Search for your favorite player or team
© The Hockey News. All rights reserved. Any and all material on this website cannot be used, reproduced, or distributed without prior written permission from Roustan Media Ltd. For more information, please see our Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy.
March 11, 1983
The Hockey News has been providing the most comprehensive coverage of the world of hockey since 1947. In each issue, you'll find news, features and opinions about the NHL and leagues across North America and the world.
HOCKEY VIEWPOINT
Soviet Plot Thickens SINCE THE SOVIET Union’s national hockey team played six games against National Hockey League clubs earlier this season, there has been much speculation that players from the USSR will soon be permitted to join NHL clubs. In fact, Alan Eagleson, the executive-director of the NHL Players’ Association, plans a trip to Moscow soon for talks with the comrades on the possible shift of USSR skaters. Are the Soviets really serious about allowing their players to try the capitalist system? Will Vladislav Tretiak be the Mdntreal Canadiens’ goalie of the future? Well, at great expense, THE HOCKEY NEWS’ secret operatives behind the Iron Curtain have obtained a transcript of a high-level meeting of USSR officials at which the matter was discussed. At the top-secret meeting, conducted deep in the bowels of the Kremlin,…
Canucks Lanz Comes Up Big
VANCOUVER—Most teams in the National Hockey League would have difficulty winning with their top three defensemen on the shelf. Even the Islanders had some problems earlier in the year when they had some injuries to their defense. The Vancouver Canucks have their three top defensemen—Lars Lindgren, Harold Snepsts and Kevin McCarthy all out with injuries. Snepsts discovered his back ailing when he woke up on the longest road trip of the year and it hasn’t been right since. McCarthy has a sprained wrist that feels like a break. He can’t move the wrist and has no feel for the puck. Lindgren suffered stretched knee ligaments against Toronto at the outset of the aforementioned road trip and he’s been out ever since. As a result, the Canucks have had to examine the depth in…
WESTERN HOCKEY LEAGUE
Players of the Week ONTARIO LEAGUE John Vanbiesbrouck hopes the hockey trail ahead leads to the National Hockey League and a shot with the New York Rangers. The Sault Ste. Marie netminder, who was drafted by the Rangers in 1981 and has twice played in goal for the U.S. National Junior Team in world competition, is winding down his junior career with the Greyhounds in brilliant fashion. The American-born Vanbiesbrouck backstopped the Sault to four wins in one week, including key victories over Ottawa and Kitchener, to capture Ontario Hockey League Player of the Week honors. He has 36 wins in - 55 starts this year. WESTERN LEAGUE The Victoria Cougars are going head-to-head with the Portland Winter Hawks for first place in the West Division and they have been one of the hottest teams…
Pens’ Owner Won’t Push The Panic Button
PITTSBURGH—Penguin owner Edward J. DeBartolo wanted to make some things perfectly clear. He said the NHL team was staying in Pittsburgh and the jobs of coach Eddie Johnston and general manager Baz Bastien were secure, at least until the end of the season. “We’re not thinking of moving them, period,” DeBartolo said in reference to rumors that the struggling Penguins would be moved or sold. “It’s amazing how people make statements. “This year we’ll lose $3.4 million on the Penguins. On the farm team, the (Baltimore) Skipjacks, we’ll lose between $250,000 and $300,000. That’s a lot of money. But that doesn’t make any difference to us.” DeBartolo is chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the Edward J. DeBartolo Corporation, a privately owned real estate development firm that designs, builds, owns…
Made possible with the support of
