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March 25, 1983
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DAN’S THE MAN IN TORONTO
Three years ago, the Pittsburgh Pirates surprised the sporting world by beating the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. The Orioles had the bats and the gloves, but the Pirates had togetherness. Just to extol the virtues of team unity, the Bucs blared a disco ditty for all the world to hear. The song was Sister Sledge’s, We Are Family. Dan Daoust is not a ball player—he’s a hockey player—but he firmly believes in team unity. “You have to stick together,” he says. “You’ve got to think of yourself as part of the family. You’ve got to go out together and do things together and I think that has a big effect on winning.” On Dec. 17, the Montreal Canadiens traded Daoust, a center, and defenseman Gaston Gingras to Toronto in a deal…
Breakers, Islanders Wage Battle For The Final Post-Season Spot
CALGARY—The Western Hockey League’s playoffs, featuring 10 of its 14 teams, are scheduled to start on March 25. However, just eight of those 10 teams will be involved in opening-round action. In the Eastern Division, the first- and second-place finishers have been given a first-round bye. That leaves the third-place club meeting the sixth-place finisher and the fourth- and fifth-place teams meeting in best-of-five series. The division semi-finals, featuring the East’s top two clubs and the two winners from the best-of-five series, will be best-of-seven affairs, as will the division final. At the same time, in the Western Division, it’ll be one versus four and two versus three, with the two winners moving on to the division’s final. Those series are all best-of-seven affairs. The WHL’s championship series, also a best-of-seven, is slated to begin…
Rougeau Continues Battle Against Cancer
MONTREAL—Jean Rougeau, president of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, was admitted to hospital this week for the fifth time in 16 months due to cancer of the liver. He checked into Montreal’s Hospital Saint-Luc for tests and to change his medication. He was not expected to be hospitalized for more than a week. Rougeau, a former pro wrestler and owner of the Laval Voisins, is astonishing doctors—who gave him between six months and a year to live—and league officials with his resiliency. But last January, in a moving address at the Forum’s Mise Au Jeu restaurant, Rougeau admitted he had resigned himself to the inevitable, telling his audience “I am entering the last year of my life.” While he’s in hospital, league matters are handled by vice-president John Horman and executive director Paul…
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The International Hockey Weekly Founded in 1947 Published by W.C.C. Publishing Ltd. 214 King St. West, Suite 314, Toronto, Ont. M5H 1K4 No Hats Off THERE ARE SOME people in our game who suggest that the advent of the hockey helmet has taken something away from the sport. Don Cherry, the vociferous ex-coach turned television star, is a prominent member of the anti-helmet lobby, proclaiming that the players lose their identity when they put on a chunk of molded plastic. Why else, Cherry asks rhetorically, are Nick Fotiu, Ron Duguay and Barry Beck the New York Rangers with the most charisma and fan appeal? Even Fred Shero, the less vociferous ex-coach turned radio color commentator, has gotten into the act, decreeing that the NHL could end all the stickwork overnight—if it would only take the…
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