Search for your favorite player or team
© The Hockey News. All rights reserved. Any and all material on this website cannot be used, reproduced, or distributed without prior written permission from Roustan Media Ltd. For more information, please see our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
May 7, 1982
The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. In each issue, you'll find news, features and opinions about the NHL and leagues across North America and the world.
Rangers Stay Put, Decline Meadowlands Option
NEW YORK—High over center-ice, which at mid-day this day was the center ring of the three-ring Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Circus, was the Wonder Wheel and the tightropes. In the ring at the Eighth Avenue End of Madison Square Garden, camels went through their prematinee paces. Nine hours hence, the Rangers were to face off for what was to be the final game of their Patrick Division finals against the New York Islanders. But now, center ice belonged to the politicians, labor leaders and Gulf and Western brass who together had decreed that the Rangers were to remain in New York. The day before, the Rangers had declined to exercise their option to move across the Hudson River to New Jersey and the hockey-hungry Meadowlands Arena, an option that had…
Most Oilers Left Stunned By Abrupt End To Season
EDMONTON—Dave Lumley has a commitment to attend a friend’s June 1 wedding in New Hampshire. With the Oilers tabbed as preplayoff favorites to represent the Campbell Conference in the Stanley Cup final, the 32-goal Edmonton right-winger felt it was touch and go if he would be able to make it to the church on time. “Right now I could walk and still get there,” snorted Lumley as the eliminated Oilers prepared to go their separate ways. The date was April 14 and an un-seasonal snowstorm was swirling around Edmonton, befitting the gloomy mood of the town. The night before the heavily underdog Los Angeles Kings had abruptly ended the Oilers’ dream of a Stanley Cup with a 7-4 victory in Game Five of the National Hockey League’s preliminary playoff round. The unanticipated elimination meant…
Knox: Competitive Division Good For Sabres
BUFFALO—Seymour H. Knox III and his brother, Northrup, who run the Buffalo Sabres, admit they are concerned about how things turned out in the 1981-82 season, but they say they see better things ahead. “Certainly it was a bitter disappointment, to lose the way we did,” Seymour Knox, president of the club and chairman of the board, said after the Sabres were knocked out by Boston in the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. “But we were in good company. Look at the other teams that went out in the first round. They were disappointed, too. “Don’t forget, we were in the toughest division—four teams among the top nine in the league standing and two among the top four, were from the Adams Division. Two of those teams had to go out…
Critical Errors Send Kings Winging To Hawaii
H&B Louisville Hockey H&B Louisville Hockey LOS ANGELES—The Kings were headed off to Hawaii at presstime, their plans to travel on in the Stanley Cup playoffs abruptly cancelled by the Vancouver Canucks. Before the season began, owner Jerry Buss had promised his team a repeat of the vacation they took last spring, but stipulated that the Kings had to win the division playoffs. Thus inspired, the Kings went out and nearly missed the playoffs altogether, their 17th-place finish overall making them the least qualified of the playoff teams. Then the Canucks prevented them from upholding their end of the bargain, winning the Smythe Division final in five games, but Buss is sending them anyway, as a reward for their stunning upset of the Edmonton Oilers in the first round. The Kings might have been better…
Made possible with the support of
