Patrick Wiercioch gets behind the wheel of the monster truck ‘Crushstation’ and drives it the way a person might after a life-altering experience: Cautiously. Kyle Turris? Not so much. The Ottawa Senators centre hammers the gas pedal on the ‘Bounty Hunter,’ the front wheels catching air in the Scotiabank Place parking lot. Wiercioch and Turris. Together again. These B.C. boys and young Senators, best of pals since their days playing minor hockey together for the North Shore Winter Club and Jr. A Burnaby Express, have a lot to talk about these days. Wiercioch is delighted he can talk at all, after a puck to the throat this season took him for a different kind of monster ride than he the one was on Thursday morning. ... Continue reading →
NEW YORK -- In the moment after New Jersey netminder Martin Brodeur bobbled a routine dump-in and the puck eventually ended up behind him in the Devils' net, tying Game 5 of the Eastern Conference finals at 3-all, was there anyone in the world who didn't think this would end with a New York Rangers victory?Certainly the sold-out Madison Square Garden crowd, whose response to the goal just 17 seconds into the third period sent the decibel level into the stratosphere, believed the final result was inevitable.The Rangers, who at one point trailed 3-0 midway through the first period, might have believed they would win, as well.But somewhere in that frenzy of belief was enough disbelief among the New Jersey Devils to deny what appeared ... Continue reading →
