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October 28, 1983

The Hockey News October 28, 1983

BOSTON &mdash; MacTavish 3, Fergus 3, Krushelnyski 1, Pederson 3,4, 5, O&rsquo;Connell 1, 2, Lapointe 1. Winning goals-Pederson 2.BUFFALO &mdash; Hajt 1, Cloutier 3,4, Playfair 1, Housley 1, 2, Langevin 1, Andreychuk 4, Perreault 4. Winning goals-none.CALGARY &mdash; Beers 1, Eloranta 1, Risebrough 1,2, McDonald 2,3, Tambellini 1, Hindmarch 1, Reinhart 1. Winning goals-none.CHICAGO &mdash; Larmer 4,5,6, Savard 1,2,3,4, D. Wilson 2, Preston 2, T. Murray 1, O&rsquo;Callahan 1, Fraser 1, B. Wilson 1, Gardner 2. Winning goals-Larmer, Gardner.DETROIT &mdash; Boldirev 2,3,4, Woods 1, Johnstone 3, Barrett 1. Winning goals-none.EDMONTON &mdash; Gretzky 5,6,7,8, Fogolin 1, Lowe 2, Kurri 3, 4, 5, Coffey 1, 2, Linseman 1, 2, Hunter 3, Anderson 4, Lumley 1, Hughes 1. Winning goals-Gretzky, Linseman, Kurri.HARTFORD &mdash; Stoughton 1,2, Neufeld 2,3, 4, Crawford 3, 4, Siltanen 2, Johnson 1, Turgeon 1. Winning goals-Stoughton.LOS ANGELES &mdash; Lavallee 1, Fox 1, Simmer 1,2, Hardy 1, Nicholls 3,4, Hakansson 1, MacLellan 1, Christoff 1. Winning goals-none.MINNESOTA &mdash; Smith 1, Payne 1,2, Giles 1, 2, Roberts 1, Maruk 2, 3, Levie 1, 2, Lawton 1, Ciccarelli 3. Winning goals-Maruk, Levie.MONTREAL &mdash; Mondou 1, 2, Acton 2, 3, Tremblay 1, Lafleur 3,4,5, Gainey 2, Walter 1, Naslund 2, Shutt 1, Napier 1. Winning goals&mdash;Lafleur, Napier.NEW JERSEY &mdash; Russell 2, 3, Ludvig 3, 4, Lever 1. Winning goals-none.NY ISLANDERS &mdash; Gillies 1, Merrick 1, Kallur 2, Tonelli 1, Bourne 3, Nystrom 4, Persson 2, Goring 3, B. Sutter 3. Winning goals-Kallur, B. Sutter.NY RANGERS &mdash; McPhee 1, Huber 1, Pavelich 2, 3, Hedberg 2, Dave Maloney 3, 4, Don Maloney 3, 4, Sundstrom 2, 3, Larouche 2, 3, 4, 5, Osborne 3. Winning goals-Huber, Dave Maloney, Sundstrom.PHILADELPHIA &mdash; Poulin 2, 3, Sinisalo 1, 2, 3, Propp 2, 3, Kerr 3, Clarke 2, 3, Eriksson 1, Crossman 1, MacLeish 3. Winning goals&mdash;Poulin, Sinisalo.PITTSBURGH &mdash; Bullard 3, 4, 5, 6, Hotham 1, Kehoe 3, Hannan 1, Lamoureux 1, Boutette 1, Carlyle 1, St. Laurent 1. Winning goals&mdash;Hannan.QUEBEC &mdash; Berglund 2, Van Boxmeer 3, Paiement 1,2, 3,4, Goulet 4, 5,6, Savard 1,2, A. Stastny 4, 5, Hunter 6, 7, M. Stastny 3, Sleigher 1, Weir 1. Winning goals-Goulet, Weir.ST. LOUIS &mdash; Ramage 1, 2, Sutter 3, 4, 5, Dore 1, Brownschidle 1, Federko 4, Mullen 1, 1, Pettersson 3, 4, 5, Babych 2, 3, Dunlop 1. Winning goals-Pettersson 2, Dore 1.TORONTO &mdash; Vaive 3, 4, 5, Derlago 2, 3, Gavin 2,3, Anderson 3,4, Benning 1, Frycer 1, 2, Farrish 1, Gingras 1, Terrion 3, Poddubny 2, Ihnacak 3, 4. Winning goals-Gavin, Frycer.VANCOUVER &mdash; Rota 2, Tanti 6, 7, 8, Smyl 3, Williams 1, Sundstrom 4. Winning goals&mdash;none.WASHINGTON &mdash; Gustafsson 3, Jarvis 1, Langway 2, Gartner 2, Carpenter 1. Winning goals &mdash; none.WINNIPEG &mdash; Steen 1, 2, MacLean 3, McBain 1, DeBlois 2, 3, 4, Babych 1. Winning goals-DeBlois.Hat tricks &mdash; Savard (Chi).Overtime winners &mdash; DeBlois (Wpg).Penalty shot goals &mdash; Hannan (Pit) and Terrion (Tor), 1 each. &#9632;

IN THIS ISSUE

NHL SCORERS THIS WEEK

<div class="byline">FRANK ORR&#x2019;S</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-06272/4809477-1-eng-US/f0002-062.jpg" title="f0002-06" width="295" height="342"></div><h2>The Oilers&rsquo; Year?</h2>THE EXPERIENCE WAS one that tends to teach young men humility and firm up their resolve. Edmonton Oilers look on it that way.While the fenders were knocked off their pride when the New York Islanders swept them out of the 1983 Stanley Cup final, the Oilers haven&rsquo;t heaved in any towels.Instead, they&rsquo;re digging in to guarantee a return bout next May and are looking for improvements in the areas exposed by the Islanders as weaknesses. Ask most hockey fans around the National Hockey League the match-up they would like to see if their own clubs can&rsquo;t be involved and the majority would say that the Islanders and Oilers are the choice.Neither club has made any major changes to open the 1983-84 season. Both teams have excellent youngsters ready to join them after the Olympic Games&mdash;Finnish winger Raimo Summanen to the Oilers, Pat LaFontaine to the Isles&mdash;but other than that, only lengthy injury lists or epic slumps will inspire major alterations.This is not an attempt to say that an Oiler-Islander Stanley Cup final is inevitable. The two teams&mdash;especially the Isles in a tough division and conference&mdash;face strong opposition. But the Isles&rsquo; hunt for their fifth consecutive title, the Oiler&rsquo;s spectacular young talent and its development are two points of large interest in the NHL this term.There&rsquo;s a strong parallel in the two clubs&rsquo; development that adds interest. Along the way, each has experienced some jolting losses as part of the growing-up process.The clubs were built through strong drafting plus a small number of trades to fill in the lineup holes.The Isles appeared to be ready for a huge run at the crown when they acquired 111 and 116 points in &rsquo;77-78 and &rsquo;78-79. But the team had crushing defeats by Toronto Maple Leafs (&rsquo;78) and New York Rangers (&rsquo;79).However, the Isles&rsquo; front office inspected their team and decided it was a lack of maturity, not a lack of talent, that led to those losses. A couple of lineup gaps were filled and the first of four was won in &rsquo;80.&ldquo;It certainly wasn&rsquo;t a lack of talent that cost us the series against the Islanders last spring,&rdquo; said Oiler honcho Glen Sather.<h2>Others There, Too</h2>TWO OTHER TEAMS were in almost identical spots to the Oilers over the past few years. Buffalo Sabres lost the final to Philadelphia Flyers in &rsquo;75, Minnesota North Stars to the Islanders in &rsquo;81, and those two teams had excellent young rosters. Both clubs fell back into the pack after their appearance in the final.Now, it&rsquo;s the Oilers&rsquo; turn to try to negotiate that last step.&ldquo;What people forget is that we made quite a few changes last season,&rdquo; Sather said. &ldquo;We added Randy Gregg and Don Jackson to our defense, Jaroslav Pouzar arrived from Czechoslovakia, Marc Habscheid was a rookie and Grant Fuhr (goalie) was coming off shoulder surgery.&ldquo;Our team has been together now for eight months and we still need time to develop.&rdquo;Sather now wants a general improvement in all areas of the Oilers&rsquo; play and will push harder for it.&ldquo;The one change I have in mind for the team this season is just a general tightening of the seams,&rdquo; Sather said.&ldquo;The club has grown up a lot and I can push harder for the discipline we need. We&rsquo;re looking for signs of increased maturity in our players. One area where we want to see that is in a drop in retaliation penalties. We want to see far less junior calls, the one where players lose their poise when they&rsquo;re fouled, hit back and they&rsquo;re the ones who get caught.&rdquo;<h2>No New Approach</h2>SATHER, OF COURSE, would like to see the Oilers cut down on their goals against but he doesn&rsquo;t plan any alterations to the team&rsquo;s attack-based approach.&ldquo;We won&rsquo;t cut down our goals to reduce goals against,&rdquo; Sather said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve based our team on a puck control game. We want our team to get it and move it.&rdquo;Sather has a simple explanation for the loss to the Islanders.&ldquo;We never were able to make the Islanders fall apart for a second,&rdquo; Sather said. &ldquo;We worked hard in that final to do it but there were no cracks, no doors we could get open to place a foot in, because they were so disciplined.&ldquo;Billy Smith was simply superb in goal. He gave us nothing and every time we had a little pressure on when a goal would have been a lift, he didn&rsquo;t allow us to get it.&rdquo;The unfortunate part of it all is that the Oilers and Islanders will meet only three times before any possible playoff hook-up. &#9632;

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HOCKEY VIEWPOINT

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0024-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01584/4810436-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Photo by Bruce Bennett)</figcaption></div>If the St. Louis Blues are going to be a Norris Division contender this season, and they&rsquo;re showing every sign that they are, then their fortunes rest on netminder Mike Liut&rsquo;s shoulders.So far this season, that&rsquo;s good news for the Blues, since Liut is off to a great start. For the week ending Oct. 16, Liut won all three games he started, 3-2 over Vancouver, 7-4 over Los Angeles and 6-5 over the New York Rangers, and earned HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; Player of the Week honors.In five games this season, Liut has a 4-1 record, a 3.20 goals-against average and an amazing save percentage of .890, displaying the quality goalkeeping that made him an all-star two seasons ago. &#9632;

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Player Of The Week

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-02389/4811168-1-eng-US/f0034-022.jpg" title="f0034-02" width="716" height="608"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-01479/4811175-1-eng-US/f0034-012.jpg" title="f0034-01" width="148" height="144"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>BOSTON BRUINS</h2><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-03292/4811161-1-eng-US/f0034-032.jpg" title="f0034-03" width="148" height="144"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>BUFFALO SABRES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-04200/4811154-1-eng-US/f0034-042.jpg" title="f0034-04" width="705" height="640"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-05155/4811147-1-eng-US/f0034-052.jpg" title="f0034-05" width="168" height="140"></div><h2>CALGARY FLAMES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-06129/4811140-1-eng-US/f0034-062.jpg" title="f0034-06" width="716" height="672"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-07119/4811133-1-eng-US/f0034-072.jpg" title="f0034-07" width="168" height="144"></div><h2>CHICAGO BLACK HAWKS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-08111/4811126-1-eng-US/f0034-082.jpg" title="f0034-08" width="708" height="644"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0999/4811119-1-eng-US/f0034-092.jpg" title="f0034-09" width="180" height="124"></div><h2>DETROIT RED WINGS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1096/4811112-1-eng-US/f0034-102.jpg" title="f0034-10" width="712" height="232"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1189/4811105-1-eng-US/f0034-112.jpg" title="f0034-11" width="706" height="413"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1286/4811098-1-eng-US/f0034-122.jpg" title="f0034-12" width="152" height="152"></div><h2>EDMONTON OILERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1377/4811091-1-eng-US/f0034-132.jpg" title="f0034-13" width="712" height="604"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1473/4811084-1-eng-US/f0034-142.jpg" title="f0034-14" width="152" height="139"></div><h2>HARTFORD WHALERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1570/4811077-1-eng-US/f0034-152.jpg" title="f0034-15" width="704" height="616"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1670/4811070-1-eng-US/f0034-162.jpg" title="f0034-16" width="212" height="128"></div><h2>LOS ANGELES KINGS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1764/4811063-1-eng-US/f0034-172.jpg" title="f0034-17" width="705" height="636"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1860/4811056-1-eng-US/f0034-182.jpg" title="f0034-18" width="162" height="135"></div><h2>MINNESOTA NORTH STARS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1957/4811049-1-eng-US/f0034-192.jpg" title="f0034-19" width="708" height="670"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-2049/4811042-1-eng-US/f0034-202.jpg" title="f0034-20" width="165" height="120"></div><h2>MONTREAL CANADIENS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-2141/4811035-1-eng-US/f0034-212.jpg" title="f0034-21" width="708" height="729"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-2237/4811028-1-eng-US/f0034-222.jpg" title="f0034-22" width="120" height="108"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>NEW JERSEY DEVILS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-2335/4811021-1-eng-US/f0034-232.jpg" title="f0034-23" width="705" height="702"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-2431/4811014-1-eng-US/f0034-242.jpg" title="f0034-24" width="162" height="156"></div><h2>NEW YORK ISLANDERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-2523/4811007-1-eng-US/f0034-252.jpg" title="f0034-25" width="702" height="609"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-2620/4811000-1-eng-US/f0034-262.jpg" title="f0034-26" width="141" height="135"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>NEW YORK RANGERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-2717/4810993-1-eng-US/f0034-272.jpg" title="f0034-27" width="705" height="672"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-2811/4810986-1-eng-US/f0034-282.jpg" title="f0034-28" width="171" height="120"></div><h2>PHILADELPHIA FLYERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-2910/4810979-1-eng-US/f0034-292.jpg" title="f0034-29" width="705" height="672"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-308/4810972-1-eng-US/f0034-302.jpg" title="f0034-30" width="162" height="141"></div><h2>PITTSBURGH PENGUINS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-315/4810965-1-eng-US/f0034-312.jpg" title="f0034-31" width="699" height="669"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-324/4810958-1-eng-US/f0034-322.jpg" title="f0034-32" width="144" height="138"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>QUEBEC NORDIQUES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-333/4810951-1-eng-US/f0034-332.jpg" title="f0034-33" width="699" height="669"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-34/4810944-1-eng-US/f0034-342.jpg" title="f0034-34" width="141" height="141"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>ST. LOUIS BLUES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-35/4810937-1-eng-US/f0034-352.jpg" title="f0034-35" width="702" height="666"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-01454/4810930-1-eng-US/f0035-012.jpg" title="f0035-01" width="116" height="177"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-02357/4810923-1-eng-US/f0035-022.jpg" title="f0035-02" width="652" height="616"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-03278/4810916-1-eng-US/f0035-032.jpg" title="f0035-03" width="76" height="128"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>VANCOUVER CANUCKS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-04229/4810909-1-eng-US/f0035-042.jpg" title="f0035-04" width="658" height="675"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-05184/4810902-1-eng-US/f0035-052.jpg" title="f0035-05" width="156" height="108"></div><h2>WASHINGTON CAPITALS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-06165/4810895-1-eng-US/f0035-062.jpg" title="f0035-06" width="664" height="676"></div><div class="container"><div class="figure-block image-float"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-07154/4810888-1-eng-US/f0035-072.jpg" title="f0035-07" width="112" height="140"></div></div><div style="clear: both;"></div><h2>WINNIPEG JETS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-08134/4810881-1-eng-US/f0035-082.jpg" title="f0035-08" width="680" height="576"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE SCORING

