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From: gragb@showme.missouri.edu
"The Hawks also have benefited from the addition of Nabokov, the epitome of
the team's hoped-for transformation from caterpillar to butterfly (to
borrow an appropriate metaphor from the appropriate author). Nabokov is a
tall, fleet forward, the team's top draft pick in 1995, but the word on him
going into this season was that his defense was poor [:)] and he couldn't
take a hit. He improved both aspects of his game with the minor-league
Indianapolis Ice, and was called up to the Hawks last month just when their
fortunes seemed to be improving. ...He immediately scored four goals and
notched an assist in his first five games..."
Ted Cox, Chicago Reader
[Rejoinder]:
"Any sportswriter who wears a Buffy the Vampire Slayer ball cap to a
Blackhawks game, makes comparisons between the work of lively, near perfect
Dmitri Nabokov and dead, near pervert Vladimir Nabokov, and sneaks a
half-pint of bourbon into the United Center is OK with me."
Rick Telander, Chicago Reader, Jan. 23
Gennady Barabtarlo
451 GCB University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-9454 Fax 573-884-8456
"The Hawks also have benefited from the addition of Nabokov, the epitome of
the team's hoped-for transformation from caterpillar to butterfly (to
borrow an appropriate metaphor from the appropriate author). Nabokov is a
tall, fleet forward, the team's top draft pick in 1995, but the word on him
going into this season was that his defense was poor [:)] and he couldn't
take a hit. He improved both aspects of his game with the minor-league
Indianapolis Ice, and was called up to the Hawks last month just when their
fortunes seemed to be improving. ...He immediately scored four goals and
notched an assist in his first five games..."
Ted Cox, Chicago Reader
[Rejoinder]:
"Any sportswriter who wears a Buffy the Vampire Slayer ball cap to a
Blackhawks game, makes comparisons between the work of lively, near perfect
Dmitri Nabokov and dead, near pervert Vladimir Nabokov, and sneaks a
half-pint of bourbon into the United Center is OK with me."
Rick Telander, Chicago Reader, Jan. 23
Gennady Barabtarlo
451 GCB University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-9454 Fax 573-884-8456