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September 1, 1980
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Coming Next Month
The next issue of THE HOCKEY NEWS will be the first of our weekly editions and it will feature the 1980-81 NHL preview of all 21 teams. Our NHL correspondents will bring you the strong points, weaknesses, new faces and the outlook for each of the 21 NHL clubs. Don’t miss this in-depth, team-by-team analysis of what you can expect for the new season. Also in the first weekly issue will be the complete 1980-81 NHL schedule as well as those of the American and Central Leagues. Get the 1980-81 season started off right with the first weekly issue of the all new HOCKEY NEWS!…
Winter Sportsmen Turn To Summer Wheels
Think back a few years and who would have guessed that you’d ever catch a professional hockey player on skates in the broiling July heat. And you’d never imagine that these powerful atheletes would be rolling around streets and playgrounds on rollerskate-type shoes, but that’s exactly what is happening these days. Two major factors have led to numerous scenes of hockey players rolling along on plastic wheels: 1) the overall trend towards year-round fitness, which has proven to be a major factor in hockey players operating at peak capacity, and 2) the discovery of the urethane wheel, the major innovation that has led to a boom in skateboarding and roller-skating that has swept across North America. After the meetings in International play with the Soviets, Czechs, Swedes, etc. the North American pros…
“The Kids Are Getting Hurt”
On June 26, 1980, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) released the following statement and sent it to every college hockey coach in the United States and every Major Junior hockey league in Canada: ‘Hockey teams in the United States and Canada classified by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association as Major Junior A teams are hereafter, until further notice, deemed to be professional teams. Participation of any individual on a Major A hockey team subsequent to this date shall be considered prima facie evidence that he has participated on a team known to him, or which reasonably should have been known to him, to be a professional team under NCAA legislation and shall render the participant ineligible for intercollegiate athletics in the sport of ice hockey.” Translated, that means that until June…
Jets Search For Rookie Surprises
WINNIPEG—John Ferguson is looking for a diamond in the rough. Ferguson, general manager of the Winnipeg Jets, has invited 41 players to his National Hockey League club’s 1980 rookie camp, and he’s crossing his fingers in the hope there’s a future NHLer in the group. “We think we have assembled a pretty good group of kids,” says Ferguson, “so it should be a very competitive camp. You never know what you can find when you have over 40 youngsters reporting. Last season we found a player in Ross Cory, so we are all hopeful that aside from our draft picks and free agents already signed, there may be some players we can come away with.” There are a number of players attending the rookie camp who figure into the Jets’ future plans prominently,…
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