
Maple Leafs Alumni Golf Classic at the Angus Glen Golf Club, Markham On Thursday, June 25th, you can hit the links with some former Maple Leafs at the 2009Toronto Maple Leafs Alumni Golf Classic presented by Rogers.
The day includes lunch, dinner, a silent
auction, prizing, on-course activities and exclusive gifts. Find out more here...
Second Annual Boston Bruins Ice & Dice Casino Night Join Terry O'Reilly, Rick Middleton, Gary Doak, Lyndon Byers, Bob Sweeney, Tim Sweeney and more at
the Second Annual Boston Bruins Ice & Dice Casino Night.
Proceeds to benefit the Boston Bruins Foundation
PMC Bike Team and their donation to the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
On Friday, May 15 join the Boston Bruins for the Second Annual Ice & Dice Casino Night to benefit
the Boston Bruins Foundation. Try your hand against Bruins alumni, including Terry O'Reilly, Rick Middleton, Gary Doak, Lyndon
Byers, Bob Sweeney, Tim Sweeney and more. The Casino Night will include blackjack, craps, poker and roulette. Highest chip
winners will win great prizes, such as autographed memorabilia.
WHEN: Friday,
May 15, 2009 from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m.
WHERE: Abington VFW Hall, 30 Central Street, Abington, MA 02351
TICKETS: Tickets are $25 each and include the equivalent
of $1,000 in chips.
To purchase tickets, please call 617.624.1969
or email shiggins@bostonbruins.com.
About the
Boston Bruins Foundation PMC Bike Team The Boston Bruins Foundation PMC Bike Team features 25 riders participating
in the two-day 190-mile bike ride throughout Massachusetts. Members of the Boston Bruins Foundation Bike Team include former
Bruins Rick Middleton, Bob Sweeney, and Don Sweeney. Also on the team is Kim Jacobs, wife of Bruins Executive Vice President
Charlie Jacobs, Bruins Vice President of Business Operations Dan Zimmer, and other Bruins personnel. Since its inception in
2006, the Boston Bruins Foundation PMC Bike Team has raised over $450,000 for the Dana-Farber Cancer Research Institute.
NHL
ON NBC DELIVERS RECORD OVERNIGHT TELEVISION RATING TO OPEN CONFERENCE FINALS OF 2009 STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS Ratings For Game One Of Chicago/Detroit Series Up 33 Percent Over Last Year NEW
YORK (May 19, 2009) Sunday's Western Conference Final, featuring the Chicago Blackhawks and the
Detroit Red Wings, registered a 2.0 overnight metered market rating, making it the most-watched broadcast
of a NHL on NBC game, excluding the NHL Winter Classic and Stanley Cup Final games, since NBC resumed its
partnership with the NHL in 2005-06. The rating marked a 33-percent increase over last season's comparable
Conference Final game on NBC (Dallas Stars at Detroit, Game Five, May 17, 2008), and is now the highest
metered-market rating on a national, over-the-air rightsholder for a Conference Final game in six years
(Game One of the Anaheim Ducks/Minnesota Wild, May 10, 2003). Sunday's 2.0/5 rating/share
also is up 18 percent from the comparable Sunday Conference Final broadcast on NBC last year (Philadelphia
Flyers at Pittsburgh Penguins, Game Five, May 18, 2008) which averaged a 1.7/4. Overnight,
Sunday's NBC Blackhawks/Red Wings broadcast averaged a 7.7/19 rating/share in Chicago and a16.9/38 in Detroit. Top NHL markets were as follows: Detroit (16.9), Chicago (7.7), Pittsburgh (4.0), Buffalo (3.4), Columbus
(2.2) and Denver (1.9). Top non-NHL markets were as follows: Cleveland (3.1), Norfolk (2.6), Charlotte
(2.3), Birmingham (2.0), West Palm (2.0), Memphis (1.9) and Providence (1.9).
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Vancouver 2010 is a year away but the planning for the makeup of the teams by both the American and Canadian
Hockey Executive Groups is well underway. I had a chance to discuss Vancouver 2010 with two of the key executives
of each country. What people are saying about USA Hockey. DHS: I'm concerned about, I understand the
bottom six top six, but especially matching up with Canada, we seem to be coming up a little on the small side. Our
top six are very well skilled, but very small. How do you plan on combatting that? BRIAN BURKE:
I'm amazed you could say we're too small when we haven't picked the team yet, but you must be a lot smarter than
I am. It's an astute you're right, it's an astute comment. And I will say this, I predict we'll
be the smallest and youngest team in the tournament. And I predict that not one cent will be bet on team USA in Vegas.
But we're going there to win anyhow. And I don't mind going in the underdog role. If we're small
in the top six, we'll have to fill out the bottom six with some beef. What people are saying about Team Canada. DHS: I
was wondering if you could tell me a little bit more about the role Doug Armstrong is playing on the 2010 management team.
STEVE YZERMAN: First of all, Doug and I worked together at the previous two men's world championships,
and we talked regularly throughout the course of the last two years, and he's been a great asset for me and a great kind
of a guy as far as being a former general manager in helping me in the decision making process. And I've found his
player assessment to be very good. He's been very enthusiastic. I thought it was important for me to have
somebody that's particularly watched a lot of the younger players the last two years. We've watched them
together closely and have a good understanding of what they can and can't do and who they are. I thought it was important
for me to have him on the staff for continuity just as we move forward. And then when he was a general manager at the
world championships, we had debates with Bob Nicholson and Johnny Misley, we had debated what role I would play at the world
championships. I felt I wanted the freedom down the stretch here and into the playoffs to not only watch the Red Wings
and be around that, but also to focus more on potential Olympians as opposed to watching a lot of guys that were possibly
being selected for the world championships. It just allowed me a little bit more freedom. It gives Doug the opportunity
to work with a lot of the younger guys that we'll be watching for the world championships and guys that will potentially
make it on that Olympic watch list or that are on it. Anyway, we just felt it was good for continuity. He's
been there for a couple years. So his role, along with Kevin and Kenny and myself, we're watching players. We're
going to do this as a group and put everything together. But two years working with me at the world championships, I
thought it was very important. He's put a lot of time in and studied the players, and another set of eyes and another
opinion is good for our group. DHS: Just one other question. Do you believe at this point in time
that it's going to be an All-NHL team? Do you expect there would be any possibility of someone who's not in the
NHL actually making the Canadian squad at this time? STEVE YZERMAN: Based on the players we've
watched to date, unless an NHL player were to go and play on one of the European leagues next year, I don't see anyone
making the Canadian team from outside the NHL.

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