Item Details
- Set: 1982-83 O-Pee-Chee Stickers
- Player: Messier, Mark
- Sport: Hockey
- Team: Edmonton Oilers
- Card Number: #94
- Manufacturer: O-Pee-Chee
- Brand: O-Pee-Chee
Bonjour, j'aime écrire des poèmes sur tout et rien et je suis un fan de hockey et surtout du Canadiens de Montréal ! Au plaisir ! N'oublier pas de regarder ma section en bas de Mes Sonneries !
jeudi 30 avril 2015
Hockey Card of the day : 1982-83 O-Pee-Chee Stickers #94 Mark Messier
The Hockey Unknowns : Patrick Flatley
Patrick Flatley (born October 3, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario)[1][2][3] is a retired professional ice hockey forward who played in the NHL for 14 seasons between 1983 and 1997 for the New York Islanders and New York Rangers.
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) |
| Weight | 195 lb (88 kg; 13 st 13 lb) |
| Position | Right Wing |
| Shot | Right |
| Played for | NHL New York Islanders New York Rangers AHL Springfield Indians |
| National team |  Canada |
| NHL Draft | 21st overall, 1982 New York Islanders |
| Playing career | 1983–1997 |
Playing career
Flatley attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, where he played for the Wisconsin Badgers men's ice hockey team for two seasons, helping the team capture the 1983 NCAA Men's ice hockey championship, and was himself named a tournament all-star, a WCHA first team all-star, and a 1983 All-American.[4][5]
Flatley was drafted 21st overall by the New York Islanders in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft,[5] and scored on his first NHL shot on goal, against Doug Soetaert of the Winnipeg Jets.[4] Playing for the Canadian National Team in 1983–84, he scored 34 goals in 54 games. Rejoining the Islanders for the 1984-85 season, he was put on a line with Brent Sutter and Clark Gillies, and scored 9 goals through the first three rounds of the playoffs, becoming a big contributor in the Islanders' drive for their fifth consecutive Stanley Cup. However, the Islanders lost in the finals to the Wayne Gretzky-led Edmonton Oilers.
Although he never emerged as a top scorer, Flatley did become a highly effective role player, adding smart positional play, strong defense, and grit to the Islanders teams in the late 1980s and 1990s. Flatley was sometimes referred to as "the chairman of the boards" because he rarely failed to dig the puck out in battles in the corners. In 1991 he was named the Islanders' fifth captain. Prior to the 1996-97 season, Flatley signed a one year deal with the New York Rangers.[2]
He played 780 career NHL games, scoring 170 goals and 340 assists for 510 points. His best offensive season, points-wise, was the 1992–93 season when he scored 47 assists and 60 points.[6]
Collegiate career
Flatley was a member of the University of Wisconsin–Madison NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship team of 1983, and national finalist of 1982.
Awards and honours
Pat Flatley was named to the Etobicoke Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.[3]| Award | Year |
|---|---|
| All-WCHA First Team | 1982–83 |
| AHCA West All-American | 1982–83 |
Career statistics
mercredi 29 avril 2015
Le métier de défenseur n’est pas toujours facile !
Note : Voici un vieux texte de ma part (2009) qui est encore d'actualité je tenais a vous le partager merci.
Après avoir
aidé les Stars de Dallas à gagner la Coupe Stanley en 1999, le vétéran défenseur Craig
Ludwig a commencé à ce moment-là à recevoir des appels de Toronto pour le
Temple de la renommée. Les représentants
de Toronto ne voulaient pas introduire un des meilleurs bloqueurs de tirs au
Temple ; la seule chose qu’ils désiraient était ses protecteurs de tibia.
Pourquoi
voulaient-ils ces fameux protecteurs ?
Le fait est que Ludwig a joué tout son hockey mineur et ses 20 ans de
carrière dans la LNH,
en jouant avec les mêmes protecteurs.
Étant considéré comme le meilleur bloqueur de tirs de tous les temps, il
méritait sa place sur le mur du Temple de la renommée.