<h2>NHL</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-011184/4809446-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="550" height="1144"></div><h2>The Minors</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-02988/4809439-1-eng-US/f0002-022.jpg" title="f0002-02" width="531" height="165"></div><h2>The Amateurs</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-03732/4809432-1-eng-US/f0002-032.jpg" title="f0002-03" width="532" height="164"></div><h2>Columnists</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-04504/4809425-1-eng-US/f0002-042.jpg" title="f0002-04" width="536" height="225"></div><h2>Departments</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-05373/4809418-1-eng-US/f0002-052.jpg" title="f0002-05" width="540" height="691"></div><h2>Quote Of The Week</h2>&ldquo;The second period was the worst period I &lsquo;ve seen the team play since I got here. If I would have had a bag, I would have put it over my head. I think we have to make some changes. Some of them (his players) are playing like they&rsquo;ve never seen hockey before.&rdquo;&mdash;Cornwall Royal coach Jocelyn Guevremont, commenting on his team&rsquo;s performance in an overtime victory over the Oshawa Generals. Story on Page 31. &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY TIM MORIARTY</div>LONG ISLAND&mdash;The Islanders stood at the blueline and watched intently as captain Denis Potvin raised the team&rsquo;s fourth Stanley Cup championship banner to the ceiling of the Nassau Coliseum. You would think by this time it was a routine event for these men in their white sweaters with the blue and orange trim.&ldquo;Never,&rdquo; said Bob Nystrom. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s still a thrill.&rdquo;&ldquo;It makes me feel proud,&rdquo; said Wayne Merrick, &ldquo;because so much goes into winning the Cup.&rdquo;&ldquo;It reminds me of what it&rsquo;s all about,&rdquo; Bob Bourne said. &ldquo;During the summer that feeling might slip away, but seeing that banner go up makes the adrenaline flow again.&rdquo;&ldquo;Yeah,&rdquo; said Butch Goring. &ldquo;You get pumped up when the flag goes up.&rdquo;All the Islanders appeared pumped up as they launched the home portion of their 80-game schedule with a 5-2 victory over the Los Angeles Kings. Merrick, Clark Gillies and John Tonelli collected their first goals of the season and Bill Smith was close to mid-season form.&ldquo;I was pleased with our play,&rdquo; Islander coach Al Arbour said. &ldquo;We played better defense (the Isles had allowed 18 goals in winning two of their first three games) and Smitty was very sharp.&rdquo;However, one incident dampened things for Arbour and the Islanders. Mike Bossy suffered a pulled muscle in his right thigh while shooting off-balance in the second period. He was unable to play in the third period.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had a lot of pulled muscles, but never in that area,&rdquo; said Bossy, who totalled five goals and seven points in his first three games.The all-star right winger rested for two days, skated for 15 minutes on the third day, still felt some discomfort and missed the Islanders&rsquo; next game against the Flyers, which Philly won 5-1.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s still early in the season and we don&rsquo;t want to take any chances with Mike,&rdquo; Arbour said.The Islanders lost another important player when defenseman Ken Morrow developed fluid in both knees and was advised to rest for at least a week.Morrow had knee problems during last spring&rsquo;s playoffs and underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee. He made a remarkable recovery, missing only one game in the semi-finals against the Bruins and was a definite force in the Isles&rsquo; four-game sweep over the Oilers in the final round.Shortly after the opening of training camp, Morrow noticed a fluid buildup in the knees. He played in the Islanders&rsquo; first four games of the season, but appeared to be laboring slightly.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s gotten worse and the doctors suggested I rest for a while,&rdquo; he said after the game against the Kings.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-011203/4809515-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="945" height="1734"><figcaption class="caption-body">After getting off to a quick start with seven points in three games, Mike Bossy pulled a muscle in his thigh.</figcaption></div>Three other Islanders sat out the Isles&rsquo; early-season games with injuries. They were Billy Carroll (pulled groin muscle), Mats Hallin (sprained right knee) and Tomas Jonsson (broken bone in his left foot).The Islanders, reduced to five healthy defenseman, called up Darcy Regier from Indianapolis of the Central League. He was expected to remain with the Isles until Morrow and/or Jonsson return to action.Meanwhile, Arbour concluded part of his experimenting when he moved Tonelli back to left wing and Nystrom was shifted from left wing to his old right wing spot. They were reunited with Merrick on the old &ldquo;Banana Line,&rdquo; which originated because of the yellow jerseys they wear in practice.Tonelli had been centering for left winger Greg Gilbert and Gillies, who normally plays left wing but is continuing to play the right side. Butch Goring moved between Gilbert and Gillies and they were promptly dubbed &ldquo;The G Men.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02996/4809508-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="951" height="1734"><figcaption class="caption-body">Veteran center Butch Goring, above, is ecstatic about centering a line with Clark Gillies and Greg Gilbert.</figcaption></div>Goring, who appeared rejuvenated as he neared his 34th birthday, was thrilled with the move.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know how long we&rsquo;ll be together, but the line has a lot of potential,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Gillies gives us size and Gilbert gives us youth.&rdquo;And Butch Goring provides the spunk.ON THE ISLE&mdash;Gord Dineen, the promising, 21-year-old defenseman who was farmed out to Indianapolis, received belated honors when he was named winner of the Henry Saraceno Award as the outstanding rookie in the Isles&rsquo; training camp. The award, named for the late scout who discovered Islander superstar Mike Bossy, has gone to Duane Sutter (1979), Monty Trottier (1980), Jonsson (1981) and Gilbert (1982). It carries a $500.00 cash prize. &#9632;

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Thigh Injury Cuts Down Isles’ Bossy

<div class="byline">BY JOHN GILBERT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03660/4809546-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="537" height="745"><figcaption class="caption-body">Curt Giles was the Stars&rsquo; best player in their home-opening win against Calgary.</figcaption></div>BLOOMINGTON&mdash;As far as Bill Mahoney was concerned, the season for the Minnesota North Stars officially started in the second period of the Oct. 12th game.It was back home, at the friendly Met Center, and it was against Calgary. It was the first game at home for the Stars, who opened with an 0-2-1 road tour of the west.Calgary had taken a 2-1 lead after one period of the home opener at the Met Center, but suddenly, in the second period, things started to click. The North Stars were wheeling and dealing, moving efficiently and controlling the puck, clicking on their passes and setting up chance after chance.Five of those chances went into the Calgary net, while Don Edwards dived and flopped and tumbled in the crease, in a vain effort at stopping the sudden Minnesota surge.Strangely enough, Calgary came back to outscore the Stars 2-1 in the third period again, but Minnesota had broken through, winning 7-5 for its first victory under Mahoney&rsquo;s coaching.Curt Giles, undoubtedly noticing the effect of Craig Hartsburg&rsquo;s absence for a few weeks after arthroscopic knee surgery, did his usual job on defense, but chipped in a pair of goals for good measure and was the best man on the ice all night, Steve Payne had two goals and two assists and appeared to be more intense than ever before in his career, while playing with Neal Broten and Brian Bellows.The Stars went on to beat Winnipeg 2-1 behind brilliant goaltending by Don Beaupre in their second game at home and then played an inspired third period in Chicago, losing 4-3 but rallying from a 4-1 deficit in the third period. So the club was 2-0 at home, but 0-3-1 on the the road.Still, when the season is over, Mahoney will still look back at that second period against Calgary as the first indication, the first glimmer of hope, that all he is trying to accomplish with the North Stars has a chance of success after all.&ldquo;That second period was so rewarding,&rdquo; Mahoney said after the game. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been trying to get up-ice pressure and when we skate, we&rsquo;ve got an excellent chance of doing that. In the third period, we let up a little, but we haven&rsquo;t stressed things like protecting leads or how to avoid giving up momentum.&rdquo;What he has stressed has been team play, defensive play, and even though there had been positive signs for the future of his system, there was nothing like a little ol&rsquo; tangible evidence.&ldquo;Can you imagine what it&rsquo;s like,&rdquo; Mahoney asked, &ldquo;to go through the whole summer, thinking about what we&rsquo;d do, then go through training camp and have a mediocre exhibition season, and then start die season and go three games without a win?&ldquo;What this team has was unloaded in that second period. Brian Lawton got his first point and I&rsquo;m sure he was putting a little pressure on himself, but he made a major-league play on it. Giles is amazing for his size. He handles the puck and takes care of the zone and he added a couple goals tonight.&rdquo;There were others, but it was apparent that Mahoney could let loose a little ballast that has been accumulating within, waiting for just such a thing as that five-goal outburst.STAR NOTES&mdash;The players may not all be happy about it, but Mahoney has juggled five centers and four lines.Broten and Dennis Maruk have seen the most regular duty and have played well. George Ferguson has, in some games, worked his way ahead of Bobby Smith and Lawton because of his strong defensive play. In Chicago, Lawton appeared at wing on a line with Smith and scored his first NHL goal. The Stars trailed 3-0 at the time, but Lawton learned it was a cold, cruel world just 34 seconds after his goal cut it to 3-1. Lawton tried for a slick stickhandling move near his own goal, but Bill Gardner picked off the puck and snapped it past Beaupre for a 4-1 Chicago lead&hellip;Defenseman Craig Levie, acquired from Winnipeg in the Tim Young trade, scored a goal against Winnipeg in the 2-1 game, then came back the next night and got the goal that cut Chicago&rsquo;s margin to 4-3. Beaupre stopped 34 of 35 Winnipeg shots, as the Jets dominated the game and atoned for his presence in goal in the 10-9 loss at Vancouver a week earlier. &#9632;

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Mahoney Gets First Indication Of Success

