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...knack for bringing in talent continued to the present, with six players on last year's roster drafted into the NHL, including two second-round picks, sophomore forwards Steve Moore and Chris Bala. One of next year's expected recruits, Brett Nowak, was rated by Central Scouting Bureau as the top player in the New England Prep Schools...
...TELEVISION Red Sox at Blue Jays, NESN, 7 p.m. NHL Playoffs, ESPN, 7:30 p.m. NHL Playoffs, ESPN2, 7:30 p.m. NBA Playoffs...
...Buffalo Sabres' Dominik Hasek, the best goalie in the NHL, doesn't play right. He flops down on the ice as if his skates had just become untied, exposing 90% of the net to shooters. He sprawls, scampers, leaps, wanders away and bats the puck with his stick. He is, unarguably, a big spaz...
Hasek is unusual in real life too. He has both the sketchy temperament and the Czech wackiness that has caused several teammates to refer to him as Kramer, but he can also be eerily emotionless. Fellow Czech and NHL superstar Jaromir Jagr wears sweater No. 68 in memory of the year the Russians occupied his country. Hasek says beating the Russians in the Olympic finals was no big deal. "The older people in Czech could feel this way, but I did not feel like I was playing against a country that occupied us for many, many years. These last eight...
...while everyone looks to find the next Gretzky, the closest they are coming in this defense-plagued era of NHL hockey is Hasek. In fact, Gretzky's six-year-old son, who wants to be a goalie, imitates Hasek on the ice, flopping to his stomach and poking the puck away with his stick. But Hasek doesn't want his own son to play goal. "It's too much pressure," he says. "It's more fun to score the goals...