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March 19, 1982
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Small College Powerhouse Fueled By Minnesota Highs
Minnesota high school hockey players have made a substantial mark in major college and even professional hockey all over the continent, but one of the best barometers for judging the caliber of Minnesota high schoolers might be at the small-college level. Just ask Ed Saugestad, coach at Augsburg College in Minneapolis. The Auggies last week claimed their third National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) small-college hockey title by winning the national tournament in Superior, Wisconsin. It took some doing, but Augsburg wound up with a 28-1-1 record for the season after defeating Bemidji State College 6-3 in the championship game. “We walked into the tournament seeded No. 1,” said Saugestad, “and we were up tighter than a drum in the first game. We played Eau Clair [Wisconsin] and they had finished the season with…
Colleges Cast Keen Eye On Minnesota Tourney
The impact of college hockey on the National Hockey League is obvious. Nearly every team has a few former collegians, and every NHL team watches the colleges for draft or free-agent prospects. It used to be that the only real route to the NHL was through junior hockey, but now, with the underage drafting, pro teams realize the validity of drafting an 18-year-old and watching him develop—free—while playing college hockey. Toward that end, virtually every major college in the U.S. watches the Minnesota state high school tournament, scouting for prospects right along with the professional scouts. At the University of Minnesota, coach Brad Buetow realizes the competition is keen but continues to rely on Minnesota high schools for all of his talent. The Gophers were hit hard when brothers Neal and Aaron Broten both…
Brodeur Behind Surge By Canucks
VANCOUVER—With the Canucks on something of a good time lately, the Vancouver hockey scene hasn’t been so happy since Ivan Hlinka and Jiri Bubla were signed. The Canucks recently went six games without a loss, three of them wins on the road where they have been as scarce as humility from Glen Sather. The Canucks have more than the Thomas Gradin line scoring and their goals-against average is falling as the stock in Richard Brodeur rises. The pudgy French Canadian goalkeeper is going so well, it’s absurd. He’s stopping everything these days, the only way to get a puck past him being a screened shot in off a post or a deflection. He’s always played his angles so well that he insists on a great shot to beat him, but now…
Doctors Probing Increase In Hockey Spinal Injuries
The following story and sidebar, which initially appeared in the March 3 edition of the Toronto Star, was written and researched by Lois Kalchman, a Toronto-based freelance writer, a contributor to THE HOCKEY NEWS, and the author of the book Safety On Ice. Recently, she was honored by the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association (CAHA) for her coverage of minor hockey. Gerry Iulliano is one of the lucky ones. The Young Nats’ midget goaltender is able to play, some weeks after coming within a fraction of being one of the terrifying statistics piling up at Toronto’s Sunnybrook Medical Center’s Acute Spinal Cord Injury Unit. His was the sixth broken neck, resulting from a hockey injury, to be treated there in 16 months. Four of the other five injured players, ranging in age from 15…
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