<div class="byline">BY TOM HENSHAW</div>BOSTON&mdash;&rdquo;I guess you could say I&rsquo;m a survivor,&rdquo; said Doug Keans, the goaltender who has plied his trade in a half dozen cities, town and villages from Saginaw, MI, to Los Angeles, CA, in his first five years as a professional hockey player.&ldquo;This was a good break for me coming to Boston,&rdquo; said Keans, whom the Bruins picked up on waivers from Los Angeles. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a great team and a great hockey city. It&rsquo;s a contender. It&rsquo;s a new start for me and I wanted to have a good start, just to show them that I could play. I didn&rsquo;t want people to say, &lsquo;He can&rsquo;t play here. Let&rsquo;s get somebody else.&rdquo;&rsquo;The much-travelled, 25-year-old Keans did indeed get off to a good start in his first outing with his new team, stopping 26 of 27 shots in a 4-1 victory over the Hartford Whalers. His performance was solid, not sensational, but the Bruin defense played so well in front of him that he really didn&rsquo;t have to do anything out of the ordinary.&ldquo;We wanted to establish him as a good backup to Pete Peeters,&rdquo; said Mike Milbury, one of the defensemen who went out of his way to make things easier for him. &ldquo;I thought we played well defensively and he did, too. Pete played 62 games last year and it&rsquo;s crucial that Dougie play well as his backup.&rdquo;&ldquo;It he can play 25 games like that, then he&rsquo;s the man we&rsquo;re looking for,&rdquo; said coach Gerry Cheevers. &ldquo;He was very adequate and I&rsquo;d say very sharp. He handles the puck well. That&rsquo;s one of the reasons we got him&mdash;his ability to handle the puck. That&rsquo;s an asset that no goalie should be without.&rdquo;Keans, who played 56 games for Los Angeles in between trips to Saginaw, Binghamton. Oklahoma City, Houston and New Haven, was most impressed with the Bruin defense and the noise in Boston Garden.&ldquo;The Bruins concentrate a lot on defense, which is good for a goalie,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I got a lot of help from the defense, Jimmy Schoenfeld, Guy Lapointe, all the guys blocked shots. And when they do get a shot it&rsquo;s just one shot and it&rsquo;s gonna be cleared. It&rsquo;s so much easier to play goal when they&rsquo;re doing that.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s always great to know that you&rsquo;re not going to get the 40 to 45 shots a game, day in and day out. You just concentrate on making the one save and they&rsquo;ll clear the puck. You don&rsquo;t have to flop all over the ice and worry about making two or three saves.&ldquo;And I couldn&rsquo;t believe the noise that the fans were making. It was only the third game of the season. They rarely do that in the playoffs in L. A. But here their main job is going to the Stanley Cup. In L. A., they&rsquo;re more or less just trying to make the playoffs.&rdquo;Keans, who was the Kings&rsquo; sixth-round choice, 94th overall, in the 1978 amateur draft off the roster of the Oshawa Generals, is ready for his role as backup goalie, playing perhaps 25 games behind Peeters, the Vezina Trophy winner.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m used to it,&rdquo; said Keans. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been doing if for four years in L.A. You gotta work your way. Who knows, with injuries and everything, I may get to play a lot. You&rsquo;ve got to always be ready and be at the top of your game at all times.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s tough at times, playing a game and then taking a week or two off. It&rsquo;s more mental than physical. You gotta work hard in practice and use practice as game-like conditions. You have to bear down in practice and warmups, too. Sometimes we play three games in a row and you don&rsquo;t get many practices. So when you get in the net for warmup, you gotta bear down, too.&rdquo;Keans won the backup job with the Bruins after stem training camp competition from Marco Baron and Mike Moffat, last year&rsquo;s backups, and free agent Steve Baker. Keans figures the competition was good for him.&ldquo;It was a very tough camp.&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;There were four or five goalies. Even the young guys from juniors were playing well. You knew that if you had a bad game you may not be here. You couldn&rsquo;t afford to have a bad game at all.&rdquo;Keans played in six pre-season games, a total of 202 minutes, and allowed 12 goals for a 3.56 average. His statistics were not the best of the bunch. But Baron went to Moncton on loan, Moffat to Hershey and Baker was released.&ldquo;Baker, Keans and Moffat were close to being equal without someone standing out,&rdquo; said Cheevers. &ldquo;Doug can move the puck and that&rsquo;s a big asset. Baker can do that, too, but in his case he had to be a lot better. He didn&rsquo;t have a contract.&rdquo;WHAT&rsquo;S BRUIN&mdash;Peter McNab scored the 300th goal of his NHL career in the 4-1 victory over Hartford&hellip;Defenseman Mike O&rsquo;Connell missed the first three games of the season with a back ailment, ending his consecutive game streak at 309 regular-season contests. &#9632;

Keans Survives Battle Of Bruin Backups

<div class="byline">BY NEIL MILBERT</div>CHICAGO&mdash;Three&rsquo;s Company is a television sitcom, but the Black Hawks see no humor in their goaltending triangle situation.By National Hockey League standards, having Murray Bannerman, Tony Esposito and rookie Bob Janecyk on the roster constitutes a crowd. Only three other teams&mdash;New York Islanders, Philadephia and Winnipeg&mdash;are carrying three goalies.For Janecyk, it&rsquo;s a lonely crowd. The two-time American League all-star from suburban Chicago has yet to play and Hawk coach Orval Tessier envisions him being an observer for virtually all of the first month of the season.Bannerman is feeling the squeeze the least. After dividing the work with Esposito last season, he worked three of the Hawks&rsquo; first four games this year, defeating St. Louis and Vancouver and losing to the Blues.Esposito expressed his dissatisfaction with the arrangement after defeating Detroit 6-4 in his debut. He complained about being &ldquo;a little tired at the end&rdquo; and pointed out that he had &ldquo;played very little in the exhibition season&rdquo; when the Hawks were carrying a fourth goalie, rookie Warren Skorodenski.In the first week of the regular season, the Hawks worked out a loan arrangement with Minnesota and Skorodenski was sent to the North Stars&rsquo; Salt Lake City farm team in the Central League.&ldquo;If we just went by the exhibition season, by rights, Skorodenski should have been the one to stay because he was our best goalie,&rdquo; said Tessier. &ldquo;But there really wasn&rsquo;t that much difference between Skorodenski, Janecyk and Bannerman.&ldquo;Esposito was out (with a back injury) for a week and you have to give him the benefit of the doubt because of the way he played last year. He and Bannerman got this team to the Stanley Cup semifinals two years in a row so that should count for something.&ldquo;I told Pully (Hawk general manager Bob Pulford) that having three goalies here would cause headaches and it has. I know how they feel and I don&rsquo;t blame them.&ldquo;What Tony has to realize is that we had planned to play him more during the exhibitions but then he got hurt. That wasn&rsquo;t our fault. He got a little behind the others but I haven&rsquo;t seen him working after practice to try to catch up.&ldquo;We know Tony can still tend goal in the NHL. That&rsquo;s not the question.&rdquo;The question is: Can the 26-year-old Janecyk do a better job than the 40-year-old Esposito, whose career credentials are the kind you find in the Hall of Fame?If you take the Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; 10-8 shootout win over the Hawks in Toronto on Oct. 15 as an example, then Janecyk may be ready. Esposito had a poor game and the following night against the Minnesota North Stars in Chicago, Esposito was odd-man out as Bannerman started and Janecyk backed him up.&ldquo;I talked to Janecyk and explained where he&rsquo;s at,&rdquo; said Tessier. &ldquo;Goaltender is the toughest position for us to have an extra player. It would be different if we had one proven veteran and two outstanding rookies. Then, we could rotate the rookies. With us, it&rsquo;s the opposite.&ldquo;Pully and I agreed that Janecyk deserved to stay. He was an American League all-star with the championship team (New Brunswick in 1982), and again last year with a last-place team (Springfield). He might not be playing now, but his salary isn&rsquo;t the same as it would be in the American League.&ldquo;By keeping Janecyk we&rsquo;re rewarding him financially for what he has done for us in the minors. Because he&rsquo;s a Chicago boy, it also means something to him to be back in his hometown.&ldquo;The only good part of the situation is that if one of the veterans gets hurt, Janecyk is here, ready to step in immediately. It&rsquo;s the same if one of the veterans isn&rsquo;t playing well.&rdquo;If the veterans persist in playing well, sending Janecyk back to the minors also would pose a problem. Unlike last season, the Hawks have a co-sponsor&mdash;the Philadelphia Flyers&mdash;for their Springfield affiliate.The sharing arrangement means that there&rsquo;s room for only one Chicago goalie in Springfield and currently that&rsquo;s 21-year-old Jim Ralph, also considered an outstanding prospect. Rather than alter the farm team, the Hawks found a temporary slot for Skorodenski outside the organization.HAWK TALK &mdash; Winger Peter Marsh, the fastest man on the team, resumed practising Oct. 13th after being sidelined since Sept. 21 with a back injury&hellip;Similar to Janecyk, winger Denis Cyr and rookie center Ken Yaremchuk watched the first four games from the press box.<h2>Xmas Ad Directory</h2>Believe or not, Christmas is just around the comer. So as a service to our readers. THE HOCKEY NEWS presents this Christmas ad directory to help mail-order shoppers find just the right hockey-related Christmas gift or novelty for friends or family. Happy shopping.PAGE 2&mdash;THN YEARBOOKSPAGE 4&mdash;THN T-SHIRTSPAGE 12&mdash;SABRE SOUVENIRSPAGE 15&mdash;BOOKSHELFPAGE 19&mdash;WHALER SOUVENIRSPAGE 23&mdash;FLAME SOUVENIRSPAGE 28&mdash;NHL RECORD BOOKPAGE 29&mdash;NHL GUIDES &#9632;

Three’s A Crowd In Hawks’ Goal

<div class="byline">BY STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-011105/4809656-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="286" height="335"></div><h2>Dryden, The Author</h2>KEN DRYDEN THOUGHT playing goal was tough and he was right.But the Hall of Fame goaltender didn&rsquo;t know what tough was really all about until he tried playing author.After nine years of deftly avoiding decapitation in the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; net, Dryden hung up his fat pads and decided to write a fine book.&ldquo;I thought it would take a year,&rdquo; says the most scholarly hockey player since Myles J. Lane went from defense on the Rangers to justice on the the New York State Supreme Court. &ldquo;But I needed three years to write it.&rdquo;It would have been easier had Dryden fortified himself with a ghostwriter. Even The Great Gretzky needs a linemate or two. But Dryden chose to achieve his goal unassisted, so he wrote the book alone.&ldquo;At first,&rdquo; says Dryden, who speaks as softly as he played goal, &ldquo;I thought doing a book was just like writing a long article and I had done articles before. But it wasn&rsquo;t that way at all. I had to learn how to write a book while I was writing the book.&rdquo;For better or worse, the result is now available. It is called The Game.Despite the pain of typewriter pushing, Dryden says authoring has its pleasant moments.&ldquo;The parts I enjoyed most,&rdquo; he says, as always choosing his words very carefully, &ldquo;were those that turned out nicely&mdash;the sections on Rejean Houle and Bob Gainey (teammates on the Canadiens). I liked writing about them. But I had to go over the manuscript a few times when writing about others.&rdquo;I ask Dryden specifically if he nails anybody in the book. He feints like Gretzky, then juggles the question without naming names. This guy obviously didn&rsquo;t earn a law degree for nothing.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t come out and call anybody a coward. What I do is spend a page saying something about a person that tells the reader about him. No, I don&rsquo;t use quick labels.&rdquo;<h2>Omitted Media Chapter</h2>DRYDEN CLEARLY IS agitated over the subject of ridiculing a hockey player, any hockey player. He obviously loathes the aspects of hockey journalism where ridicule is employed. Without prodding, he confesses that he did, in fact, omit a chapter which he had originally planned to include in the book. The chapter was about the media and the intensity in his voice makes it clear that he is still concerned about the press.&ldquo;It (the chapter on the press) didn&rsquo;t end up in the book,&rdquo; he explains, &ldquo;because I could never get it right. Anyone who has been written about has many feelings. In many cases I had a lot of bitter feelings, but I couldn&rsquo;t put myself into the story in this chapter. And it disturbed me that I couldn&rsquo;t make the points I had wanted to make (about the media).&rdquo;Likewise, it bugs me that Dryden omitted this particular chapter, one that had considerable impact on him and would have been a choice chunk of meat for us readers to devour.I press him. Is there anyone in the book he doesn&rsquo;t like? Yes, but again the reply comes in waltz time, too sweet, too unrealistic.&ldquo;There were some guys I had a hard time with when I played and didn&rsquo;t care for an awful lot.&rdquo; Then, a pause, and just when it appears that he really will open up, Dryden slams the door shut. &ldquo;But there&rsquo;s no reason to feel that the reasons (that made me mad then) are there now. I&rsquo;m more interested in letting them go their own way.&rdquo;Dryden confesses that one personality with whom he had the most trouble, in terms of writing the book, was his former coach Scotty Bowman.&ldquo;I like Scotty, but he&rsquo;s such a complex character. That&rsquo;s why he was the hardest to write about. It was the longest profile in the book and I hope my feelings about him come through.&rdquo;Bowman conducted the Canadiens to four consecutive Stanly Cup championships beginning in 1976 and ending in 1979. Dryden was the goaltender each time. Ken retired after the fourth Cup win and the Canadiens haven&rsquo;t won peanuts since. This got me thinking. The Canadiens had an earlier Cup-winning streak. Five straight Cups from 1956 through 1960. Then, Maurice (Rocket) Richard retired and the Habs were wiped out in the playoffs the following spring. I mention that Dryden had been to Bowman&rsquo;s Canadiens what Richard had meant to the Montrealers of another era. Does Ken agree?<h2>Not A Modest Person</h2>&ldquo;I&rsquo;M NOT A modest person,&rdquo; Dryden replies, addressing the point, &ldquo;but there were a lot of reasons why the Canadiens lost in 1980. What happened was that the team had come to the end of a cycle. I wasn&rsquo;t the only one who left the club. Scotty was gone and so was Jacques Lemaire. It was a real rupture.&ldquo;Let&rsquo;s not forget that Lemaire was a wonderful player. They couldn&rsquo;t still win the Cup without replacing those kinds of people. In a sense, the Canadiens retired in 1979-80, unbeaten and another team came along.&rdquo;Other goalies came along as well, but Dryden was not forgotten either, although he packed his gear and appeared to be heading for a law practice. At least everyone thought he&rsquo;d be an attorney. After all, he once quit hockey to go to law school and he does have a law degree. But, no, now he&rsquo;s preparing to be a television commentator for the ABC network during the Olympics.&ldquo;Even after that,&rdquo; he asserts, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to be a lawyer. I&rsquo;ve got other interests&mdash;public affairs, those kind of things&mdash;but I don&rsquo;t want to be a lawyer.&rdquo;It is suggested that he would fit in neatly somewhere up in the NHL hierarchy but he nixes that. No hockey jobs for Dryden, although Ken suits up every Saturday morning and plays defense, of all things, in a local Toronto amateur league.&ldquo;I tried to play forward,&rdquo; he chuckles, &ldquo;but I found that after playing goal for so long, I had a certain defensive bias in my constitution that wouldn&rsquo;t disappear. Even during a Saturday morning game I find it&rsquo;s annoying when the other team comes down on a rush and we don&rsquo;t have anyone backchecking. The defensive side of the game is part of my personality.&rdquo;So, why not stay in goal?&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to play goal anymore because it isn&rsquo;t fun. I had played goal at a certain level for a long time and I don&rsquo;t want to play at a lesser level. The challenge isn&rsquo;t there nor is the enjoyment. What I like about defense is that I have the opportunity to get better at it.&rdquo;Dryden won&rsquo;t be playing defense for a while. Now that his book has hit the stands he&rsquo;ll hit the road on the grand but gruelling coast-to-coast tour. It&rsquo;s a grind that he views with some concern. He is asked whether he&rsquo;s prepared to answer the same questions over and over from Moncton to Montreal.&ldquo;I doubt it,&rdquo; he says. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not very patient in some situations and I don&rsquo;t know how well I&rsquo;ll handle this.&rdquo;Don (Grapes) Cherry, another author, handled it well. Dryden is reminded of Cherry&rsquo;s line once his book was published. Grapes said he felt as ecstatic as a mother who had just given birth.As for Ken, ecstatic, he is not. Dryden reacts to his first book the way he did to important victories, reflectively.&ldquo;I feel pretty good,&rdquo; he allows, &ldquo;but part of my nature is such that I&rsquo;m never completely satisfied. I wrote the book that I had set out to write, but actually the moment it felt best was not when it was published but when I finished the first draft.&ldquo;If people get something out of it, that&rsquo;s when I&rsquo;ll get my feeling from it.&rdquo;I haven&rsquo;t read The Game yet, but I expect I&rsquo;ll get something out of it, although hardly what I might have if Dryden had written that potentially incendiary chapter about the press.Too bad.<h2>About Legal Eagle</h2>WHAT I WOULDN&rsquo;T give to have a peek at the manuscript written by Sports Illustrated s John Papanek on Al Eagleson, head of the NHL Players Association and arguably the most powerful personality in hockey.In case you haven&rsquo;t heard, Papanek began researching the article last spring. Those who know The Eagle were looking forward to the profile with the brand of anticipation usually reserved for a 1985 Corvette or Ron Duguay&rsquo;s new girl friends.The reason for the baited breath is simple: When Sports Illustrated spends thousands of dollars on a major profile it doesn&rsquo;t fool around. If there were any warts&mdash;not to mention blackheads&mdash;on The Eagle you can bet SI would find them like nobody before.To unearth the alleged blemishes, SI would have to talk to The Eagle&rsquo;s natural enemies.And that they did. Bill Watters. Eagleson&rsquo;s former aide-tured-competitor, Bobby Orr, the man who put The Eagle on the map, Mike Milbury, who has led the anti-Eagleson crusade among the players, and others were among those grilled by SI about the man with unlimited hats.At first it was hinted that the article would make print during the summer. The revised thinking was that SI would hold it for its annual fall hockey preview: a natural.But it never appeared.The Eagle has gone to court over the piece. The assumption is that he doesn&rsquo;t want STs article to see the light of day. But The Eagle is up against a magazine owned by the Time-Life organization which is only intimidated by God. No way The Eagle could stop them from running the story. Or could he?That remains to be seen. At the moment The Eagle is flying but the SI piece isn&rsquo;t. Will it ever? The latest rumors say it won&rsquo;t but that will be decided by ST&rsquo;s lawyer conglomerate, a few editors, and the article itself.This much I can tell you: If the feature doesn&rsquo;t run I will be disappointed. Two dozen hockey agents will be crushed, the NHL high command will be tickled, and The Eagle will reign forever and ever and ever&hellip;Amen. &#9632;

