What made Chris Drury that special

  After being bought out in late June and failed to get signed to another team, Chris Drury announced he is retiring after an impressive 12 year career.
  He was drafted in the third round in the 1994 NHL entry draft by the Quebec Nordiques who moved to become the Colorado Avalanche the year after. In the 892 games that he played with the Avs, Flames, Sabres and Rangers, he had scored 255 goals and 615 points but what really made him special was his knack for the clutch play in which he scored 47 game winning goals in the regular season and in the 135 playoff games that he played in, 17 of the 47 goals that he scored ended up being game winners which included a game tying goal with 7.7 seconds left in regulation in game 5 of the 2007 Eastern Conference Semi Finals vs the Rangers. As well he was part of the 2001 Avalanche squad who won the cup, a three time olympian and a Little League World Series winner as he was part of his hometown team based in Trumbell, Connecticut back in 1989.
  Now with Drury leaving the game, will we ever see any players who were clutch especially in the post-season like him or even like Joe Sakic who has scored the most goals in post-season overtimes? Well that answer remains to be seen.
 

CFL midseason report

 As the first of the two bye weeks begin, here is a breakdown on the 2011 CFL season based on surprises and disappointments.
  The Surprises in the league have to be both the Edmonton Eskimos and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Both teams who finished with records of 7-11 and 4-14 last season are leading their respective divisions with records of 6-1 and , but with the injury of Fred Stamps the leading receiver, will Edmonton's offense sputter for the next few weeks or will it rise to the challenge? and for the Bombers will injured prone QB Buck Pierce continue to play great and avoid any sort of injury that has plagued him his entire career?
  There has been three teams that have disapointed but none other that the Saskatchewan Roughriders. After two consecutive seasons where they made the Grey Cup has stumbled out of the gate to a 1-6 record. This is primarly because there defence is the worst in the league giving up at least 30 points per game which they were great at a year ago. The Leos have disapointed primarly because of the young receiving corps and poor defence but with Arland Bruce now on the team and the addition of Roughrider castoff Tad Kornegay who replaces the released David Hyland, will the Lions have another second half surge that helped them make the playoffs last season? The last team that has disappointed have been The Toronto Argonauts. Even though running back Cory Boyd was hurt, backup Chad Kackert put on great performances each week but the defence has been awful giving up lots of passing yards which prompted the firing of defensive coordinator Chip Garber. Will his replacement Orlondo Steinauer help fix the holes or see them get bigger?
  As for the other two teams, while the Montreal Alouettes started flying out of the gate with a 3-0 record and stumbling a bit before getting back on track and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats who had a slow start with an 0-2 record before racking up wins, both teams have been playing to expectations. Do not be surprised to see theses teams along with the Bombers fighting until the final week to see who will finish atop the East division.