5+ Game with Danny Boome is the new Article and Blog for Powerplay magazine. The article will cover the 5 main events of the week – games, trades, players, coaches – and anything else that affects the NHL community.

5+Game 21st Edition

By Danny Boome

25/01/10

Montreal say au revoir to Laraque, Eric Staal turns it on for new role, two-way dynamo calls it a day, new owners for Phoenix and where will Petr Sykora play next? All in this week’s 5+Game!

Au revoir Georges: Montreal Canadiens enforcer Georges Laraque has played his last game for the club. Thursday’s announcement left the Montreal native of Haitian descent extremely unhappy with the timing of the decision, as much of his family has been devastated by the earthquake. The 13-year NHL veteran will be paid his $1.5 million salary this season and remain on the roster. Laraque is in the second year of a three-year, $4.5-million contract that included a no movement clause, which means the Canadiens could not place him on waivers or send him to the American Hockey League. “I told him that he would not be continuing as part of our group for the rest of this season, for reasons of lack of productivity and distractions to our group,” General Manager Bob Gainey said. “We felt our goals were more achievable to continue without him as part of the group.” Laraque has played just 61 games over the past two seasons. He scored his only goal with the club last week against Dallas and dedicated it to the victims of the Haiti earthquake.

And that was the end of Georges

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Fresh start for ‘Canes: Eric Staal is taking over as captain of the Carolina Hurricanes. The 25-year-old all-star center, recently named to Canada’s Olympic team, replaced veteran Rod Brind’Amour as team captain. General Manager Jim Rutherford says the switch comes as part of the team’s rebuilding process, “The time has come now for Eric to assume the top leadership role for his teammates.” Brind’Amour had been the captain since 2005 and led the team to its only Stanley Cup in 2006. The 39-year-old will take Staal’s spot as an alternate captain and will continue to hold a leadership role. The Hurricanes, who reached the Eastern Conference finals last season, entered Wednesday night’s games with an NHL-worst 35 points.

Peca calls it quits: Michael Peca, a two-time Selke Trophy winner, announced his retirement Tuesday, ending a 13-season NHL career that was highlighted by an Olympic gold medal in 2002. “I’m not sad by any means,” Peca said. “Several months ago, I came to the decision I wasn’t going to play anymore. Today’s really just a day that I made a public statement. For me, it was so every time I run into old friends, they quit asking me if I’m done or not. “Now they’ve got the answer,” he said. “It’s kind of like a mass e-mail.” Peca, who turns 36 in March, had 465 points (176 goals, 289 assists) and 798 penalty minutes in 864 regular-season games with Vancouver, Buffalo, the New York Islanders, Edmonton, Toronto and Columbus. His feisty, two-way game earned him the Frank J. Selke Trophy as the NHL’s top defensive forward in 1997 and 2002.

Glory Days

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New owners (finally): The prospective owners of the Phoenix Coyotes are close to negotiating new terms on a lease with the City of Glendale and hope to be formally approved as owners by the start of the NHL playoffs. Keith McCullough, chairman of Ice Edge Holdings, the group that signed a letter of intent to buy the team from the National Hockey League last month, told ESPN.com that “there are a couple of very small issues to iron out with the city,” but they don’t foresee any problems in making the deal. Top executives with the Ice Edge group, including McCullough and CEO Anthony LeBlanc, met with Glendale officials several times over the past week in what were described as positive meetings. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman was optimistic about the group’s decision to commit long-term to the team in the Phoenix area. “I think that’s what the market needs,” Bettman said.

Sykora’s Headache: The Minnesota Wild have placed right wing Petr Sykora and rookie Robbie Earl on waivers. Earl can be returned to the minors or stay with the Wild if he clears, but Sykora’s stint with Minnesota is all but over. He turned down richer offers to play in Russia and signed a one-year, $1.6 million contract with the Wild in September. The 33-year-old ranked fourth on the Stanley Cup champion Pittsburgh Penguins last season with 46 points in 76 games, but only has two goals and one assist in 14 games with Minnesota, missing nearly two months while recovering from a concussion. Sykora may be the perfect fit for a playoff contender with a low budget. With no trade needed, could Sykora be the missing link?

A Bargain for the Play Offs?

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Game

Game On: San Jose Sharks have scored 41 goals in 12 games and have only conceded 18 this month, the best in the league by far!

