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ESPN forgets. We will not.
by Chemistry66 on Dec 27, 2011 10:03 AM EST
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ESPN aired their tribute to athletes who have died in 2011.
Not a single hockey player was mentioned.
So, here, I would like to pay tribute to those players of the sport (whether active in 2011 or not) and any dedicated staff members who passed away. The crew killed on the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash is included as well.
Mention anyone who is missed, and they will be added.
Remember those who were lost. They are part of our world as hockey players. ESPN forgets, but we will not.
January
6 - Tom Cavanagh
17 - Vernon "Tex" Kaiser
25 - Arto Javanainen
February
10 - Fred Speck
22 - Jerome "Jud" McAtee
March
10 - Mikolaj "Nick" Harbaruk
13 - Rick Martin
19 - Peter Laframboise
22 - Jean-Guy Morissette
April
3 - Mandi Schwartz
7 - E. J. McGuire
29 - Jim Cunningham
May
3 - Paul Ackerley
7 - Eilert Määttä
13 - Derek Boogaard
24 - Barry Potomski
June
22 - Harley Hotchkiss
26 - Barry Wilkins
July
11 - Jaroslav Jiřík
August
10 - Oldřich Machač
15 - Rick Rypien
Joseph Ronan
22 - Thomas Syme
31 - Wade Belak
September
7 - Vitaly Anikeyenko
Yury Bakhvalov
Aleksandr Belyayev
Mikhail Balandin
Aleksandr Vasyunov
Aleksandr Vyukhin
Andrei Zimin
Marat Kalimulin
Aleksandr Karpovtsev
Aleksandr Kalyanin
Andrei Kiryukhin
Nikita Klyukin
Igor Korolyov
Nikolai Krivonosov
Yevgeny Kunnov
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov
Stefan Liv
Jan Marek
Brad McCrimmon
Sergey Ostapchuk
Vladimir Piskunov
Evgeny Sidorov
Ruslan Salei
Pavel Snurnitsyn
Daniil Sobchenko
Ivan Tkachenko
Pavel Trakhanov
Igor Urychev
Gennady Churilov
Maksim Shuvalov
Artyom Yarchuk
Andrey Solontsev
Igor Zhevelov
Sergei Zhuravlev
Vladimir Matyushkin
Yelena Sarmatova
Nadezhda Maksumova
Yelena Shavina
12 - Aleksandr Galimov
16 - Roger Belanger
18 - Earl Cook
October
5 - Peter Jaks
20 - Ronald Amess
30 - Serge Aubry
31 - Sven Tumba
November
5 - Hannu Haapalainen
9 - Roger Christian
Patrick Steel
13 - Kyle Fundytus
16 - Eddy Palchak
19 - Pete Leichnitz
25 - Fred Etcher
December
5 - Gregg Madill
12 - Heinrich "Heini" Lohrer
23 - Bill Klatt
27 - Johnny Wilson
27 - Tyson Sievert
"We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games." - Fred Shero
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Well done Chem
It’s also wonderful that otter contributions are being added
by Prometheus74 on Dec 26, 2011 5:04 PM EST up reply actions
Yes, thanks Chem. :)
(Of course, since you have properly taken ESPN to task, you also have the full support of the Penn State alumni nationwide…“journalistic fairness” not being a modus operandi for ESPN, especially recently…)
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by Orange and Black Forever on Dec 27, 2011 7:00 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
ESPN isn’t about journalism, they’re a marketing firm. If they don’t have a revenue sharing agreement with you (the right to broadcast your sport) they won’t report on it.
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by Pardini36 on Dec 27, 2011 11:29 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
If that is really the case then ESPN is a fucking joke and is acting like a teenage school girl holding a grudge against the NHL. Three active players die in one year in addition to an entire team in a plane crash and none of them get recognized by the number one sporting everything channel in the world? Fuck ESPN, more Nascar than hockey. Its a joke. I can’t wait until NBC Sports is ready to go.
One more week bud.
I go Bananas for Wayne Simmonds.
by bfrank27 on Dec 26, 2011 11:50 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
…or the NHL network… but at least we have World Juniors to watch for the next two weeks.
by OrangeNblacK on Dec 26, 2011 12:37 PM EST up reply actions
I hope NBC stans for No Basketball Coverage
But really, this is just disgusting, that ESPN wouldn’t even mention Derek Boogard and Lokomotiv.
