Luc Robitaille

Kukla's Korner Hockey Previous entry: Daniel Sedin Not Ready To Play by Paul on 11/11/09 at 04:35 PM ET Comments (1) BURBANK, Calif . – November 11, 2009 – On Thursday, November 12 recent inductee to the NHL Hall of Fame Luc Robitaille will take to the ice on “The Jay Leno Show” (Monday-Friday, 10-11 p.m. ET).  The Stanley Cup winner will take penalty shots on Leno’s IT guy in a segment called “Extreme Johnny.” Robitaille made the NHL All-Star team 8 times in his career and logged 668 career goals and adding 726 assists.  The left winger skated for the Pittsburgh Penguins, the ... Read Full Story

The 4th Annual Luc Robitaille Celebrity Poker Tournament 2009 will be taking place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. The event will kick off Frozen Fury weekend with a game of No Limit Texas Hold'em. The players from LA Kings and Colorado Avalanche will come and play as they raise money for Echoes of Hope. Echoes of Hope a charity founded by Stacia and Luc Robitaille, strives to awaken the spirit of hope in the lives of deserving at-risk and emancipated foster youth by providing the resources, knowledge, skills, love and support they need to reach their full potential. EVENT OVERVIEW Date: Friday ... Read Full Story

The Puck Stops Here Previous entry: Brian Leetch's Hall Of Fame Case by PuckStopsHere on 06/30/09 at 02:05 AM ET Comments (1) This is the final of the Hall of Fame cases for 2009.  Here is the case for Steve Yzerman, here is the case for Brett Hull and here is the case for Brian Leetch. I am comparing these players to my Hall of Fame standards by using the questions Bill James asks about potential baseball Hall of Famers.  These are very good questions that clearly get to the heart of the matter of what makes a Hall of Famer. 1. Was he ... Read Full Story

A FANCY 88 TOPPS 2ND YEAR ITEM OF LUC ROBITAILLE HOCKEYS GREAT ALL STAR , WILL RETIRE AT THE END OF THIS SEASON , A SURE HOF'ER Read Full Story

In 2003, winger Dustin Brown arrived in the Los Angeles Kings locker room as a reserved teenager with a slight lisp that sometimes made him additionally self-conscious. One of his teammates was Luc Robitaille, and Brown almost felt as if he should walk up to Robitaille in tandem with Robitaille’s son, Steven, and ask for his allowance. “I was closer to Luc’s son’s age than to Luc’s age,” Brown said with a smile after the Kings’ morning skate in Denver on Tuesday. Only five years later, his maturation and transformation are stunning. Brown’s relentlessly energetic, pedal-to-the-metal game and his tendency to play far “bigger” ... Read Full Story