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Capitals Look To Knuble For Leadership
by Paul on 10/05/09 at 07:55 AM ET
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from Gary Graves of USA TODAY,
As Knuble’s role takes shape with the defending Southeast Division champions — he was projected to play on the top line with Ovechkin when he signed July 1, but his first two games were with the second unit — he has made inroads. The club named him an alternate captain, the first time the 6-3, 223-pound Toronto native recalls starting a season with that title.
“That’s part of the deal of coming in, being an older player and (the team looking to) a more veteran guy,” he said. “It’s still a young core group, but there are leaders all over and guys lead by experience by their play on the ice. It’s an honor, though.”
Of his Philadelphia homecoming, he added, “It’s going to be weird.”
His true value might be defined in the playoffs, when the Capitals hope Knuble influences their younger players the same way since-departed Sergei Fedorov did last season. Knuble is coming off a 27-goal season, so there’s no doubt his stick carries as much weight as his voice.
When Mike was a rookie with the Wings, we happened to live in the same city and would run into each other on occasion. I remember Mike had that “deer in the headlights” stare with him at the time and it is nice to see the progress Mike has made in the NHL.
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Knuble Feels He Is A Fit In Washington
by Paul on 07/06/09 at 10:34 AM ET
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from Michael Zuidema of the Grand Rapids Press at Mlive,
“I didn’t want to leave Philly. I thought they were still a good team that could contend in the East,” Knuble said. “But I didn’t want to leave a team that had a chance to contend for a team that didn’t have a chance.”
Washington won 50 games last season and finished first in the Southeast Division. The Capitals then lost an exciting seven-game series to the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
Knuble hopes he can help Washington take the next step.
“I knew they needed a guy like me,” Knuble said. “A guy that go out in front of the net and score goals, get goals off my skate, my stick, my rear end, whatever.”
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Capitals Sign Knuble, 2 Years
by Alanah McGinley on 07/01/09 at 02:56 PM ET
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via TSN,
Forward Mike Knuble is heading to his fifth NHL team.
The 36-year-old has signed an two-year contract with the Washington Capitals worth $2.8 million a season.
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Life After 30
by Paul on 03/26/09 at 07:47 AM ET
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from Anthony J. SanFilippo of the Deleware County Times,
“You have to keep yourself honest in the summertime because you’re competing with guys who have the gift of time,” Knuble said. “I know it’s not going to go on forever, but that’s what you use for motivation – trying to make up for lost time.”
Knuble has been doing a darn good job of that. Since turning 30, he has played a second career.
Prior to hitting his 30s, Knuble struggled to score, compiling just 50 goals in his first seven seasons. Given a last chance in Boston, he turned his career around with one 30-goal season, and since has scored 164 goals in six seasons, four with the Flyers.
“I was lucky to still be in the league at age 30,” Knuble said. “Boston gave me a chance, but there were people in that organization that wanted to let me go. There are plenty of guys that are good players that never get the right chance. If things don’t come together for you quick, you kind of fade away and I was right on the cusp of that.
“Then I scored those 30 goals and suddenly my career went in a different direction.”
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Nick Kypreos is Wrong
by Alanah McGinley on 07/29/08 at 01:26 PM ET
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Aaron Portzline at Puck-rakers writes:
Apparently, Nick Kypreos reported on Sportsnet last night that the Blue Jackets were going to trade defenseman Jan Hejda and a fourth-round pick to the Flyers for winger Mike Knuble.
This is ridiculous. This is crazy. This will not happen. Not a chance.
Well, that seems pretty definitive. Although this doesn’t stop the kids on HF Boards from tackling the rumor from every angle they can think of as well (and Kypreos doesn’t fare too well there either.)
Must be a slow day in rumor land.
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Knuble ‘Thinking’ Cup
by Paul on 05/09/08 at 09:01 AM ET
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from Sam Donnellon of the Philadelphia Daily News,
Mike Knuble grew up in Kentwood, Mich., played hockey for the University of Michigan, held the Stanley Cup in his hands at the end of his first two NHL seasons with Detroit. “The passion it brings out in the city and the fans is something you never forget,” he said after the Flyers’ practice yesterday. “In Detroit they had all those flags hanging on the cars . . .
“You got tired of it almost after 2 years in a row. It sounds crazy but . . . It was like, ‘There’s that damn Cup again.’ “
Ten long years later, after stops in Detroit, with the New York Rangers and Boston, after his midcareer transformation from NHL grinder to goal-scorer, Knuble, 35, sometimes drives home from the rink conjuring up that image, sometimes imagines what that skate around the ice
after the NHL’s final game would feel like again. He tries not to, he said, because the Flyers have won only eight of the 16 games necessary for that dream to be a reality. But it doesn’t always work, and it does not make him tired.
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Knuble Out With Torn Hamstring
by Paul on 04/19/08 at 05:55 PM ET
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via the AP,
Right wing Mike Knuble is out for the rest of the Philadelphia Flyers’ playoff series against the Washington Capitals. He suffered a torn left hamstring in Saturday’s Game 5 loss. Knuble, who scored the winner in double overtime of Game 4, appeared to catch his skate in a rut while attempting to block a shot late in the second period.
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Stars of the Week
by Alanah McGinley on 03/03/08 at 12:40 PM ET
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NEW YORK – Toronto Maple Leafs center Mats Sundin, Boston Bruins goaltender Tim Thomas and Philadelphia Flyers right wing Mike Knuble have been named the NHL’s ‘Three Stars’ for the week ending March 2.
More on each player below, plus video available at this link.
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Flyers Have Room For Improvement
by Paul on 11/21/07 at 08:50 AM ET
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from the Courier-Post,
Tonight, the Flyers enter Game No. 20 with an 11-7-1 record, good for second in the Atlantic Division and fifth in the Eastern Conference. In other words, they’re 5-6-1 since starting the season with a bang.
So what kind of grade would the Flyers give themselves as they approach the quarter mark of the season?
“I’d give us a high B,” Flyers right wing Mike Knuble said.
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