{"id":6827,"date":"2003-05-20T20:34:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-21T01:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/20\/6827\/"},"modified":"2018-08-01T16:17:30","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T21:17:30","slug":"6827","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/05\/20\/6827\/","title":{"rendered":"When Vezina Winners Attack!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So Dominik Hasek, a goalie who bailed out on the NHL after winning the Stanley Cup last year, goes home and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/dailynews\/140\/sports\/Hasek_under_police_investigati%3A.shtml\" target=\"new\">gets a little rough<\/a> in a roller hockey game, sending a player to the hospital.  Big hoary deal.  Sure, he <a href=\"http:\/\/ca.sports.yahoo.com\/020325\/23\/l8gl.html\" target=\"new\"><i>tried<\/i> to fight Patrick Roy<\/a>, but that&#8217;s goalie-on-goalie action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mightyducks.com\/GameDayStats\/CareerStats.asp?PlayerID=5\" target=\"new\">Jean Sebastian-Giguere<\/a>, my new hero until such time as he signs with the Red Wings, <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/hockey\/nhl\/recaps\/2001\/12\/08\/cgy_ana\/\" target=\"new\">went after a Calgary forward<\/a>.  He&#8217;s got, um, pucks as big as manhole covers, I kid you not.<\/p>\n<p>I guess Giguere&#8217;s not a Vezina winner, yet, but I kid you not he&#8217;s got a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legendsofhockey.net\/html\/silver_splashconnsmythe.htm\" target=\"new\">Conn Smythe trophy<\/a> coming.<\/p>\n<p>(Hasek link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\" target=\"new\">Fark<\/a>.  All other research from my own memory supplemented by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\" target=\"new\">Google<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>(P.S. Sorry, folks, but it was only a matter of time until a hockey post broke through.  I am still capturing developers at the coffeepot to tell them how I think the St. Louis Blues are going to do next year and what I think the Collective Bargaining Agreement ending after next year will mean for the NHL, so it&#8217;s only natural something like it would leak out in the blog.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Dominik Hasek, a goalie who bailed out on the NHL after winning the Stanley Cup last year, goes home and gets a little rough in a roller hockey game, sending a player to the hospital. Big hoary deal. Sure, he tried to fight Patrick Roy, but that&#8217;s goalie-on-goalie action. Jean Sebastian-Giguere, my new hero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21185,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions\/21185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}