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ON THE CONTRARY

<div class="byline">BY BOB FACHET</div>WASHINGTON&mdash;After a giddy exhibition campaign in which they played 10 National Hockey League opponents without losing, the Capitals entered the regular season with every expectation of getting off to a fast start.Great expectations, however, have turned to great disappointment.After their first five regular-season games, the Capitals were the only team in the league without a point.And for a team that was so serious about concentrating on defense, the Cans surrendered 26 goals.Conversely, the Caps&rsquo; offense is sputtering as both Mike Gartner and Bobby Carpenter arc off to slow starts with only one goal (Gartner) between them. Dave Christian, whom the Caps obtained for a first-round draft choice (Bobby Dollas) from Winnipeg Jets in the off-season, is goalless, too. Bengt Gustafsson is about the only exception to the crisis as he had three goals and two assists in the Caps&rsquo; five games.Perhaps the Caps&rsquo; most humiliating defeat came in game five in Washington against the hapless Pittsburgh Penguins, who entered the game with only a tie in four games. The Penguins, the worst team in the NHL last season, made the Capitals look like a powerhouse as they won 4-0.Denis Herron, the Penguin netminder who was in serious danger of losing his job to minor-league prospect Vince Tremblay, was handed his first start of the season and gave himself a temporary reprieve by stopping 29 shots for the shutout.The Penguins got the winning goal at first at 7:05 of the first period when Dave Hannan beat Cap goalie Pat Riggin on a penalty shot.Hannan was awarded the penalty shot after he scooped up a puck at his own blueline and was in alone on Riggin when Greg Theberge hauled the Pittsburgh player down from behind.Theberge had been an emergency recall from Hershey of the American Hockey League after Scott Stevens was forced to miss the game with a charleyhorse in a 4-3 loss to the Rangers the previous night.Injuries have been a source of aggravation for the Caps. Aside from Stevens, the talented, young rearguard who made a big impression in his rookie year last season, the Caps are missing Peter Andersson (tom knee ligaments) and Darren Veitch (stretched knee ligaments). Veitch seems to be injury prone as he played in only 10 games last season because of a series of hurts.To ease the injury crisis, the Caps consummated a minor-league transaction with Toronto. Lee Norwood was traded to the Leafs&rsquo; minor-league affiliate in St. Catharines for defenseman Dave Shand, who&rsquo;d been suspended for failing to report to the minors. Shand was immediately pressed into service against Buffalo. He added two assists in the loss to the Rangers. &#9632;

Cap Expectations Turn To Disappointment

<div class="byline">BY REYN DAVIS</div>WINNIPEG&mdash;It wasn&rsquo;t a pretty sight.In front of all the players, Bryan Maxwell threw a temper tantrum directed at the general manager of the Winnipeg Jets.Challenging John Ferguson is a mistake. Ferguson asked Maxwell to repeat his charges that the GM didn&rsquo;t have the courage to trade him.Ferguson went one notch further. He put the 28-year-old veteran on waivers without right of recall. For one dollar, any National Hockey League team could have the swashbuckling defenseman.What provoked this rare confrontation?In fairness to Maxwell, a meeting called by Ferguson seemed to he held purely for the purpose of embarrassing him.Ferguson reminded the players of eager folks in Sherbrooke who would gladly come to Winnipeg. He mentioned again his contention that 25 players made the Jets, not 20.He told the players that they should be expected to continue playing unless seriously hurt. When they are injured, he wanted to see them make an effort to stay in shape while they are out.The night before, Maxwell had left a game after the second period with a bruised shoulder. Then, the following morning, he had sat in the stands visiting with an agent while the team practised.When Ferguson raised the subject of less than tolerant players, Maxwell&rsquo;s ears were ringing.&ldquo;If you think I&rsquo;m kidding, then trade me,&rdquo; he challenged. Ferguson asked him to repeat the threat. Maxwell did and more.One member of the team who watched the confrontation said Maxwell got what he deserved, that anyone who would say the things he said could not expect to be around much longer.Giving up Maxwell wasn&rsquo;t easy or necessarily wise. He was the only defenseman on the team with more than five years of experience.Around the players, he was a popular figure. He was particularly close to Dale Hawerchuk, the team&rsquo;s top player. Anyone who would try to abuse Hawerchuk would evoke the wrath of Maxwell&mdash;as evidenced in the home opener when &lsquo;Maxie&rsquo; flew into a rage after Detroit defenseman Barry Melrose flicked his stick in Hawerchuk&rsquo;s face.&ldquo;Nobody touches the kid this season,&rdquo; said someone, echoing Maxwell&rsquo;s sentiments.Suffice to say, Hawerchuk does carry some weight on the team, as well he should. He wasn&rsquo;t particularly pleased last summer when Maxwell was given his release by the Jets.&ldquo;I remember Fergie telling me how impressed he was with my play last season,&rdquo; said Maxwell. &ldquo;It didn&rsquo;t seem to make much sense that they would release me after a good year.&rdquo;Ferguson was glad to hear from him, not his agent. In a matter of hours, they agreed to a &ldquo;one plus one&rdquo; contract.Ironically, Maxwell played a role in the Jets&rsquo; only goal in a 1-1 tie with the Calgary Flames in his last game.He sent Hawerchuk down the right side in the first period. His subsequent pass through the crease met Morris Lukowich perfectly. Lukowich lifted a backhand over Reggie Lemelin&rsquo;s left shoulder.Still, the Jets have not necessarily seen the last of Maxwell. If he is not picked up on waivers, Ferguson plans to assign him to Sherbrooke. And, from there, he could find his way back to Winnipeg again, though he and Ferguson will have to straighten out their differences first.To fill his spot on the roster, the Jets called up 24-year-old John Gibson, the surprise of training camp.Strong and feisty like Maxwell, he&rsquo;ll be expected to play a similiar role.What advice did coach Tom Watt give Gibson upon his arrival?&ldquo;Play just the way you did in the pre-season games,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Use the body, clear the front of the net and move the puck up quickly. If you do, you&rsquo;ll be around a long, long time.&rdquo;BENCH BITS &mdash; After giving up 14 goals in the first two games, the Jets summoned defenseman Don Spring from Sherbrooke and returned Bobby Dollas to Laval of the Quebec League. Spring had never been sent to the minors before and the team felt great relief that he had cleared waivers. His strong defensive play was a key factor in the Jets&rsquo; dominance of Calgary, despite the 1-1 score&hellip;Still carrying three goaltenders, Ed Staniowski was the only player left at home when the team headed out for three games&hellip;A hat trick by Scott Amiel was his first in the NHL as the Jets tied Detroit Red Wings 6-6 in the opener&hellip;Also conspicuous in his first week was center Laurie Boschman. &#9632;

Maxwell Pays Price For Caustic Comments

<div class="byline">BY BOB DONNELLY</div>QUEBEC CITY&mdash;In their first game with arch-vival Montreal, the Nordiques blew a 2-0 lead, completely lost their cool in the process and ended up on the wrong side of a 6-4 decision.Quebec coach Michel Bergeron has been consistently demanding an aggressive team, but at the same time, a team with some discipline. It was lack of discipline that led referee Ron Wicks to give the Nordiques three major penalties in the game against Montreal.Team captain Mario Marois was given his major for using his head as a weapon in a fight with Chris Nilan. Goalie Dan Bouchard got his for high sticking Mario Tremblay, and Michel Goulet got his for slashing. All three were major penalties and Montreal quickly turned a 2-0 deficit into a 4-2 lead.Bergeron also singled out Wilf Paiement in his post-game comments for taking a bad penalty at center ice, thus allowing Montreal to be on the scoreboard in the first place.&ldquo;We will certainly have to display more discipline on the ice,&rdquo; Bergeron said. &ldquo;All we did was let Montreal have a great practice of their power play. I have never seen three majors like that against one team in the same period in one hockey game and it made all the difference.&rdquo;The Nordiques beat the Canadians three times in pre-season games, but this was the real thing. The call against Goulet may have been questionable, but the others weren&rsquo;t. Marois admitted using his head in the fight, while Bouchard, after first blaming his incident on Tremblay, actually apologized the following day, realizing he was wrong.Paiement had no comment and Goulet was probably justified in complaining that Wicks had lost control in giving him a major for hitting someone&rsquo;s stick. He made a lot of noise, but did no damage.<blockquote class="pullQuote">Marois has been an easy target for opposing players trying to rile him.</blockquote>Marois has always been an easy target for opposing players trying to rile him and that makes him easy prey for someone wanting to get him out of an important match. When Bouchard loses his cool, he also loses his concentration, becoming a very ordinary netminder in the process.In some ways, the Nordiques are a marked team, especially in the eyes of some officials.Bergeron commented that Nilan had a job to do against Quebec and that he did it well, getting Marois out of the game and later Paiement into the penalty box when Quebec was attempting a comeback.&ldquo;We made some bad mistakes and killing the penalties exhausted my defensemen,&rdquo; said Bergeron. &ldquo;Add to that the fact that Marois, my best defenseman, was gone for the game and the result was that we had nothing left in third period.&rdquo;Bergeron spent four years turning Quebec into an aggressive, consistent, competitive team. Now he must make that same team play with a little more discipline if he wants to see them win more often than last year, especially on the road, where the Nordiques have had all kinds of trouble.NORDIC NOTES&mdash;Dale Hunter is taking a course in French&hellip;Bo Berglund, whom the Nordiques chose last overall in the 1983 entry draft, is playing well, with one goal and three assists in his first four games. &#9632;

