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Bosc Ulrich II
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 Posted: Tue Mar 25, 2008 8:57 am Post subject: Tim Taylor may play in final game of the season |
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http://blogs.tampabay.com/lightning/2008/03/taylor-could-pl.html
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Here's a nice story, if it happens:
Lightning coach John Tortorella has given captain Tim Taylor the option of playing in the team's final game of the season April 5 at Atlanta. It would be a way for the center to finish his 13-year career as a player instead of on the sideline, where he has been since Sept. 7 hip surgery.
"He deserves that type of respect,'' Tortorella said. "He's been a loyal guy to the organization and has done a lot of things on and off the ice people don't even know about, so he deserves that right.''
The surgery is called hip resurfacing and corrected his painful, right-hip dysplasia by shaving and smoothing the head of the femur, topping it with a chrome alloy cap and fitting it into the hip socket that also was coated.
Taylor, 39, said he is "ecstatic'' at the results. He has skated since mid February but has practiced fewer than 10 times.
"I don't want to say yes. I don't want to say no,'' Taylor said of playing. "Now I'm practicing every day. Maybe the last day of the season, maybe I get that itch.''
If Taylor doesn't play, he will end his career with 746 games, 73 goals, 167 points and Stanley Cups with the Lightning in 2004 and Red Wings in 1997.
Seemed the more we talked about it Monday at the Ice Sports Forum, the more Taylor liked the idea of playing.
"That would be nice,'' he said. "To sit on the bench at the end of a game and to know, 'Okay, it's over now,' would be really nice.'' |
Classy move by the Lightning
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the New Cunning Linguist
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Very nice move by the Lightning....
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E.L.
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It sucks that coming off his best season ever, he suffered what has now become a career ending injury. The Lightning really missed his strong defensive play this season.
Ditto Rob DiMaio.
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RW
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I remember him coming up to the Red Wings in 1994 - 95. He'd been signed earlier but hadn't really played. Played almost full time in 1995 - 96. He won a Stanley Cup with us in 1997 playing part time. Lost him on the waiver wire to the B's during the next training camp. He was a good solid guy.
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Bosc Ulrich II
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Taylor being a solid guy as RW said, has declined the offer:
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Lightning captain Tim Taylor won't play a final game for Tampa Bay before retiring after the regular season ends.
The 39-year old Taylor, who has missed the entire season after undergoing off-season hip surgery, has recently been practising with team. Lightning coach John Tortorella had talked with Taylor about returning for one contest at home
"I'm not coming back" Taylor said during a question-and-answer session with fans before Saturday night's game against Carolina. "I want to remember the good times. I want to remember playing hockey. I don't want Torts to send me out to play two shifts and I'll stand around." |
He also says that he thinks Vinny will be next to wear the C.
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