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Page 3 • Wednesday, June
New Jersey wins one title, hopes for second
Despite crowd Devils win
third Cup in nine years
By Alan Robinson
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — No city really claims the New
Jersey Devils.
New York mostly ignores them and the various communities
that surround their swampland home barely pay attention, except
during the long postseasons.
Their arena, which is more like an airplane hangar, is straight
out of the 1980s and looks it. Past victory parades have be held in
a sprawling parking lot. The cast changes regularly, but hardly
ever involves a big name or big contract.
But there’s something to brag about — a roster that doesn’t
cost a ton of money but one that the Rangers, Penguins,
Blackhawks and Maple Leafs wish they could own.
To the Devils, winning the Stanley Cup isn’t something they
do once in a lifetime. Every season, they believe they can win the
Cup or at least compete for it.
The Devils raised their third Stanley Cup in nine years in a
sold-out-for-a-change Continental Airlines Arena on Monday
night, ending the Anaheim Mighty Ducks’ improbable playoff run
with a 3-0 victory in Game 7.
Given their overall lack of fan support, the Devils would seem
to have a home-ice disadvantage, but never before has an arena
meant more in crowning an NHL champion. The Devils lost
every game, all three, played in the Southland, as the Los Angeles
area calls itself. They won every game, all four, played in New
Jersey.
To put into historical perspective what they’ve done, consider
that only five other teams since the NHL began in 1917 have won
as many Cups within a 10-year timeframe: Ottawa (not the cur
rent-day Senators); Montreal, Detroit, the New York Islanders
and Edmonton.
“This is so hard to win, and I never would have thought this
would have happened again, but we’ve built and worked hard as
a team and we’ve got a lot of character and guys who work
together,” said Scott Stevens, who, like goalie Martin Brodeur
Has been there for all three Cups. “All year we found a way to
win.”
Almost every year they find a way; this was their third trip to
the finals in four years. Dynasty, perhaps, is not the proper word;
there were five years between the first and second titles; three
years (and one failed Game 7 that prevented a fourth title)
between the second and third. Only the much more prosperous
Red Wings have won as many Cups since the Oilers won their
fifth and last Cup in 1990.
“Nobody talks about a dynasty until it’s over,” Brodeur said.
Brodeur symbolizes what the Devils are all about. He has yet
to win a Vezina trophy as the NHL’s best goalie, a Hart trophy as
the NHL’s regular-season MVP, a Conn Smythe trophy as the
playoffs MVP. What he has are three Stanley Cups, more than any
other current goalie now that Patrick Roy is retired.
As usual, the Devils changed coaches before winning this title;
Three’s a charm as Lord Stanley comes home
The New Jersey Devils captured their third Stanley Cup in the last nine years, defeating the Mighty
Ducks of Anaheim in seven games in the 2003 Finals.
Finals results
Game 1
New Jersey
3-0
Game 2
New Jersey
3-0
Game 3
Anaheim
3-2 (OT)
Game 4
Anaheim
1-0 (OT)
Game 5
New Jersey
6-3
Game 6
Anaheim
5-2
Game 7
New Jersey
3-0
Won’t go home
empty-handed
Anaheim's Jean-Sebastlen
Giguere is only the fifth player on
a losing team to win the Conn
Smythe Trophy for playoff MVP.
Other players to win the award:
YEAR PLAYER TEAM
1987 Ron Hextall Flyers
1976 Reg Leach Flyers
1968 Glenn Hall Blues
1966 Roger Crazier Redwings
Playoff comparison
NEW JERSEY ANAHEIM
Games Goals Goals Goals Shutouts Faceoff
played per game against pet. won
Team scoring leaders (G-A-TP)
New Jersey Anaheim
S. Niedermayer 2-16-18 4-9-13 ....;. A. Oates
J. Langenbrunner 11-7-18 4-9-13 P. Sykora
J. Madden 6-10-16 6-6-12 P. Karlya
SOURCE: NHL
AP
Pat Burns oversaw this group, following in the skate marks of
Jacques Lemaire (1995) and Larry Robinson (2000). Burns drove
them hard, from the first day of training camp to the last possible
game of the season; drove them without as much as a smile or a
friendly wink.
