He was a last-minute replacement for the man who selected the team, its original manager, Roy Schooley, a Canadian-born hockey institution in Pittsburgh who’d worked as a referee, founded the amateur Pittsburgh Yellow Jackets, and managed the city’s Duquesne Gardens. An illness in the fami...
His replacement Martin Biron stopped 2 of 20 shots, and 0 of 2 overtime shootout attempts. The Sharks finished 2-5 on the power play, the Flyers 2-3. ESPN Fantasy Hockey contributor Sean Allen noted that Patrick Marleau had two of his four points on a line with Joe Thornton and Devin...