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March 28, 1980
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Oilers Make Three Last-Minute Deals
EDMONTON—While most National Hockey League team executives were talking a good game of “Let’s Make a Deal” just before the trade deadline, Edmonton Oilers’ coach Glen Sather actually played. Desperate for a No. 1 goalie in the aftermath of some less-than-sensational work by Jim Corsi and Eddie Mio in early March, Sather swung a deal with the Quebec Nordiques for netminder Ron Low. The Oilers’ had to sacrifice captain Ron Chipperfield, who was in Winnipeg at the time with his dying mother. It was the toughest thing I’ve had to do in years,” Sather said, “to tell Chipperfield he was traded—what a terrible day for him with his mother so sick (she died March 12 of leukemia) and the trade.” That done, Sather moved Corsi, a graduate structural engineer, to the Minnesota North…
Blues Spring Leaks After Loss Of Micheletti
LOUIS—At first, the trickle uncalled-for goals finding their into the St. Louis Blues’ net med tentative. Surely they’d a Dutch boy to stick his finger the hole in the dike, and all could live happily ever after. But the defense continued to ing leaks, and now there is a scare. The Blues are playing a lifeboat mentality. Women children are being evacuated t. More and more, through no It of superb goaltender Mike t, the Blues are beginning to emble last year’s team that mitted more goals-against than National Hockey League club. A home-ice berth in the Stanley i playoffs, which last month med a realistic goal, may now virtually unreachable. Oh, the Blues still occasionally his their mid-season form, rally-around Liut as they did March in a 3-2 victory at Toronto—n Wayne Babych…
Chicago Crowd Noise Proves To Be Inspirational
CHICAGO—Incredible, implausible, inspirational—and most of all, controversial. All of these adjectives describe the 6-6 tie between the born-again Black Hawks and the powerful Philadelphia Flyers before a roaring throng of 17,306 in Chicago Stadium March 12. When it was over Philadelphia’s goalie, Phil Myre, unleashed a torrent of pent-up emotion and slammed his stick at least seven times on the booth of goal judge Bill Rice. The tying goal, scored on a right wing screen shot by Rich Preston with 4:43 to play, wasn’t what inspired Myre’s temper tantrum. The goal that caused Myre to go berserk was the second of two controversial goals scored by left wing Ron Sedlbauer and it sent the Hawks to a 3-2 lead at 19 seconds of the wild and wooly third period. Shooting from the left corner, Sedlbauer…
Management Committee To Run League As Descent Resigns WHL Presidency
LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS CALGARY—The Western Hockey League is once again in the market for a president. Dave Descent, who hadn’t yet finished his first year in the league’s front office, announced his resignation, effective immediately, on Monday, March 3, citing personal reasons and a desire to pursue a new career in private business. “I’ve been thinking about it for a month or so,” Descent said. I’m not really at liberty now to divulge what I’m going into, but I’m staying here in Calgary.” Descent’s resignation means that the WHL will be run by a management committee until at least the end of the Memorial Cup tournament in May. It was only last August that the WHL owners selected the 31-year-old Descent as their executive director, replacing Ed Chynoweth, who moved down the street…
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