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May 7, 1982
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Whalers Query City On Arena’s Refurbishing
HARTFORD—Now is the time for all good men, assuming, of course, that Civic Center and city officials are good men, to come to the aid of their favorite hockey team. The Hartford Whalers are in need of a pick-me-up, not only on the ice, but off it as well. While Larry Pleau and his hockey staff ponder the upcoming draft, the city of Hartford is left to ponder the immediate future of the Civic Center. The building, which went l-for-2 on roofs (the. 500 mark isn’t always respectable), needs work. The Whalers have asked for 1) a refurbished and bigger dressing room; 2) approximately 40 sky boxes; and, 3) a new press box. All three improvements make sense. Those who have visited the Whalers’ locker room area realize immediately that it is not Montreal,…
Division Champs Forced To Limit Before Advancing Into Semifinals
H&B Louisville Hockey H&B Louisville Hockey ROCHESTER—Four teams advanced to the semifinals of the Calder Cup playoffs including Southern Division champ Binghamton, Northern Division king New Brunswick, along with Rochester and Nova Scotia. Both Binghamton and New Brunswick were taken to the full limit of five games before the Whalers topped the pesky Hershey Bears while the Hawks rallied from a two games to one deficit to defeat the stubborn Adirondack Red Wings. The semifinals, featuring Rochester and Binghamton in the South and New Brunswick and Nova Scotia in the North, were just underway at press time with Binghamton and New Brunswick drawing first blood. The Voyageurs pulled the biggest surprise of the post-season parade when they eliminated the two-time Calder Cup champion Maine Mariners in four games. Rochester gained the semifinals and earned a measure…
Canucks Continue Remarkable Play
VANCOUVER—The Canucks scarcely know what has happened to them but to say the least they love it. After becoming the first National Hockey League team to make it past the first elimination round with a three games to nothing victory over Calgary, they also became the first team into the Stanley Cup semifinals with a four-games-to-one series win over the Los Angeles Kings as the club produced its greatest success in the 12-year history of the franchise. In an amazing string of 17 games of which the Canucks have lost only one, they have not lost a playoff game on the road. In the most recent playoff series against the Kings the teams split in Vancouver and then the Canucks won two one-goal games in L.A. before finishing off the series…
BEDCLOTHES
Eating Your Words THERE WAS MORE evidence in the Stanley Cup quarterfinals that sports experts do not live by bread alone. Sometimes we have to eat our words. Hardly anybody picked the Quebec Nordiques to eliminate the Montreal Canadiens in the first round, and they did. Not many picked them to subdue the Boston Bruins in the second round, and they did. It was said, in this space, that the Nordiques muscled up like Stanley Cup champions in the cavernous confines of the Quebec Coliseum but were timorous tigers on the road. So they won two games in Montreal to sidetrack the Canadiens. They won two in the clammy old slum that is the Boston Garden to sideline the Bruins. Thus this chagrined department is sporting enough to boom off a 21-comma salute to coach Michel…