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HEAD COACH
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Pat Quinn
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ROSTER
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C - Mats Sundin, Steve Sullivan, Alyn McCauley. LW -
Fredrik Modin, Steve Thomas, Todd Warriner, Derek King, Kris
King, Igor Korolev, Garry Valk, Ladislav Kohn. RW - Sergei
Berezin, Tie Domi, Mike Johnson, David Nemirovsky. D - Bryan
Berard, Sylvain Cote, Dimitri Yushkevich, Alexander Karpovtsev,
Jason Smith, Daniil Markov, Glen Featherstone, Tomas Kaberle,
Yanick Tremblay, Chris McAllister. G - Curtis Joseph, Glenn
Healy.
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INJURIES
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2/17/99 - Glenn Healy no longer on IR.
2/15/99 - Fredrik Modin, lw, placed on IR - broken collar bone.
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TRANSACTIONS
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2/17/99 - Jeff Ware, d, traded to Florida Panthers
for David Nemirovsky, rw. 2/16/99 - Darby Hendrickson, c, traded
to Vancouver Canucks for Chris McAllister, d. 2/15/99 - Ladislav
Kohn, lw, called up from St. John's (AHL). 2/11/99 - Jeff Reese
sent to minors Kentucky (AHL).
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GAME RESULTS
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02/13 Blackhawks L 6-2
02/15 at Devils T 3-3
02/17 at Sabres W 3-2
02/20 Canadiens W 3-2
02/22 at Capitals L 4-3
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STANDINGS
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Northeast Division GP W L T PTS GF GA
Ottawa 56 32 16 8 72 164 118
Toronto 57 32 21 4 68 184 172
Buffalo 57 27 19 11 65 156 124
Boston 56 23 24 9 55 142 132
Montreal 59 23 28 8 54 139 154
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TEAM NEWS
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by Jonah A. Sigel, Toronto Correspondent
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GOODBYE, OLD GAL. HELLO, HANGAR
The most anticipated two weeks of the Maple Leaf season have
finally come and gone. Hockey's last shrine is now history and
its newest concrete arena has its newest tenant.
Maple Leaf Gardens is no more the home of Hockey Night in Canada,
the Air Canada Center is the current home of the Maple Leafs.
Gone is the cozy atmosphere, from which so many greats once
played and millions called their home, too. Instead, home is now
a beautiful arena in which everything works, and it is, from all
reports, a thing of beauty. There are luxury suits, lots of new
seats, and so far the rats have not followed the tenants.
The closing of the Gardens was an emotional affair with Dave the
Tiger Williams sobbing openly as the grand old lady was closed
down. For Leaf fans it was a real treat to watch the closing
ceremony. Generations of Leafs past and present participated in
an hour long ceremony after the leafs got hammered by the
visiting Blackhawks, 6-2. While it would have been nice for the
Leafs to close out with a win, it seems, in retrospect, fitting
that they go out the way they started with a loss to the same
team that opened the barn. It says here it was one game that the
result was secondary.
The opening of the new arena was met with much anticipation.
There was lots of hoopla all week which ended with a parade from
MLG to the ACC. Game night arrived with the crew from HNIC not
in the house, but rather doing the game from other locals, why?
One of the CBC's unions was on strike. After the much
anticipated, and fairly quick opening, the game was under way.
With the exception of the opening few minutes and the final
moments of OT, the contest was a yawner. The ice quality was
poor, but everyone seemed quite impressed with the new facility,
especially when Steve Thomas scored the winner in OT.
All in all, it will take time to adjust to the new building. It
is already strange watching the Leafs in home whites in an
unfamiliar home. However, as great as the Gardens was for its
history, it really had become outdated. As one sports writer
quipped the day after game one in the ACC, the success of the new
building rests solely on the success of the team. If ownership
in any way cuts the hockey budget, and the on ice product slips,
then people will not care where they are playing and there will
be no hope of new or even continued tradition. As bad as the
Leafs have been in the past, they always played at an arena in
which people enjoyed visiting. The Skydome got old very quickly,
coincidentally around the same time as the Blue Jays went into
the toilet. The new arena can be a great thing so long as the on
ice product continues to be exciting and successful.
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