Monday’s Stars and Words
January 26, 2009, by Homme De Sept-Iles
Quotes from the Day
“I’ve never seen something like that in my career,” said Serge Savard, one of 44 former Canadiens players in the Hall of Fame. “I think hockey is more popular now than it was in the ’70s when we won four Cups in a row.”
Ovechkin, the crowd-pleasing winner of Saturday’s breakaway challenge, said he was happy to cede the spotlight to Kovalev, his countryman, and said Montreal was the real star.
“This was unbelievable,” Ovechkin said. “I wish every All-Star Game was going to be here.”
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“Montreal is hockey town. A better place to host the All-Star game could not be found. Only in Montreal can a Saturday morning practice be sold out with 20,000 fans in attendance as players get a light warm-up and sign autographs.
Centre of the hockey universe?
It has to be Montreal.
Sorry about that, Toronto. But being the media centre that generates the most news and/or rumours in the sport simply isn’t enough.”
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“It’s not always what you see that matters.
It’s what you feel.
That’s the thing about Montreal, particularly when it comes to hockey. Spend a few days here, and you feel the city’s undying passion for their game. Yes, it is their game. They have been kind enough to share hockey with the rest of us. And that’s what they did during All-Star weekend.”
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“It’s not only now,” Kovalev said. “They’ve been like that since I got to Montreal. I don’t remember one day that they wouldn’t be so passionate and so excited. It’s always exciting to be on the ice and surrounded by all these fans.”
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“It’s the greatest city for hockey anywhere,” Moore said. “Toronto they say is close, but it’s really far [behind]. We used to go into Toronto and they cheered Rocket more than they cheered their own players. They wanted him to score a goal, and he had that excitement in him, too.”
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Links and Credits:
Lynn Zinser, New York Times
January 25, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/26/sports/hockey/26nhl.html?ref=sports
Rahul Vaidyanath, Epoch Times
January 25, 2009
http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/content/view/10893/
Garth Woolsey, The Toronto Star
January 25, 2009
http://www.thestar.com/sports/hockey/article/576915
Kitt Amundson, Examiner.com
January 25, 2009
http://www.examiner.com/x-1322-NHL-Examiner~y2009m1d25-This-should-be-the-next-face-of-the-NHL
Bucky Gleason, The Buffalo News
January 26, 2009
http://www.buffalonews.com/494/story/560122.html
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