Il va sans dire
que bloquer un tir est en soit un exploit extraordinaire. Se jeter devant un tir qui peut atteindre en
moyenne 140 km/h
peut s’avérer un jeu très important au cours d’une partie.
Avec les séries
qui débutent aujourd’hui, l’importance de bloquer un disque de six onces en
caoutchouc dur prend un impact supplémentaire. Beaucoup plus de joueurs vont être enclins à
payer le prix pour bloquer des tirs.
Bloquer un tir n’est pas pour les personnes timides. La douleur est la
plupart du temps la récompense après avoir fait l’acte.
Le défenseur
d’Anaheim, Chris Pronger, a déjà reçu un tir sur la poitrine, provoquant un
arrêt momentané de son cœur. L’attaquant
de Montréal, Trent McCleary, a mis fin à sa carrière lorsqu’il a voulu stopper
un tir, mais que ce dernier s’est dirigé directement vers sa gorge. Cela lui a valu une fracture du larynx et une chirurgie
majeure afin qu’il retrouver la parole.
Dimitri
Yushkevich, pour sa part, a reçu un tir frappé directement dans le front en
1998, fracturant sa cavité de sinus. Micheal Peca, de son côté, a reçu un tir sur
le pied droit, lui fracturant toutes les orteils et l’a amené à l’infirmerie
pour quasiment deux saisons d’affilées.
Quant à Patrick Thoresen, il a essayé de
bloquer un tir pendant les séries de l’an passé et il l’a reçu directement dans
l’aine et a quasiment failli perdre un testicule.
Un tir bloqué,
comme un combat, peut susciter un revirement de momentum chez les coéquipiers
du joueur qui réussit le jeu. La façon idéale pour bloquer un tir consiste à
laisser les pieds entre le tireur et le but, laissant les équipements de
protection prendre le coup.
Richard Matvichuk, qui a joué avec les Stars et
gagné la Coupe Stanley
avec Lugwig, a perfectionné la méthode à un genou, ce qui permet au joueur de
pouvoir se relever plus rapidement après avoir bloqué le tir.
Mais, dans le
feu de l’action, souvent la détermination dépasse le bons sens et cela résulte
à ce que les joueurs se mettent en
position horizontale sur la glace, le tout rendant le joueur en position
beaucoup plus vulnérable aux blessures.
Le blocage de
tirs a joué un rôle important dans la conquête de la Coupe Stanley des
Stars en 1999. L’ancien directeur
général, Bob Gainey, était lui-même un spécialiste en cette matière et a forgé
son équipe à ce moment-là de joueurs très qualifiés dans le domaine, avec les
défenseurs Derian Hatcher, Darryl Sydor, Craig Ludwig et Richard Matvichuk , et
les avants Guy Carbonneau, Mike Keane et Dave Reid.
Sydor, pour sa
part, est devenu beaucoup plus qu’un simple spécialiste dans les tirs bloqués
au cours de sa carrière : après que les Stars ait fait son acquisition en
novembre, via une transaction, il a été le meilleur défenseur au chapitre des
tirs bloqués cette saison.
Pour conclure,
on peut dire qu’au lieu de défier l’attaquant, les défenseurs sont maintenant
plus tentés de se jeter devant un tir ou une passe pour essayer de bloquer, ce
qui représente une importance capitale dans un match pour un spécialiste en la
matière.
The Hockey Unknows : Chris Kontos
Christopher T. Kontos (born December 10, 1963 in Toronto, Ontario) is a former National Hockey League forward who is best known for his surprising 9 goals in 11 playoff games while he was a member of the Los Angeles Kings and his shocking franchise opening night 4 goal performance (with the Tampa Bay Lightning) against that season's Vezina Trophy winner Ed Belfour.
During the 1981–82 OHL season he scored 42 goals, and after the season was drafted with the 15th selection in the first round of the 1982 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Rangers. He split his time in both the NHL and minor leagues in his first two seasons.
