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December 18, 1981
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Bullard Changing Pens’ Draft Luck
PITTSBURGH — Over the years most of the Penguins’ first-round draft choices have been traded away, or after a few seasons in Pittsburgh have ended up in the minors or with some other National Hockey League organization. Pittsburgh selected forward Mike Bullard in the first round of the 1980 Entry Draft from the Brantford Alexanders of the Ontario Hockey League where he scored 66 goals and 84 assists the previous season. As the ninth player taken overall great things were expected from the 19-year-old Bullard, who was the Penguins’ first opening-round pick in four years after trading away the previous three. But after scoring only one goal in 14 games and watching most of the rest from the press box, Bullard was sent back to Brantford in December. Disgruntled Penguin fans were…
NHL’S SCORERS THIS WEEK
BOSTON — B, Crowder 3, Jonathan 5, Fergus 6, Middleton 17, Pederson 11, 12, Kasper 6, Leveille 6. McNab 15, 16, Cashman 7, Winning goals — Middleton, McNab. BUFFALO — Savard 4, 5, 6, Perreault 2, 3, 4, McCourt 12, Foligno 14, 15, Seiling 14, 15, Patrick 5, Sauve 6, Ramsay 7, Winning goals-Foligno, Seiling. CALGARY — Cyr 5, 6, 7, Peplinski 12, Rautakallio 6, Lavallee 7, 8, Bourgeois 1, Bridgman 13, Reinhart 3, Plett 5 Winning goals — Plett CHICAGO — Savard 13, Mulvey 10, Rus-kowski 5, Higgins 11, Secord 21, Winning goals — Secord. COLORADO — MacMillan 6, Lever 9, Tam-bellini 12, Malinowski 6, Ashton 7, Gagne 4 Winning goals — Ashton. DETROIT — Osborne 6, 7, 8, 9, McKechnie 5, Murdoch 4, 5, Kirton 8, Huber 7, 8, Vail 8, Winning goals…
Isles’ Goring Already Gearing For Playoffs
LONG ISLAND-Butch Goring loves playing playoff hockey. He tolerates regular season hockey. He hates pre-season hockey. Get the picture? Butch denies that every calendar in his home has only the months of April and May attached with all the other months tom out. But the New York Islander center admits the NHL regular season and the training camp that precedes it don’t excite him very much. Motivation, for Goring, comes only when pride and dollars are on the line. “Obviously, it’s easy to get motivated for games that really are important,” said Goring after an early December road game. “Playoff games, of course, are more important than regular season games, but, basically, we are performers entertaining people. So you’re supposed to be motivated and play good, solid and entertaining hockey throughout the…
PLAYER TRANSACTIONS
NATIONAL LEAGUE BOSTON — Normand Leveille, LW, returned from injury list. Mike Fidler, LW, signed as free agent after release by Hartford, and assigned to Erie of AHL. Marco Baron, G, on injury list. Mike Moffat, G, recalled from Kingston of OHL. BUFFALO — Danny Gare, RW, Bob Sauve, G, Jim Schoenfeld, D, and Derek Smith, C, all traded to Detroit in exchange for Dale McCourt, C, Mike Foligno, RW, and Brent Peterson, C, and future considerations. Jacques-Cloutier, G, recalled from Rochester of AHL. CALGARY — Ken Houston, RW, and Kari Eloranta, D, on injury list. CHICAGO — Doug Wilson, D, sidelined for 10 days with broken jaw. Daryl Sutter, LW, out of action for week with infected elbow. COLORADO — Bill Baker, D, recalled from Fort Worth of CHL and traded to St. Louis…
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