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January 28, 1983
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Perreault, Housley: Past Pivots Present
Gil Perreault chuckles when he’s asked how it feels to be the “grand old man” of the Buffalo Sabres at 32, surrounded by kids still in their teens or just out of them. “I really have trouble thinking of myself as being that old and this is my 13th season in the NHL,” Perreault said. “When I think back, it seems more like five or six years.” Then Perreault laughs: “I’m lucky, I guess, because my heart is very young.” Perreault’s legs remain in that category, too, because he can still skate with anyone in the NHL. Now, just as for the past 13 seasons from the time he became the first Sabre, Perreault is one of the game’s most electrifying performers. Really, is there a more exciting sight in the National Hockey League…
Express Weathers An Injury Storm By Developing A Winning Attitude
FREDERICTON—Jacques Demers still accepts phone calls. He still reads his mail. He still talks with the trainers and the team doctor. By the middle of January, Demers was quite sure that he had already heard all the bad news. Things had to get better. Demers, coach of the Fredericton Express, the pacesetters in the American Hockey League’s Northern Division for most of the two months, spent the last week of December and the first two weeks of January saying goodbye to players called up to the National Hockey League between receiving status reports on the rash of injuries that had struck his players. He watched his team lose three straight games and six of 10. Yet, thanks to Nova Scotia’s matching slump, the Express remain in first place. Injured players include Richard David,…
Shawinigan Puts An End To Lafontaine’s Streak
SHAWINIGAN—It had to happen sooner or later. Pat Lafontaine’s consecutive scoring streak was stopped at 43 games. The Cataractes held the Verdun Juniors’ center without a point on Jan. 12 in their 7-3 win. Lafontaine scored at least one point in each of the 40 games that Verdun played to tie a record set by Montreal Canadien right winger Guy Lafleur in the 1970-71 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League season while a member of the Quebec Remparts. Lafontaine then went on to break the record on Jan. 5 in Granby. Devellano doesn’t hide the fact he wants to draft Lafontaine. Lafontaine, who turns 18 in February, making him eligible for this summer’s NHL entry draft, is certain to be a first-round selection. The Detroit Red Wings have already made it clear they would love to see…
THE WESTERN WORD
Let’s Have Gretzkyvision IT WAS SOMETIME during some bowl game of insignificance that the CBS-TV network flashed to a commercial. The house ad went through a series of clips on all the super sporting events we would see in the year of nineteen hundred and eighty three. There was Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson; Jimmy Connors and Ivan Lendl; Dan Fouts and Kellen Winslow; Ralph Sampson; the Mahre brothers…well, you get the picture. Later that day, watching a bowl game of insignificance, ABC-TV flashed it’s package of the year which began that day. The same people were there, they even had bowlers. Earl Anthony was prominent. And amateur boxers. And of course, Howard No Hell. I didn’t get a chance to see NBC-TV’s package, possibly because they didn’t have one. Any network with Len…
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