He was member of the Tulsa Oilers (CHL) team that suspended operations on February 16, 1984, playing only road games for final six weeks of 1983-84 season. Despite this adversity, the team went on to win the league's championship.[1] Kontos spent the first half of 1985–86 playing in Finland before returning to finish the year in the AHL. On January 21, 1987, Kontos was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Ron Duguay, finishing his tenure with the Rangers with 38 points in 78 games. He would score 25 points in 67 games with the Penguins over two seasons before being dealt to the Los Angeles Kings on February 5, 1988.
He played only six regular season games for the Kings in 87–88 tallying 12 points (another career highlight was a 6 point game against Chicago where Kontos had 1 goal and 5 assists), and scored a goal in his first NHL playoffs. The following year, after returning from playing in Switzerland he scored three points in seven games, and his 9 playoff goals would help the Kings advance to the second round. He played only 11 games (6 regular season, 5 playoff) with Los Angeles after the 1988–89 playoff run, and decided to join the Canadian National Team in 1991–92.
When the Tampa Bay Lightning started play in 1992–93, Kontos signed on as a free agent. His surprising 4 goal-performance led the upstart Tampa Bay Lightning to a 7–3 shocker of the Chicago Blackhawks on October 7, 1992. He scored 27 goals in 66 games, second only to Brian Bradley. His Lightning record 4 goals in one game has since been tied by Martin St. Louis in 2014. He would return to the National Team in 93–94, help Canada win a silver medal at the 1994 Olympics losing to Sweden in a heartbreaking shoot out after overtime. Kontos continued to play in Sweden for(Skellefteå AIK 94-95), the IHL and Germany before retiring in 1998.
Awards :
He won the 1983-84 CHL Championship (Adams Cup) as a member of the Tulsa Oilers [2] team coached by Tom Webster.
Stats :
mardi 28 avril 2015
The hockey unknowns : Doug Smail
Playing career
Doug Smail starred at the University of North Dakota for three seasons from 1977 to 1980, scoring 87 points in 40 games in his final season in the WCHA. His performance was enough to warrant notice from the Winnipeg Jets, and the next season he was a full-time NHL player.
Smail played eleven seasons with Winnipeg, being a top two-way player for them, as he had twelve consecutive seasons in which he scored at least one shorthanded goal, with a total of 28 shorthanded goals in his career.
Perhaps Smail's greatest claim to fame was when he set the NHL record for fastest goal after the opening faceoff by scoring a goal five seconds after the game started on 20 December 1981. Smail finished his career with the Minnesota North Stars, Quebec Nordiques and Ottawa Senators, but never achieved the success he had in Winnipeg.
After Smail's NHL career was over, he played three seasons in Britain for Fife Flyers and Cardiff Devils before retiring. He was the first player ever to sign for a British team directly from an NHL team when he signed for Fife Flyers from Ottawa Senators.
He now resides in Colorado with his wife and three children. Smail was the Assistant Coach of the U-16 Team Rocky Mountain AAA Hockey program, where he coached alongside former NHL player Rick Berry last year, and is now the Head Coach of the Rocky Mountain Roughriders U-15 AAA squad.
Awards and honors
| Award | Year | |
|---|---|---|
| All-WCHA Second Team | 1979–80 |
- Named to the NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team (1980)
- Named to the NCAA Championship Tournament MVP (1980)
- Played in NHL All-Star Game (1990)
- British Ice Hockey Writers Association Player of the Year (1994)
Records
- Winnipeg Jets/Phoenix Coyotes franchise record for career shorthanded goals (25)
- Fastest goal to start an NHL hockey game (5 seconds)
Career statistics
vendredi 24 avril 2015
The hockey Unknowns : Dale Craigwell
source : wikipedias
Dale A. Craigwell (born April 24, 1971 in Toronto, Ontario and raised in Oshawa, Ontario) is a retired professional hockey player who played professionally for 9 years and played parts of 3 years with the San Jose Sharks in the NHL. He played centre and shot left-handed.
