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...speedy Moore impressed the scouts with his ability to break down defenders one-on-one and his natural instinct for the goal. The NHL's Central Scouting Bureau (CSB) praised him as a "smart, patient playmaker in the offensive zone...[that] plays a focused and controlled finesse game...
Moore joins older brothers Mark ('00) and Steven ('01) in the ranks of NHL draftees...
...competition itself was very real. The battle ended with the kind of anger usually reserved for NHL playoff games. "He is not a chef," Morimoto declared after seeing Flay, upon completing his meal, jump on a table, point his palms toward the sky and yell, "Raise the roof, yo!" to the audience. Morimoto walked away disgusted. "He stood upon the cutting board. Cutting boards and knives are sacred to us," Morimoto said. Imagine what the Japanese would make of screaming Cajun chef Emeril Lagasse...
...more than any other Latino ever to play in the NHL. You see a lot of unusual names on the back of hockey sweaters (Balmochnykh, Selanne, Satan), but Gomez still sticks out. He's the first Latino to make the NHL, and perhaps the first to try. Even though the Anchorage, Alaska, native needs an interpreter for Telemundo interviews, he's become a Latino hero. "Just because he doesn't speak the language doesn't mean he isn't proud. He's just lazy," says his father, Carlos, whose parents were illegal Mexican immigrants. "It's become such an issue...
DIED. MAURICE RICHARD, 78, a.k.a. "the Rocket," perennial hockey All-Star who netted eight Stanley Cups during his 18-year career with the Montreal Canadiens, and whose name appears on the NHL trophy given each year to the league's top goal scorer; in Montreal...