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April 23, 1982
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Champs Send Three To ACHL’s All Star Squad
H&B Louisville Hockey UTICA—Three players from the champion Mohawk Valley Stars, two from the Baltimore Skipjacks and one from the Salem Raiders, who won the regular season crown, comprise the first annual Atlantic Coast Hockey League All Star team. The Stars are represented on the first All Star unit by their popular stand-up goalie, Bill Provencher, and by the defensive pair of Marc Maro-hand and team captain Dick Popiel. Baltimore, which finished third in the league race and bowed to Mohawk, Valley in the playoff semifinals which lasted the seven-game limit, advanced center Gary Conn and winger Peter Almasy to the All Star lineup. Dave MacQueen, the other first-team wing, led the league in goals scored (43) and points (73) although he played only 36 games under the ACHL banner. MacQueen had a brief…
Stats Indicated Oilers Too Strong For Kings
H&B Louisville Hockey EDMONTON—If the seasonal series was indeed a true guideline, then Los Angeles Kings were due for an early vacation. Once again, that is. Then again, you never know. (For playoff series, see page 7). The Edmonton Oilers dominated the Kings over the 1981-82 National Hockey League campaign. The Oilers, in fact, feasted upon their Smythe Division opponents, posting identical 5-2-1 won-loss-tied records over the Calgary Flames, Vancouver Canucks and the Colorado Rockies. They were even slightly better against the Kings, winning on five occasions, tying twice, while losing only a 3-2 decision on March 10 in Los Angeles. However, during their next trip to the Fabulous Forum, the Oilers struck for a record two goals during the opening 24 seconds to stun the Kings and a sellout audience en route to a…
Life In The Minors Far From A Cabaret
Just before the end of the Central Hockey League’s regular season, Linda Pentz, the editor of Tennis Week magazine, happened to be in Dallas on some business. While she was there she took in a game between the CHL’s Dallas Black Hawks and Fort Worth Texans and sent us the following piece, an account of her impressions of life in hockey’s minor leagues which transcends the usual limited coverage given to hockey at that level. Through the mist that is rising in ever thicker clouds from the ice we watch the opposition team skate into the arena, to an even balance of boos and cheers from the 2,000 or so fans, scattered thinly in the stands. The organist, majoring in ‘60s nostalgia, breaks into a Bobby Vee number—I’m So Lonesome Every…
Baldwin: Whalers Beginning To See The Light
HARTFORD—Howard Baldwin took a moment to reflect on the last 10 years, all of which he’s spent as spiritual leader and boss of the Hartford Whalers. “The thing that really got me was the implication that I was a ‘dark cloud’ over this organization,” said Baldwin, whose official title is managing general partner. “That hurt because it simply wasn’t true. Heck, at times, I can think to myself, if it weren’t for me, there would be no Whalers.” That is true enough. Baldwin, 39, was the founding father of the team, which began in 1971 with the formation of the World Hockey Association. “Some people thought we were nuts,” Baldwin remembers. “And maybe we were.” It can be argued that the WHA would never have survived for seven seasons had it not been for…
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