Craigwell was drafted by the Sharks in the 10th round, 199th overall in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft. He was the 11th player ever drafted by the Sharks. Prior to being drafted he played in the OHL with the Oshawa Generals for 3 years, scoring 95 points in 56 games his final year there.
During the 1991–1992 NHL season, the first for the Sharks, Craigwell was called up in the middle of the season and skated in 32 games, scoring 16 points. The 1993–1994 season was the first for Craigwell to play full time for the Sharks, but the results were dismal, as he was regulated to a defensive role and scored only 9 points the whole year. The following year he suffered an ankle injury and missed the entire 1994–1995 season.
Craigwell then played for the Kansas City Blades in the now defunct IHL for 3 years, followed by 3 more years playing in Europe, one in Germany and two in England before retiring after the 2000–2001 season.
CAREER STATS :
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Le Canadien mérite son avance
source : journalmetro.com
Si on ne regarde que le sommaire des matchs, il est facile de conclure que les Sénateurs ne méritent pas d’être balayés par le Canadien.
Après tout, leurs trois défaites, dont deux en prolongation, n’ont été que par un but.
Mais si on tient compte des chances de marquer, il est plus que clair que la troupe de Michel Therrien a eu un net avantage lors des trois premiers matchs.
Oui, les marges de victoire sont étroites, mais il faut aussi considérer la manière dont le Canadien l’a emporté.
Les statistiques
Le Canadien a obtenu 56,6% des chances de marquer jusqu’à maintenant dans la série, une statistique impressionnante, surtout que le Tricolore a fini la saison régulière avec un taux de seulement 47,8%, le 24e dans le circuit Bettman.
Le Canadien a aussi un avantage en matière de possession de rondelle contre les Sénateurs (52,9%).
Parmi les attaquants, Brendan Gallagher domine au chapitre des occasions de marquer, suivi par Max Pacioretty et Alex Galchenyuk.
Contribution partagée
Autre aspect positif du jeu du Tricolore depuis le début des séries, les buts ne proviennent pas seulement du premier trio. Brian Flynn et Torrey Mitchell ont fait fureur durant le premier match tandis que Dale Weise a été le héros du troisième.
Comme le souligne P.K. Subban, toute bonne équipe a besoin de l’apport de tous ses joueurs.
«Lorsqu’on analyse les champions de la Coupe Stanley des dernières années, on voit qu’ils ont tous reçu l’aide d’employés de soutien», a-t-il dit.
Concentré sur l’objectif
En dépit du pointage des trois dernières rencontres, Michel Therrien est très confiant, voire serein.
«On a souvent eu des matchs serrés qu’on a gagnés durant la saison. Je ne sens pas de panique, spécialement avec Carey Price.» Pas facile de contredire l’entraîneur-chef puisque Price n’a jamais perdu quatre matchs de suite cette saison.
À l’heure actuelle, il règne une confiance paisible chez le Canadien. Cela ne veut toutefois pas dire que l’équipe négligera ses adversaires. Quand les médias ont demandé à Price si le CH avait imaginé avant la série pouvoir être en position de balayer les Sénateurs, il a simplement dit: «Cela n’a aucune importance.»
Il est encore trop tôt pour enterrer les Sénateurs, mais il est temps de dépoussiérer la pelle.
La robustesse, pas si payante
Depuis le début de la série, les Sénateurs se concentrent sur la robustesse (en visant principalement P.K. Subban).
La technique a rarement fonctionné contre le Bleu-blanc-rouge, et cette série ne fait pas exception. Généralement, quand une formation domine au chapitre des mises en échec, c’est parce qu’elle n’a pas le contrôle de la rondelle. Pour enfoncer le clou, rappelons que des cinq équipes qui ont mené la Ligue nationale à ce chapitre cette saison, seulement l’une d’entre elles s’est qualifiée pour les éliminatoires.
