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Ozolinsh Playing His Way
by Paul on 11/14/07 at 09:00 AM ET
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from MediaNews via Inside Bay Area,
Apparently something is left in Ozolinsh’s tank. He has a goal and an assist in six games, and already is averaging 21:30 of ice time per game. Ozolinsh has become a take-charge presence, giving the Sharks a legitimate blue-line scoring threat.
“If I was coming back, I was going to try to play the way I know I could, or not come back at all,” Ozolinsh said. “I don’t really want to remember the recent past, but I didn’t want to be out there again, squeezing the stick so hard that I could see my fingerprints in it, or sitting back and worried to death about making a mistake. If I wanted to play hockey, I had to do it the way I played before.”
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Ozolinsh Update
by Paul on 10/26/07 at 04:29 PM ET
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from Working the Corners at the Mercury News,
For those asking about Sandis Ozolinsh . . . The veteran defenseman did play in two games with Worcester on a professional tryout contract and did get one assist. That stint is completed and Ozolinsh has returned to San Jose where he’ll pracitce this weekend under Mike Ricci’s watchful eye, then resume skating with the Sharks next week. Asst. GM Wayne Thomas, who’s in Detroit with the team, said the process is playing itself out and advised trying not to read too much into Ozolinsh’s return to San Jose at this point.
more on the Sharks…
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Ozolinsh Now Motivated
by Paul on 09/25/07 at 06:31 AM ET
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from the Mercury News,
Finding a new home in the NHL was Ozolinsh’s goal when he began training over the summer, and he gives the usual reasons why that is important to him: love of the game, pursuit of the Stanley Cup.
But there is another as well.
Suggest to him that maybe it has something to do with his legacy, about not having his final NHL moments be those rough ones with the Rangers, and he looks up and smiles.
“Exactly.”
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