Wednesday, September 16, 1998
The University Daily Kansan
Section B·Page 7
NHL players sharpen up for season
Shanahan bulks up during off-season
The Associated Press
The opposition won't have Brendan Shanahan to kick around this season. The Detroit Red Wings' forward bulked up with the help of a personal trainer during the summer.
"This is the strongest I've ever felt," Shanahan said Monday at the Red Wings' training camp in Traverse City, Mich. "I did a lot of upper-body, lower-body and trunk work this summer. I really focused on getting a strong torso.
"I'm 29 years old. When you start creeping up around 30, you pay a little more attention to detail with the little things you do in the off season. Hopefully, the hard work will pay off."
Shanahan insisted that too much had been made of the back problems that bothered him during the Stanley Cup playoffs last season. He was limited to nine points in 20 games — about half his production from the year before.
"To be honest with you, two weeks
after the last game my back was fine, and it has been ever since," Shanahan said.
The playoffs were almost a reflection of the season for Shanahan. He went from 47 goals and 41 assists two seasons ago to 28 goals and 29 assists last season.
"He went through some frustrating times last season," assistant coach Dave Lewis said. "You could see it on the bench; you could see it in the games."
Part of the reason for Shanahan's decreased production may have been the defensive demands that coach Scotty Bowman put on his forwards.
"I think he sacrificed some offense to play solid defense and that's a credit to him," Lewis said.
Devils
Predators
The expansion Predators are on ice for the first time in Nashville, Tenn. The Predators are playing all their exhibition games on the road. They want the first hockey game in the Nashville Arena to be for real.
Islanders
The New York Islanders, who are trying to break their lease at Nassau County Coliseum, are investigating sites for home games. They've talked to the New Jersey Devils and the
New York Rangers about playing in those teams' buildings and might go to Hartford, Conn., too.
Jason Arnott gets the cast removed from his left hand today — six weeks after surgery to repair a severed tendon in his ring finger. He hopes to be ready for his team's operant Oct. 10
against Chicago.
"There's a chance I won't be ready for opening day," Arnott told the Bergen (N.J.) Record. "If not, it will be
because of the finger and not because I'm out of shape."
Mighty Ducks
Defenseman Fredrik Olausson, a free-agent acquisition by the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, has yet to be cleared for on-ice workouts because he was found to have an enlarged spleen.
Meanwhile, general manager Pierre Gauthier said he had decided against offering a contract to defenseman Drew Bannister, a restricted free agent.
Rangers
Leetch working on a contract extension. The all-star defenseman is entering the final year of a seven-year contract that will pay him $3.72 million this season, and general manager Nell Smith reportedly is preparing a new offer.
I do feel that pressure where a larger contract for me helps all the players by raising the average salary ...for defensemen around the league." Leetch told the New York Post at training camp in Burlington, Vt.
Defenseman Sandis Ozollinsh was the only no-show at the Colorado Avalanche training camp in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Avalanche
Bruins
General manager Pierre Lacroix told the Rocky Mountain News that he had made an offer to agent Paul Theofanous months ago but said he had yet to receive a counterproposal.
Dennis Vaske, a free agent who signed last week with the Bruins after eight years with the New York Islanders, said he had recovered from the post-concussion syndrome that limited him to only 19 games last season.
"It's nice to have a new start," he said.
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