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November 7, 1980
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Latest Player Movements In Hockey
Following are the latest player movements in hockey: NATIONAL LEAGUE BUFFALO—Robert Mongrain, C, recalled from Rochester of AHL. Daryl Drader, D, recalled from Rochester and released outright. CHICAGO—Brian Young, D, Rick Paterson, C. and Tim Trimper, LW, all assigned to New Brunswick of AHL. Bill Gardner, C, recalled from New Brunswick. J.P. Bordeleau, RW, assigned to Dallas of CHL. COLORADO—Mike Christie, D, and Gary Croteau, LW, assigned to Fort Worth of CHL. Joe Ward, C, an underage draft, returned to Seattle of WHL for another year of junior hockey. DETROIT—Greg Joly, D, and Joe Paterson, LW, recalled from Adirondack of AHL. Jean Hamel, D, and Perry Miller, D, both assigned to Adirondack. Vaclav Nedomansky, RW, returned to lineup from injury list. HARTFORD—Marty Howe, D, recalled from Binghamton of AHL. Thommy Abrahamsson, D, placed on injury list. LOS…
Rifles Reloading For Title Defense; EHL Competition Looking Strong
ERIE—After two consecutive years of capturing both the regular season and playoff championships, Blades’ coach and general manager Nick Polano figures it to be a rebuilding year in Erie’s quest for yet another John Mitchell Cup. Polano featured the smallest training camp of any of the Eastern Hockey League teams (just 15 players), including nine returnees from last year’s championship club. Noticeably absent from camp were last year’s Most Valuable Player in the EHL, defenseman Daniel Poulin, and goaltender Carey Walker. Both players inked NHL contracts: Poulin is now playing in Oklahoma City and Walker in Dallas, both in the Central League. The Erie mentor explained that he went with the small number of players in camp because of his working agreements with NHL clubs. “We felt we had a good nucleus…
Kids Carry Red Wings To Victory
DETROIT—Mike Blaisdell was getting a bit anxious about that elusive first National Hockey League gdal, just as the Detroit Red Wings were about a victory. Not surprisingly, one resulted in the other as Blaisdell scored a pair of goals in the Wings’ first victory of the season—a 5-1 triumph over the Colorado Rockies at Joe Louis Arena. The Wings’ youth brigade set the tempo for the victory. In addition to Blaisdell’s goals. Jody Gage and John Ogrodnick also scored. The three players between them have less than 100 NHL games experience. Errol Thompson added the other goal and Jimmy Rutherford was outstanding in the nets as Detroit snapped a five-game losi.ng streak. The victory was the first for Ted Lindsay as Detroit coach. “I’m very happy… and thankful for a great team effort,” Lindsay said. While…
NHL Player Of The Week
After a somewhat slow start for him (one goal in the first five games) veteran Darryl Sittier has suddenly found the scoring touch. The captain of the Maple Leafs tried unsuccessfully to win a pair of road games for Toronto on their western swing (they lost 5-4 in Los Angeles and 8-5 in Vancouver) by scoring back-to-back hat tricks, a feat that has not been achieved in the modern day history of the NHL. The Toronto ice leader was the most productive goal getter of the week. Not only did Sittier become the first to notch consecutive twin hat tricks, but he also moved past Montreal’s Guy Lafleur into fourth place in the all-time career hat trick list with 15.…
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