Nords Lose Their Temper In Match With Canadiens

The International Hockey Weekly Founded in 1947Published by W.C.C. Publishing Ltd.85 Scarsdale Road, #100, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3B 2R2.<h2>Capturing The Game</h2>AS A RULE,, hockey is a sport that does not lend itself well to literature. Oh sure, there have been some entertaining and enlightening hockey books to come out over the years. But for some inexplicable reason, a sport such as baseball seems better suited to adapt to serious literature.In fact, with such writers as Roger Angell and Roger Kahn, baseball has taken on its own literary genre, a real slice of Americana, if you will.Well, thanks to Ken Dryden and his just-released book, The Game: A reflective and thought-provoking look at life in hockey, published by MacMillan of Canada, we finally have something we can call our own, something we can call the definitive hockey book. It is, if we may beg our American readers&rsquo; indulgence, a slice of pure Canadiana.Now, this space isn&rsquo;t usually reserved to plug some author&rsquo;s latest flight into fancy, but Dryden&rsquo;s masterpiece is well worth the read and deserving of attention in this space.And best of all, Dryden succeeds where so many before him have failed. He has taken the game of hockey and transmitted its heart and soul, the subtle nuances that only those who follow it avidly are aware of. Those who disdain our game claim there are no nuances. Ignorant of its charm and appeal, they are too willing to reduce it and simplify it as war on ice or some neanderthal ritual that is too difficult to follow or not worth the time to comprehend.Dryden&rsquo;s words and thoughts, which he manages to tie together so well, make hockey more than a one-dimensional sport. He is able to capture the mood and essence of the game, something we all feel but can rarely, if ever, put in words for the world to see.His literary work is more than his thoughts on his teammates&mdash;Bob Gainey, Rejean Houle, Mario Tremblay, Larry Robinson, Guy Lafleur and Steve Shutt, to name a few&mdash;or his coach&mdash;the dour but complex Scott Bowman&mdash;during the glory days of the Montreal Canadiens. It is an examination of the game itself, its place in our lives and how it is perceived and played by children to adults, from amateur to pro.Actually, it was with some surprise that we found the book as sensitive as it is. No one will argue that Dryden is one of most intellectual hockey players every to lace on a pair of skates. Some would argue that he is the most intelligent hockey player ever.Yet, he always gave the impression of being coldly analytical and before reading his memoirs, the thought occurred that maybe, just maybe, the book would come across as aloof and cool, unemotional and detached, which would have been tragic since we all know the game of hockey is none of these.Perhaps his greatest achievement in the book comes when he describes that moment as a typical youngster in suburban Toronto who forms an unbreakable bond with the game.&ldquo;I would stand alone in the middle of the yard,&rdquo; Dryden writes, &ldquo;a stick in my hands, a tennis ball in front of me, silent, still, then suddenly dash ahead, stickhandling furiously, dodging invisible obstacles for a shot on net. It was Maple Leaf Gardens filled to wild cheering capacity, a tie game, seconds remaining. I was Frank Mahovlich, or Gordie Howe, I was anyone I wanted to be, and the voice in my head was that of Leafs broadcaster Foster Hewitt&hellip;&ldquo;My arms and stick flew into the air, I screamed a scream inside my head, and collected my ball to do it again&mdash;many times, for many minutes, the hero of all my own games&hellip;&ldquo;It was here in the backyard we learned hockey. It was here we got close to it, we got inside it, and it got inside us. It was here that our inextricable bond with the game was made. Many years have now passed, the game has grown up and been complicated by things outside it, yet still the backyard remains&mdash;untouched, unchanged, my unseverable link to that time, and that game.&rdquo;Pure poetry, And what makes it even more virtuous is that he penned the entire manuscript himself. It took three years of hard work and strife, but the feelings and inflections are his, not some ghostwriter who, in this instance, would only serve to muddy a beautiful picture.Quite simply, Dryden, the best NHL goalie of his time, has produced a work of art that defines and represents our game, The Game. &#9632;

The Hockey News

<div class="byline">BY BOB McKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-011234/4809783-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="314" height="354"></div>For those of us who watched him play junior hockey, we feel relief more than surprise. We look at the National Hockey League goal-scoring standings and find him tied for the lead with Wayne Gretzky&mdash;eight goals apiece in their first six games&mdash;and it comforts us to know that we weren&rsquo;t duped. Yes, Tony Tanti can score goals in the NHL.This is not to say the 20-year-old Vancouver Canuck right winger, who shoots left, will rack up 90 and challenge Gretzky for the league lead in April. But it is to predict that Tony Tanti, a smallish, darting winger with a natural touch around the net, will emerge as the NHL&rsquo;s next great scorer, the kind of player whom you expect to get at least 40 goals each season.Of course, there&rsquo;s nothing like putting on the pressure. After all, the kid&rsquo;s just played a half-dozen games this season and that hardly qualifies him as the next Mike Bossy.But here&rsquo;s one vote that says he can handle the pressure. Here&rsquo;s one vote that says even after the opposition realizes he is a dangerous offensive threat and takes steps to cover him, grind him down and perhaps even intimidate him, he&rsquo;ll still do what he does best&mdash;score goals.Really, it should not come as any great surprise that he is doing so well. He was, of course, a 1981 first-round draft pick of the Chicago Black Hawks. And why not? In 1980-81, his rookie season with the Oshawa Generals, he scored 81 goals to eclipse the rookie record of 70, set by a skinny center from the Soo Greyhounds who needs no introduction.But if Tanti continues to score, you can be sure that he&rsquo;ll be tabbed as the surprise of the 1983-84 season. Feature stories will detail his mercurial rise in the Ontario Hockey League and his subsequent fall as he attempted to break into the NHL as a scoring star.And if the stories are accurate, you&rsquo;ll be told that Tony Tanti is a competitive, spirited, talented athlete who only needed some time to mature emotionally.You see, the funny thing about this game of ours is that it alters your perspective. It may be the only professional sport, thanks to the underage draft, that designates 20 and 21-year olds as seasoned veterans. Because some players have managed to become stars at 18&mdash;Dale Hawerchuk, Bob Carpenter and Ronnie Francis were first rounders the same year as Tanti&mdash;we tend to dismiss many of those who take a little longer before they&rsquo;re ready for that status.And that is the story of Tony Tanti.After his record-setting rookie season in the OHL, Tanti, the touted first rounder, arrived at the Hawks&rsquo; camp with what can best be desribed as inflated opinion of himself. One Black Hawk veteran was heard to say, &ldquo;If I wasn&rsquo;t so concerned with my own game at the time, I might have taken him (Tanti) aside, slapped him around a little and taught him the facts of life.&rdquo;Returned to junior, he had a solid season, scoring 62 goals between injuries. And then came last season, which is pivotal in explaining the apparent rise and fall and rise again of Tony Tanti.Last fall, he started in Canada&rsquo;s world junior team training camp, moved to the Generals&rsquo; camp and then the Black Hawks. He was returned to the Generals and played in Oshawa until Chicago called him up on the eve the world junior team&rsquo;s departure to the Soviet Union at Christmas. He scored a goal for the Hawks against the Toronto Maple Leafs and then packed his bags for Russia. He played for the world juniors, returned home and in what was supposed to be his first game back for the Generals, he heard on the radio that the Hawks had traded him to Vancouver for Curt Fraser. A day later, he was in Buffalo, playing for the Canucks and finishing out the season with them.Three different training camps. Four different teams. No wonder the 19-year-old showed little of his natural flair, scoring only eight goals and eights assists in 39 games.He soon became obscured by his mediocrity. There were those who said it was just another case of a junior with big numbers that just don&rsquo;t translate into NHL success. The trade of the immensely-popular Curt Fraser was questioned in Vancouver and the whispers said the Black Hawks, who were desperate for muscle, got the better of the deal.But Tanti, a fierce competitor whose cockiness seems to be aimed at compensating for the fact that he wasn&rsquo;t even supposed to make the OHL and has always had a legion of detractors, had a summer to relax. He had only one team and one training camp to worry about and that team needs goals more than anything else.And now Tanti&rsquo;s delivering for the Canucks. On top of his scoring expertise, he&rsquo;s a diligent worker, who isn&rsquo;t afraid to go in the comers or take a hit, despite the fact he&rsquo;s not too big&mdash;5-foot-9, 185 pounds.Tanti says he still hasn&rsquo;t been notified of the trade by the Black Hawks. Here&rsquo;s betting that in the years to come, Tanti makes the Hawks painfully aware of the deal. &#9632;

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

<h2>INSULT TO HOCKEY</h2>In response to your reader who called Billy Smith of the Islanders &ldquo;one of the most brilliant playoff goaltenders in the history of our sport&rdquo; and added that it is insulting to call him a &ldquo;money goaltender,&rdquo; I offer the following comment.After the final game of the Patrick Division finals this past season (between the Islanders and Rangers), a local sports reporter asked Mr. Smith about his reasoning for not participating in the traditional handshake that concludes each Stanley Cup playoff series (a tradition that was accurately coined by a HOCKEY NEWS writer as being the &ldquo;classiest tradition in all of sport.&rdquo;) Mr. Smith&rsquo;s reply was short and to the point: &ldquo;Why should I shake hands with guys who I&rsquo;ve been battling with for 60 minutes? I&rsquo;m in this for the money.&rdquo;It is for this reason that I wish to paraphrase the aforementioned writer by concluding that Mr. Smith is indeed a great insult to the sport that we all love and admire so much; the sport which Mr. Smith had made his living in for the past 15 years.Donald J. MinickStaten Island, NY<h2>MORE INCENTIVES</h2>All this talk about the regular season merely being a prelude to the playoffs is getting me down, however true it may be. But it is not too late to inject a solution that would reward the high finishers while keeping all teams active in the playoffs, as the owners prefer.Playoff berths should be granted to the first and second-place finishers in each division plus the teams with the four next-best records in each of the two conferences. The best team in the conference plays the worst team and so on. The winners of each conference meet in the Stanley Cup playoffs.Lou MachineBrooklyn, NY<h2>WE WANT A TEAM</h2>During the last weekend of September, the city of St. John&rsquo;s, Nfld., played host to the Sealer&rsquo;s Challenge Tournament, which featured four American Hockey League teams.The tournament constituted an important part of the team&rsquo;s pre-season exhibition schedule, as well as providing a testing ground for the success of an AHL franchise in St. John&rsquo;s.The tournament was a huge success. The fan support for the tournament was fantastic and the quality of the hockey made a great impression on the city. The city is hungry for a professional hockey franchise and hopefully, the next Sealer&rsquo;s Challenge will feature a team from St. John&rsquo;s, Nfld.Derrick F. SturgeSt. John&rsquo;s, Nfld. &#9632;

FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">BY JAY GREENBERG</div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Four hundred goals later, Bill Barber is just happy to be here. He said that for the 596th time last week, breaking Gordie Howe&rsquo;s and Ernie Bank&rsquo;s all-time records for both doing and saying the right things.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m very happy,&rdquo; said Barber. &ldquo;I have to give all the guys I&rsquo;ve played with credit. We&rsquo;ve had some great hockey players here and we have some now.&rdquo;He spotted a familiar cynical face with a notebook.&ldquo;Same old boring stuff, huh?&rdquo; Barber said, smiling.After 11 seasons, you wouldn&rsquo;t have it any other way. Barber still serves himself as vanilla but, by any flavor, this isn&rsquo;t the stuff you buy out of the supermarket freezer. Barber is the Haagen Das of hockey players, rich and smooth and sweet.He became the National Hockey League&rsquo;s 19th 400-goal scorer 40 seconds into a 6-1 Spectrum romp over Pittsburgh. Barber took Brad Marsh&rsquo;s breakaway pass, roared in on goalie Michel Dion and flipped in a backhander.Just as he&rsquo;s done for 11 seasons, it was direct and to the point. Pretty, but not pretentious. Eloquent, in an understated kind of way.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s more than most players have scored in practice,&rdquo; said coach Bob McCammon. &ldquo;And in Billy&rsquo;s case, an awful lot of them have been important goals. He should be very proud of what he&rsquo;s accomplished.&rdquo;Barber joined Marcel Dionne, Guy Lafleur, Gilbert Perreault and Darryl Sittler as an active member of the 400 club. This is heady company and, of course, Billy is just happy to be part of that, too.It was suggested that 400 was silver, but 500 where only eight greats currently rest, is the true gold. Barber said he&rsquo;ll be happy to pass that in three years, also.Arnie the Pig is wallowing in his latest glory like a porker in slop. He took last summer&rsquo;s trade rumors more seriously than he should have, but as remote as the possibility of getting No. 400 in an Edmonton uniform really was, it increased the satisfaction of getting it done here.&ldquo;I thought about that,&rdquo; Barber said. &ldquo;And it wouldn&rsquo;t have been as much fun.&rdquo;&ldquo;Considering that he probably would have scored it against us,&rdquo; Bobby Clarke said, &ldquo;I like it better this way.&rdquo;Truth is, the Flyers need Barber too much to entertain even the remotest thoughts of trading him in for a new model. There are a handful of sleek left-wing types in the league that may some day be as valuable, but none that can do as much for the 1983-84 Flyers.All that really transpired in the off season was an inquiry from Oiler GM Glen Sather. Sather knew Barber was coming off a bad year and that he and McCammon had exchanged harsh public words. If Sather made an offer, it would have had to be Mark Messier or Glen Anderson for the Flyers to be tempted.Despite what happened last year, Barber is still with the Flyers. He has too much left to be recyclable for any package of kids or draft choices.In other words, the trade never came close to happening. McCammon milked a little mileage by talking about it, for no other reason than to coax Barber&rsquo;s full return to form this year.This was, really, a waste or words. McCammon made a bad mistake last March by publicly wondering why it was taking the recuperative Barber so long to get his act together. Barber&rsquo;s track record suggested he was above reproach. And besides, he always has been better treated with sugar than vinegar.McCammon stopped short of a full apology, but he did again concede the circumstances that led to Barber&rsquo;s uncharacteristic 27-goal, 33-assist season.&ldquo;He wasn&rsquo;t playing well,&rdquo; said McCammon. &ldquo;When you look back on it there were reasons. Injuries (a broken jaw took 10 pounds that Barber never regained) and the captaincy thing (Bobby Clarke replaced Barber in January). I just felt at the time we didn&rsquo;t have much of a chance to do anything in the playoffs unless he came up big.&ldquo;It wasn&rsquo;t anything personal. I don&rsquo;t know where this personal thing got into it. I like the way a player plays. He had an off-year, I guess there were reasons. He showed a lot of pride and a lot of gumption coming to camp in terrific shape and a good frame of mind.&rdquo;While it&rsquo;s unlikely Barber will ever completely forget, he is, by nature, a sedentary type who would not allow one incident to poison his mind against one of his stated goals. And that is to play his entire career with one team.&ldquo;I also want to win another Stanley Cup,&rdquo; he said again. &ldquo;I had that thrill twice here, but it was very early in my career and I don&rsquo;t think I got a true appreciation for it. Another one would mean a lot to me.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have any grudges over what happened last year. Bobby Clarke should be captain of this team. He&rsquo;s our leader.&ldquo;Bob&rsquo;s my boss and if he wanted to say those things, I have to accept them. Maybe I did need to work a little harder.&ldquo;I lost some weight and some stamina, but what really did it for me was losing my confidence. I started to feel better physically at the end of last season, but I still couldn&rsquo;t get anything going.&rdquo;Barber took a number while waiting his induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame. There he will join a Rocket and a Golden Jet and a Big M, flashy company for a dull, efficient type whose nickname is Pig Bleep.Let&rsquo;s send this one to Toronto for size: William Charles Barber.Nickname, Pig Bleep.Scored 533 goals and 578 assists for the Philadelphia flyers, 1972-87. The best all-around left winger of his era and a major contributor on three Stanley Cup teams. Just happy to be there.ICEBERGS&mdash;The Flyers lost Paul Holmgren for three to four weeks with a knee sprain and Lindsay Carson for six to eight weeks with a broken arm, opening up dressing space for Ilkka Sinisalo and Mark Taylor. Sinisalo, who sat out the first three games with bruised ribs, scored two goals in a 4-3 victory over Winnipeg in his season&rsquo;s debut&hellip;After Pelle Lindbergh won the first four games, Bob McCammon started Bob Froese at the Nassau Coliseum. The Flyers&rsquo; 5-1 victory was their third in their last five visits (3-1-1) to the home of the Stanley Cup champions. &#9632;

