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January 22, 1982
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Whalers Can’t Hide Truth: Team Isn’t Better
HARTFORD — Larry Pleau has tried to cover some of the wall’s bare spots with new paint, but for all of his interior decorating, the room looks just about the same. Through 40 games a year ago, the year of the great upheaval in the Hartford Whalers’ organization, the team’s record stood at 13-18-9. Through 40 games this season, the team’s record, 10-21-9, was worse. Considering that the dog days are still ahead — in February, the Whalers play nine of 13 games on the road — the chances of a dramatic turnaround are remote. “It really isn’t all that difficult to figure out,” said Pleau, the team’s 34-year-old GM-coach. “Just look at some of our players and their lack of consistency. We’re losing games not because we’re getting flooded in our own zone,…
Crowder Brothers Fitting Well With Bruins
BOSTON — Last summer, when Bruce Crowder, then a free agent refugee from the Philadelphia Flyers’ system, was offered a contract by the Boston Bruins, he was reluctant to sign. The reason: Keith Crowder was a member of the Bruins and the brothers, who last played together in Junior C with the Essex, Ont., 73s, both played the same position, right wing. “I wasn’t keen on signing with the Bruins if I was going to play the same position as my brother,” said Bruce Crowder. “I figured there’s 20 other teams in the NHL. I wasn’t going to fight my own brother for a job. We’re a close knit family. We don’t need any fights.” But the Bruins convinced him that he was being considered as a left wing, which they were collecting at…
Sporadic Flames Are Searching For Consistency
CALGARY — The Flames needed just 19 games to accomplish something they could not do all of last year. The record? Six losses on home ice, one more than in their first year in the Stampede City. That unenviable event took place in the second to last game of the calendar year 1981 and it came at the hands of a team that the Flames handled relatively well as recently as one year ago, the Philadelphia Flyers. In regular and post-season play last year, the Flames defeated the Flyers six times. That’s more than they beat any other team in the National Hockey League. But in games against Philadelphia this year, it’s hard to remember what the Flames did so right and the Flyers did so wrong back then. The one-sided losses, by…
Wisconsin, North Dakota Pull Away From WCHA Confreres With Sweeps
GRAND FORKS — Sweeps — a rare commodity in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association much of this season — were the order of the day when league play resumed after a lengthy Christmas break. Sweeps by league-leading Wisconsin and second place North Dakota set those two teams apart from the field, indicating they may be the ones to battle to the wire for the league championship, just as league coaches predicted. North Dakota, which has won four straight league games and eight of its last nine overall, knocked Denver University out of the title picture, at least for a while, by handling the Pioneers 6-4 and 5-4 in Grand Forks. Wisconsin kept its stranglehold on first place by downing Minnesota-Duluth for the third and fourth time this year, 8-3 and 4-3, the latter…
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