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August 19, 1982
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Rolling Your Way To Off-Season Conditioning
While energy costs and the recession are a major concern to everyone these days, there are still a number of popular pastimes that can be enjoyed if the energy one is willing to expend is supplied from your own body. One such pursuit, employed by hockey players of all ages, is skating on pavement and asphalt by means of roller-type skates, an excellent means of conditioning throughout the summer months or whenever skating at an arena is not possible. Road hockey, long a popular sport, has now grown into indoor hockey with games on foot in nonflooded arenas as well as roller hockey. Players used to simply get a pair of roller skates, grab a stick and use a ball as a puck, but for some, the equipment has been greatly modified…
Summer Season Hectic For North Stars’ Nanne
BLOOMINGTON—For some National Hockey League teams, the summer of ‘82 has been a tranquil one, with the players dispersed for some leisurely trips to hometowns or tours of local golf courses. Minnesota North Stars’ general manager Lou Nanne wishes his summer had been that uneventful. The pursuit and signing of Bobby Smith, the pursuit and pending-signing of Brian Bellows, worked in and around a vacation trip to Europe would be more than enough to keep even someone of Nanne’s intensity busy. But it was all interrupted and tempered by a family tragedy in which his son Michael, 18, was critically injured and eventually lost a leg. While Nanne and his wife, Francine, were in Europe on holiday, the rest of the Nanne family had gathered at a summer cottage near Nanne’s hometown of Sault…
Optimistic Dionne Speaks Out On Kings’ Needs
LOS ANGELES—So the Kings, who had one of the most porous defenses in the league, need another defenseman, right? Wrong, according to no less an authority than Marcel Dionne. “I really don’t think we need a defenseman,” said Dionne, who listed a big center as a greater priority. The key to the Kings defense, he said, could be Mark Hardy. “He is so good. He could be the leader of our team. He skates well, shoots well, he’s strong and he can pass. “He’s a much better defenseman than Paul Coffey (Edmonton). I just hope it’s coming. He’s the guy, if he would take charge. He can do it all. “All the others complement each other. But you have to have the one guy. “Mark will never have the exposure of a (Denis) Potvin or somebody like…
Flames Look For New Image From Training Camp’s Start
CALGARY—On the day he was chosen coach of the Flames, Bob Johnson was asked whether he, like other professional coaches, would stamp his personal imprint on the roster, whether he would make a lot of changes? “I can’t answer that now,” said Johnson. “I just don’t know.” That was on June 1. By June 10, the Flames had rid themselves of five players that finished the season in Calgary and lost another one through a series of circumstances. Moving and shaking up a club that finished 12th in last year’s overall standings, the Flames traded away Willi Plett, Ken Houston and Pat Riggin, dropped Gary McAdam and Dan Labraaten and also learned that Finn Pekka Rautakallio would not return for the 1982-83 season. As replacements, the Flames secured the services of Don Edwards,…
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