Who’s got game: Henrik Sedin! One half of Vancouver’s dynamic duo has 74 points in 51 games, with 23 goals and 51 assists.

Who’s not got game: Milan Hejduk won’t be at the Vancouver Games after playing in the last three Winter Olympics for the Czech Republic. The Colorado Avalanche forward will undergo arthroscopic knee surgery on Tuesday and miss up to four weeks.

Game of the week: The Sharks 5-2 win over the Sabres was the battle of the top two teams in the league – and for 10th time this season, the Sharks have beaten all comers to the tank!

What game are you playing @? New York Islanders defenseman Andy Sutton was suspended two games without pay after leaving Pittsburgh’s Pascal Dupuis bloodied with a hit from behind. When will these guys learn?

My charity “Better F.E.D than Dead” is teaming up with “Chefs for Humanity” to help raise “1 Million in 1 Month for Haiti”

I know everyone is doing what they can but I’m asking you to do me a little favour, if you have already have made a donation fantastic!! But can you give a little more?  If you haven’t yet I would like you to consider helping our teams raise much needed money for urgently needed food and water. Just $5.00, that’s all is needed from you, $5.00 that will help feed a nation that has nothing!

12 million people need food and water not just for today, but probably for the next 6-12 months, so be a hero today and donate $5.00, you won’t just be saving a life, you’ll be saving a nation!

If you want to help in a more constructive way, “Better F.E.D than Dead” will be putting on 3 fundraisers next month, details will be posted via Face Book & Twitter.  Your participation & networking would be most appreciated,  All profits from the fundraisers will go towards the United Nations World Food Programme relief effort for Haiti.

Love Luck and Peace

Dan

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• 3 Bananas
• 1/2 pound bacon
• 1 cup Brussels sprouts (quartered)
• 1 1/2 cups instant polenta

Directions

• Place the Bananas on a baking tray and  into a pre heated oven @ 420F.
• Place a saucepan with 5 cups of water and 1 tablespoon of salt onto a medium heat, bring the water to boil, and slowly stir in the polenta. Reduce the heat and continue to stir for about 5 minutes until thickened and creamy. Add the butter and blend into the mixture.
• Once the Banana skins have split, add the Banana flesh to the cooked polenta and mix together
• Saute the Bacon and Brussels sprouts in a hot pan with a little butter, once browned plate!

Coq Au Vin

Flaming Filet Mignon

Ingredients

For the butter:

• 1 stick butter, softened
• Coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 bunch chives, left whole

For the steaks:

• 4 (8-ounce) filet mignon steaks
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 2 ounces brandy

Directions

Place butter into a mixing bowl, season with salt and pepper and stir until blended and soft. Take a 12-inch piece of plastic wrap and lay it on the counter. Spoon the butter out onto the center of the plastic wrap and place the chives in the center on top of the butter. Pull the edge over the butter mixture, and tightly pinch the ends, then holding the plastic wrap tightly at each end, pull the mixture towards you. This should create a tight sausage shape. (or imagine rolling a sushi roll) Chives will be in the center surrounded by butter. Tie a knot on both ends of the butter roll and place into the freezer until you are ready to place it on top of your cooked filet.

Season the filets with a little salt and pepper. Heat a skillet over medium-high until the pan is hot then drizzle with olive oil.. Place the filets into the pan and cook to medium-rare, about 5 to 7 minutes per side. Remove the pan from the heat and pour brandy into the skillet. Carefully tilt skillet towards the flame to flambe. When the flames burn off, remove the filets from the pan. Remove butter from freezer and cut 4 thin coins and place one on each filet. Serve steaks while hot.

Potato Gratin “Boome-style”

Ingredients

• 1 pound baby new potatoes
• 2 cups grated Gruyere cheese
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.

Place the baby new potatoes with skins on into a large saucepan of cold, salted water, place the saucepan onto a medium heat and bring the potatoes to boil. Boil the potatoes for about 15 minutes, until a knife can easily be inserted, but potatoes are not falling apart.

Drain potatoes and place them back into the pan. Using a fork roughly mash up leaving nice big potato chunks. Mix in the grated cheese, heavy cream, butter and black pepper. Take a foil lined baking sheet and place 4 rings (2-inches wide) on top. Fill each ring with potato mixture and place in oven for 20 minutes until the top is nice and golden brown.

