MARTIN LAPOINTE RUMORS
Belatedly: Coffey, Dandenault and Lapointe will participate in Winter Classic; more Bouwmeester talk
Sorry about my absence today—I literally collapsed from exhaustion—so let’s knock these two out of the way before I work on the overnight report:
• The Red Wings confirmed what RedWingsFeed‘s search engine robots discovered on Wednesday evening:
THREE MEMBERS OF RED WINGS’ RECORD-SETTING 1995-96 SQUAD ADDED TO ROSTER FOR ALUMNI SHOWDOWN WITH MAPLE LEAFS
… Paul...
Paul Coffey, Martin Lapointe and Mathieu Dandenault added to the Red Wings alumni roster
More familiar faces will be returning to Detroit during the Winter Classic Festivities in late December early January.
According to the Detroit Free Press, former defensemen Paul Coffey and Mathieu Dandenault as well as former forward Martin Lapointe will take part in the Red Wings’ alumni game from Comerica Park.
The former Wings will join former teammates Sergei Fedorov, Slava...
Red Wings add Paul Coffey, Mathieu Dandenault and Martin Lapointe to Winter Classic Alumni Showdown
Via RedWingsFeed’s mysteriously brilliant search engine robots, the Red Wings’ website posted a 13-image photo gallery whose captions read as follows:
Photo 1 of 13 - Coffey, Dandenault and Lapointe added 2012 Alumni Showdown roster.
Detroit has added defensemen Paul Coffey and Mathieu Dandenault as well as forward Martin Lapointe; all three players were members of the Red...
Habs hiring binge continues
Patrice Brisebois, Martin Lapointe, Gerrard Gallant. It never ends in Montreal. If compiling a slew of former NHLers to work for a club is how to win the Stanley Cup, the Habs are close to surpassing the Leafs for major contention. You know a front office has grown exponentially when two guys have been replaced by, say, eight.
So the hirings: not bad. Good names. I’m a bit saddened...
Martin Lapointe Joins Canadiens Front Office, Randy Cunneyworth Fired As Montreal Makeover Continues
The Montreal makeover continues. After bringing back Michel Therrien for his second stint behind the Canadiens bench on Tuesday, Montreal is set to add Martin Lapointe as the club's new director of player development, TSN reported on Wednesday. Lapointe spent three seasons on the opposite side of hockey's fiercest rivalry, playing in Boston from 2001-04. Lapointe came to...
Witness To Some Hockey Weirdness
from Adrian Dater of Sports Illustrated, ...what weird and wondrous stuff have I seen in nearly 40 years of watching the NHL, 16 of which have been spent covering it for a newspaper? Here’s my list:
• Watching Avs GM Pierre Lacroix have a between-periods screaming match with winger Martin Lapointe of the Red Wings in the hallway at Denver’s McNichols Arena in 1997. Lapointe...
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