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November 6, 1981
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Larouche Center Of Habs’ Tempest
MONTREAL — Once again, Pierre Larouche has become the center of controversy in the Montreal Canadiens’ camp. And for one more time. Guy Lafleur has mounted his all-too-white charger and come to his rescue. Larouche was benched by coach Bob Berry for a game in Chicago after a less than impressive effort against the Buffalo Sabres in Buffalo. There were others who had tough nights in the small Buffalo rink, but Larouche was the player that both coach Berry and assistant coach Jacques Laperriere felt lacked intensity. “You can’t play three good games and then expect to coast for the next two or three,” said Berry, who officially became the Canadiens’ coach with his first major crisis. “After the game in Buffalo, I had a pretty good idea of why this team…
Boston Hockey History: Long, Rich, Colorful
In the late winter of 1981, within a few days of each other, these things happened in Boston Garden, that aging beldam of fun and games on Causeway St. in the slightly shabby and not always genteel North End of Boston: • The Harvard hockey team defeated Boston College, 2-0, before 14,456 fans to win the 29th annual Beanpot, a four-team (Boston University and Northeastern are the others) tournament that is unquestionably the most intense intracity rivalry in college sports on the North American continent. • Another 14,673 turned out to see the Montreal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins, 4-2. in a game that meant absolutely nothing in the National Hockey-League standings — but, mon Dieu, these are les Canadiens and they are playing our Bruins! • Matignon High School of Cambridge trounced…
NHL SCOREBOARD
(Standings on Tue. Oct. 27) GAMES COMPLETED Mon. Oct. 19 Vancouver 3 at Quebec 6 Tue. Oct. 20 Boston 4 at St. Louis 3 Los Angeles 9 at Islanders 6 Colorado 3 at Pittsburgh 5 Edmonton 5 at Calgary 4 Wed. Oct. 21 Hartford 2 at Edmonton 5 Winnipeg 2 at Buffalo 2 Montreal 3 at Chicago 3 Quebec 6 at Washington 3 Los Angeles 5 at Rangers 2 Colorado 4 at Toronto 4 Thu. Oct. 22 Boston 2 at Detroit 2 Quebec 2 at Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh 3 at Calgary 3 St. Louis 5 at Minnesota 5 Fri. Oct. 23 Hartford 2 at Vancouver 2 Toronto 2 at Buffalo 6 Islanders 4 at Washington 2 Pittsburgh 3 at Edmonton 8 Chicago 5 at Winnipeg 5 Sat Oct. 24 Boston 0 at Montreal 7 Hartford 3 at Calgary 7 Detroit 3 at Quebec 8 Washington 4 at Islanders 6 Rangers 5 at Toronto 3 Philadelphia 6 at St. Louis 3 Los Angeles 3 at…
BEDCLOTHES
Power Of The Press MINE EYES ARE glazed from reading the extravagant praise heaped upon a precocious schoolboy from a New England backwater, Peabody. A can’t-miss tag has been fastened on Rob Carpenter by Sports Illustrated, which customarily illustrates that hockey is the sport it knows the least about. The Boston Globe, which should know better, has paid Master Carpenter a gaudy tribute. One was profoundly dismayed to note that the estimable HOCKEY NEWS went along with the gag. A banner line on the front page the other week proclaimed, “A Carpenter is at work on the Capitals.” If that is true, the lad’s work is not paying off. As he wandered to press, Washington again had one of the disgusting won-loss records in the National League. The notion here is that it will take more than…
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