Wings to make announcement at 11am
The Detroit Red Wings have scheduled a press conference for 11am this morning regarding the future of Dominik Hasek. Reporters are speculating that the conference has been scheduled to announce Dominik Hasek’s retirement.
Dominik Hasek is expected to announce his retirement, a person in the NHL told The Associated Press on Sunday night. The Detroit Red Wings scheduled a news conference for Monday morning without revealing details.
A person within the league, who requested anonymity because the announcement was Hasek’s to make, said Hasek was expected to end his award-winning career.
What I don’t get is if you aren’t willing to say who you are and you know that this is something Hasek should say (and you admit that fact to the reporter), why would you say something? Just shut up and let the Dominator say what he wants to say without you blowing it for him (if he, in fact, does retire).
I will be at work in Chicago by the time the announcement is made so I’m going to quickly give my thoughts should Hasek actually retire. The last two seasons that we won the Cup, Hasek was in net for some part of the season/playoffs. In 2002, he was a big reason for our success in the postseason and I will forever be grateful for that. This season, he and Chris Osgood combined for the lowest GAA in the season. I don’t know this, but perhaps the splitting of goaltending duties like they did this year gave Ozzie more energy and stamina as the playoffs dragged on. Had Hasek stayed for one more season, I wouldn’t have been bummed about that. To have two goaltenders with such success in net can only do good things for the team. But Hasek’s time is almost up whether it’s today or after next season and why not retire after you win your second Stanley Cup?
His role was certainly reduced after the first four games in the playoffs, but he handled it incredibly well. I was really impressed with how he still prepared and practiced hard every minute, but didn’t really complain and thus make things more uncomfortable in the locker room. But Dom is the kind of guy who wants to be the No. 1 goalie and if he realizes that he probably wouldn’t be going into this upcoming season, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him retire.
I’ll come back and update this post with quotes from the conference and what actually did happen.
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June 9th, 2008 at 11:07 am
I agree, that old man needs to retire. That ass screwed Cujo. How long has he been in america and still is damn near impossible to understand.