It’s A Bore When Barber Reaches Milestone

<div class="byline">BY PERRY LEFKO</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0010-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-011262/4809862-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Bill Derlago was an important player for the Leafs as he scored two goals in the third period to send the game into overtime.</figcaption></div>TORONTO&mdash;Harold Ballard and King Clancy in tuxedos, the 48th Highlanders with their bagpipes, a standing-room only crowd in the press box, it could only mean one thing: the home opener for the Maple Leafs.This season&rsquo;s version at Maple Leaf Gardens was eagerly awaited as the Leafs had just come back from a western road trip in which they won only one of three games, but played their hearts out in the season-opening 5-4 loss to the Gretzky Oilers in Edmonton. By the time the home opener was over and the scoreboard indicated a 4-4 tie, the 16,242 fans who attended the game went home knowing they had witnessed a piece of history.But more on that later.After the Highlanders played a few ditties to warm up the crowd and former Toronto mayor Allan Lamport, the crusader who paved the way for Sunday sports in staid, old Toronto The Good, dropped the ceremonial first puck, it was time to play. Little did the Leaf patrons realize that the Leafs and Sabres would borrow a line from a song and decide to &ldquo;play just a little bit longer.&rdquo;But more on that later.The youthful Sabres, who finished the pre-season with only two wins in 10 games, came to Toronto with two wins in their first three regular-season games and were anxious to up the digit in the victory column. They were ready and so was the gentleman in the comer golds wearing the fedora, Punch Imlach, the erstwhile general manager of both clubs who was stationed in his pew with his wife, Dodo. Imlach has unofficially been absent from the Gardens since Ballard relieved him of his duties two seasons ago, but this was a game he just couldn&rsquo;t miss.Punch even got something to smile about, but more on that later.Before organist Phil LaPenna had a chance to get his fingers limbered up, he was upstaged by trumpeter Claude Scott, a wandering minstrel who covered every base in the building except Ballard&rsquo;s private box. Unfortunately, it was not the Leafs for whom the trumpet tolled first.The Sabres opened the scoring at 3:59 of the first period when Bill Hajt, the retired defenseman-turned-unretired, beat Leaf goalie Mike Palmateer with a wrist shot. It was Hajt&rsquo;s second goal of the season, which meant he was only one goal shy of matching last season&rsquo;s output.At 6:19 of the same period, Leaf captain Rick Vaive knotted the score at one with his third goal of the season. About eight minutes later, Vaive put the Leafs ahead 2-1. A perennial slow stater who has trouble finding his goal range, this No. 22 in blue and white seemed to be a Vaive imposter but nobody&mdash;least of all Leaf coach Mike Nykoluk&mdash;seemed to care.The Leafs directed only three shots at Sabre goalie Bob Sauve in the second period, while the Sabres, conversely, fired 14 shots at Mike Palmateer, three of which eluded him. Real Cloutier, the ex-Nordique, scored two, while Larry Playfair, a player with about the same marksmanship as Hajt, came out of the penalty box amid the banging of Mike Palmateer&rsquo;s errant stick warnings to his teammates and beat the Leaf goalie for a 4-2 lead.In the third period, Imlach got a two-pronged revenge. Bill Derlago, whom Imlach acquired along with Vaive from Vancouver for Tiger Williams and Jerry Butler in 1979-80, potted both goals to send the game into overtime. If Imlach still had any left over hostilities for both teams, Derlago&rsquo;s goals were the perfect catharsis.The Leafs did their best to prevent the game from going into overtime when winger Stewart Gavin clanged the post with only nine seconds remaining, but on a night when everything seemed just a little bit different, overtime was destined to be.Overtime should have meant more to the Sabres, who had never participated in a regular-season extra period in the history of their franchise, yet it was the Leafs who seemed bent on winning. The Leafs, who were playing in their first overtime game of the season, had four shots to the Sabres&rsquo; one.The Leafs played a gutsy game, similar to the effort they displayed in last season&rsquo;s playoff series with Minnesota. The Leafs lost that series, they tied the Sabres on this night and perhaps a replica of that effort in the future will end up as a victory. &#9632;

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Home Opener For Leafs Will Go Down In History

<div class="byline">BY JOE FALLS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02989/4809893-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="290" height="335"></div><h2>Remembering Roller Hockey</h2>I NEVER PLAYED a game of basketball in my life. Not in all the years of my youth did I so much as take a single shot at a basket anywhere&mdash;even at a hoop hanging from the side of somebody&rsquo;s garage. I was too busy playing hockey on roller skates. Roller hockey was my entire life&mdash;morning, noon and night for nine months of the year.In my neighborhood, which was in the borough of Queens in New York City, we would get on skates at the beginning of September and stay on them until the end of May. These were the most marvelous days of all. It was during World War Two and the skinny kid with the glasses played right defense for the Woodside Rangers. He wasn&rsquo;t the best player, but he worked hard and scored seven goals in the 1944-45 season when the Rangers won the YMCA title in Windmuller Park.He shovelled off the rink and chipped away at the ice so he could play the game he loved. He would skate all the way down to the Laurel Hill section of Queens so he could play under the lights of the bridge at night. He was consumed by the sport of roller hockey.Yet, as he grew older, he could not share any of these sentiments with anybody. He moved to Detroit and whoever heard of roller hockey in Detroit?That had to be some kind of sissy sport played by kids who couldn&rsquo;t do anything else. If you tried to explain that they did not have ice ponds where you lived, they would turn away, disinterested in your explanations. Roller hockey had to be for creeps.So now it was a warm night in Detroit a couple of weeks ago and this dark-haired guy is sitting in the press room at Joe Louis Arena and he is talking excitedly.<h2>Best Days Of My Life</h2>&ldquo;THEY WERE GREAT days&mdash;the best of all,&rdquo; he is saying. &ldquo;I never enjoyed anything more than playing roller hockey.&rdquo;Lou Vairo and I are going to get along just fine at the winter Olympics in Sarajevo.He is the coach of the U.S. hockey team and he came through our town to play a practice game against the Red Wings. And so there we are, two kids rattling about the old days. Lou Vairo did his playing in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn in the 1950s, where it was remarkable how his game was the same as my game in the 1940s.We used a role of friction tape as our puck. That&rsquo;s because it had a hole in it like a donut. That made it light enough so we were able to stickhandle along the pavement.&ldquo;We used friction tape, too,&rdquo; said Vairo.&ldquo;We had a problem because it was during the war and there was no tape around,&rdquo; I replied. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d go down to the basement and steal it from my uncle&rsquo;s work bench. Did he get mad at us.&rdquo;&ldquo;We&rsquo;d get our&rsquo;s from the Con-Ed Company,&rdquo; said Vairo. &ldquo;The guys would be working down in a manhole and we would yell down to them, &lsquo;Hey, got any tape down there?&rsquo; They&rsquo;d look up at us and say, &lsquo;Sure, here&mdash;catch!&rsquo; Up would come a role of friction tape, because they knew if they didn&rsquo;t give it to us then, they might come up out of the manhole later on and all the tape would be gone from their truck.&rdquo;Vairo played left wing, right wing, center and goalie for the Canarsie Rangers.&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t have any pads,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;What we&rsquo;d do is go down to the dump and search around in the garbage for an old chair or a sofa and pull the foam rubber padding from it. We didn&rsquo;t have any goalie gloves either. I&rsquo;d take my big square notebook from school and tape it to the back of my hand and that would be my blocker.<h2>The Freeze Rule</h2>&ldquo;YOU MUST UNDERSTAND that roller hockey is somewhat different from ice hockey. We had to play it in the streets and this presented a problem whenever any cars would come by. We used the &ldquo;freeze rule.&rdquo; No matter what was happening, whatever position you were in, you froze right on the spot whenever anyone yelled, &lsquo;Car!&rsquo; You didn&rsquo;t dare move, either, until the car passed. It was the rule of the streets and nobody ever violated it.We had to make our own nets. The skinny kid once saved up his money to buy wood from the lumber yard and constructed his own set of nets. He even painted them red. The only problem is that he measured the wood incorrectly and the nets were only 5-foot-6 wide&mdash;six inches short of regulation. It was the darkest day of his life when he discovered the error.&ldquo;We used to get our wood from the construction crews that used to work in our neighborhood,&rdquo; said Vairo. &ldquo;We&rsquo;d ask them if they had any extra boards and tell them we&rsquo;d give them protection if they would give them to us. &lsquo;Protection from what?&rsquo; they&rsquo;d ask us. We&rsquo;d tell them that, well, there were certain &lsquo;elements&rsquo; in the neighborhood and we would watch their equipment over night. They knew what we were talking about and sometimes they would even build the nets for us.&rdquo;The games were rough.&ldquo;Rough?&rdquo; said Vairo. &ldquo;They were like holy wars. I was 12 years old when I got started but that didn&rsquo;t make any difference. Age didn&rsquo;t matter. They&rsquo;d break your butt as quick as look at you. We played against big guys, older guys&mdash;cops, fireman, they all played&mdash;and they&rsquo;d send you home with blood on your clothes and dirt all over you. My mom would take one look at me and point at the bathroom. She wouldn&rsquo;t let me sit down to dinner until I took a bath. They were the greatest days of my life.&rdquo;Amen. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CORNER

<div class="byline">BY VARTAN KUPELIAN</div>DETROIT&mdash;It wasn&rsquo;t what the Red Wings had in mind for their home opener.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s one game I really wanted to win,&rdquo; said coach Nick Polano. &ldquo;We had 18,000 people here and I wanted them to go home with a good feeling. Unfortunatley, it didn&rsquo;t turn out that way.&rdquo;Owner Mike Hitch dolled up Joe Louis Arena for the 1983-84 opener and a record crowd (for an opener) of 18,956 showed up for the first live look at the new Red Wings. For 20 minutes, it wasn&rsquo;t a bad show. Then the New Jersey Devils scored four straight goals and goaltender Ron Low, a former Red Wing, made them stand up for a 6-3 victory over Detroit.This one was over after the first period when the Wings dominated the play but came up empty on the scoreboard, managing no better than a 1-1 deadlock.&ldquo;It always bothers a team when it gets that many scoring chances and doesn&rsquo;t capitalize,&rdquo; Polano said.&ldquo;When we didn&rsquo;t score we began to tighten up. New Jersey loosened up and seemed to believe it could win the game.&rdquo;<blockquote class="pullQuote">The Wings were serenaded throughout the third period by a chorus of boos.</blockquote>The Wings were serenaded throughout the third period by a chorus of boos. Just 90 minutes or so earlier, the club had been treated to a lengthy ovation during the pre-game inroductions. Incidentally, newcomer Ron Duguay drew the loudest cheers.&ldquo;Those of us who were here know the frustrations the fans are going through,&rdquo; Polano said. &ldquo;I can understand that, but I don&rsquo;t know if the young kids can.&rdquo;&ldquo;I just told them not to get down,&rdquo; he said.The Wing goal-scorers in the opener were Greg Smith, John Ogrodnick and Ed Johnstone. Rookie Steve Yzerman drew two assists.Eight players made their Detroit debuts as Red Wings: Duguay, Johnston, Ed Mio, Brad Park, Bob Manno, Barry Melrose and rookie draft choices Yzerman and Lane Lambert.Duguay can expect a lot of work this season. Polano has him killing penalties and working the power play in addition to his regular shift.&ldquo;I like work,&rdquo; Duguay said. &ldquo;That will get the best out of a player. I&rsquo;d love to get thrown out there every second shift.&rdquo;Added Duguay: &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got a lot of guys who have something to prove, that they&rsquo;re winners. There&rsquo;s a good, positive feeling. What you notice (in Detroit) is the feeling that the guys really get along. It&rsquo;s more of a family atmosphere.&ldquo;In New York, everything is so spread out. The married players live one place, the single players someplace else. I think the one thing I was missing in New York was the emotion, the closeness of the players.&rdquo;&ldquo;He&rsquo;s been super,&rdquo; Polano said of Duguay. &ldquo;You never know he&rsquo;s around and he gives 120 per cent every time he&rsquo;s on the ice, in games and in practice. I can&rsquo;t believe he&rsquo;s ever had a problem with a coach.&rdquo;Polano said the Wings must be more assertive in home games this season.&ldquo;We have to play with a lot of confidence.&rdquo; he said.But with the Wings unable to put the puck past Low in the opener, the confidence dwindled.Duguay missed two chances in the opening minute before Ogrodnick and Johnston hit the goalposts with shots.Kelly Kisio was finally robbed by Low to end that particular sequence.When Smith did finally score for the Wings, the Devils bounced back quickly with the equalizer. By the time the Wings scored again, on a goal by Ogrodnick, they were down 4-1.&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t give up five, six goals a game and expect to win,&rdquo; Smith said.WING NOTES&mdash;An over-zealous fan tossed an octopus onto the ice after Detroit&rsquo;s first goal of the season. Since the days of Gordie Howe, the octopus has meant playoff time for the Wings&hellip;Ilitch, who took over operation of the Joe Louis Arena midway through last season, saw to it that the facility was finally officially dedicated with ceremonies before the home opener. This one was attended by city dignitaries, including mayor Coleman Young and members of the family of Louis, the late heavyweight boxing champion from Detroit. Ilitch has spared no efforts fixing up the JLA. &ldquo;I want this to be the most beautiful arena in the country,&rdquo; he said. He was seeing it through, too&hellip;The Red Wing media guide is easily the best ever&hellip;Fans who attended the opener received Red Wing lapel pins&mdash;very nice ones, in fact. &#9632;

