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Kerrzy’s Notebook: Around the Rinks

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Grand Theft Composite

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, Anaheim Ducks forward Bobby Ryan scored one of the strangest goals of the year on Sunday night in a 6-2 win over the Minnesota Wild.

In the final minutes of the second period with the Ducks leading 4-2, Wild captain Mikko Koivu loses his stick in the corner, skates past Ryan, rips the stick out of his hand and then starts playing with it! Since the refs didn’t see what had happened, play continued and about 20 seconds later Ryan decides to pick Koivu’s stick up off the ice – before realizing it’s the wrong hand… (more…)

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Kerrzy’s Notebook: Random Friday Thoughts

Friday, December 10th, 2010

GSP vs. Gretzky?

In any country around the world that speaks hockey, Wayne Gretzky is probably regarded as the most famous Canadian the people there can think of – after all, he’s easily the greatest player ever to lace ‘em up.

What about the rest of the world though? If you polled the entire globe, asking who the most famous Canadian athlete is, who would it be?

If you ask UFC President Dana White, it’s welterweight champion Georges “Rush” St. Pierre!

Both White and St. Pierre are in Montreal ahead of UFC 124, where the Canadian will defend his title against Josh Koscheck on Saturday night. So, with White calling St. Pierre the most famous athlete “in the history of the world” to come out of our country, reporters were left asking “What about Wayne Gretzky?” (more…)

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