Irbe: ‘Where Are the Hansons?’

10.17.2003 | Author: Steven Ovadia | Posted in Hurricanes

Too bad there’s no “E! True Hollywood Story” for athletes.
Former Carolina goalie Arturs Irbe would be a great candidate.
Just two seasons ago, he was helping Carolina try to win the Stanley Cup from Detroit, which Carolina didn’t.
The next season, he ended up in the AHL.
This season, it’s the ECHL.
Irbe is now playing for the Johnstown Chiefs, perhaps best known as the team immortalized in the movie SLAP SHOT.
I was never a huge Irbe fan. He had all of the scramble and spazziness of Dominik Hasek without the consistency. But to end up in the ECHL two years after you were playing for the Cup? That’s just rough, man.

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