Former Red Wing Bedevils Detroit’s Debut

<div class="byline">BY DICK JOHNSTON</div>BUFFALO&mdash;Bill Hajt not only is back with the Buffalo Sabres, he has become an offensive threat.Hajt, it might be remembered, retired from hockey during the Sabres&rsquo; training camp this season. Then, unexpectedly, the lanky defenseman showed up at practice one day, shortly before the season opened and unretired.Hajt has been a mainstay of the Buffalo defense since coming up from Cincinnati of the American Hockey League in 1974. A defenseman&rsquo;s defenseman, that&rsquo;s him.But this year, Hajt made his presence felt offensively in two of the Sabres&rsquo; first four games. He started the scoring in a win over Washington and in a tie with Toronto.He had three points, on a goal and two assists, in the first four games. In conbast, he totalled only 15 points all last season and 11 in 1981-82.He gave Dave Andreychuk a pass that started the young center on his way to tie the score after Mike Gartner&rsquo;s goal put Washington ahead early in Buffalo&rsquo;s 5-2 home victory. Later in the game, Hajt&rsquo;s long shot was tipped in by Gil Perreault to tie the game at two.Against Toronto, in the Maple Leafs&rsquo; home opener, Hajt scored the first goal of the game in a 4-4 tie. He rushed up the right side to take a lead pass from Real Cloutier behind the defense, broke in alone, and beat goalie Mike Palmateer from about 20 feet out.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know,&rdquo; the 31-year-old defenseman shrugged, when asked about his new found offensive prowess, &ldquo;I guess I&rsquo;m just in the right place in the right time.&rdquo;While the Sabres weren&rsquo;t ecstatic about tying their first regular-season overtime game under the new rules, they were happy about the way their power play was working.They had three manpower advantages in the Toronto game and scored on two of them.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ll take that percentage any time,&rdquo; coach Scotty Bowman said, with a smile.Buffalo was 16th in the league in power-play percentage last season, so Bowman had reason to be pleased. That was one element of the game he knew his club had to improve.Toward that goal, Bowman acquired Cloutier in a bade with Quebec for Tony McKegney, Andre Savard and J.F. Sauve. The main thing Buffalo received in the bade was Quebec&rsquo;s first-round draft pick in 1983, but Cloutier figured to be a large part of the deal.Cloutier scored both Sabre power-play goals against Toronto, as well as setting up Hajt&rsquo;s score with the teams at even strength.The Sabres scored six power-play goals in their first four games. Cloutier had three of them and assisted on a fourth. After the Toronto game, he was the team&rsquo;s leading scorer with six points.While things were going well for Hajt and Cloutier, they weren&rsquo;t for Lindy Ruff.Ruff seems to have succeeded another aggressive big guy, Jim Schoenfeld, as the team&rsquo;s tough-luck target for injuries.The big left winger is on the sidelines until mid-November or later because of a broken bone in his right foot, suffered when he stopped a shot during the opening game against Hartford. He had just returned from a groin pull that kept him out of most pre-season games.Ruff was sidelined twice before for lengthy periods because of injuries in the foot area. After winning the club&rsquo;s rookie award in 1979-80, he missed 15 games the following season because of a broken ankle. He missed 14 games last season because of an ankle sprain and a broken bone in his hand. In 1981-82, Ruff played every game except one. In each of his other four seasons, he has missed games because of injury; 15 or more in each of three campaigns.Ruffs injury gave 23-year-old Chris Langevin a chance to play in the NHL. Langevin, whom the Sabres once signed as a free agent, was called up from Rochester of the American League to fill in on the left side. &#9632;

Hajt’s Suddenly Turning Into Offensive Gem

<div class="byline">BY RICK SADOWSKI</div>LOS ANGELES&mdash;It will be difficult for Marcel Dionne to top the evening of October 5.No matter how many more goals he scores, no matter how many more incredible passes he makes, no matter how many more games the Kings win&mdash;they began 0-4-1, the worst start in their 17 year history&mdash;the remarkable 32-year-old center will never forget the night he rocketed past Maurice Richard on the National Hockey League&rsquo;s all-time goals list.Dionne had been pointing to No. 545, the one which gave him sole possession of fifth place, all summer. Now a 13-year veteran, he had grown up in Drummondville&mdash;the heart of Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; country and, of course, the Rocket.It didn&rsquo;t take long for Dionne to get his goal, either, exactly 22 minutes and three seconds into the season opener against Minnesota at the Forum.And it didn&rsquo;t matter that only 8,852 had witnessed the historic goal, which came 2.03 into the second period on a two-on-one break with Charlie Simmer.Moments after depositing the puck past goalie Gilles Meloche, the usually-restrained Dionne pumped his arms then raised them in celebration as he skated by the net.His teammates and the crowd soon joined in. The standing ovation lasted four minutes.&ldquo;All summer I thought about it,&rdquo; Dionne said later, after scoring his 546th goal on a power play in a game that ended in a 3-3 overtime tie. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d been trying to create some motivation for myself and this certainly helped.&ldquo;Yes, this one means a lot to me. A guy like Gretzky will eventually pass everybody, but for now&hellip;I don&rsquo;t know what kind of play this is going to get here, but they&rsquo;ll be reading the papers in Quebec. It&rsquo;s going to mean a lot to them.&rdquo;Well, hockey in Los Angeles has always taken a back seat to baseball and football&mdash;especially in the fall when southern Californians are pre-occupied with the Dodgers and National League playoff matches&mdash;but the historic feat hardly went unnoticed.Even television sportscasters who normally refuse to find the time to give NHL scores, showed replays of the goal&mdash;Simmer skating down right wing with Dionne on the left and Minnesota defenseman Gordie Roberts in the center, then Simmer pushing the puck through the slot and Dionne banging it home to give the Kings a 2-1 lead.&ldquo;Catching the Rocket, this is very gratifying for me,&rdquo; Dionne said. &ldquo;I met him personally and he&rsquo;s the type of man you have to idolize. He went out and he played hard every night.&ldquo;I remember watching those old Stanley Cup films; you know, the black and white ones. It seemed like the camera was always focusing on one guy, on the Rocket.&rdquo;Next for Dionne is John Bucyk, fourth on the list with 556 goals. After him, only Bobby Hull (610), Phil Esposito (717) and Gordie Howe (801) have scored more.Howe is probably out of reach, but Dionne feels he may be able to catch Esposito and nail down second place before putting the finishing touches on his career.&ldquo;I think possibly I can catch Esposito,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Maybe if I can score a few more goals I can help us win a few more games.&rdquo;Collecting 50 goals and 100 points aren&rsquo;t priorities anymore, however. Dionne, a proud man, figures to do that again but he&rsquo;s more interested in helping this team make the playoffs, something he wasn&rsquo;t able to do a year ago despite his momumental effort.&ldquo;One hundred points doesn&rsquo;t mean anything,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If the team goes somewhere, that would make me happy. I&rsquo;m in a rebuilding situation again and it&rsquo;s very, very difficult.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to leave here, though. I love it here. I&rsquo;ve said that for five years and I wish people would get that into their heads. If they don&rsquo;t understand that by now&hellip;I just want to go out with dignity, that&rsquo;s all.&rdquo;KING NOTEBOOK&mdash;Just before Dave Lewis was traded by the Kings to Minnesota&mdash;which, in turn, dealt him to New Jersey&mdash;he said, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s known this organization lacks respect throughout the league. It&rsquo;s very difficult when they don&rsquo;t make you feel welcome or necessary&rdquo;&hellip;Veteran Mike Murphy retired and was named an assistant coach. His main duties will be scouting future opponents&hellip;Terry Ruskowski was named captain&hellip;The Kings lifted the suspension handed out to Dan Bonar, who stayed home rather than report to New Haven while his wife, Sharon, was having complications with her pregnancy. She gave birth to a healthy baby boy, following induced labor and Bonar joined the Nighthawks&hellip;Doug Smith has been switched from center to right wing. &#9632;

Rocket Down, Now Dionne Eyeing Bucyk

<div class="byline">BY STAN FISCHLER</div>The Flyers are running an ad campaign to try and inspire season-ticket sales. Ticket and newspaper ads feature Flyer captain Bobby Clarke pointing, with the accompanying slogan: &ldquo;The Flyers want you. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s all part of the strategy by the team&rsquo;s new president, 25-year-old Jay Snider, the son of Flyer chairman. Ed Snider. Jay, who has been the Flyers&rsquo; boss since spring, says his biggest challenge in his new job is to build a marketing program. In an interview with Toronto Globe and Mail hockey writer. Neil Campbell, Jay says, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s been a grind. It was like starting out with a new organization.&rdquo; Jay adds that because the Flyers had sellouts for 10 years, they didn&rsquo;t worry about a group-sales department and, unlike other organizations, the Flyers didn&rsquo;t set aside tickets for public sale. &ldquo;In effect, our ticket sales and marketing departments went dormant for a decade and we just sat back.&rdquo; Jay says the Flyers, who were eliminated in the opening round of the Patrick Division playoffs last season, had to make it to the final four just to break even.Bobby Orr was being pursued by a big Madison Avenue ad firm to star in a new Lite beer commercial. But the potentially lucrative deal was aborted when the outfit discovered that the Hall of Famer is tied up by rival Moosehead suds&hellip;North Star general manager Lou Nanne says he&rsquo;d like to shield rookie ace Brian Lawton from the limelight to ease the pressure but realizes that it would be impossible&hellip;Ruth Ornest, wife of St. Louis Blues&rsquo; saviour Harry Ornest, is putting her professional interior decorating skills to good use at St. Louis Arena. She&rsquo;s supervising the rejuvenation of the Blues&rsquo; home, which includes the addition of new suites, re-painting, etc. Her hubby was furious when he discovered that neither ketchup nor onions were being supplied with hot dogs. That problem has been remedied&hellip;Despite publicity to the contrary, Boston insiders report that the Bruin high command has treated Normand Leveille in a completely fair manner&hellip;Wayne Gretzky&rsquo;s aides are emphasizing Pro Stars, the new cereal he&rsquo;s endorsing, has no sugar added. The sweetener is a new additive without saccharine&hellip; The Bruins are winning the trendy &ldquo;quiche-and-chablis&rdquo; sporting crowd away from the rival Celtics. Season tickets for the Bruins have climbed over the 12,000 level. Bruin coach Gerry Cheevers equates the contributions of Mike Milbury and Terry O&rsquo;Reilly to that of Bobby Orr and Wayne Cashman in another era. &ldquo;Their leadership,&rdquo; says Cheevers, &ldquo;is as spiritual as it is physical, because their level of intensity is so high that the guys playing with them, especially the younger players, can&rsquo;t give half-hearted efforts&rdquo;&hellip;Eric Compton, the N.Y. Daily News&rsquo; excellent hockey writer, is moving to Newsday.The NHL missed a big p.r. coup when president Ronald Reagan greeted the 1984 U.S. Olympic team at the White House. The event obtained little ink because of short notice in announcing it. The White House claims it failed to communicate sooner because of security reasons&hellip;Bill Baker, who starred for the 1980 U.S. gold medalists, says the 1984 counterpart has been facing too rigorous a schedule. He figures they&rsquo;ll be overly fatigued by Olympic time&hellip;Buffalo Sabre rookie goalie Tom Barrasso has quickly developed a reputation as cocky, almost to the point of overbearing. Perhaps that is why the players on the U.S. Olympic team cheered when they were told Barrasso was turning pro with Buffalo&hellip;A feud to watch is between L.A. Kings&rsquo; George Maguire and ex-King Steve Bozek, now with the Flames. Maguire questions Bozek&rsquo;s heart and Bozek questions Maguire&rsquo;s ability to run an NHL team&hellip;Confirm or deny department: The Penguins may want to shop rookie Rich Sutter, especially after he not-so-quietly went to the minors&hellip;A few Swedish journalists took a dim view of the Rangers&rsquo; George McPhee and his &ldquo;yumpin&rsquo; yiminee&rdquo; routine in the dressing room while they were interviewing countryman Peter Sundstrom. Observers report that Sundstrom wasn&rsquo;t delighted with McPhee&rsquo;s Swedish imitation either&hellip; Mark Pavelich, an annual contender for the &ldquo;Worst Dressed&rdquo; title, stunned his fans recently by wearing a color co-ordinated outfit&hellip;A Montreal agent&rsquo;s evaluation of Flyer GM-coach Bob McCammon: &ldquo;He&rsquo;s honest and just as important, he returns phone calls&rdquo;&hellip;Former Olympian Rob McCanahan, demoted by the Rangers, may be Philadelphia-bound.New NHL communications director John Halligan will be helping with media and public relations. Both league p.r. directors will report to him. Halligan will be handling new areas of publicity, including amateur hockey and special events&hellip;Aware of the too-tedious, too-long Hall of Fame format, NHL prexy John Ziegler promises that the 1984 show will be tighter&hellip;Penguin goalie Michel Dion has a special deal with coach Lou Angotti: Dion can play as many games as he wants. &ldquo;If our defense is good,&rdquo; says Dion, &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll play as often as I can and it could be something like 60-65 games with no sweat. If the defense gives up the breakaways it gave up last season, playing that often will be much tougher&rdquo;&hellip;The Canadiens will add bronze busts of Hall of Famers Frank Mahovlich and Gump Worsley in The Forum&hellip;New York governor Mario Cuomo says he&rsquo;s considering state aid to rebuild Shea Stadium into a multi-sports complex that could accommodate hockey&hellip; A non-hockey p.r. type has the inside track for the vacancy as the Rangers&rsquo; publicist&hellip;The Penguins have brightened their newspaper ad campaign for 1983-84 with gorgeous females featured in the promotions and the slogan &ldquo;The Penguins 83-84 Perfect 10 Package.&rdquo; &#9632;

