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Gordon, set to coach U.S. team in World Championships, hoping for another NHL gig

Last updated Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - 5:23pm

Scott Gordon is a little more than four months removed from his last coaching gig, when he was replaced as New York Islanders coach during an 0-9-1 skid that turned into a 1-17-3 slide after Jack Capuano took over.

He certainly has heard and read about his old players' enjoyment of Capuano's style, of having more freedom to be creative, of the interim coach perhaps not being as tough on their miscues as the former coach.

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Callahan, the ultimate team player, steps up for Rangers

Arthur Staple, Newsday

Last updated Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 4:28pm

NEW YORK -- You look at Jonathan Toews, the captain of the defending Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks, and you see a talented playmaker. A player who follows through on hits and plays in all situations and does everything he can to produce a win.

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NHL shouldn't tolerate hits to the head

Arthur Staple Newsday

Last updated Monday, March 22, 2010 - 6:22pm

On the eve of the general managers' meetings a week ago, Matt Cooke threw a shoulder to Marc Savard's head.

Colin Campbell, the NHL's vice president of hockey operations, its czar of discipline and the host of sorts of the general manager meetings, was about to deliver a presentation on hits to the head and hopefully come out with some sort of encompassing rule to cover all blows to the head in games.

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Rangers' Drury brings intangibles to U.S. hockey team

Arthur Staple Newsday

Last updated Wednesday, January 6, 2010 - 11:15pm

Lifetime achievement award? That is not why Chris Drury is on the U.S. Olympic team.

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Brady: Inability to reach end zone unacceptable'

Arthur Staple Newsday

Last updated Sunday, September 20, 2009 - 7:26pm

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- This was unfamiliar territory for Tom Brady.

His first loss in nine career starts at Giants Stadium (7-0 against the Jets, 1-0 against the Giants) was a new one; so, too, were the questions after a very un-Brady-like game in which he failed to get his Patriots into the end zone for the first time since a 21-0 loss to the Dolphins on Dec. 10, 2006.

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Isles appear to be draft's biggest winners

Arthur Staple

Last updated Monday, June 29, 2009 - 6:10pm

Newsday
The New York Islanders won the NHL draft this past weekend in Montreal, there's no questioning that.
You could compile a list of winners and losers, I suppose, and the Anaheim Ducks would be on that winners list for getting a king's ransom for Chris Pronger. A few other teams got some good young players who won't make an impact for a few years, and maybe a few others reached a bit for their picks.
But guys in orange and blue, the biggest losers all last season, were the biggest winners.
Garth Snow kept quiet from the time the Isles won the draft lottery, but he knew he wanted John Tavares and he wouldn't be moved. He knew that this wasn't a time to dangle that No. 1 pick, to play the general manager game and chat up the wheeler-dealers to see what he could get.

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