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January 4, 1980
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Player Movements
Following are the latest player movements in hockey: NATIONAL LEAGUE ATLANTA—Rick Adduono, C, returned to Birmingham of CHL. BOSTON—Craig McTavish, C, returned to Binghamton of AHL. Gary Doak, D, returned to lineup from injury list. BUFFALO—Morris Titanic, LW, recalled from Rochester of AHL. CHICAGO—Dave Logan, D, and Harold Phillipoff, LW, traded to Vancouver for Ron Sedibauer, LW. Darryl Sittler, LW, recalled from New Brunswick of AHL. Stan Mikita, C, and Bob Murray, D, placed on injury list. EDMONTON—Dave Drydon, G, announced retirement from hockey to become asst. coach with Oilers. Jim Corsi, G, recalled from Houston of CHL as replacement. Alex Tidey, RW, returned to Houston of CHL HARTFORD—Dave DeBol, C, Bob Stephenson, RW, and Jeff Brubaker, LW, recalled from Springfield of AHL. An-drew Lacroix, C, announced retirement from hockey to take front office job with Whalers.…
Rangers Bungled Trade Handling
Pat Hickey was one of five players that New York Rangers traded to Colorado Rockies for defenceman Barry Beck in the NHL’s biggest deal in recent years. Trades are a fact of life for a pro athlete but coping with the sudden change that a trade inflicts on a player’s life isn’t easy. Here, Hickey discusses the trade and how he handled the upheaval with HOCKEY NEWS contributing editor Frank Orr. I’d spent four years in New York and set up my home there. It took a little bit of time but I’d found all the things that make life pleasant for anyone, the small things that you take for granted—a good delicatessen, a laundry that did my shirts the way I like them, a safe place to park my car, some…
HOCKEY VIEWPOINT
Memories of the comrades THE NATIONAL HOCKEY League must be the only outfit in captivity that invites in a batch of grinches to spoil Christmas for it. At least, the NHL waited until after the holiday to play two teams from the Soviet Union, Central Red Army and Dynamo, in a nine-game series. Anyway, the Soviets are back and any hockey addict worth his borscht is happy that they’re here. In games against NHL clubs, the Soviets will supply superior hockey entertainment and a few defeats for the NHL clubs. Of course, the comrades are stacking their clubs a little. Central Red Army, a team that has a dozen or so members of the Soviet national team, is bringing along the splendid forward line of Vladimir Kovin, Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Varnakov from…
Skipping Round Would Work For Penguins
PITTSBURGH—In the 11 universal National Hockey League amateur drafts (now called the entry draft) the Pittsburgh Penguins have taken part in since they joined the league, they have enjoyed much better success in their second round selections than they have in their No. 1 picks. Five times the Penguins have traded away their No. 1 selection for a various collection of players. In the six years the club retained their first choice, they selected such players as: Rick Kessell, Greg Polis, Blaine Stoughton, Pierre Larouche, Gordon Laxton and Blair Chapman. The only one among that group still in the organization is goaltender Laxton, and after being selected in the 1975 draft as the 13th player chosen overall, he has yet to make the Penguins on a permanent basis. Kessell has retired from professional…
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