Using a wide spatula, transfer the ring of potatoes to each plate. Holding the edge of the hot ring with a kitchen towel, cut around the potatoes to loosen them. Remove the ring and serv

5+ Game with Danny Boome is the new Article and Blog for Powerplay magazine. The article will cover the 5 main events of the week – games, trades, players, coaches – and anything else that affects the NHL community.

5+Game 19th Edition

019/01/10

20th Edition 5+Game

NHL officiating comes under scrutiny again!  Pen’s TV producer gets suspended, former St. Louis Blues player convicted of murder wants to play hockey in university, Theo Fleury makes an official criminal complaint, and on a happier note, the Bruins will be playing in Europe next summer!  All in this week’s 5+Game!

Hunting season declared on zebras! The story of the week was Vancouver Canucks star Alex Burrows accusing Referee Stephane Auger of targeting him in a loss to the Nashville Predators.  After the game, Burrows told the media: “It was personal. It started in warm-up before the anthem. The ref [Auger] came over to me and said I made him look bad in Nashville on the [Jerred] Smithson hit [during a game Dec. 8]. He said he was going to get me back tonight and he did his job in the third …”

During the third period of Vancouver’s 3-2 loss to Nashville on Monday night, Auger called 3 penalties on Burrows – for diving, interference and unsportsmanlike conduct.  Personal?  Maybe.  The NHL didn’t think so, fining Burrows $2500, while Colin Campbell, senior executive vice president of hockey operations stated his comments were detrimental to the league and the game.

I smell a cover up!  This is certainly something Campbell didn’t need after another week of serious misses by officials and seven reported lapses in judgment that changed games.  Clubs and their fans are frustrated – are the wheels finally coming off Campbell’s finely tuned machine?

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Just trying to help or a genuine mistake? FSN Pittsburgh indefinitely suspended a longtime hockey producer for not quickly showing a replay that could have caused a short-handed goal to be awarded to Flyers forward Simon Gagne in their 7-4 against the Penguins on Thursday.  The producer, Lowell MacDonald Jr., is the one-time lead hockey producer at ESPN and is the son of former Penguins forward Lowell MacDonald.

Gagne’s shot appeared to cross the goal line, but the on-ice officials did not signal a goal.  Moments after play resumed, FSN Pittsburgh aired a replay from an overhead camera that showed the puck crossing the goal line.  TV rights holders are required to make available all angles of a disputed play, but a call cannot be reversed by use of replay once play has restarted.  FSN Pittsburgh said in a statement Tuesday that there “is nothing more important than the integrity of the game.”

From Reform to the Rink: A former St. Louis Blues player convicted of conspiracy to commit murder wants to play hockey for a Halifax university.  Mike Danton, 29, has enrolled at Saint Mary’s University and is awaiting permission from Canadian correctional officials.  Danton was sentenced to 7½ years in prison for his role in a murder-for-hire plot that allegedly targeted his former mentor and agent, David Frost. The native of Brampton, Ont., pleaded guilty in 2004 and spent five years in prison in the United States.

Steve Sarty, Saint Mary’s athletic director, says the university and the varsity hockey team are supportive of the proposed move as Danton has two years of college eligibility left.  “I’ve had a few sleepless nights about it. I’ve done a lot of research on the situation and I think people deserve a second chance,” Sarty told TSN of Canada.  As for the hockey team, the players already have signed a letter pressing their coach, Trevor Steinburg, to let Danton join the team.

Getting back to normal

Allegations of abuse lead to investigation: Winnipeg police are investigating the criminal complaint filed by former NHL star Theo Fleury alleging he was sexually assaulted by his junior hockey coach.  Fleury announced Thursday on his web site that he was filing a complaint against Graham James, whom Fleury accused in his recent autobiography of sexually abusing him repeatedly during the 1980s.  James pleaded guilty in 1997 to repeatedly sexually assaulting two teen players between 1984 and 1995 and got 3½ years in jail.  Fleury said he struggled with the decision to lodge a criminal complaint against James.  “I have been reflecting on this a long time,” he said on his web site. “I wanted to make the biggest impact on preventing this kind of thing from happening in the future.” In his book, “Playing With Fire” Fleury said the sexual abuse he suffered as a teen transformed him from a confused young man into an angry, self-loathing boozer who blew millions of dollars on cards, drugs and lap dances.

