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Team for the ages: Detroit's 2002 Cup champs
Team for the ages: Detroit's 2002 Cup champs
Kings hero Luc Robitaille reailzed his Stanley Cup dream by signing with the Wings. Hockey players know when they're around greatness. At least Kris Draper did in 2002. After his Detroit Red Wings won the Stanley Cup that year, the longtime center made sure to get a couple autographed team jerseys.    He's glad he did.   "I'm framing those and holding onto those," he told Sporting News. "As of Monday, they're going to be worth a little more."  ...
Celebrating the Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2009
Celebrating the Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2009
sports.yahoo.com — Leahy and I thought about adding a "Best Hall of Fame Class of the last decade" list to our end-of-2000s project, but opted to leave it out. Few would argue that the Class of 2002 was the weakest: Bernie Federko, Clark Gillies, Rod ... (more) Celebrating the Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2009
The 10 biggest hockey upsets of the last decade
The 10 biggest hockey upsets of the last decade
sports.yahoo.com —   (No, the first decade of the 21st century doesn't technically end until 2011. Save your bellyaching. But we've had nine NHL seasons and one stolen from us since 1999-2000, and Yahoo! Sports has decided it's time to rank the best and worst of ... (more) The 10 biggest hockey upsets of the last decade

2009 Hockey Hall of Fame -- Steve Yzerman will be remembered as 'fierce competitor'
sports.espn.go.com — 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 ... (more) 2009 Hockey Hall of Fame -- Steve Yzerman will be ...
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Red Wings' 2001-2002 Stanley Cup-winning team a singular entity
Snapshots — ... players continue their march into the Hockey Hall of Fame when Steve Yzerman, Luc Robitaille, and Brett Hull are inducted on Monday. With Nicklas Lidstrom, Sergei Fedorov, Dominik Hasek, Brendan Shanahan, and Chris Chelios, if not Holland, slated to join the three (and, as Custance notes, Igor Larionov and Larry Murphy) sooner or later, Holland suggested that hockey fans can bet upon the suggestion that no team will ever contain the same number of superstars thanks to the salary cap: November 7, The Sporting News :"No chance," Holland told Sporting News. "That team was special ...

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