Neely headlines Lester Patrick recipients

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09/02/2010 - New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Former Boston Bruin great Cam Neely was among four recipients of the 2010 Lester Patrick Trophy named Thursday.

Also presented with the award were college coaches Jack Parker and Jerry York and American Hockey League president David Andrews. The trophy is awarded to those who have shown outstanding service to hockey in the United States.

Neely, one of the most prolific power forwards in the history of the sport, scored 395 goals and had 299 assists over 726 regular-season games, the bulk of which were spent with the Bruins. He added another 57 goals in 93 playoff tilts.

He recorded three 50-goal seasons, including in 1993-94 when he played just 49 games due to injury.

Neely retired following the 1995-96 season and had his No. 8 jersey retired by the Bruins. After being voted into the Hall of Fame in 2005, he joined the Bruins front office as vice president and was named team president this past June.

Parker won three straight Beanpot Tournaments with Boston University from 1966-68 and has been the coach at the school since 1973. As a coach, he has guided the Terriers to three national championships (1978, 1995 and 2009) and is one of three coaches in NCAA history to reach the 800-win plateau. He is the only one, though, to have done it at one school.

York coached at Clarkson and Bowling Green before returning to his alma mater at Boston College in 1994. Since coming to the Eagles, he has guided the team to three national championships, including the 2010 title. His 850 career victories is second all-time to Ron Mason's 924. He also took Bowling Green to an NCAA title in 1984.

Andrews has been president of the AHL since 1994 during which time the league has experienced a wealth of expansion and growth. He was instrumental in bringing all 30 NHL teams' top developmental affiliates under the AHL umbrella and in 2001 led one of the largest expansion efforts ever in professional sports, bringing nine new cities into the fold, including six from the former International Hockey League.

The enterprise expanded the league beyond its traditional Atlantic seaboard borders to locations such as Chicago, Toronto, Cleveland, Houston, San Antonio, Winnipeg and Milwaukee. The league is scheduled to further expand in 2010-11 to Charlotte and Oklahoma City.

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FOOTBALL TRASH TALK

NFL Football Trash Talk

Trash talk has a place in every competitive endeavor (except baseball; those stirrup-wearers are too busy chewing on their sunflower seeds and their supplements to worry about what their opponents are doing).

Fantasy sports is no exception. Any intelligent discussion of the subject would probably start with a thesis statement or a definition of terms. Thankfully, this wont be an intelligent discussion.

Let me just say that I am happy to take a place in this space alongside my talented colleagues, even our commissioner. (You should see how she bleats like a demented paper boy about league fees on our fantasy site).

Trash talking, I would argue, is primarily about amusing your friends, their sheeplike demeanors and sloping foreheads notwithstanding. The best place I have found for football trash talking is at www.SportsAlarm.com.

Beyond the entertainment factor, though, I would recognize that the sophomoric ritual has one advantage, when properly applied. It magnifies your fantasy triumphs and mitigates your fantasy failures by transforming the eventual point total into an afterthought. Winning makes it seem like your opponent really is a truss-owning, lapel-pin-wearing nitwit. And in defeat, trash talk can be the air bag to break the fall from your hyperbolic heights. The plug-necked yahoos on your team, you can say, will be sacking groceries by the end of the season.

The best trash talk, in my view, is layered and nuanced. And it doesnt focus only on your opponents team. It picks apart your opponent. The idea is to create a shock-and-awe-scale blizzard of nonsense, and the goal is to make your opponent drop his hands from his keyboard in exasperation.

What team does your opponent root for? Accuse a Giants fan of having a Joe Namath pillowcase. Wheres your opponent from? Give a look of concern no matter his reply, then say, I'll try to type slower for you next time. Is your opponent into politics? Label everyone a tax-and-spend corporate shill.

Cap all that with a liberal application of irrelevance. For instance, dont just conclude by saying your opponent is a twerp who drafts like my grandmother. Say that your opponent is a sweater-wearing, eyebrow-plucking twerp who drafts his team about as well as Zsa Zsa Gabor gave acceptance speeches at the Oscars. By the time your foe makes sense of that, his starting running back will have had puppies.

But what about you? Hmm? Recall a memorable slam? Have a tried-and-true technique? Know someone who seems impervious to insult? Take a moment and tells us about it. Put together some (fit-for-publication) thoughts. You wont be too busy returning phone messages from your friends, Im sure, to reply.

In addition to the trash talking, the Sports Alarm has a huge gallery of high resolution pictures of beautiful women and models in bikinis. The most popular models are: Lindsay Lohan, Carrie Underwood, Alessandra Ambrosio, and Paris Hilton.