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December 17, 1982
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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE SCORING
BOSTON BRUINS BUFFALO SABRES CALGARY FLAMES CHICAGO BLACK HAWKS COLORADO ROCKIES DETROIT RED WINGS EDMONTON OILERS HARTFORD WHALERS LOS ANGELES KINGS MINNESOTA NORTH STARS MONTREAL CANADIENS NEW YORK ISLANDERS NEW YORK RANGERS PHILADELPHIA FLYERS PITTSBURGH PENGUINS QUEBEC NORDIQUES ST. LOUIS BLUES TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS VANCOUVER CANUCKS WASHINGTON CAPITALS WINNIPEG JETS GOALTENDING STATISTICS NHL LEADERS…
Wranglers Looking For Goal Scorer To Maintain Status In Eastern Pack
CALGARY—Doug Sauter doesn’t mince his words. “I need a goal scorer,” said the coach of the Western Hockey League’s Calgary Wranglers. “I need someone who can step in and run the power play. And, unless we find someone who can score goals on a regular basis, we’re going to struggle.” Sounds like a coach struggling to keep his club out of the cellar, doesn’t it? Well, that’s not the case in Calgary, where Sauter’s Wranglers have ridden Mike Vernon’s goaltending and some stout defense into the thick of the Eastern Division pennant race. Twenty games into the season, Scot Makin was the Wranglers’ leading sniper with 11 goals. But, he was on the shelf temporarily, with a knee problem. And, believe it or not, a defenseman was leading Calgary’s point parade. Mike Heidt, a…
Those Oilers Sure Do Lead Interesting Lives
EDMONTON—The homestand cetainly wasn’t successful. Anything but. Yet, no one could say it wasn’t bizarre. All of which goes to prove that even in adversity, the Edmonton Oilers make life interesting. Consider the slow-starting Oilers appeared to be getting their act together with a 3-2 showing on a six-game eastern swing, their most lengthy safari of the 1982-83 National Hockey League campaign. Returning home to the friendly confines of the Northlands Coliseum, where they lost on only five occasions last season, everything appeared to be coming up roses. Or, at least, one would think along those lines. As it turned out, false. Take into account… A Nov. 20 date against Vancouver resulted in a 3-3 tie when veteran Canuck defenseman Lars Lindgren fired the puck into his own net with nine seconds remaining. A one in…
BEDCLOTHES
Listen Up, Pups NO ONE CAN prolong his childhood forever, but there was a time when I regarded hockey with a glad simplicity, when every Saturday night it was ritual to crowd around a radio in an Alberta farm house to hear the crisp, exciting: “Hello, Canada, and hockey fans in the United States and Newfoundland… ” Anyone with an awareness of Canadian history knows how long ago that was. Newfoundland was a backward island mass off Canada’s east coast, not part of our Confederation until 1949. The voice coming out of our radios had the bladed tension of a hockey stick held high. It sent bigleaguers skating up and down the imagination of hockey fans across Canada and the northern tier of United States, an audience in the millions. One man made the NHL…
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