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Goons-Be-Gone
by Paul on 09/02/11 at 10:01 PM ET
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from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail,
About the most sensible thing ever said about fighting – and its place in the NHL, past, present and future – came from former Boston Bruins general manager Harry Sinden almost two decades ago.
Responding to the widely held canard that fighting always was and is an integral part of the game, Sinden noted that the soldiers who invented the game by playing hockey on the frozen St. Lawrence River in the 19th century didn’t go onto the ice with the intention of starting a fight. Fighting gradually crept into the game, an unhappy part of its evolution, and according to Sinden, it can evolve right out again.
“If the wise men of today sat down and started a brand new hockey league, they wouldn’t include fighting,” Sinden said in an interview Friday. “They wouldn’t start off by saying, ‘Let’s let everybody fight and just give them a five-minute major.’ It wouldn’t fit today.
“How you ever get it out entirely, I don’t know, but they have opportunities to adjust things so these goons – and people who are only in the game to fight – could be limited and slowed down. That they could do.”
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Morning Line
by Paul on 06/03/11 at 10:32 AM ET
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“I saw a good game by the Bruins. A pretty typical game. [Tim] Thomas held it together when we faltered, which has been the case all year.
“We did slip a little in the third. We could have won the game. It’s like Thomas said, we didn’t come here to tell you we played a good game, we came here to win. Who cares how you play in the Stanley Cup Finals if you don’t win?
“We’re up against a good team, the best team we’ve played. But I don’t think we’re up against [Wayne] Gretzky and [Mark] Messier.’’
-Harry Sinden, Senior Advisor to the Owner & Alternate Governor for the Boston Bruins on game 1. More from Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe.
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Talking About An Injury
by Paul on 04/16/08 at 05:31 PM ET
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from Tim Wharnsby of the Globe and Mail,
Did former Boston Bruins general manager Harry Sinden break a golden rule in hockey when he revealed that Boston captain Zdeno Chara has been playing with sore ribs in an interview with the Boston Globe in today’s edition?
Sinden was asked for his opinion on a variety of subjects and players, and when queried for his thoughts on Chara, the former Bruins president stated, “We’ve got a hell of a leader in Chara, but I think he’s hurting right now. This rib injury. He’s playing OK, but he’s not as aggressive.”
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