Euro Road Trip Leaked! Although there’s plenty of hockey left in this season, the Bruins already are planning for their 2010-11 season opener, which will be in Prague, an NHL source told the Boston Globe.  The Bruins will play two regular season games against the Phoenix Coyotes there in late September and will participate in exhibition games against teams not yet announced.

Game

Game On: Florida Panthers winger David Booth was at practice Tuesday for the first time since taking a devastating hit 2½ months ago that sidelined him with a serious concussion.

Who’s got game? Rick DiPietro’s homecoming was almost perfect.  He made 31 saves and turned away 5 shooters to end the tiebreaker, earning a 3-2 win.

The Come Back Kid

Who’s not got game? Phoenix Coyotes defenseman Ed Jovanovski was suspended two games by the NHL for an elbow hit to the head of New York Islanders rookie John Tavares.

Game of the week: The GF’s parents, diehard Blue Jackets fans, went to see Columbus vs. Chicago – a Christmas present I helped pick.  What a game! Columbus lost in a 6-5 thriller, but I won some brownie points!

What game are you playing @? Alex Burrows deserves a pat on the back, not a fine.  He blew the whistle on a referee with a bad agenda.  The league needs to get its house in order!

5+ Game with Danny Boome is the new Article and Blog for Powerplay magazine. The article will cover the 5 main events of the week – games, trades, players, coaches – and anything else that affects the NHL community.

5+Game 19th Edition

011/01/10

Danny Boome

Team USA announces their Olympic Captain, CUJO hangs it up, KHL is disgrace again! USA wins gold @ WJHC, and Luke Skywalker try’s to assisit the Canucks! All in the weeks 5+Game

Team USA name Langenbrunner captain: Jamie Langenbrunner of the New Jersey Devils will be named captain of Team USA for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver, according to the New Jersey-based Bergen Record.  The official announcement will be made Monday afternoon.  Langenbrunner, 34, is a 15-year NHL veteran who has served as the Devils captain for the past three seasons.  He is a two-time Stanley Cup winner and first competed for the U.S. in the 1998 Winter Games in Nagano.  “To be on the team is an honor, but if it were to happen (being named captain) it would definitely add to that,” said Langenbrunner, who would neither confirm nor deny the report. “I don’t think it’s anything I ever dreamed of as a kid or anything like that but it’s definitely something, if bestowed on me, I would take very seriously and be very honored to do.”  According to the Record, Zach Parise of the Devils and Chris Drury of the New York Rangers will be named alternate captain.

CUJO hangs it up: Curtis Joseph, fourth all-time in wins by a goaltender, will announce his retirement at a news conference Tuesday at the Air Canada Center in Toronto, a source told ESPN.com. The 42-year-old Joseph played last season with the Toronto Maple Leafs, backing up Vesa Toskala.  Joseph’s 454 career regular-season victories trail only Martin Brodeur, Patrick Roy and Ed Belfour. Joseph played 958 regular season games over 19 NHL seasons with St. Louis, Edmonton, Toronto, Detroit, Phoenix and Calgary.  He also appeared in 133 playoff games, reaching the conference finals twice with Toronto in 1999 and 2002.

Luke Skywalker tries to help the Canucks: Calgary Flames coach Brent Sutter is upset security couldn’t locate a laser pointer being used to distract goalie Miikka Kiprusoff during Saturday’s 3-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks.”It’s ridiculous,” Sutter said. “We could see it shining on his mask the whole night. It was brought to the attention of the refs and security, and it’s hard to believe that can go on for 60 minutes in a hockey game and it’s not located.” Kiprusoff made 19 saves and stopped one of three shots in the shootout. He received medical treatment after the game, and wasn’t immediately available to the media.

KHL dishes out punches and fines: Saturday’s game between Vityaz and Avangard in Chekhov had to be stopped after 3:39 when both squads jumped on the ice to exchange punches.  Officials subsequently cancelled the contest because the teams did not have enough players left to continue the game.  It was the first time a Russian hockey game has been called off due to a mass brawl. Vityaz were fined four million rubles ($133,300) and warned they would be thrown out of the league if there were a similar incident while Siberian team Avangard escaped with a one million ruble fine.  The league also fined four players, Canadians Darsy Verot and Brandon Sugden from Vityaz and Avangard’s Russian pair Alexander Svitov and Dmitry Vlasenkov, 150,000 rubles each. In addition, seven players — Vlasenkov and six from Vityaz, including both Verot and Sugden — received one-game suspensions and each club was awarded a 5-0 defeat. Saturday’s incident was another heavy blow to the image of the fledgling league, formed last season with teams from Russia and other former Soviet republics of Belarus, Latvia and Kazakhstan.

