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December 10, 1982
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Reckless, Wide-Open Style Of Play May Make It Difficult For Goalies
BOSTON—The Eastern season continued into its third week of action with the trend towards tightly played defensive struggles still dominant. But the occasional lapses into devil-may-care pond hockey are beginning to occur, too, so it may not be a goalies’ year in the ECAC after all. Harvard won a pair of games to grab hold of the ECAC Ivy group’s early lead, while Northeastern, New Hampshire, Boston University, St. Lawrence and Yale all improved their positions in the first semester’s charge out of the gate. The 1-1 tie between crosstown rivals Northeastern and Boston College most typified the play of this young season. The game had everything—heavy hitting, excellent goaltending, freshman mistakes—and it was a pair of dog-tired teams that dragged themselves off the Matthews Arena ice after 70 minutes. Boston College took…
Hawks’ Feamster Still Cheers For Red Wings
CHICAGO—Be the Detroit Red Wings ever so humble, they’re still from the city that Black Hawk defenseman Dave Feamster calls home and there remain ties that bind. Feamster is a Detroit boy who made good on Chicago ice. But when the Red Wings aren’t playing the Black Hawks, he wishes them nothing but the best. He knows that if it weren’t for Detroit’s new owner, pizza king Mike Hitch, he might not be skating in the NHL. “I’m a very close friend of the Ilitch family,” said Feamster. “From the time I was 8-years-old until I was 16,1 played hockey on teams sponsored by Mr. Ilitch. “Squirt, peewee, bantam, midget—all the way up until I went to Colorado College on a hockey scholarship. “His sons, Mike and Ron, played with me and I’ve been over…
Housley, McCourt, Perreault Get The Shuffle
BUFFALO—Phil Housley played center, Gil Perreault was back at left wing and Dale McCourt was back in the lineup. That’s the way it was with three of the Buffalo Sabres’ more publicized players on a three-game western trip. Phil Housley, the 18-year-old No. 1 draft choice of the Sabres who this time last year was finishing his football career as a quarterback for South St. Paul High School in Minnesota, was a defenseman when he started Buffalo’s training camp. On the western swing, he played center. Then, upon return to the east and in a road game at Hartford, Housley was back on the blueline. When Housley was taken sixth overall in the 1982 entry draft, Buffalo GM-coach Scotty Bowman said the 5-10, 174-pounder might play both forward and defense but he was projected…
Herron Has Three As Lucky Charm
PITTSBURGH—Denis Herron is trying to prove the adage, “The third time is the charm,” is true. The diminutive goaltender was reacquired by the Penguins during training camp from Montreal for a third-round choice in the 1985 entry draft. The trade marks the third time Herron has played for Pittsburgh. Herron was Pittsburgh’s third choice in the 1972 amateur draft. He played most of his first two-and-a-half seasons in the minors before being traded to Kansas City with Jean-Guy Lagace for Michel Plasse in January, 1975. The 5-11, 165-pounder signed as a free agent with Pittsburgh in August, 1976 and Colorado, which had transferred from Kansas City, received Plasse and Simon Nolet as compensation. After three fairly successful seasons in Pittsburgh, Herron was traded to the Canadiens with a second-round draft choice for Pat…
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