Is it too much to ask for a sports channel like ESPN in the 90s, when they covered things mostly evenly and it wasn’t all just self-congratulatory navel-gazing?
Flyers, Phillies, Union, Eagles, Phantoms, Wings.
Even in the 90s I remember no hockey coverage on Sportscenter, just a bunch of Jordan dunks.
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Not true
ESPN cared back in the 90’s because they owned hockey coverage rights. Heck, they even had an entire analysis show dedicated to hockey (NHL 2Night – back when they were trying very hard to make ESPN2 the “hip” channel). The show was canceled mysteriously around the same time ESPN lost hockey coverage to Versus…
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
#OccupyESPN
That’s why I said on Sportscenter, I was discounting NHL 2nite.
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I understand the frustration
But could we use this thread to remember the hockey players who have passed away in 2011 (and save the NBA/NFL/fly fishing complaints for a different article)?
by light_the_lamp on Dec 27, 2011 5:06 PM EST up reply actions
I think it's honest
These are not our famillies and friends and this is not a public formal function where grieving customs and rituals are being observed. It can be just as insincere to over identify with people whose lives we know little about and many of whom died of natural causes. I think if there were any restrictions the thread’s author would have made them clear. She has left that to our discretion and people have been respectful without any pretense or inflated piety.
Oh, of course.
I understand that I’m a guest here, and I understand that Chem didn’t make any restrictions about what we could discuss in the thread. And the commenters here have been very respectful. But I’ve been on other hockey SB Nation blogs where conversations about hockey have turned into negative, off-topic rants about the other professional sports. I felt that things might’ve been headed in that direction here, so I made that comment. But no worries!
by light_the_lamp on Dec 28, 2011 3:39 AM EST up reply actions
April 7 – E.J. McGuire
Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
by mikefive on Dec 26, 2011 1:34 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
These are the times when I wish I could Rec a post more than once.
Are we counting retired players? If so, Rick Martin, who was the left wing on the Buffalo Sabres’ French Connection line in the 70s, died on March 13th.
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Mandi Schwartz
Passed away on April 3, 2011. She was a Canadian playing hockey at Yale and died of a form of leukemia at 23 years old. You can read about her story here.
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by Justin F. on Dec 26, 2011 2:19 PM EST reply actions 10 recs
Rec for this one.
Mandi deserves to be remembered.
I didn’t know her, but I did play her a few times. No braver player ever took the ice.
by spokeinthebandwagon on Dec 26, 2011 2:24 PM EST up reply actions
Her brother, Jaden, is captaining the Canadian U-20 junior team.
by OrangeNblacK on Dec 26, 2011 3:31 PM EST up reply actions
Bill Klatt
Passed away 3 days ago on December 23, 2011. He played on the Minnesota Fighting Saints of the now defunct World Hockey Association. Perhaps more notably, he represented the United States in the 1976 Ice Hockey World Championship in Katowice, Poland. The United States ended the tournament in a very respectable 4th place.
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by Justin F. on Dec 26, 2011 2:31 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Here is a link to read a bit more about Bill Klatt.
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Heini Lohrer
Passed away on December 12, 2011. Was a member of the 1948 Swiss Olympic team which placed 3rd in the 1948 Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Click here to read a little more about him.
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by Justin F. on Dec 26, 2011 2:36 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Gregg Madill
Passed away on December 10, 2011. He refereed in the NHL for 12 years. While often times NHL referees are joked about and (rightfully) criticized, it is still sad when someone who served hockey and the NHL for 12 passes away. Here is his obituary from the NHL Officials Association.
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by Justin F. on Dec 26, 2011 2:45 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Fred Etcher
Passed away on November 25, 2011. Earned silver with Team Canada in the 1960 Olympics and still to this day holds the record for most points in a single Olympic Tournament. Unfortunately I cannot find any obituaries for him.
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by Justin F. on Dec 26, 2011 2:55 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Pete Leichnitz
Passed away on November 19, 2011. Won gold in the 1948 Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Here is a brief obituary.
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by Justin F. on Dec 26, 2011 2:59 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Eddy Palchak
Passed away on November 16, 2011. Trainer for the Montreal Canadiens during a time period that saw them win 10 Stanley Cups. No trainer has won more. Incredibly enough, there is a Professional Hockey Athletic Trainers Society in the Hockey Hall Of Fame, and Palchak is in there. Press release from the Canadiens about his death.
