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October 14, 1983
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Kotsopoulos Gets An Itch To Get Back Into Lineup
HARTFORD—Chris Kotsopoulos, who lived through two summers without a contract, ended his holdout on Sept. 23 and signed a multi-year pact with the Whalers. The big defenseman, who weighed in at 217, the lightest he’s been since joining the National Hockey League in 1980, began working out immediately. “I went to two exhibition games and I’ll admit I was getting itchy,” said Kotsopoulos, who was voted the Whalers’ most valuable defenseman two years ago. “I’m anxious to get going.” Kotsopoulos confessed that he was “a little behind” as far as conditioning was concerned. “I’ve got some work to do, no question,” he said, “but I’ve got enough time. My job is to be ready by Oct. 5 (the Whalers’ season opener).” The impasse between Kotsopoulos and Whaler general manager Emile Francis involved the third year…
NHL TEAM ROSTERS
BOSTON Goaltenders 1 — PEETERS, Pete Defensemen 7 — BOURQUE, Ray 23 — HILLIER, Randy 6 — KLUZAK, Gord — LAPOINTE, Guy 26 — MILBURY, Mike 20 — O’CONNELL, Mike — SCHOENFELD, Jim Centers 28 — FERGUS, Tom 11 — KASPER, Steve 14 — MacTAVISH, Craig 8 — McNAB, Peter 10 — PEDERSON, Barry R. Wings 18 — CROWDER, Keith 16 — MIDDLETON, Rick 24 — O’REILLY, Terry Cpt. L. Wings 32 — CROWDER, Bruce 29 — DUFOUR, Luc 25 — KRUSHELNYSKI, M. 21 — PALMER, Brad BUFFALO Goaltenders 30 — BARRASSO, Tom 29 — CLOUTIER, Jacques 28 — SAUVE, Bob Defensemen 31 — FENYVES, Dave 24 — HAJT, Bill 6 — HOUSLEY, Phil 27 — PLAYFAIR, Larry 5 — RAMSEY, Mike 4 — VAN BOXMEER, John 3 — VIRTA, Hannu Centers 29 — ANDREYCHUK, Dave 7 — McCOURT, Dale 11 — PERREAULT, Gil Cpt. 20 — PETERSON, Brent R. Wings 8 — CLOUTIER, Real 17 — FOLIGNO, Mike 12 — LACOMBE, Norm 26 — PATRICK, Steve 16 — SEILING, Ric L. Wings 18 — CYR, Paul 9 — HAMEL, Gilles 10 —…
Bruins Still Have Two Questions To Answer
BOSTON—The Bruins entered the final days of the 1983 training camp with their two big roster questions still unanswered: Who will fill the role of back-up goalie to Pete Peeters? And who will provide the team with badly needed goal-scoring from the left side? The choice of a back-up goalie was narrowed to three in the final week of camp when Marco Baron, last year’s No. 2 goalie for most of the season, was loaned out to the Moncton Alpines in the American League. Moncton is an Edmonton farm team but Baron will remain the property of the Bruins. That left Mike Moffatt, Doug Keans and Steve Baker to fight for the back-up role and the betting was that Moffat, who was bugged by nerves while playing for Boston and Baltimore last…
HOCKEY VIEWPOINT
Debunking The Myths HOCKEY IS THE same as all other sports. A large part of the game’s charm is its folklore, a vast number of yams that have been told and retold and, occasionally, expanded and altered until they might or might not bear any resemblance to the truth. Not that it matters a great deal because the appeal of the tales is not their accuracy. However, it’s time to set the record straight on some of hockey’s most famous folktales. At great expense, THE HOCKEY NEWS commissioned this comer to get to the bottom of hockey’s greatest tales and to discover the reality behind some of the game’s most famous incidents. Here it is, for the first time, the real story of some hockey fables. Mud Bruneteau should have passed. Bruneteau scored the overtime…
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