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March 12, 1982
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Stars Keep Soaring—In Spite Of Themselves
BLOOMINGTON—The North Stars keep rolling along toward easy command of the faltering Norris Division of the National Hockey League. And they are shattering team records virtually every game these days. But the statistical gloss is not sufficient to hide some shaky defensivezone play that is causing coach Glen Sonmor some great anxiety. Dino Ciccarelli tied the eight-year-old North Stars’ goal-scoring record of Bill Goldsworthy when he scored his 48th goal of the season in Detroit to conclude an impressive month of February. He scored the goal in dramatic fashion, too, with 11 seconds to go to pull out a 5-4 victory over the Red Wings. Neal Broten, Ciccarelli’s centerman, compiled a goal and two assists in that Detroit game to give him 77 points and break the Minnesota rookie record of 75 points,…
Calgary Suddenly Spurred By Vancouver Spurt
CALGARY—All of a sudden, the sure thing isn’t such a sure thing anymore. The Calgary Flames have been cruising along all year, knowing that the Edmonton Oilers were out of reach in the NHL’s Smythe Division and just-as certain that the Vancouver Canucks would not catch them for third place. The Canucks, it was thought, would go into their patented late-season slump and would give the Flames second place by default. Unfortunately for Calgary, it has not worked out that way. The Canucks, by defeating Hartford on a night the Flames were losing to Los Angeles, pulled into a second-place tie with the confident, perhaps overconfident, Calgary team. Going into this week’s critical home-and-home series, the Flames had just one win in four tries against Canucks and were dead even in the standings. Since a…
BEDCLOTHES
I Try To Be Fair LADIES AND gentlemen, such vindictiveness, such outraged response to sane, rational subjectivity about Wayne Gretzky. Cannot we discuss this calmly? I try to be fair and impartial, and what happens? All the letters and phone calls are uniformly unpleasant, suggesting that I am unfit to die under the charging wheels of a runaway Edmonton oil rig. And all because, as a skeptic, my faulty vision sees things as they are, not as the Gretzky partisans think they ought to be. At hand is a wounded note from a HOCKEY NEWS reader, Tom Senay, from the charming British Columbia boondock of Coquitlam. Mr. Senay expressed, in fact, hockey horror at my heresy. “I read with amazement in the Jan. 15 issue the Bedclothes column that attempted to knock some of Wayne…
Wichita Blowing Up A Storm With Win Streak
HSB Louisville Hockey WICHITA—The Wind ran its latest winning streak to three games by edging Tulsa, 4-3, then blitzing Oklahoma City, 6-2. Both games were in Kansas Coliseum, where John Muck-ler’s men had won their last five starts. With the victories the Wind pulled to within striking distance of second-place Tulsa, and had a game in hand. Ken Berry scored twice in the middle period against Tulsa, and Walt Poddubny tallied at the start of the third, but it was Lance Nethery’s shorthanded goal, midway of the last period, which proved to be the winner against the rallying Oilers. Four goals in the last period broke open a 2-2 game against Oke City, including Peter Driscoll’s second of the game. Poddubny had scored in the first, and Driscoll tied the game in the second.…
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