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by Justin F. on Dec 26, 2011 3:02 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Roger Christian
Passed away on November 9, 2011. Won gold with the United States in the 1960 Olympics. Here is a little more about him.
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by Justin F. on Dec 26, 2011 3:05 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Hannu Haapalainen
Passed away on November 5, 2011. Won five championships in the Finnish SM-Liiga and is a member of the Finnish Hockey Hall Of Fame. Here is a translated article about him.
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by Justin F. on Dec 26, 2011 3:08 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Serge Aubry
Passed away on October 30, 2011. Was a goaltender for the Quebec Nordiques for a few years before becoming a goalie coach for a couple years and then later a scout for the LA Kings. Translated obituary.
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by Justin F. on Dec 26, 2011 3:19 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Ronald Amess
Passed away on October 20, 2011. Australian hockey legend.
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by Justin F. on Dec 26, 2011 3:22 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Peter Jaks
Passed away on October 5, 2011 after committing suicide. Played on the Swiss Olympic team in 1988 and 1992. Here is a little more about him.
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Sven Tumba
Passed away on October 1, 2011. A sports renaissance man if there ever was one, he played for Djurgårdens IF Hockey in the Swedish Elitserien for 16 years in addition to playing for Djurgårdens IF Fotboll for a couple years. He also golfed a bit as well. Tumba represented Sweden multiple times in the Olympics and World Championships. Here is a little more about him.
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Roger Belanger
He was a Penguin, but we won’t hold that against him. 45 years old, heart attack.
Bob.
And I was just working on Belanger. After being their 16th overall pick in the 1984 draft, he only played 44 games with the Pens. The rest of his career was spent in the AHL and IHL.
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Thomas Syme
Scottish Olympic hockey player, coal miner, gold miner, and policeman. Died aged 83 on 22 August 2011.
Bob.
Oldřich Machač
Czech Olympic hockey player, won two silvers and a bronze. Aged 65, died of heart failure on 10 August.
Bob.
You are faster than me. :(
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Jaroslav Jiřík
First Czech player in the NHL. Died age 71 in a plane crash near Brno, 11 July.
Bob.
That extends further to being the 1st member of an Eastern bloc country to play in the NHL. He was a star in the Czech league and even though it was only for a year in St. Louis, he helped pave the way for a lot of people.
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Eilert Määttä
Swedish player and coach. Died 7 May, age 75.
Bob.
Paul Ackerley
New Zealand Olympic gold medalist, former Black Sticks coach. Died age 61 of skin cancer on 3 May.
Bob.
Barry Wilkins
Passed away June 26, 2011, aged 64. Scored for the first goal in the history of the Vancouver Canucks.
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Harley Hotchkiss
Brought the Atlanta Flames to Calgary, remaining an owner until shortly before his death. Died at age 83.
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Hotchkiss was already up there, recommended by someone on Twitter.
Matt Read for Calder!
Jeff Skinner, at 6 years old, is the youngest player in the NHL.
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Oops. I forgot to check the thread with that one.
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Fred Speck
Only 28 NHL games, but played in 7 leagues during his career. February 10th, age 63.
Bob.
Arto Javanainen
Finnish hockey player, played for Pittsburgh. Died 25 January, age 51.
Bob.
Vern "Tex" Kaiser
Played for the Canadiens and the Galt Terriers (baseball). Died 17 January 2011, age 85.
Bob.
Barry Potomski
68 NHL games. 59 with the Kings, 9 with San Jose. An NHL enforcer who loved his job, dead at the all too young age of 38.
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Jean-Guy Morissette
Goalie who played only one NHL game in his life, that being for the Montreal Canadiens. Spent the majority of his career in the NHL and the OHL. Dead on March 22, 2011 at age 73. That one NHL game was always special to him.
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Mikolaj Nicholas "Nick" Harbaruk
Polish right winger who played in the NHL for the Canucks (1 year), Penguins (4 years), and the Blues (1 year). He died of bone cancer at age 67.
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Jerome F. "Jud" McAtee
He spent 3 seasons with the Detroit Red Wings, playing in 46 games in addition to 14 playoff games. Passed away on February 22, 2011 at age 91.
