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November 20, 1981
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Fading Flames Hit With Key Injuries
CALGARY — The last thing the Flames needed, in the midst of the worst start in the 10-year history of the franchise, was to lose their best defenseman for an indefinite length of time. That, unfortunately, is what the fates had in mind for the struggling squad. Paul Reinhart reinjured his ankle in the second period of a 5-4 loss to the Edmonton Oilers and had his leg put in a cast. Doctors were to re-evaluate the injury in 10 days, but Reinhart missed the remaining two games of the Flames’ homestand and was still not back by the mid-point of the club’s longest (seven-game) road trip of the season. “It happened when I sidestepped Glenn Anderson,” said Reinhart. “I planted my foot and it just went over on me. I didn’t even…
BLUELINES
Phil Esposito, who just began his Rangers’ broadcasting career, would, according to whispers, love to have the Washington Caps’ general manager’s job. Phil doesn’t want to be coach. Not long after he took the job behind the mike, Phil said: “I don’t want to be a broadcaster all my life.” Phil believes implicitly in his smarts. “I know as much about hockey as anyone in the world.” Don Cherry was top candidate for Washington post, but his conditions were awfully stiff … On Broadway there are whispers that George Steinbrenner would like to buy Madison Square Garden and, therefore, the Rangers … Ted Green, the Oilers’ assistant coach, was asked if he ever gives advice to Wayne Gretzky. “That,” says Green, “is like asking if Leo Durocher ever told Willie…
King Clancy And The Glorious Fix That Failed
A SPECIAL EDITION on the Toronto Maple Leafs is, for some of us a certain generation, a special event indeed. A little memory music, maestro, please … There was a kid bumping his head under the kitchen table of an impoverished Alberta farm 50 years ago, when everything seemed as bright and new as a freshly-minted dime, except that nobody had any dimes. We did have, every Saturday night, Foster Hewitt broadcasting hockey’s dramatics across Canada from Maple Leaf Gardens. They were Make Believe Gardens and, in retrospect, how rich we were. If you’d have asked this kid to name the greatest personalities in the world, he wouldn’t have hesitated a second, even though the newspapers occasionally mentioned other prominent names — such as Hitler and Roosevelt, the Prince of Wales and the King of…
Simmer Returns To Duty Ahead Of Schedule
LOS ANGELES — The first time he touched the puck, he was whistled for being offside. So it wasn’t a Hollywood script. Charlie Simmer could have cared less. What was important was that on Nov. 4, just over eight months after he had fractured his right leg, Simmer was playing again. That in itself was quite a plot twist for a guy with a metal plate and nine screws in his leg, who had been told it would be months before he’d walk again, January — if then — before he’d be able to play. But Simmer marched, walked and skated to the beat of a different drummer. Which is why, on a Wednesday night in Chicago Stadium, he was able to vault the boards and join Marcel Dionne and Dave Taylor…
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