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February 11, 1983
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Hawks’ Murray Struggles With Life As An NHLer
CHICAGO—“Right now, if he was in Chicago, he’d be one of the four best players on the team. He’d be devastating, especially in a small rink like Chicago Stadium.” Those words were spoken a year ago by Winnipeg Jets’ general manager John Ferguson after Troy Murray, then a sophomore at the University of North Dakota, captained Team Canada and helped it win the world junior championships. Today, Troy Murray is in Chicago, alternating with Bill Gardner as center on the Black Hawks’ fourth line. But his impact has been less than devastating: four goals and five assists in 35 games. “He’s still an outstanding prospect,” insists coach Orval Tessier. “I just think in Troy’s case, everybody put the cart before the horse. “The experience factor wasn’t taken into account. I consider college hockey on…
Devils Lower The Boom On Hood
EAST RUTHERFORD—“I thought our big rivalry was supposed to be with the Rangers,” commented Devils’ winger Bob MacMillan after New Jersey and the Philadelphia Flyers warred on the Spectrum Ice. For some reason, the Devils seem to bring out the worst in the Flyers—at least in terms of their temperament—and New Jersey’s Jan. 25 battle at the Spectrum was marred by one of the very few benchclearing brawls of the season. Don’t try to tell the Devils that the Flyers have changed their tactics. ‘They’ ve done a great propaganda job on everybody,” Devils’ goalie Chico Resch observed following a 5-1 loss to Philadelphia. “But what they’ve changed—except for tonight—is that they’ve cut down on the brawling and the real obvious stuff. “Hey, they still got those sticks up and they still get away…
THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE
Lemaire And Sierre WHEN JACQUES LEMAIRE arrived in Sierre four years ago, the price of hockey tickets in this quiet B League town in the French part of Switzerland tripled in value. The people couldn’t do enough for the former Montreal Canadians’ star. They showered him with money, gave him a white Mercedes convertible and a beautiful home. He did his share as player-coach of the team and everybody lived happily for a couple of years. Few love affairs last forever and the one between Lemaire and Sierre ended amicably when the ex-Habitant decided to return to North America and try his luck coaching on this continent. The good folks of Sierre were distraught. Short of grabbing Guy Lafleur or Michel Goulet, they couldn’t picture signing anyone who could replace Lemaire. They got neither…
Quality Hockey The Loser In This Game
VERBUN—Quebec Major Junior Hockey League president Jean Rougeau, who abhors on-ice violence and has done his utmost to clean up the league, surprisingly said he plans no action over incidents in a Verdun-Trois-Rivieres game Jan. 23. As with most games involving the Draveurs, the scene resembled a game of roller derby, with players from both teams taking runs at one another and trying to provoke the opposition. Expecting a rough game, Juniors’ coach Pierre Creamer gave seldom-used enforcers Nick Giampersa and Benoit Richard regular shifts. When Giampersa, a right winger, came on for his second shift of the game, Draveurs’ interim coach Rene Marcel, replacing Mario Bazinet, who’s in the midst of serving a 25-game suspension, responded by sending Sylvain Nantel onto the ice. Nantel has a total of 282 penalty minutes. After a…
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