USA stops Canada’s gold ambitions! My apologies to those of you upset with my spoiler of the WJHC result between USA and Canada last Tuesday.  I couldn’t contain my excitement over USA’s 6-5 win, leaking the score on both Facebook and Twitter before many of you could get to your Sky+ to watch it the next day.  It was a fantastic tournament that generated a lot of interest in New York’s hockey community!

Game

Game On: The recent “fire Ken Hitchcock” chatter has been quieted following the Blue Jackets’ three-game winning streak thanks to netminder Mathiew Garon’s heroics. Garon has given the team a much needed boost in its first three-game win streak since mid-November.  Prior to this, the Jackets had lost 21 of 24 games. 

Who’s got game: Sean Avery was certainly geared up to face his old team.  The Rangers agitator stuck it to the Dallas Stars by scoring a goal and assisting on three others in New York’s 5-2 win.  Avery didn’t make many friends in Big D after a short spell last season and rubbed it in by responding to a question about what was different about tonight’s game with, “I was getting paid by two teams”.

Gooooal

Who’s not game: Antti Niemi didn’t face many shots and of the 11 that Anaheim threw at him on Sunday, two made it to the back of the net. The loss gives Chicago its first two-game losing streak since November.

Game of the week: Completing their suspended game from Friday night, the Lightning finished off the Devils 4-2 as Steve Stamkos continued his terrific sophomore season with two goals and an assist. His first goal shut the lights off in Newark on Friday and his second put an end to the possibility of a New Jersey comeback in the third period.

What game are you playing @? Toronto has allowed the first goal in 32 of their 45 games.

5+ Game with Danny Boome is the new Article and Blog for Powerplay magazine. The article will cover the 5 main events of the week – games, trades, players, coaches – and anything else that affects the NHL community.

5+Game 18th Edition

04/01/10

Danny Boome

The Winter Classic is a true battle, a bad bar bill gives the Oilers a New Year’s hangover, the Blues start 2010 with a new coach, Olympic rosters finalized and a freak accident leaves a junior linesman hospitalized! Happy New Year! It’s 5+Game!

New Year’s Hangover: An $18,000 restaurant bill caused a New Year’s Day dispute between the Edmonton Oilers and Maurizio Terrigno, owner of Osteria de Medici, an Italian restaurant in Calgary.  When they received the bill, Oiler’s players were surprised at the whopping total and demanded a discount on their $8000 bar tab, which included copious tequila shooters, fine wines, and $500 magnums of champagne.  They were apparently expecting to be charged for bottles of liquor, rather than for each shooter.  The Oilers claim the restaurant adjusted the bill; they left $12,000 and “a generous tip of about $1,800.”  Terrigno plans to donate the money to an Italian earthquake relief fund, which is just the sort of “it’s not about the money” move someone waging a public PR war over money usually makes. Me thinks I smell a Flames fan trying to stir the pot!?

Winter Classic: 2010 started with a bang as Boston and Philadelphia butted heads in the Winter Classic held at the hallowed Fenway Park.  The now annual outdoor spectacular was the grittiest game in three years, as the first fight in Winter Classic history between Flyers Dan Carcillo and the Bruins Shawn Thornton at 12:01 of the first period set the tone. The game had a great pace but not much action until the final 15 minutes.  The Flyers were sitting tight on a one goal lead until a dodgy tripping call on Kimmo Timonen put the Bruins on the power play with 3:52 to go in the game.  Mark Recchi leveled it 1:34 later to force overtime and Marco Sturm scored to lock up a 2-1 victory.  A great day for Boston in Boston, and the first time a home team won the Winter Classic.

Home Win, and what a great way to do it!