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Fred Speck
Played mostly in minor leagues, although he did have a tenure with the Red Wings and the Canucks. Died at age 63 on February 10, 2011.
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Those are all the people Wikipedia list as having played hockey and dying in 2011.
Thanks to Chem for making this and The Dark for his help.
If you knew anyone who played hockey or knew of anyone who played hockey and passed away this year, please feel free to add them here below.
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Excellent job,all.
The fact that ACTIVE players died without ESPN mention is particularly galling. Can you imagine 3 backup guards from the NBA or 3 Mendoza-line shortstops dying and the four-letter network not acknowledging it?
GMAT verbal section question, Philadelphia sports version.
In 2015, which one of the following will prove to be a better investment?
(a) Ilya Bryzgalov's contract (b) Ryan Howard's extension (c) Mike Vick's extension (d) Greek bonds from 2009 (e) Papelbon's bloat deal
And how hard is it to just say something like “26 players and 11 team staff from the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl team in Russia, and 7 of 8 crew members perished when their plane crashed in September”
They didn’t need to name everyone, but not even a mention?
Matt Read for Calder!
Jeff Skinner, at 6 years old, is the youngest player in the NHL.
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by Chemistry66 on Dec 26, 2011 7:43 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Obviously some of these are more obscure (found with the help of Wikipedia’s exhaustive lists of notable deaths by month and Google Chrome’s magnificent CTRL+F find feature and typing in “hockey”), but Belak, Rypien, Boogaard, and the plane crash were all big sports stories this year that numerous sports fans were all well aware of. ESPN even went as far as to do a whole feature on Mandi Schwartz in 2010. Shocking that they ignored her death in their end of year video.
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ESPN only “reports” (markets) sports where it gets a cut of the revenue. They didn’t even put Lokomotiv on the front page until there was enough other media markets mentioning it that they had to because people were looking for information and assumed “The Worldwide Follower” would have it.
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Well 2 of the active players deaths were deemed suicides, and perhaps there may have been requests from the families to leave their names off any public tributes or such things. Losing someone close to you like that is just so hard to process because your simultaneously grieving and feeling utterly betrayed by the very person your grieving for. You feel violated in many ways but have no place to direct your anger except at them and you feel guilty for it when your in the midst of grieving. So such a large scale public tribute might amp up these contradictory emotions for their loved ones. Also maybe considerations are made for their families faith and the various protocols for handling such a sensitive situation. Having gone thru this recently as well having lost 3 other loved ones in the span of 2 years, I have to say the grieving process for a suicide has a profoundly different dynamic and perhaps the names of those two players would have been left out even had ESPN had shown an ounce of awareness and included hockey players in their tribute. Granted they are public figures but the point here is that perhaps the press had boundaries set up by the families after the initial investigations were over.
I completely agree that the grieving process is different for suicides, but Puck Daddy addressed the suicide angle in their article:
The question then becomes, “why?” Did the suicidal aspects of hockey’s summer of tragedy disqualify them? It can’t be: Duerson and Irabu both took their lives and made the montage.Duerson was posthumously diagnosed with CTE, just like Boogaard, and in my opinion his suicide was more… violent? I’m not sure what the best word to use is in this case. So ESPN wouldn’t have left the active NHL players off the list of their own volition just because they were suicides, but rather only if the families requested it. I have a tough time believing all 3 of the families (the Boogaards, Rypiens, and Belaks) requested that the media back off in this case, but I’ll admit that it’s possible.
I guess we won’t know for sure unless we see a TSN version of the year in review for Canada?
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by DragonGirl0583 on Dec 27, 2011 5:06 PM EST up reply actions
One change
It should be Ruslan Salei and not “Saley.”
Do you see what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps?
We must be on the same wavelength because I have been working on a tribute video for the players who died in the plane crash but ran into technical difficulty uploading some stuff. What’s even weirder, given your field of study, is that one of metaphors I was using involved the colligative properties of water as it freezes.
I know ESPN hasn’t covered hockey well at all but how do you miss an entire sport, and furthermore something as tragic as the an entire team dying in a plane accident. Boggles the mind.
Well done.
Thanks for posting.
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by Backeez Got Back on Dec 27, 2011 8:29 AM EST reply actions
Great job putting this together and for your hard work, chem. I’m not sure if someone else suggested this, but this list should also be on the front page of the SB Hockey website. This is something everyone in the hockey world will appreciate.
