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September 1, 1983
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Young Flame Rearguards To Get Baptism Of Fire
CALGARY—The Flames, whose defense had more ups and downs than a game of Donkey Kong last season, go into training camp this month with only one rearguard with more than two full seasons in the National Hockey League. Is coach Bob Johnson, the original good humor man, the man with a silver lining for every cloud that passed over his club last season, a little concerned? Just a little. When the Flames made their third trade of the summer—and 19th since moving here in the summer of 1980—acquiring 21-year-old defenseman Mickey Volcan from the Hartford Whalers for defensemen Richie Dunn and Joel Quenneville, they dealt themselves into what will likely be the league’s youngest blueline corps. Only Paul Reinhart, a comparative oldtimer at 23, has more than two complete seasons in the NHL. His…
Leveille’s Got A Desire To Make A Comeback
BOSTON—The defection of Bruin Brad Park to the Detroit Red Wings aside, the hockey event of the summer here has been a visit by Normand Leveille, the 20-year-old left winger who was struck down and all but left for dead by a cerebral hemmorrhage between periods of a game in Vancouver last Oct. 23. Barely nine months after doctors cut a hole in his skull to save his life and seven-and-a-half months after he came out of a coma, Leveille was able to leave the Institut de Readaptation de Montreal to be the guest of honor at the Normand Leveille No. 19 Golf Tournament at the suburban Pembroke Country Club. He’s still partially paralyzed on his right side and gets about in a wheelchair but he still has the big Leveille grin…
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10 Best Overlooked Y’R OB’T SERVANT was not invited to participate in THE HOCKEY NEWS’ “first-ever” 10 Best poll and therefore has no difficulty kicking holes in some of the selections. The 10 Best Evers, in this myopic view, indicated a collective lack of hockey scholarship by the selectors. The best-ever polls, as a result, lacked historic dimension. How else to regard selections which dismissed all but two pros who played before 1940? One of these was Edward Shore, a somewhat imposing defenseman for the Boston Bruins between 1926 and 1940. The other was Turk Broda, whose 15-years span as a goaltender for the Toronto Maple Leafs began in 1936. Scholarship involves research into the past, the checking with those who were there if you weren’t there yourself. This is still possible to do because there…
Ornest’s Blues Aren’t In The Clear Yet…
ST. LOUIS—Harry Ornest, the fast-talking Beverly Hills promoter who bought the St. Louis Blues for the bargain-basement price of $3 million, refers to Monty Hall, of television’s ‘Let’s Make A Deal’ fame, as one of his closest friends. It should come as no surprise, then, that the National Hockey League is much like a contestant on Hall’s TV show. The NHL doesn’t know whether it’s bargained for the grand prize or whether it has been zonked. Behind door No. 3 is… The NHL will have hit the grand prize if Ornest turns out to be the long-range answer to the messy situation surrounding the St. Louis franchise. But if Ornest doesn’t have the staying power to turn things around in St. Louis, the NHL will have been zonked. If the NHL is lucky, it…
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