Tony Amonte News

Dishes out the physical stuff from his first shift, literally. Skates the puck. Blasts it a few times.

Reclamation projects are a thing of the past. For the Calgary Flames, the future is in its youth.

The Calgary Flames' beleaguered penalty-killing crew says the 11 shorthanded goals they've compiled this season doesn't truly compensate for the club's feeble 79.1 per cent kill rate, a figure that places them a lowly 27th out of 30 National Hockey League members.

One-quarter of the season is in the books. What have the Calgary Flames learned so far? Well, for starters, they've been reminded that petitioning the National Hockey League head office for a November start to the campaign might not be a horrible idea.

For the first time in 16 memorable days, Theoren Fleury had nothing to say. ``You know, I just really don't know how I'm feeling right now,'' he begged off politely.

Calgary 2 - Minnesota 1 These Northwest Division enemies had each skated in 63 matches.

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Darryl Sutter believes Theo Fleury will get a tryout if cleared by the NHL. However, the odds of it coming courtesy of the Calgary Flames are longer than Fleury's comeback attempt.

The 1998 U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team, Tony Amonte, Tom Barrasso, John LeClair and Frank Zamboni will be enshrined into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame as the Class of 2009, it was announced today by USA Hockey.

Former Chicago Blackhawks winger Tony Amonte will be inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame.

If Kyle Beach handles the puck as deftly as he did Blackhawks fans he'll be on the ice in Chicago sooner rather than later.

"Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.'' -- Shakespeare, Richard II Once more, our land was plunged into shadow.