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Murray gets the job blues: The St. Louis Blues fired Coach Andy Murray Saturday morning.  Davis Payne, of the Blues’ AHL affiliate Peoria Rivermen, takes over on an interim basis, beginning Saturday night against the Chicago Blackhawks.  Team president John Davidson Blues cited Payne’s nine winning seasons in the minors, including an ECHL championship in 2006. “Davis is very knowledgeable of the players in our organization and we feel he is the best candidate to coach our team,” he said in a statement.  Allow me to translate: Davis Payne is 39, Andy Murray is 58, and the Blues have 14 players under the age of 30 on their team. They needed a new messenger.

Olympics rosters: The rosters and groups for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics are now complete, with the first games beginning on February 16th.  You can view all the squads on www.dannyboome.tv/5+Game:

Group A  Canada, United States, Switzerland, Norway

Group B  Russia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Latvia

Group C  Sweden, Finland, Belarus, Germany

Linesman Injured: A 25-year-old hockey linesman was gravely injured when his neck was cut by a skate during a Junior C game on Tuesday.  The incident took place in the third period of a game between the New Hamburg Firebirds and host Woodstock Renegades.  The linesman, Kevin Brown, was initially reported to be in stable condition, but Renegades owner Bill McLeod said he was told Brown is “not doing so well now.”
Later Wednesday afternoon, a spokesperson for the London Health Sciences Centre said Brown was in critical condition.

Brown was slashed while trying to break up a fight between two players late in the game.  According to the North Bay (Ont.) Nugget newspaper, Woodstock’s Craig Thomson, who had just scored to tie the game 4-4, got into a fight with New Hamburg’s Reid Oliver behind the Firebirds’ net after the goal and subsequent celebration.  The two traded punches until Thomson threw Oliver to the ice. Oliver’s right leg was lifted through the air – “almost like a cartwheel motion,” McLeod said, and his skate cut Brown’s throat under his chin on the right side of his face.  According to the report, Brown, not realizing he had been gravely injured, continued to break up the fight as he bled profusely.

Game

Game On: A 10-game home winning streak for the Phoenix Coyotes and a franchise record? Are we really going to see this team pull the “Major League” trick and defiantly contend for a title?

Who’s got game? Boston Bruins Tim Thomas had a New Year’s Day to remember! Two points, 24 saves, and confirmation that he would indeed be headed to Vancouver to represent his country in the Olympics, “This will go down as one of the most memorable days of my life and my career,” said Thomas, who has also played in six World Championships.

Tim "THE TANK" Thomas

Who’s not got game: Team USA will be in need of a miracle at the Olympics.  They’re a strong gritty squad, but I’m not sure that will be enough to fend off powerhouse countries with far superior fire power.

Game of the week: The Winter Classic was great, but the WJHC game between USA & Canada was amazing!! (3-4 in SO)

Shoot Out! Will the final be the same?

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The information statistics and subject matter of articles is sourced from the official NHL web site NHL.com and it’s archives. The Hockey News.com, Yahoo Sports.com and ESPN.com. Research and quotations can at times come from other independent associated press.

• This course will cover:

• Knife skills

• Herb and spice pairing

• Saucing

• Wine pairing

• Timing and preparation

• Quick fixes

• Food science

• Eco cooking

• 1 Chicken into 8 pieces

• 5 ways to cook meat & fish

• Vegetarian / Vegan Cooking

Duration: 2-4 week course
Length of each course: 3 hours, one night per week
Group size: maximum of 6
Cost Per Person: 2 Weeks $350.00  4Weeks $550.00 (dinner with wine and tax is included)NNN

5+ Game with Danny Boome is the new Article and Blog for Powerplay magazine. The article will cover the 5 main events of the week – games, trades, players, coaches – and anything else that affects the NHL community.

5+Game 17th Edition

Danny Boome 15/12/09

Did anyone see the Sabres coming in the rear view mirror? They just zoomed by everyone! Phoenix is finally sold, Russian legend Fetisov makes a comeback at 51! Chicago is now warmed up with drive and trick shots entertaining the crowd and the Leafs stomp over the Caps. It’s this week’s 5+Game!!

Vaaarrroooooom: Teams across the NHL are shaking their heads as they leave the ice, unsure as to what happened in the 60 minutes it took them to lose to the Buffalo Sabres. No one saw this coming. Coaches are double-checking their to do lists: Preparation check. Roster check. Tactics check. So why did Buffalo beat us? With four straight wins, the Sabres are currently sitting on top of the Northeast division and 8th overall in the league. If this hot streak continues, this unlikely contender will become a playoff candidate!

