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January 14, 1983
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Halward All But Extinct In Vancouver
VANCOUVER—The career of Doug Halward is looking remarkably similar to Colin Campbell’s in the eyes of many Vancouver Canucks’ fans. Halward is having another splendid season, though a glance at his contract would tell you he’s only about three months from extinction as a Canuck. He has been sent a termination contract this year, meaning he will be a free agent without compensation after this season. His Toronto agent. Bill Watters, has repeatedly tried to negotiate a new deal with Vancouver GM Harry Neale, because Halward wishes to remain in Vancouver. But so far.-he has had very little success. Neale has a glut of defensemen on hand and that is perhaps why Halward. who is second only to Lars Lindgren as the Canucks’ best rearguard, is being given the cold shoulder. Halward is…
Sabres Find It Difficult To Pot Some Goals
BUFFALO—What’s this—the Buffalo Sabres having trouble scoring goals? The Sabres were once one of the goal-happiest teams in the National Hockey League. Back in the days of the French Connection, they scored 354 goals one season, second only to the Montreal Canadiens’ 374. The Connection itself—Gil Perreault, Rene Robert and Rick Martin—scored 121. That was 1974-75, when the Sabres made it to the Stanley Cup finals. Perreault is the only remaining member of the French Connection playing in the NHL. He’s the Sabres’ leading scorer, as usual, but the classy center-left wing had only 18 goals going into the final game of 1982. Perreault was the only Sabre with more than 15 goals and one of only four with 10 or more. Tony McKegney had 13, and Mike Foligno and rookie Sean McKenna each…
Hannan Takes Big Leap To Pens
PITTSBURGH—It’s a long journey for a lOth-round draft choice to the National Hockey League, but for the Penguins’ David Hannan, the trip has taken only one season and now he’s centering Pittsburgh’s top line, too. The Penguins selected Hannan from Brantford Alexanders of the Ontario Hockey League in the 10th and final round of the 1981 entry draft. He was the 196th of 211 players. He scored 46 goals and 35 assists for the Alexanders during his final season of junior after he was passed over as an underage selection in previous drafts. “I thought I had a chance to get drafted.” Hannan recalled. “I didn’t know where or what round. I knew it wasn’t going to be in the first four rounds with the young guys. It was my last year…
HOCKEY WORLD
New-Look Capitals “THEY MADE US look like a last-place hockey club,” Al Arbour was saying after a recent Islander loss. Was Arbour referring to Montreal? Chicago? Boston? Minnesota? Philadelphia? Nooooo, Zamboni breath. The team that had inflicted such punishment on the slump-ridden three-time Stanley Cup champions was the Washington Capitals. If you’ve been tuned out since October, discovering that the Capitals had made the Islanders look like a last-place team would prompt you to either check your lens prescription or switch your brand of liquid refreshment. Surely, you’d say, the conservative Mr. Arbour couldn’t be referring to the Capitals, the team that had failed in eight seasons trying to qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs. Aren’t these still the Capitals, who held as much annual promise as their neighbors in Congress, and who annually…
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