“Pat, as everybody knows, doesn’t smile a whole lot,” Ken
Daneyko said.
As usual, they lost key players (Bobby Holik to free agency,
Petr Sykora to a trade). A man named Steinbrenner signs their
checks, but they contain a lot fewer zeros than those of
the Yankees.
Last summer, their key pickups were Jeff Friesen from, of all
teams, the Ducks and Grant Marshall. Friesen had an up-and-
down season, yet broke through with five goals against his old
team in the finals, two in Game 7. He also had the winning goal
in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals against Ottawa.
In this era of frequent overhauls and quick fixes, the Devils
don’t plan to tear down what’s not broken, to suddenly chase the
high-priced talent that could aid their next Cup run. They are con
tent to let history judge what they do and how they do it.
“It’s not over for us and we are going to try to build on this,”
Brodeur said. “Ten years, 20 years down the road, people will
look back at what we accomplished and they will say if say if we
Nets hoping to avoid
devastating 3-1 deficit
By Greg Beacham
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J.
—As they prepared for the game
that might decide the fate of their
NBA title dreams, the New
Jersey Nets could smell a cham
pionship.
“You come into the building
this afternoon, and you have a
sense of champagne and beer,”
Jason Kidd said Tuesday before
the Nets’ practice at Continental
Airlines Arena.
About 13 hours earlier, the
New Jersey Devils raised the
Stanley Cup on the ice now
below the freshly assembled bas
ketball court. Kenyon Martin
attended the hockey game to
enjoy the winning vibe — and he
sat next to George Steinbrenner,
who knows a bit about champi
onships.
“It was great for them to win
it here, and now the pressure is
on us,” Martin said. “It’s a good
pressure. That was a great feeling
for those guys. I’m excited for
them. We’re in a position where
we can do the same tiling, so
now let’s go out and play.”
In Game 4 of the NBA Finals
on Wednesday night, the Nets
will find out whether they’ve got
any realistic hope of hanging a
title banner on the opposite end
of the arena from those belong
ing to the Devils.
A 3-1 deficit has never been
overcome in the NBA Finals.
Martin told the rest of the Nets,
down 2-1 to the San Antonio
Spurs, to treat Game 4 as if it
were the last game of the season
— since it might turn out to be
the last one that matters.
The Spurs won Game 3 in
New Jersey, and they could take
prohibitive control of the series
with another dominating inside-
outside performance from the
tandem of Tim Duncan and Tony
Parker.
“Any team down 3-1 is dev
astated,” Spurs guard Stephen
Jackson said. “It would definite
ly take the confidence out of
them.”
To win their first NBA title,
the Nets must figure out how to
score consistently against the
Spurs’ ever-changing defense.
Run-and-gun New Jersey has
been stuck in neutral for most of
the series, with San Antonio’s
strong transition defense pre
venting most of the fast breaks
that are New Jersey’s specialty.
And Martin, the Nets’
excitable
power for
ward, might
be the key.
New Jersey’s
leading play
off scorer is
averaging
19.3 points in
kidd the series, but
he has van
ished in the fourth quarter of all
three games — particularly the
Spurs’ two victories.
Martin has a combined eight
points on 4-of-17 shooting in the
fourth quarters. Kidd carried the
Nets to victory in Game 2, but
New Jersey faded in Game 3
when Martin missed four shots
down the stretch.
With the reclaimed home-
court advantage and their confi
dence in Duncan, the Spurs can
afford to approach Game 4 as a
normal playoff meeting — but
the Nets need this victory, not
only for their championship
hopes, but for their franchise’s
growth.
New Jersey entered the finals
determined to improve on its
four-game loss to the Los
Angeles Lakers in last season’s
final round. Kidd scored 30
points as the Nets got their first
finals victory ever in Game 2, but
San Antonio doused the Nets’
suddenly rowdy fans with an 84-
79 victory in Game 3.
SPORTS IN BRIEF
Sosa appeals eight-
game suspension
BALTIMORE - Sammy
Sosa on Tuesday appealed
his eight-game suspension
for using a corked bat.
After speaking for about
an hour with Bob DuPuy,
baseball's chief operating
officer, Sosa could only
hope for the best.