Terrific night, tough loss as NHL playoff hockey returns to Winnipeg after 19 years
source : yahoo.com
Silence. The puck came out to the point, Francois Beauchemin fired it and Rickard Rakell deflected it into the net 5:12 into overtime Monday night. Just like that, the MTS Centre went from one of the loudest arenas of all-time to one of the quietest.
As the Anaheim Ducks celebrated their 5-4 victory and 3-0 first-round series lead over the Winnipeg Jets,
you could hear their whoops and hollers all the way up to the rafters.
Fans started filing out.
After maybe a minute, some chanted, “Go, Jets,
go!” But soon they faded, and there was no sound again. Hundreds stayed
in their seats, stunned.
Nineteen years they had waited
for this. Nineteen years they had waited to see an NHL playoff game in
Winnipeg. Now they had to process a bittersweet mix of emotions – pride,
excitement, frustration, disappointment.
“That’s one you’ll always remember,” said Jets winger Blake Wheeler. “Just too bad it wasn’t a more fond memory.”
There had been Winnipeg weather –
cold, wind, snow – and talk of omens. There had been a return of
Winnipeg’s traditional “whiteout,” fans in white jerseys and white
shirts and white hats, fans with white wigs and white hardhats and white
helmets with red lights flashing on top. There were white suits and at
least a couple of white tuxedos. There was at least one wedding dress.
There were roars like you’ve never heard before. They didn’t just cheer Winnipeg goals. They cheered Anaheim icings.
“That’s as good a building as I’ve ever seen in my life,” said Jets coach Paul Maurice, who has been behind the bench for more than 1,250 NHL games in the regular season and playoffs.
Yet the Jets blew a third-period lead for the third time in three games. Yet they gave up the tying goal to Ryan Kesler with 2:14 left in regulation – the same Ryan Kesler the fans had been jeering all night.
Yet they couldn’t cash in on a power play right after that. Bryan Little hit a post, then got robbed by goaltender Frederik Andersen.
This franchise still hasn’t won a playoff game since the Atlanta Thrashers entered the NHL in 1999-2000. This city still hasn’t witnessed an NHL playoff victory since April 21, 1996.
“It was a special, special night for us in terms of the energy from the fans and the city,” said Jets winger Lee Stempniak. “We certainly feed off that emotion. We have great fans. They’re a huge part of our home-ice advantage. It’s hard to put into words how tough this loss is.”
* * * * *
The last time this city hosted an NHL playoff game was April 28, 1996. The original Jets were facing the Detroit Red Wings
at Winnipeg Arena, the old barn with the portrait of the queen, and
everyone knew a loss would mean more than elimination. A loss would mean
relocation.
The Jets lost, and so the fans
said goodbye. They stood and cheered as players shook hands, and then
they stood and cheered some more as the Jets acknowledged them one last
time. A homemade banner unfurled from the upper deck: “OUR JETS WILL FLY
4 EVER.”
Fans wept. Even players wept. The problem wasn’t a lack of passion for the team or the game. The problem was economics and politics.
“The team when it left was a
victim of circumstances,” said NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. “The
government agreement was over. There was no prospect of a new building.
There was nobody that wanted to own the team here.”
The Jets moved to Phoenix – and took the traditional playoff whiteouts with them – and Winnipeg became a minor-league town. But in the mid-2000s, two things happened: the MTS Centre was built for the AHL’s Manitoba Moose with 15,000 seats, just enough for an NHL team if the opportunity ever arose, and the NHL introduced the salary cap, changing the dynamic for small markets.
Mark Chipman and his partners at True North Sports and Entertainment waited patiently and quietly, and they got their chance when the Atlanta Thrashers ran into trouble and the NHL ran out of options in 2011.
Winnipeg would be the smallest market in the league. It would have the smallest arena in the league.
But its time had come (again). People partied at Portage and Main. They bought 13,000 season tickets in 17 minutes – and it took that long only because the computers needed 15 minutes to process the credit cards.
