The NHL According To Shakespeare

While it’s no big secret that the words of William Shakespeare—written well over 400 years ago—can easily be applied to the most contemporary of situations and dilemmas, whoever would have thought that the National Hockey League and its players would have any relation to works like The Merchant Of Venice or Othello? Ken Murrell, a New York Ranger fan from Brooklyn, N.Y., saw the connection and sent us the following look at the 1981-82 season, as paraphrased from Shakespeare. “When you do dance, I wish you A wave o’ the sea that you Might ever do nothing but that” Don Perry to Paul Mulvey (Winter’s Tale IV, Hi, 140) “The villainy you teach me I will Execute, and it shall go hard But I will better the instruction.” Paul Mulvey to Don Perry (Merchant of Venice III,…

NHL PLAYOFF SCORING

Kitchener, Saskatoon, Sherbrooke Top All Stars

Goaltender……Sudbury Defense……Niagara Falls Left Wing……Saskatoon Rightwing……Lethbridge Right Wing……Shawinigan Picking the best junior hockey players in the country isn’t an easy task but when the selectors were finished with their final selections, they definitely had their eye on the Kitchener Rangers, Sherbrooke Beavers and Saskatoon Blades. All three teams dominated the annual Canadian Major Hockey League All Star teams in their respective leagues. Sherbrooke placed four players while Kitchener and Saskatoon each contributed three. In the Ontario Hockey League voting, the Rangers’ two first-team placings went to defenseman Allan Maclnnis and super right winger Brian Bellows, the player everyone expects to be No. 1 in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft this summer. Left winger Jeff Larmer was named to the second team as well for Kitchener. The OHL first All Star team had an entirely new look with all…

Flyers’ No. 1 Priority Is Defense

PHILADELPHIA—It will not be a quiet off-season for the Flyers. It can’t be. They fell four series and at least three players short of Stanley Cup contention in 1981-82. Not only do they realize some changes are necessary, they probably have the means to effect them. They obviously1 need help on defense, a right winger who can score some goals, and some resolution of their revolving goaltender door, but they have probably the deepest set of centers in the league and the fourth choice in the Entry Draft with which to improve themselves. The Flyers remain cautiously optimistic that Toronto, picking third, will take Portland center Ken Yaremchuk, leaving them defenseman Gary Nylund. All indications are that right wing Brian Bellows and defenseman Gord Kluzak will go one-two to Boston and Minnesota,…