freep.com - 17 days ago
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TORONTO -- The talent possessed by Steve Yzerman, Brett Hull and Luc Robitaille -- three Red Wings who will be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame tonight -- inspired awe in those who surrounded them on a daily basis. Their wit often left those same teammates laughing. Yzerman, 44, Hull, 45, ...
sports.espn.go.com - 20 days ago
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The scene was Joe Louis Arena during the
pregame warm-up before Game 2 of the 2002 first-round...
playoff series between the Detroit Red Wings and Vancouver Canucks . Steve Yzerman could barely stand the pain in his right knee, which at that point was ...
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2009 Hockey Hall of Fame -- Steve Yzerman will be ...
downgoesbrown.com - 17 days ago
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Saturday night, I was at the ACC to
watch the Leafs take on the Red Wings. This...
was a big deal. While I did manage to make semi-regular trips to Maple Leaf Gardens , I've been living in Ottawa for the entire ACC era. I got to one game in the early ...
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Leafs vs. Wings
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Red Wings legend Steve Yzerman's Hockey Hall of Fame induction yields Yzermania
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... (slightly whippy) or 75 pounds of pressure (very whippy) needed to flex the stick--Hull's stick was rated at a 62.5, bending like a bow to maximize energy transfer during Hull's patented wrist shots. In the realm of Red Wings' players' sticks, Tomas Holmstrom's flat-bladed stick serves as much as a tripod and a sort of "oar" blade to tip pucks, but Holmstrom told the Free Press's Helene St. James that Robitaille tried to get #96 to change his blade pattern...with disastrous results... November 9, Detroit Free Press : "Luc wanted to put a big, big curve in my stick," Holmstrom ...
The Morning Skate: A Headshot Hearing, a Union Adrift and a Lot of Hurting
Slap Shot —
... writes about. Three other player inductees, Steve Yzerman, Brett Hull and Luc Robitaille have a strong Detroit connection , having all been Stanley Cup champions with the Red Wings, although Hull (with the Blues) and Robitaille (with the Kings) made their names elsewhere. Here are stories from those local papers on Yzerman (in ...
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