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Cave must deal with Hayward
SHOULD CAVEMAN Promotions need any input on possible opponents for Halifax’s Tyson Cave this year, there’s a Canadian boxing website that provides a clear answer. Fans who exchange opinions on FightNews Canada want to see the unbeaten Cave square off against Jason Hayward of Newfoundland. One particular thread on the website’s boxing forum was started about a month ago and is still generating interest. At last check, there were 160 replies and more than 4,000 views. The general topic of conversation centres on a desire to see a Cave-Hayward showdown.
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Moose have marketing smarts for tough times
IT WAS OBVIOUS early in this hockey season that the Halifax Mooseheads would be challenged even to make the QMJHL playoffs. Yet the Mooseheads, despite the expected drop in attendance that often accompanies rebuilding seasons, still do well — off the ice. They remain the unquestioned top sports draw in Nova Scotia and continue to claim some of the best Q home attendance numbers.
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What to look for in 2009
AUGUST is generally one of the slow months on the local sports calendar. But that changes in 2009, when the late-summer month offers notable national and international events in Nova Scotia. Here are a few of the most anticipated events for the coming year, starting with that unusually busy month of August:
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Patenaude making most of trade period
PLENTY MORE deals will be made before next Friday’s QMJHL trade deadline, but the Halifax Mooseheads have already made their best moves. General manager Marcel Patenaude has revamped his roster with a handful of smart deals and can already declare this year’s trade period a major success. Patenaude kicked things off with a move he had to make. He dealt forward Logan MacMillan to the Rimouski Oceanic for centre Guillaume Pelletier and four draft picks.
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Greed hurts world junior tourney
WHY IS Kazakhstan in the world junior hockey championship? Canada’s 15-0 win over Kazakhstan on Sunday was evidence that the small hockey nation isn’t ready to compete with the legitimate world hockey powers.
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Moose move MacMillan
After four seasons with the Halifax Mooseheads, Logan MacMillan is moving on to a team assured a spot in this year’s Memorial Cup. The Mooseheads shipped the 19-year-old forward — their biggest bargaining chip in a rebuilding year — to the Rimouski Oceanic on Tuesday, Mooseheads general manager Marcel Patenaude announced. Rimouski will host the Memorial Cup in May.
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Cameron best of the bunch
THERE’S NOTHING in sports bigger than an Olympic medal. That exactly what Shubenacadie native Tracy Cameron won in Beijing at the Summer Olympics. She partnered with Ontario’s Melanie Kok to win the bronze in rowing’s light double sculls event.
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2008 was dominated by a horse
NO ONE COULD HAVE predicted, in a province where the once popular sport of harness racing had lost so much profile, that a horse would dominate the local sports news for the year. But that’s what happened in 2008, when Nova Scotia-owned pacer Somebeachsomewhere was the talk of harness racing circles across North America. The three-year-old, owned by a Truro-based investment group, set four world records, became the fastest three-year-old in harness racing history and won 20 of 21 career races to garner more than $3 million in winnings. As the year was drawing to a close, the owners retired Somebeachsomewhere to stud, and he’ll bring in millions more dollars.
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Why does Q accept its low status
QUESTIONS, questions, questions: •Why does the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League seem so accepting of what’s become second tier status as a producer of talent for the Canadian national junior team?
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Dal must change CIS thinking
A WEEK has passed since Dalhousie lost to the University of New Brunswick in the bidding competition to host the 2011 and 2012 University Cup hockey tournaments, but the decision still irks many Dal bid supporters. That UNB was named bid winner isn’t the problem. The Dal contingent knew going in that the New Brunswick school would be a formidable bid opponent. UNB did sell out all its games the last time it hosted the national event in 2003-04.
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