“I’m waiting for the
decision they’re going to
make. Whatever punishment
they’re going to do, I accept
it,” he said.
A decision from major
league baseball could come
as soon as Wednesday.
Sosa made a short state
ment to the media late
Tuesday afternoon, then
exited without taking ques
tions. Cubs officials said
Sosa would not speak with
reporters again during a
three-game series that con
cludes Thursday.
Sosa was suspended for
eight games Friday by Bob
Watson, baseball’s vice
president in charge of disci
pline, but the appeal allows
him to play until a ruling is
made.
Legendary horse Spectacular Bid dies at 27
By John Kekis
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNADILLA, N.Y. — Spectacular Bid, a steel
gray colt whose drive to win the Triple Crown in
1979 was derailed by a safety pin on the day of the
Belmont Stakes, died at 27.
He died of a heart attack Monday at Milfer Farm
in upstate New York. The thoroughbred will be
buried at the farm in Unadilla, 65 miles southeast of
Syracuse, according to the owner of the farm where
he still stood at stud.
The death came two days after Funny Cide failed
in a bid to win the Triple Crown.
“It seemed almost prophetic, I suppose, that he
was showing maybe not quite himself Saturday and
Sunday, which was the weekend of the Belmont,”
said Jonathan H.F. Davis, veterinarian and farm
owner.
Davis said Spectacular Bid was still an active
stud and he will produce a 2004 foal crop.
Bred by Madelyn Jason and her mother, Mrs.
William Gilmore, Spectacular Bid, whose sire was
Bold Bidder and dam was Spectacular, was foaled
Feb. 17, 1976. Purchased as a yearling for $37,000
by Harry and Teresa Meyerhoff, “Bid”, as he was
nicknamed, was spectacular from the moment he
entered a starting gate.
He won 26 of 30 career starts — he also finished
second twice, third once and was fourth in the Tyro
Stakes at Monmouth in the third race of his career
— and earned $2,781,607 and three Eclipse Awards.
He was voted champion 2-year-old colt, champion
3-year-old colt and champion older horse in succes
sive years (1978-80).
Groomed throughout his career by Charlie Bettis
and carrying the colors of Hawksworth Farm,
Spectacular Bid went to post for the first time on
June 30,1978. He ran just two-fifths of a second off
the Pimlico track record for 5 1/2 furlongs and three
weeks later came back in an allowance at the same
distance, this time equaling the track record.
Bid won five more stakes that year on his way to
being named the top 2-year-old colt.
Carrying a five-race win streak into his 3-year-
old season, Spectacular Bid reeled off five more
wins and entered the Triple Crown series undefeat
ed for the season.
Spectacular Bid went up on the tote board as the
Kentucky Derby favorite at Churchill Downs. As he
walked the horse to the paddock area, trainer Grover
“Buddy” Delp was so convinced he had a sure thing
that he shouted to nearby fans, “Go bet! Go bet!”
When Spectacular Bid came on in the stretch to
overtake General Assembly, it didn’t seem like that
big a deal. He was the favorite. He won the race.
That’s what was supposed to happen, according to
the handicappers.
Two decades worth of beaten Derby favorites
that followed, however, made the accomplishment
more noteworthy.
“He was the greatest horse that ever looked
through a bridle,” Delp said. “The only two horses
that I believe would have given him a run were
Citation and Secretariat.”
Both, coincidentally, were Triple Crown win
ners, just like Affirmed and Seattle Slew in the two
years before Spectacular Bid.
Horse racing legend dies
Spectacular Bid, whose quest for the Triple Crown in 1979 was
derailed by a safety pin on the day of the Belmont Stakes, died at
27 of a heart attack Monday.
Year
Age
Starts
1st
2nd
3rd
Earnings
1978
2
9
7
1
0
$384,484
1979
3
12
10
1
1
1,279,333
1980
4
9
9
0
0
1,117,790
Totals
30
26
2
1
2,781,607
Career highlights
► Won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes (1979)
► 1980 Horse of the Year
► Won his last 10 races and undefeated as a 4-year-old, winning
nine of nine starts
SOURCES: New York Racing Association; Associated Press AP
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