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December 18, 1981
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Captain Boehm Leads Michigan Tech To Sweep
HOUGHTON-Michigan Tech captain Rick Boehm scored three goals and added four assists to lead the Huskies to a 7-3, 6-5 series sweep over Western Michigan to highlight Central Collegiate Hockey Association play. Boehm, who scored the winning goal in the second game, snapping a 5-5 tie in the third period, was named CCHA Player of the Week for his efforts. In other CCHA play Notre Dame moved into seventh place in the league standings with a tough 5-4, 6-4 sweep at home over Miami while the three other conference series ended in splits. Ferrie State knocked defending champion Northern Michigan out of a first place tie with Michigam State with a 3-2 win in the opener, but the Wildcats, coached by Rick Comley, returned the favor the next night 8-6 knocking the Bulldogs…


Jets Regroup After Minnesota Massacre
WINNIPEG — It is difficult to imagine any good could come out of the Minnesota Massacre. The Winnipeg Jets came within a goal of suffering the worst defeat in National Hockey League history — a 15-2 slaughtering at the hands of the Minnesota North Stars. The date is impregnated in the minds of the Jets and those who follow them. It happened Nov. 11, Remembrance Day. That’s the night Moe Mantha was caught up the ice on the 12th and 13th goals. What was he trying to do — get a tie? There was another game going on that night. The Jets were trying to catch up on the shot clock. Minnesota won that one too, 51-42. The shattered Winnipeg coach, Tom Watt, put the dressing room off limits to the media. “Nobody goes in,”…


Suffering Kings Face Lengthy Trip
LOS ANGELES — There’s such a thing as suffering in silence, but the Kings could be accused of overdoing it. The Forum public address system broke down before the game against Chicago, which prevented the organist from playing his usual tunes. But even a cappella, the song remained the same for the Kings, who in losing 3-2 to the Black Hawks lost for the sixth time in seven games, became a .500 team at home and fell an astonishing 21 points behind Edmonton in the Smythe Division. And it wasn’t going to get any easier. Next in town were the Oilers, who already had toyed with the Kings twice this season, followed by Vancouver, then a stretch where the Kings head out of town for the better part of a month, with…


Youth Hockey Never Established In Philly
This has never been a hockey town … Philadelphia has always been a Flyers town. There’s a big difference. While the Spectrum overflows when Montreal is in town, and is filled even when Winnipeg arrives, there is very little carry-over outside the building. The same fans who will pay any amount of money to watch the Flyers slug it out with the Bruins, won’t walk across the street to watch a youth game. Nor will they vote to build a rink on their street. For that’s the rub in Southeastern Pennysivania. It sure isn’t the Sun Belt … but it isn’t the arctic zone, either. While youths in Minnesota or Maine or Michigan or Massachusetts have a plentiful environment of natural ice, youngsters in Philadelphia are still awaiting their first freeze’on Christmas…