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February 25, 1983
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BEDCLOTHES
I’m No Moron HURRY IN HERE, Low-Watt Lorraine, dear, and take letters to a couple of hockey correspondents. Brian Didion, Woonsocket, RI. Sir: So, I’m Canada’s No. 1 moron, eh? In rebuttal, I say may fruit flies molest your sister’s nectarines. Fie, sir! I am not putting down Wayne Gretzky when I compare him favorably to the best athlete I saw in Canada in 1982. The best I saw was a standardbred race horse. Cam Fella. May his tribe increase. It is true: Cam Fella did not score four goals in a meaningless National Hockey League All-Star game where defensive play was abandoned and not one participant could spell the word forecheck. But unlike human athletes. Cam Fella was out working at age three when most hockey players are still sponging off their parents. Cam Fella won 28 out…
BLUELINES
When Maple Leaf captain Rick Vaive fingered some of his teammates as quitters, he refused to elaborate and has continued to stonewall regular newsmen. But Vaive did tell an NHL official, who tells BLUELINES that Vaive had the imports in mind. “He told me it was some of the Europeans,” the man revealed. “He said why don’t they go back; they’re always going on vacation, anyway.” The Europeans on the Leafs include Miroslav Frycer, Peter Ihnacak and Slava Duris of Czechoslovakia and Borje Salming of Sweden … Ivan Boldirev on the resentment of Canadian players toward Europeans: “It’s not because a guy’s coming in and taking your job. It’s because he’s given your job. And if a guy comes in and he’s guaranteeed a job on the team, somebody else…
FRANK ORR’S HOCKEY VIEWPOINT
Welcome For Saskatoon SASKATOON! It’s an easy name at which to laugh. A bit like Alberquerque, isn’t it? Those words are similar to “prune.” Say the word prunes and someone is certain to smile. It’s the same with Saskatoon. Many National Hockey League governors have had precisely that reaction during the past couple of months since they discovered that a group in the Saskatchewan city was the only serious bidder to purchase the St. Louis Blues, a hockey team that was losing nothing but money—and hockey games this season—in the Missouri metropolis. In fact, the two words—Saskatoon, Saskatchewan—form a fine parlay to ridicule. “Saskatoon? The only way you can get there is by dog team!” said Toronto Maple Leaf owner Harold Ballard. “Saskatoon? I’ll bet the drive-ins there serve blubber on a bun,” said another…
Nylund Returns To Leafs After Serious Knee Injury
TORONTO—Trivia Time: Which player held a National Hockey League record before ever playing a game in the NHL? The answer: Maple Leaf Gary Nylund is the unofficial titleholder of the athlete interviewed the most before ever participating in a professional hockey match that counted. Trivial matters aside, Nylund, the 6-4, 215-pound defenseman who was the Leafs’ first choice (third overall) in the 1982 entry draft, has been a big story since his June signing with the Leafs. The drama surrounding his NHL debut has only heightened because of the training-camp knee injury and Oct. 6 surgery that delayed his emergence until just before the All-Star break. “Everyone’s been playing so well on defense that there’s no need to hurry back into the lineup,” Nylund said just before making his first start in Detroit.…
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