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March 13, 1981
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WHL Player Of The Week
The Portland Winter Hawks are No. 1 in the Western Hockey League in wins, points and offense. The Hawks have so many big gunners with 380 goals in their first 61 games that a player like Perry Pelensky almost gets lost in the shuffle. The 6-1, 185 pound Pelensky came to the forefront during Port-l and”s recent four-game sweep to collect six goals and four assists and win WHL Player of the Week honors. The Hawks’ right winger, playing his first year with the team, has 28 goals, 23 assists and 51 points in 54 games. Pelensky, who will soon turn 19, recorded three two-goal games as Portland swept past Billings 7-4, Medicine Hat 7-5, Calgary 7-6 and Lethbridge, 10-4. The Hawks have been rolling in high gear lately and so has…
HOCKEY VIEWPOINT
Tough Negotiations Ahead UNDOUBTEDLY, NATIONAL Hockey League players have this marvellous dream occasionally: They have total free agency, similar to that enjoyed by the workers in baseball, and the NHL teams are conducting a re-entry draft for their services. A dozen teams are clamoring for their bodies, tossing around contracts with numbers on them at a level baseball players have been receiving, mathematics that read like the gross national product of a small country, not the salary of an athlete. To the thinkers, though, the dream becomes a small nightmare. The richer NHL owners purchase most of the good players, the owners of teams lacking the big resources say “to hell with it!” and fold their clubs, reducing the NHL to seven or eight teams and chopping to a minimum the number of…
Sutter Ties Black Hawk Rookie Mark
LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS LOUISVILLE HOCKEY STICKS CHICAGO—Darryl Sutter, the Black Hawks’ rookie left wing, has equaled a team record established 14 years before he was born. Sutter scored his 32nd goal of the season in the 4-4 deadlock with St. Louis in Chicago Stadium on March 1 to tie the Chicago record for most goals for a rookie in a single season set in 1943-44 by Bill Mosienko, now ensconced in the Hall of Fame. It was a typical Darryl Sutter goal: Bob Murray blasted a shot from the point, Darryl planted his stick amidst a thicket of bodies, and the puck skipped off it and past goalie Mike Liut. “I could see Murray clearly,” said Liut. “All of a sudden two guys come in front, a stick reaches out, and there’s nothing you can do. “All…
Larocque Outburst Doesn’t Hinder Habs Streak
MONTREAL—The Montreal Canadiens were perfect in February. But. despite a 9-0-3 record in the shortest month, not everything was perfect with the Canadiens. As his team was making a run towards first place, veteran goaltender Michel “Bunny” Larocque said he no longer wanted to play in Montreal. Larocque, a Canadien for his eight National Hockey League seasons, decided 10 days ago that he would request a trade, but did not go public with his complaints until after he played magnificently during a 2-2, state-of-the-art tie in St. Louis last Wednesday. Why Larocque played at all against the best team in the NHL only coach Claude Ruel knows for sure. Larocque didn’t know; the rest of the Canadiens didn’t know, either. What they did know is that Bunny hadn’t dressed for a month, not since…
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