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October 15, 1982
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THE WESTERN WORD
It Cannot Happen THERE IS NO TRUTH to the rumor that the Vancouver Canucks will lull 20 other teams to sleep and win the Stanley Cup this season. The fact of the matter is, the Canucks will not even win their division. They may not even make the Smythe Division playoffs. Sorry to spoil your day, Harry Neale. The Canucks entered the Stanley Cup playoffs a year ago with about as much chance of winning the Cup as the Colorado Rockies had. The only difference is, the Rockies didn’t make the playoffs. Only an act of God—or an act of Richard Brodeur—made the near-Canuck dream possible. It will not, it says here, happen again. It cannot, it says here, happen again. Everything that could have gone right for the Canucks did go right in a season…
Poor Economy And Underage Raiding Hurt Sudbury Wolves’ Operation
H&B Louisville Hockey Sudbury—a city hard hit by layoffs in the mining industry—have already dropped their admission prices to $2. But what about the NHL and its annual player raid? Well, there doesn’t seem to be much the junior teams can do. Few junior hockey operators will argue there is a place in the NHL for exceptional underage junior hockey players—Wayne Gretzky, Dale Hawerchuk and Denis Savard—but when a player such as Joe Cirella plays 65 games with the Colorado Rockies and then is sent back to the Oshawa Generals for seasoning, some wonder if it isn’t the NHL’s way of saying, “Hey, maybe we’re wrong about these kids.” Cirella, a multi-talented defenseman, isn’t the first player to spend time in the big leagues before being sent back. Mike Bullard did the same thing…
Houle Happy To Remain With Habs
MONTREAL—Rejean Houle looked as though someone had taken a ton of weight off his shoulders. The Canadiens had filed their protected list for the waiver draft and Houle found that his name was included among the 17 skaters that Managing Director Irving Grundman decided to hold on to for the 1982-83 season. “I finally managed to beat the system,” Houle chuckled. “In my mind, the Canadiens are much more important than finishing a career somewhere else, away from the pressure and with American money in your pocket.” “I don’t think that I would have been able to leave Montreal.” Houle came into the Canadiens’ training camp as one of the question marks. Throughout the pre-season games the 33-year-old right winger worked with the enthusiasm of an 18-year-old rookie. Still, he didn’t know what awaited…
Kings’ Swedish Newcomers Are Introduced To League
LOS ANGELES—Peter Helander and Ulf Isaksson are quickly learning about life in the National Hockey League. The Two Swedish imports, the first Europeans ever signed by the Kings, made their debuts in the pre-season against, of all people, Tiger Williams and the Vancouver Canucks. It was an eye-opener, to say the least. “There were so many fights,” said Helander, a 30-year-old defenseman, who last year played for Skelleftia of the Swedish Elite League, where he had 11 goals and 14 assists in 31 games. “We have very few fights in Sweden,” he was saying. “Over there, you get in a fight and you can’t play for maybe a week. It costs you four or five games.” Welcome to the NHL, Peter. Actually, based on their performances in the exhibition season, the blonde speedsters figure to…
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