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It's time to hand out the hardware for the 2005-06 National Hockey League season:
SN's All-Star team
Goaltender: Miikka Kiprusoff, Flames
Left winger: Ovechkin, Capitals
Center: Joe Thornton, Sharks
Right winger: Jagr, Rangers
Defenseman: Scott Niedermayer, Mighty Ducks
Defenseman: Nicklas Lidstrom, Red Wings
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Coach of the year
Lindy Ruff, Sabres.
Executive of the year
Jim Rutherford, Hurricanes. Nexus: a group connected. Rutherford is a nexus master, who created a perfect storm of talent, leadership and coaching. He "built a skilled, exciting team through shrewd drafting and trades," says Mighty Ducks GM Brian Burke, who was a distant second in the voting by 41 league executives.
Burke calls Rutherford "quiet and low-key, but deadly." There's no more apt description. Bruins executive Jeff Gorton sees the Hurricanes' success as a "combination of bringing in the right type of free agents and having their youth emerge." Rutherford signed Cory Stillman, traded for Doug Weight, Mike Commodore and Mark Recchi and drafted Eric Staal and Cam Ward. A perfect nexus.
SN's All-Star team
Goaltender: Miikka Kiprusoff, Flames
Left winger: Ovechkin, Capitals
Center: Joe Thornton, Sharks
Right winger: Jagr, Rangers
Defenseman: Scott Niedermayer, Mighty Ducks
Defenseman: Nicklas Lidstrom, Red Wings
...
Coach of the year
Lindy Ruff, Sabres.
Executive of the year
Jim Rutherford, Hurricanes. Nexus: a group connected. Rutherford is a nexus master, who created a perfect storm of talent, leadership and coaching. He "built a skilled, exciting team through shrewd drafting and trades," says Mighty Ducks GM Brian Burke, who was a distant second in the voting by 41 league executives.
Burke calls Rutherford "quiet and low-key, but deadly." There's no more apt description. Bruins executive Jeff Gorton sees the Hurricanes' success as a "combination of bringing in the right type of free agents and having their youth emerge." Rutherford signed Cory Stillman, traded for Doug Weight, Mike Commodore and Mark Recchi and drafted Eric Staal and Cam Ward. A perfect nexus.
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