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NHL Pacific DivisionNewest Review: ... name due to their southern location! Champs in 1999 and runners up last year, they look certain to get back to the playoffs. SAN JOSE SHARKS. ---------------- A newish team formed in 1993, the sharks have been very successful in their short history. With Vincent Damphousse and Nicklas Sundstrom Banging the goals away and Steve Sheilds in Goal, they have done suprisingly well this year. Dont ... more |
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by - written on 28/02/01 (Useful, 30 readings)
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The Pacific contains teams not only on the coast but also 2 that are hundreds of miles in land. Its a strong division with suprising leaders. DALLAS STARS ------------ The stars are littered with Stars literally!!! Toungue twister that. They start off with a cracking Center, Mike Modano. He truly is a great alongside another superstar with a superstar father, Brett Hull. If you add to this Derian Hatcher in Defence and Ed Belfour in Goal you have one formidable side. They were once known as the North Stars but moved to Dallas from Minnesota and dropped the North part of their name due to their southern location! Champs in 1999 and runners ... Read the complete review
by - written on 02/12/00 (Very useful, 29 readings)
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Two days in Phoenix, and Monet was in town. What better way to limber up for an art exhibition than to watch ten grown men mash each other's faces against perspex screens? This was our first NHL game, and we just weren't prepared for the glossy entertainment about to unfold before us. We took our seats twenty minutes before the game, and the icy blast down the tunnels added to the excitement. The place wasn't exactly packed, so we expected a poor atmosphere for this midweek game. After all, with eighty-odd games a season, surely the Coyote fans couldn't produce an electric atmosphere every night? Back home, we were regular supporters ... Read the complete review
by - written on 03/11/00 (Very useful, 124 readings)
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The Pacific Division of the NHL may just be the toughest division in the whole league. Unweakened by not having any expansion teams join them, this division sent four out of five teams to the playoffs last year, while the team who did not (the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim) were not far away from qualifying themselves. I am a Ducks fan, but even given all the rivalries you cannot say that this division is not filled with quality, as well as intense and entertaining meetings between the competitors. The team which has set the standard for the past few seasons has been the Dallas Stars. Since their move from Minnesota in the early nineties the team has now ... Read the complete review


