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May 6, 1983

May 6, 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.

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Reinhart Gives Team Canada A Big Lift

As this issue went to press. Canada’s entry in the world championships looked like a good bet to get into the final four with the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Sweden. The following is a roundup of the week’s events at Dortmund. West Germany, where Jim Proudfoot of the Toronto Star is covering the event for the Star. A compilation of his reports are re printed here. Paul Reinhart is one of the best defensemen in the National Hockey League. There might be some better, but not many. He is a skillful attacker, though, so the Calgary Flames occasionally use him at center, too. But he has been attempting something new and quite different since joining Team Canada partway through the 1983 World Hockey Championships. Coach Dave King had him on right wing and…

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Bruins Meet Islanders In The Wales Final

As this issue went to press, the Boston Bruins and the New York Islanders were preparing to meet each other in the Wales Conference final and the right to go the Stanley Cup final. The Bruins, who finished first overall in the regular season, were fortunate to get by the Buffalo Sabres with Brad Park scoring in sudden death of the seventh and deciding game at Boston Garden. The Sabres put up a good fight against the Bruins, as did the New York Rangers against the Islanders. But the Islanders were too powerful for the injury-riddled Rangers and eliminated the Blueshirts in Game Six at Madison Square Garden. Both teams—Boston and the Islanders—were coping with a number of injuries, although the Islanders seemed a little better off. Regardless, a close, competitive series was…

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Hawk Veterans Doing The Job

CHICAGO—Tony Esposito, Rich Preston, and Tom Lysiak, the Black Hawks’ three oldest players, pooled their resources for a magnificent performance under pressure in Games Four and Five of the Stanley Cup quarter-final series with Minnesota. The result was the North Stars’ expulsion from the playoffs in a best-of seven series that lasted only five games. The pivotal game was the fourth, played in Minnesota. Chicago surmounted a three-goal deficit that stooc late in the second period and rallied foi a 4-3 overtime victory. Two nights later in Chicago Stadium, the Hawks wrapped up the series with a 5-2 triumph. After yielding to Murray Bannermar for five straight games, Esposito was in goal both nights. The NHL’s senior citizen, who turned 40 on April 23. looked like the goaltender of old, not the old goaltender. “Tony…

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They’re Still Chatting About Bourne’s Goal

LONG ISLAND—The play began when Bob Bourne picked up the puck deep in the Islanders’ end. He circled behind the net and headed up the right side. He drifted left as he crossed center ice, swerved past Reijo Ruotsalainen while easing the puck through the Ranger defenseman’s skates, then pulled away from a lunging Barry Beck. In the clear again, Bourne cranked up and beat Eddie Mio with an 18-foot shot that banged off the left post and landed in the net. That was the goal that sparked the Islanders to a 7-2 win over the Rangers in the fifth game of the Patrick Division final. Two nights later, after the Islanders clinched the series with a 5-2 victory, New York fans were still talking about Bourne and his scintillating solo…