As soon as winger Andrew Ladd arrived for a visit, he knew he wasn’t in Atlanta anymore. The team had just been sold. It didn’t have a new nickname or a logo yet. But as he stood at baggage claim, a fan recognized him and said: “Welcome to Winnipeg.”
Chipman announced at the draft the team would be called the Jets, and the city celebrated again. Then came the new logo. Then came the new uniforms.
Before the first season started,
the fans already had gotten to know the players and adopted them. One
player visited an elementary school. A little girl handed him a can of
Barq’s Root Beer she had brought from home. She had heard him mention in
a radio interview it was his favorite.
The first regular-season game was Oct. 9, 2011. The fans cheered as the clock counted down. When the play stopped with 1.6 seconds left, that gave them one more chance to chant: “Go, Jets, go!” The standing ovation continued through the final horn and didn’t end until after the last man had left the ice.
And the Jets had lost to the Montreal Canadiens, 5-1.
* * * * *
Soon Winnipeg wasn’t happy just to be back in the NHL.
“Our first year, they wanted a winning team,” said defenseman Jim Slater, who has spent his entire 10-year NHL career with the franchise. “Everything you read and hear on the radio, there’s obviously those fans who want it to happen right now.”
General manager Kevin
Cheveldayoff remained patient – too patient for some. But he replaced
coach
Claude Noel with Maurice last season, and the Jets made a run. He
made a number of moves this season, and the Jets made the playoffs.
After the Jets clinched April 9, they returned from Denver after a 1-0 shootout victory over the Colorado Avalanche to find about 200 fans waiting for them at the airport. It was 2:30 a.m. It was a Thursday night – or a Friday morning, rather. But there they were, wearing jerseys, holding signs, cheering as the players walked to their cars.
“Where we’re parked, I don’t even know how they know where we are, let alone what time we’re going to be home,” Little said. “I don’t think you’d see that in a lot of other places.”
Most season-ticket holders exercised their option to buy playoff tickets. Less than 1,000 were made available to the public for Games 3 and 4 of this series, and they sold out in six minutes – and it took that long only because the computers needed five minutes to process the credit cards. If you were looking on StubHub on Monday afternoon, only eight tickets were for sale. Eight. The cheapest was $649.
“Not a lot of people know where Winnipeg is on a map, but they definitely know where their hockey team is, and we take a lot of pride in that,” Slater said. “It’s a small community, but a big community with hockey.”
Maurice, who has also coached the Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes and Toronto Maple Leafs, said the connection between the city and the team in Winnipeg was unlike any he had seen before.
They appreciate having an NHL team again. They appreciate this NHL team for how hard it plays. He feels a responsibility to bring out the best in their loved ones.
“You get the feeling like you’re kind of like the teacher here and you’ve got their kids, and their kids are the Winnipeg Jets hockey team,” Maurice said. “And through the course of the regular season they’ve been getting pretty average to below-average marks, and they’re finally getting some good grades. They kind of come over and thank you, like, ‘Hey, my kids are doing great.’ ”
Fans lined up Monday night, waiting for the gates to open. Dean Cockrell, 63, was first at the ropes.
“The last game, it was sad,” said Cockrell, who was there 19 years ago. “The team was leaving. I don’t know that anybody really knew how to react back then. I think for a lot of people this is surreal. I’m in the older generation, so I remember. I think for a lot of people, they were so young, they really don’t remember the old Jets, so this is going to be exciting for them, too. You have another whole generation now.”
* * * * *
Look at it this way, Winnipeg.
To lose, you have to be in the game. This is part of being in the NHL,
part of making the playoffs. And the series isn’t over yet. Just last
year, the Los Angeles Kings lost Game 3 in OT at home and fell into a 3-0 first-round series deficit. They rallied to win the series and the Stanley Cup.
David Thomson, a co-owner of the
Jets, rode down an elevator without a word Monday night. Asked for his
feelings, he said: “It was an extraordinary game and a wonderful
atmosphere.”
He paused.
“And there’s Game 4.”
He paused again.
“And there’s Game 4.
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