Byline: Tim SassoneAbout those player evaluations new Blackhawks manager of hockey operations Mike Smith plans to spend the next several weeks working on, I can save him some time.Keep Tony Amonte, Boris Mironov, J.P. Dumont, Steve Sullivan, Jean-Yves Leroux and Steve Passmore as a backup...
Ottawa head coach D.J. Smith, who spent the last four years as an assistant on Babcock’s staff in Toronto, praised the professionalism of his former boss. “He gave me my chance in the National Hockey League,” Smith said Wednesday in Montreal before the Senators faced the Canadiens...
In the late 1980s, the Detroit Red Wings hockey team was a laughing stock, often called the “Dead Wings.” After a wealthy pizza magnate bought the failing franchise, he appointed an unorthodox General Manager to build a championship team. Throwing off conventional wisdom, the new GM looked...
Payton went on to break Jim Brown’s record for all-time rushing yards (which was in turn broken by Emmitt Smith in 2002) and was elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993. Behind Payton the Bears won four division titles and their only Super Bowl (1985). Led by head coach...