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All-Star highs and lows
Posted: Sunday February 04, 2001 4:42 PM
Updated: Sunday February 04, 2001 5:41 PM
DENVER -- This was a splendid All-Star weekend, what with Mario Lemieux here and all
the love that's getting poured on Ray Bourque, who you'd have to agree
deserves it. Some things we observed:
Brett Hull evolving from shock jock to Zen philosopher: "I have never seen
an ocean without waves," he said gazing serenely out of those blue, blue
eyes.
Bill Guerin winning the fastest skater competition on Saturday night.
The NHL not showing enough respect for its Heroes of Hockey. There were all
these legends on the ice during the old-timers' game. Then they stop the game
to measure goalie Darren Pang and give him a penalty for being too short.
Yes, it's supposed to fun. It's not supposed to be a circus act.
Not a single Montreal Canadien on either All-Star roster.
Theo Fleury and Paul Kariya -- the teensiest of the all-stars-- embracing
after Kariya assisted Fleury's first-period goal. Very, very cute.
That we kind of have a crush on Luc Robitaille. Great player, great hair,
great guy.
That you shouldn't make noise while watching the All-Star Game because
people in the crowd are trying to sleep.
That if the league went back to the East vs. West format, the crowd would at
least have a team to root for.
Mascots dropping from the rafters before the start of Sunday's game.
Whatever those animals earned for their day's work, they deserved.
Simon Gagne gliding and juking through the skills competition. After all
the talk of the Lightning's Vincent Lecavalier and the Bruins' Joe Thornton
(neither of whom earned an All-Star berth), Gagne may be the best young
center in the game.
A lot of Bruins here -- the forward trio of Guerin, Jason Allison, and
Sergei Samsonov and then Bourque, who will always, always be a Bruin.
Avalanche fans admirably refusing to bow to false All-Star nicety keeping
true to their hearts, and booing arch-rival Red Wings Sergei Fedorov and
Nicklas Lidstrom.
A vision of the Oilers' recent past: Doug Weight to Guerin for North
America's second goal.
That almost every player on the North American team is either a captain or
an alternate of his respective team. Almost no one on the World team is. Hmmm...
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