 6-2-0 against. Overall, the Sharks are 6-2-1 in 2009; after picking up a point in a shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. loss at Hershey on Sunday, they were in second place. It marked the first time in franchise history Worcester had been that high in the standings that late in the season. Ryan Vesce carries an 11-game points streak, a franchise record, into the weekend. The all-time Worcester pro record is 15 games, set by Chris Kenady of the IceCats from Dec. 31, 1996 to Feb. 5, 1997. Kenady went 10-10-20 during that streak. The second-best IceCats streak was 11 games, done twice by Eric Boguniecki. Vesce's three overtime goals are a franchise record, and a Worcester pro hockey record as well. League research on OT goals is ongoing; Brett Sterling had four of them for the Chicago Wolves last season, so Vesce hasn't set a league record - yet. The Sharks should be on the plus side in their weekend roster. While Claude Lemieux has gone up to San Jose, Brad Staubitz and Tom Cavanagh are back in town and All-Star defenseman Derek Joslin is expected to join the team for the weekend, as well, and be here for the All-Star Classic. The highlight of Worcester's road trip so far is its 6-5 OT victory in Norfolk on Saturday night. The Sharks were down at one point, 5-1. The comeback is the greatest one in franchise history, so far. How rare is such a comeback? In 1,083 AHL games played by Worcester teams, it is just the third time someone has come back from four goals down to win. The biggest one remains the IceCats' 7-6 victory over Manchester on March 30, 2003. Worcester trailed, 6-1, going into the third period. On Feb. 24, 1995 in Prince Edward Island Prince Edward Island, province (2001 pop. 135,294), 2,184 sq mi (5,657 sq km), E Canada, off N.B. and N.S. Geography One of the Maritime Provinces, Prince Edward Island lies in the Gulf of St. , the IceCats were down, 5-0, and came back to eventually go ahead 6-5 at 19:18 of the third period. They lost in OT, though, after Steve Larouche tied it with 25 seconds left in regulation. Jason Zent scored the OT goal, Patrick Traverse was on the PEI defense and Darren Rumble had three assists for the Senators. Around the league Greg Gilbert, the second IceCats coach, and Don Granato, the third IceCats coach, square off against each other Saturday night for the second time this season. Granato's Chicago Wolves beat Gilbert's Toronto Marlies in a shootout at Chicago, 3-2, on Jan. 14. This weekend's game is in Ontario. ... Last Saturday, the IceCats' goalie tandem from 2004-05 went head to head with Curtis Sanford of the Manitoba Moose beating Jason Bacashihua of Cleveland, 1-0. That whitewash whitewash, white fluid commonly used as an inexpensive, impermanent coating for walls, fences, stables, and other exterior structures. It varies in composition, being generally a mixture of lime (quicklime), water, flour, salt, glue, and whiting, with other was the last of a string of games during which Cleveland played in four straight shutouts, winning the first two and losing the next two. ... It doesn't just happen to the Sharks - Peoria had 47 shots on goal at San Antonio on Sunday and got blanked by Josh Tordjman, 2-0. ... Can anyone out there make sense of this? The Sharks are 4-1-0 versus Lowell, and 1-3-1 against Providence, while Lowell is 5-1-0 versus the P-Bruins. The "L" in AHL has never stood for "logical." ... Michael Ryan has scored 10 goals in his last seven games for Albany, including a pair of hat tricks. ... Hamilton is 17-6-2-0 against North Division opponents thus far, including a 9-1-1-0 mark on home ice... Grand Rapids has gone a franchise-record 11 consecutive games without surrendering a power-play goal, posting a perfect 40-for-40 mark on the penalty kill over that span... Rochester's Janis Sprukts had consecutive four-point games (3-1-4 and 1-3-4) as the Americans took road wins over Manchester and Providence last weekend . ... Philadelphia center Jared Ross is Player of the Week. Ross went 6-3-9 with a plus-5 rating in four games, helping the Phantoms to victories in all four contests. He began the week with a hat trick in the Phantoms' 7-1 win over Worcester. Six of the league's 15 Players of the Week so far this season did something versus the Sharks on the way to being selected. Unstoppable Giroux Alexandre Giroux's goal vs. the Sharks on Sunday not only tied that game, 2-2, to send it into a shootout won by Hershey - it set a league record for longest goal-scoring streak at 15 games and moved him into a tie for 50th place on the AHL's all-time list in that department. He and Murdo MacKay both have 232 career goals. Giroux broke Brett Hull's record, set in 1986-87. Hull went on to score 741 goals in the NHL; Giroux is 3-3-6 in 21 NHL games. Giroux's streak has been interrupted by five separate recalls to Washington, but is considered intact. Most Valuable All-Stars A list of All-Star Game MVPs since the event was re-established in 1995: Year City MVP (Multimedia Video Processor) A high-speed DSP chip from Texas Instruments, introduced in 1994. Officially introduced as the TMS320C80, it combines RISC technology with the functionality of four DSPs on one chip. Pos. Reg. team All-Star team 2008 Binghamton Teddy Purcell F Manchester Monarchs Canada 2007 Toronto Brett Sterling F Chicago Wolves PlanetUSA x-2006 Winnipeg Yann Danis G Hamilton Canada Wade Flaherty G Manitoba Canada 2005 Manchester Tomas Plekanec F Hamilton Bulldogs PlanetUSA 2004 Grand Rapids Mike Zigomanis F Lowell Lock Monsters The Lowell Lock Monsters were an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League that played in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA at the Tsongas Arena from 1998 through 2006. In 2006, they were purchased by the New Jersey Devils hockey team and now have the name Lowell Devils. Canada 2003 Portland Jon Sim F Utah Grizzlies Canada 2002 St. John's Mike Craig F Cleveland Barons Canada 2001 Wilkes-Barre John Slaney D Wilkes-Barre Canada 2000 Rochester Martin Brochu G Portland Pirates Canada 1999 Philadelphia Jean-Marc Pelletier G Philadelphia Phantoms PlanetUSA 1998 Syracuse Peter Zezel F Albany River Rats The Albany River Rats are an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They play in Albany, New York, USA at the Times Union Center. History The team was founded as the Capital District Islanders (playing at Houston Field House on campus at RPI located across the Canada 1997 Saint John Tomas Vokoun G Fredericton Canadiens World 1996 Hershey Wes Walz F Adirondack Red Wings The Adirondack Red Wings were a minor professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They played in Glens Falls, New York, USA at the Glens Falls Civic Center. The team was affiliated with the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League. USA 1995 Providence Ralph Intranuovo F Cape Breton Oilers The Cape Breton Oilers were an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. The team relocated from Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1988 and was renamed for Cape Breton Island. Home games were played in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada at Centre 200. Canada x-In 2006, Danis and Flaherty, both goalies, were co-winners. NAME: WORCESTER SHARKS ART: PHOTO CUTLINE: The AHL All-Star Classic center-ice logo was painted yesterday at the DCU Center. PHOTOG pho·tog n. Informal A person who takes photographs, especially as a profession; a photographer. : T&G Staff/JIM COLLINS |
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