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September 23, 1983
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Barrasso Feels Time Is Right To Turn Pro
BUFFALO—The one position that seemed set when the Buffalo Sabres’ prospects were analyzed during the summer, now appears to have the most interesting battle of all for the two regular berth’s on the squad. Bob Sauve, No. 1 goaltender, and Jacques Cloutier, who started with the Sabres and then took Rochester to the Calder Cup, seemed to be set as a one-two combination. Tom Barasso, the high-school goaltender who was the first of the Sabres’ first three first-round draft picks in the 1983 draft and fifth overall, was with the U.S. Olympic team and figured to stay there until after the 1984 Olympic Games. “I came to the conclusion I would not be hurting the Olympic team if I left at this time. They still have two good goaltenders.” Late in August, however, with…
Devil Players Get An Early Look At Jersey
EAST RUTHERFORD—The New Jersey Devils jumped off to an early start in preparation for the 1983-84 season by offering their players the opportunity to attend a two-week Orientation Camp. The Devils’ management not only wanted their players to have easy access to ice and a wide assortment of weight training equipment but was anxious to have them get to know and appreciate the local area. The main thrust of the voluntary camp which began on Aug. 24 at Ice World in Totowa had as much to do with getting acquainted as it did with getting ready to play hockey. “We’re charting a new course with this endeavor,” said the Devils’ chairman John McMullen. “We want our players to become part of our ‘family’ as soon as possible. We want them to get to…
Ranger Veterans Are Skating On Thin Ice
NEW YORK—There was a poignancy to the good-byes the Rangers said to one other last spring after the Islanders eliminated them in the Patrick Division finals. “It was as if they realized that the team as they knew it would never exist again,“said one reporter who had spent the season with them. There was something to those wistful looks. The Madison Square Garden ice had barely been melted for the last time when three veterans—Ron Duguay, Ed Mio and Eddie Johnston—were dispatched to Detroit, a significant trade in terms of the fabric of the team. Although Duguay and coach Herb Brooks never hit it off, the jet-setting forward had been here since 1977. Johnstone, a hard worker, was enormously popular and Mio was the closest the Rangers had to a proven, experienced goaltender,…
Training Camp’s Tough On The Trainers
Training camp. For the players, it’s a time to prove themselves or gear up for the regular season. For the coaches and general managers, it’s a time to select and build a team. For the trainers, well, it’s simply a lot of hard work. Just ask Ron Waske and Jim Pickard, the two men whose responsibility it is to administer to the physical needs and requirements of the four-time Stanley Cup champion New York Islanders. “Once training camp starts,” says Waske, the Isles’ head trainer, “it pretty well means a lot of 18-hour work days. This year is especially busy. Because we have more guys than usual coming to camp (60-plus), we’re having two sessions per day. Before, it was only one. “And in the 17 days of training camp, we have nine…
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