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February 5, 1982
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Punchless Wranglers Eating Dust Of Leaders
CALGARY — A year ago, the Wranglers rode the Western Hockey League’s fourth-best offense and the third-stingiest defense to within one win of a berth in the Memorial Cup tournament. This time around, the defense remains — the Wranglers have the best goals-against record in the league — but the offense is missing in action. “We’ve got the best goals-against,” said coach and general manager Doug Sauter, as his Wranglers floated along in fourth spot in the eight-team Eastern Division. “We’ve got the best defense and the best goaltenders in probably all the league. “We’ve lost 16 games and nine of those have been by one goal. And, we’ve won that many by one goal. Obviously, I’m very concerned with our offense.” After 42 games, the Wranglers had 24 wins and two ties and…
BLUELINES
The buzz from Denver has it that boss Peter Gilbert is down on GM Billy MacMillan’s defense orientation. It’s said that Gilbert would rather his Rockies lost 7-5 than play a 1-1 tie … Almost to the day that Oui magazine hit the stands with its Don Murdoch chapter excerpt from Thin Ice, the Red Wings put Murdoch on waivers. Detroit insiders insist that Donny has been minding his manners but has lost his touch … A rumor trickling out of Washington suggests that coach Bryan Murray and sometimes whiz-kid Bobby Carpenter are less than lovey-dovey. A hard-to-believe tag to this one is that there’s a Canadian-American prejudice involved. An even wilder report indicates that NHL prexy John Ziegler is concerned about Carpenter and is considering subtle but firm intervention…
PLAYER TRANSACTIONS
NATIONAL LEAGUE BOSTON — Mike Fidler, LW, announced retirement from hockey. CALGARY — Mark Wells, C, returned from Europe and assigned to Oklahoma City of CHL on tryout. Tim Bernhardt, G, recalled from Oklahoma City and sent to Rochester of AHL on loan. CHICAGO — Tony Tanti, RW, 1st draft pick in 1981, recalled from Oshawa of OHL and later returned. Rich Preston, RW, Terry Rus-kowski, C, and Tom Lysiak, C, returned from injury list. Dave Feamster, D, recalled from New Brunswick of AHL. COLORADO — Joel Quenneville, D, out for three weeks with twisted knee and ankle. Paul Gagne, LW, also out three weeks with shoulder injury. Dwight Foster, RW, returned from injury list. Jeff Larmer, LW, 7th draft pick in 1981, recalled from Kitchener of OHL. Jim Dobson, RW, returned to Fort…
Toledo On Ice Winner But Box Office Loser
TOLEDO — The Goaldiggers have been a pleasant surprise on the ice to former International Hockey League commissioner Bill Beagan. The Digger fans, though, have been an unpleasant surprise. There hasn’t been enough of them. “Quite frankly I didn’t expect to be in first place at this time,” Beagan told the Toledo Blade recently. Beagan helped keep the franchise alive by putting money into it prior to the start of the current campaign. But despite the fact that the Diggers have one of the most exciting teams in the seven-team circuit and are currently skating at the head of the class, Toledo is last in attendance. And if things don’t pick up, the franchise may die again. “The team was dead and buried,” Beagan said, referring to an announcement at the end of…
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