Just one of Sabres very impressive results this season

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Phoenix SOLD Finally: News came late Friday that the Ice Edge Holdings investment group agreed to buy the Phoenix Coyotes from the league for $140 million dollars, and that the sale will be voted on by the Board of Governors later this week. Some governors have said they’re skeptical that the group has the financial juice to put this purchase together. Others don’t care as long as they don’t have to continue to prop up a franchise that isn’t their own. All we know is that Gary Bettman is wiping the sweat from his brow and breathing a big sigh of relief. Now there’s only a 40% chance he’ll be pelted with garbage next time he meets with an owner.

Hull is a Blues Hero: The Blues are honoring Brett Hull for his recent induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Tuesday night, along with his “dream team” from a decade with the franchise that features Adam Oates, Wayne Gretzky, Brendan Shanahan, Al MacInnis and Chris Pronger. Hull became a star after St. Louis acquired him from the Calgary Flames in 1987. He scored 72, 86 and 70 goals in a three-season span starting in 1989-90 and was just as entertaining and colorful after games. “We had the Babe Ruth of hockey,” Shanahan said. “Every time Babe hit, he hit a home run. Every time Brett shot it, he scored a goal.” Those memories trump Hull’s sour ending in St. Louis in 1998. He’ll be honored in a pregame ceremony before Tuesday’s game against the Flames, and the Blues also plan to add a Hull statue outside the Scottrade Center to join likenesses of MacInnis and Bernie Federko.

Golden Brett

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Dusting off the Skates: Hockey Hall of Fame defenseman Viacheslav Fetisov has served in the Russian parliament, was the first chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s athletes committee, is a member of the Kontinental Hockey League board of directors and is president of the KHL’s CSKA Moscow. Due to numerous injuries that have decimated the team’s roster, the former Detroit Red Wing and New Jersey Devil will lace on the skates Friday night when his team, CSKA, hosts SKA St. Petersburg. Fetisov, who played with the Devils for six seasons before joining the Red Wings and winning back-to-back Stanley Cups in 1997 and 1998, is 51 years old. He retired from hockey at the end of the 1997-98 season. When told that Fetisov would be suiting up for his team in the KHL, New Jersey Devils goalie Martin Brodeur grinned. “He’s such a competitor, even to this day,” Brodeur said. CSKA coach Sergei Nemchinov has turned to Fetisov in desperate need of a replacement for his injured defenseman Denis Kulyash. He’ll wear number 2 — the same number he wore when he won numerous titles with CSKA, a team he played with for 14 years (1975-89). CSKA currently is sixth in the KHL’s Western Conference with 52 points. SKA St. Petersburg is first in the West with 76 points.
If Fetisov does get into the game, he’ll become the second oldest player ever to play at the top level of a major league behind Gordie Howe who returned to the ice at the age of 52.

The comeback kid?

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Construction starts for Winter Classic: Ice guru Dan Craig preaches patience to every member of his hand-picked crew as it turns Fenway Park from a baseball cathedral to a hockey temple. Construction started on Thursday as the clock is ticking for the outdoor hockey extravaganza that will host the Boston Bruins and the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2010 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic on New Year’s Day (1 p.m., NBC, CBC, RDS).

It’s Going to be Chilly!

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Game:

Game On: 17 days to the winter classic, 45 days to the Olympics, and 70 days to the playoffs! 2010 is going to be a hockey crazy year!

Who’s got game? Chicago Blackhawks Dustin Byfuglien. With the Blackhawks and visiting New York Rangers tied 1-1 in overtime, Byfuglien unleashed one of the best individual efforts for a goal I’ve seen this season.

What an Effort!

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Who’s not got game? TV commentator Don Cherry. Not only for his bad clothing choices, but also for his outdated opinions, especially when it comes to head shots. Cherry should take his dog Spike for a walk and stop wasting our time!

Game of the week: Toronto came from 2-0 behind to beat the Washington Capitals 6-3. They kept OV out of the game, letting him earn just two points. The Leafs are as hot as Nashville and Buffalo, with an impressive 5 wins in 7 games.

What game are you playing @? Check out Marion Hossa’s crazy goal at 5+Games’s video blog on www.dannyboome.tv. Unbelievable hand-eye coordination for a pat down, one-time swipe at the puck that left Tampa’s goalie saying “Oh no he didn’t!”

What a Goal!!!

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