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March 28, 1980
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HOCKEY VIEWPOINT
Those Golden Oldies IT WAS A BIT of a shock to be sitting in the dressing room of the St. Louis Blues at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto before a practice session and see Terry Harper enter the room, lugging his skates and luggage. Hadn’t that old goat Harper retired? Didn’t he take his dozen arms—incoming forwards always figured he had at least a dozen because he seemed to grab in so many places at once—and get an honest job? Cripes, the guy is 40 but there he was in the dressing room of a National Hockey League team with his skates in his hand, for heavens sake! “Geez, this place smells good,” Harper said, sniffing the essence of sweat wafting in the air in the Blues’ quarters. “Kinda missed things like that this…
HOCKEY AD LIB
Star In The Making ONLY A FEW PLAYERS like Robert Picard come along from season to season. He stands six-feet, two-inches tall and weighs 215 pounds. He is strong, yet has speed. He is an excellent skater and hard hitter; a good shooter and puck-handler. He was the third choice in the professional draft of graduating amateurs in the summer of 1977 and was expected to be a star from the start. If Picard is not yet known around the circuit as a star it may be because he plays for the Washington Capitals, who have lost many more games than they have won since they started their franchise six seasons back and do not attract a lot of attention. But Robert’s play is attractive to the management of other teams who…
Aggressive Mulvey Fuels Capitals’ Growing Success
LANDOVER—As the season winds down toward the stretch run, certain heroes have emerged in Washington colors to provide the impetus the club so badly needs to jump that final hurdle toward the National Hockey League playoffs. With less than a month remaining and the Capitals a mere three points behind the 16th and final playoff spot, big wins over St. Louis, Hartford and the Islanders in five days left the players looking more toward the 12th and 13th playoff positions, instead of 15 or 16. A quick glance through the roster reveals a couple reasons why. The first is Ryan Walter, the NHL’s youngest captain, whose 35 assists after 67 games leads the team. Walter, Washington’s “leader by example”, is complemented by his right wing, Mike Gartner, the first Capital this year (and…
Bruins Rely On Cheevers With Gilbert Sidelined
BOSTON—The talk around Boston for the past week was of goaltenders—an ailing one, Gilles Gilbert; an embattled one, Gerry Cheevers; and a brand new one, Roy Schultz. Gilbert turned around to pick up the puck one day in practice and couldn’t turn back again and wound up in traction in Mass General Hospital with what was diagnosed as a herniated disc. Cheevers, the testy 39-year-old dean of NHL goalies, played six straight games and wound up tying an NHL record for goalies when he was assessed three major penalties in four games for spearing and butt-ending. Schultz, a 21-year-old sophomore at the University of Wisconsin out of Rush Lake, Sask., was signed to a minor league tryout contract by the Bruins in an effort to add some depth to their goal-tending corps, which…
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