It’s there, I wrote about it this morning. And Deadspin linked this story too. It’s been on Reddit, HF Boards, Puck Daddy… getting around just fine. Fuck ESPN.
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by Travis Hughes on Dec 27, 2011 2:00 PM EST up reply actions
Fuck ESPN.
ESPN SUCKS.
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Maxime Talbot - in the Orange and Black ... better than chocolate and peanut butter!
by MaximumTalbot on Dec 27, 2011 2:37 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Anyone have a link to the ESPN article?
Can’t find it on their page.
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It was on Sportscenter, no clip online.
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by Travis Hughes on Dec 27, 2011 12:03 PM EST up reply actions
Yea, I just seached the whole website and couldn’t find anything. Disappointing. I was ready to send this out everywhere, or at least comment on their site. Pretty bad.
Giroux. . . to Jagr. . . He SKEW-ERS. . .
by Sandtoast500 on Dec 27, 2011 12:54 PM EST up reply actions
Tremendous work.
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ESPN is terrible.
I don’t know why anyone bothers to watch it anymore.
One more ... although we can't blame ESPN for this one.
Maxime Talbot - in the Orange and Black ... better than chocolate and peanut butter!
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Matt Read for Calder!
Jeff Skinner, at 6 years old, is the youngest player in the NHL.
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by Chemistry66 on Dec 27, 2011 2:46 PM EST via Android app reply actions
kind of off topic. but TSN releases a “story of the year” every christmas eve on their year in review show. Crosby’s concussion was ranked #1. ahead of things like this affecting the hockey world. he’s more important to the game than a plane full of ex-nhlers and other nhl’ers who have tragically passed away this year. sad times we live in..
Deadspin picked this up too and BSH gets some nice credit for the story and the running list we have going above.
http://m.deadspin.com/5871347/as-far-as-espn-is-concerned-not-a-single-hockey-player-died-this-year
by flyerboom_6 on Dec 27, 2011 4:18 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Kyle Fundytus, 16, November 13, dies after getting hit in neck by puck in game in Edmonton.
by flyersavs14 on Dec 27, 2011 6:13 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
I’m a Rangers fan, but this is a time that the hockey community needs to stand together. Thank you for this fanpost.
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by Brandon C. on Dec 27, 2011 6:23 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
This, not this, deserves to be the most Rec’d FanPost in BSH history.
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It only needs 1 more rec to tie…
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by DragonGirl0583 on Dec 28, 2011 7:38 PM EST up reply actions
Long time Caps fan here, so not a huge fan of you all, but thank you for putting this together.
Also, wanted to add a couple (not famous) people:
Earl Cook, 23, died of cancer, 2011-09-18
Joseph Ronan, 22, shot, 2011-08-15
Patrick Steel, 18, unknown causes, 2011-11-09
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Per Pierre LeBrun, of ESPN
ESPN Yr In Review: Am told an updated segment will run Dec. 29 and Jan. 2 on certain SportsCenters to include hockey figures we lost in 2011
Matt Read for Calder!
Jeff Skinner, at 6 years old, is the youngest player in the NHL.
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by Chemistry66 on Dec 28, 2011 3:54 PM EST reply actions 7 recs
saw the updated one,
included the russian team and boogaard.
Good Work.
From the Boston contingent, nice work on this, and i’m interested to see what ESPN’s “updated” segment looks like.
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Well done Chem
great work.. and it looks like you’ve stirred up a hornets nest. Nice.
enough of the niceties: time for the eye-gouging..
and yes, I probably *should* be asleep right now!
Is there anyway we could get this bumped/posted to the front page or something? I feel it will be appropriate; and if someone had a similar thought, I just saw the article and read it didn’t have time to read the comments so I apologize if it’s a repostish idea
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by WeDontWinTheLadyByng on Jan 4, 2012 8:41 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Read the top. It was front-paged not long after it was posted, a day or so after the original Year In Review special had aired on ESPN.
Madly in love with Jaromir Jagr's brilliant smile and epic goal salute.
Matt Read for Calder!
Jeff Skinner, at 6 years old, is the youngest player in the NHL.
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O I C
Ah, thanks, I missed it I guess, but then again I’m at work commenting from my dingleberry (blackberry for the non-witty). Its frowned upon browsing ‘personal’ stuff with their connection
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