BLUELINES

<div class="byline">BY WALT MacPEEK</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0014-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-011217/4810020-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">The New Jersey Devils beat the Red Wings and one of the reasons was the play of Aaron Broten, who scored one goal.</figcaption></div>EAST RUTHERFORD&mdash;After a disappointing start, the New Jersey Devils had two occasions to smile as they completed the first week of the National Hockey League season.The Devils began Week One by having a trade for veteran right winger Grant Mulvey vetoed because of a waiver draft technicality and then wielded three shorthanded goals while losing their season-opener 6-2 to the New York Rangers.Things began looking a little better for the Devils on Oct. 6 when they were finally successful in acquiring Mulvey through a waiver transaction with Pittsburgh. but then they dropped their home opener 3-1 to the Rangers.On the way to Detroit, with five days off to follow before their next game, Devil general manager-coach Billy MacMillan admitted that earning a victory was. becoming &ldquo;very close to a necessity.&rdquo;The young Devils responded by spoiling the regular-season home debuts of ex-Rangers Ron Duguay, Eddie Mio and Eddie Johnstone at Joe Louis Arena. Outstanding goaltending by veteran Ron Low was the key to a 6-3 triumph over the Red Wings.After producing a minimum of offense in their losses to the Rangers, the Devils put on an impressive passing display to take the most of only 18 shots on goal in Detroit.&ldquo;The first victory is important, especially when you&rsquo;ve got seven rookies,&rdquo; a relieved MacMillan stressed. &ldquo;If you start off 0-3, then you run the risk of having some people get a little down and discouraged. This game gave everybody a lift.&ldquo;Low kept us alive for the first 30 minutes and then I thought we played pretty disciplined hockey over the last 30.&rdquo;Veteran Phil Russell tied a club record for defensemen by collecting a goal and three assists for four points in Detroit and left winger Jan Ludvig also notched a goal and three assists. Ludvig, a 22-year-old defector from Czechoslovakia, signed with the Devils as a free agent on Oct. 28th 1982, but his rookie season did not go smoothly.The solid 5-foot-10, 190-pounder collected seven goals and 10 assists in 51 games but was hampered by injuries and never seemed comfortable. He scored three goals during a nine-game stint with Wichita of the Central Hockey League but seemed to cut his NHL shooting too fine, banging his best scoring opportuniies off the goalposts.Ludvig spent the summer in Kamloops, B.C., working out with weights and playing tennis. He reported to camp in top shape and his early season play has showed it.&ldquo;I never worked so hard as I did last summer.&rdquo; Ludvig recalled. &ldquo;I want to do better; I know I can do better. Last year, I came late and I didn&rsquo;t know too much about this hockey.&rdquo;The soft-spoken Ludvig plays an unusually aggressive physical style for a European-born player and has earned the acceptance of his teammates. He also seems to be more at home, now that there are so many young players his own age on the club.The ages of the Devils&rsquo; goal scorers in the first victory of the season at Detroit had to be encouraging to MacMillan and assistant coach Marshall Johnston.Rookies John MacLean (18) and Pat Verbeek (19), second-year pros Jeff Larmer (20) and Ludvig (22) and third-year pro Aaron Broten (22) all scored.The Devils also ended an 0-for-18 power-play slump at Detroit when Ludvig made a slick pass across the slot to Verbeek for a scoring wrist shot.MacLean, the Devils&rsquo; first-round draft choice in 1983, finished off a Verbeek-to-Dave Cameron pass play by flipping in the rebound of Cameron&rsquo;s wrist shot at 15:48 of the second period for his first NHL goal.&ldquo;It was nice to get my first one in a win,&rdquo; MacLean observed. &ldquo;My folks came to New Jersey so they could watch the first two games and I didn&rsquo;t get one. At least they saw it on TV.&rdquo;HOT STUFF&mdash;Veteran defenseman Dave Lewis was a solid performer in each of the Devils&rsquo; first three games. Acquired Oct. 3 from Minnesota in exchange for left winger Brent Ashton, the 30-year-old Lewis adds enthusiasm as well as experience &hellip;Lewis joins Russell, Mel Bridgman and Mulvey to form an important group of veteran newcomers who weren&rsquo;t with the club a year ago. With holdover veterans Don Lever, Mike Kitchen and Bobby MacMillan all slowed by passing injuries, the new vets were especially, welcome&hellip;Low&rsquo;s victory at Detroit was his 13th NHL appearance. Obtained from Edmonton on Feb. 19 last season for Lindsay Middlebrook, Low played in 11 games (2-7-1) for the Devils last season, posting a 4.05 goals-against average&hellip;A year ago, the Devils were unbeaten (1-0-2) after three games&hellip;The Devils were apparently concerned that Mulvey would be claimed by Hartford in the Oct. 3 waiver draft and they made a hurried (and illegal) deal with Pittsburgh. Max McNab, the Devils&rsquo; vice-president of hockey operations, and MacMillan forgot the league rule which requires a club to wait one year before trading a player it picked up on waivers. After taking three players in the waiver draft, Hartford GM Emile Francis may have lost interest in adding Mulvey&rsquo;s substantial contract and passed two days later on the former 39-goal scorer with Chicago. &ldquo;This could be,&rdquo; a pleased MacMillan declared, &ldquo;one of the best mistakes we&rsquo;ve ever made.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Devil Players Are Smiling After Notching First Win

<div class="byline">BY RICHARD FRIEDMAN</div>NEW YORK&mdash;&ldquo;There are times you wish 17,000 people would take a mass jump off the Triborough Bridge and there are times you&rsquo;re glad they&rsquo;re there.&rdquo;Ranger defenseman Dave Maloney used those words late last season to describe the Madison Square Garden crowd. They&rsquo;re a unique breed of fans who make the Concorde supersonic jet sound like a low-pitched hum when the Rangers are &ldquo;on,&rdquo; but when the team is not playing well, the scene is somehow reminicscent of how things must have been in ancient Rome when the Christians were being fed to the lions.In mid-October, as the Rangers got off to their best start in the franchises&rsquo;s 58-year history, that crowd was, in the words of defenseman Tom Laidlaw, &ldquo;the loudest I&rsquo;ve heard for a regular-season game.&rdquo;That&rsquo;s loud, folks.What the Rangers had done in the closing minutes of their 4-3 victory over Washington&mdash;for a team record five straight victories at the start of the season&mdash;was hold off their surging opponents in the closing minutes of a thrilling game. Barry Beck, helmetless after experimenting with headgear during pre-season and the regular-season&rsquo;s first week, continued to clear out the slot in front of goaltender Steve Weeks. The Rangers&rsquo; play in their own zone was excellent early in the season, their transition game from defense to offense for the most part smooth and effective.They were making good plays in the offensive zone, Mark Pavelich scoring twice in the first period against the Capitals with precise lead passes from Mike Rogers and Willie Huber. And yet they played unevenly for the first 40 minutes against the Capitals before Anders Hedberg and Dave Maloney scored 1:24 apart midway through the third period for the Rangers to come from behind and beat Washington.By scoring the game winner, Maloney became the first returning Ranger in the first five games to score a game winner. The other four, all newcomers, were Peter Sundstrom, Mark Osborne, Pierre Larouche and Huber.Maloney scored with a shot he&rsquo;d repeated countless times in practice, a broken-stick slapshot. As his stick blade sailed high over the Garden ice, the puck slowly trickled towards Capital goalie Pat Riggin, past a handful of Rangers. The only trouble was Riggin&rsquo;s stick was hit by a Ranger as he went for Maloney&rsquo;s changeup, giving the Rangers their victory and ruining a night of spectacular saves, after Riggin had replaced Al Jensen following the first period.There was at least one person in the Garden that night who followed Maloney&rsquo;s shot with special interest.&ldquo;My golf pro was here,&rdquo; said Maloney. &ldquo;He&rsquo;d be proud of my chip shot.&rdquo;Trailing after the second period, Laidlaw recalled, the Rangers were aware that a victory would give them a 5-0 record and the teams&rsquo; best start ever.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re a good hockey team and we said let&rsquo;s not just go and give it our best, but let&rsquo;s go and win it,&rdquo; said Laidlaw, who explained that the Garden crowd can sometimes get a player too pumped up, especially a defensive defenseman such as himself, who must remain cool and calm in the team&rsquo;s defensive zone rather than rushing with the puck.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s great sitting on the bench,&rdquo; added Laidlaw, &ldquo;but I&rsquo;ve got to take a deep breath before I go out there. The crowd is great when they get things going but you have to keep everything in a proper perspective. You can definitely get carried away and I just tell myself to relax and do the job.&ldquo;Sometimes, you just want to start cheering at the national anthem but you can&rsquo;t let yourself go.&rdquo;Anders Hedberg has played for hometown fans in three countries and on two continents. How do the Garden fans rate?&ldquo;They can be very intimidating,&rdquo; says the Swedish veteran. &ldquo;These fans, especially compared to other fans around the league, add a lot of flair to the game.&rdquo;Does a seasoned professional such as Hedberg let the crowd affect him? You bet he does.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s always a pleasure to go into your own building and get a standing ovation going out on the ice,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a big thrill.&rdquo;Huber received a standing ovation for his first goal in the Garden, which gave the Rangers a 2-1 victory over the Kings, and made him recall what it was like to enter the Garden with the Red Wings in previous years.&ldquo;They can be pretty tough,&rdquo; Huber admitted. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve come in (with Detroit) and beaten the Rangers so I know what they can sound like. They expect so much from this team.&rdquo;For Huber, it&rsquo;s just fine to be on the receiving end when the crowd is encouraging the Rangers.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a great feeling hearing them chant &ldquo;DEE-FENSE, DEE-FENSE&rdquo; in the last minute like that.&rdquo; Huber said. &ldquo;It really charges you up.&rdquo;How much of a factor are the fans once the game starts?&ldquo;A big one,&rdquo; says Beck, &ldquo;especially in January and February when things get slow. When the fans are alive it sends electricity through the air and that gets you going.&rdquo; &#9632;

Rangers Get ‘Electrical’ Boost From Fans

<div class="byline">BY GLENN COLE</div>MONTREAL&mdash;There are two players in the National Hockey League who call Kidersley, Sask., home. One is Bob Bourne, who now owns four Stanley Cup rings as a member of the New York Islanders, and the other is Dave Lewis, who played with Bourne in New York and now toils in nearby New Jersey.Greg Paslawski would like to be No. 3 from Kindersley. The 22-year-old right winger is making a strong bid to join Regina native Doug Wickenheiser on the Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; 1983-84 season.Paslawski was a member of the Centennial Cup-winning Prince Albert team in 1981. During the regular season, Paslawski had 55 goals and 60 assists for the Tier Two club. He was signed as a free agent by the Canadiens in July of &rsquo;81 and assigned to the Canadiens&rsquo; American Hockey League farm club in Nova Scotia.&ldquo;I was surprised when the Canadiens signed me,&rdquo; Paslawski said. &ldquo;I thought I would play another year of junior and that would be it. I had a pretty good year in 1981 and we won the Centennial Cup and there were a few people from Montreal in Halifax for the Centennial Cup, including Claude Ruel. I was told I might be drafted and it never came about. A little while after the draft I was called by Montreal and told to come down for training camp.&rdquo;Paslawski&rsquo;s first year in Nova Scotia was riddled with injuries. He played in only 43 games, scoring 15 goals. The other part of the season was spent on the sidelines with a broken wrist.&ldquo;Asa result of my first year, I wanted to come back and show the organization I could still play,&rdquo; Paslawski recalled. &ldquo;I started out well last season and I wasn&rsquo;t sure whether I would be recalled by the Canadiens or not. They have a lot of good players up here and that makes it tough to get a job. You have to work hard to get a spot on the team.&rdquo;A 42-goal man during the regular season for the Voyageurs, Paslawski had a goal in the six playoff games of the Voyageurs.For the most part, Paslawski played alongside John Chabot, another Voyageur who has been given a promotion to the parent Canadiens.&ldquo;I played most of last year with John, he&rsquo;s a really good centerman,&rdquo; Paslawski said. &ldquo;I felt that by working together all year, we started to know where each other was on the ice.&rdquo;The Canadiens, who could use a little more size up front, could get some help from Paslawski, who stands a shade over 5-foot-11 and weighs 185 pounds. He has shown a willingness to go into the comers and do the necessary digging, which is something the Canadiens were criticized for not doing in their opening-round loss to the Buffalo Sabres in last season&rsquo;s Adams Division playoffs.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not sure how they work or how they decide things,&rdquo; Paslawski said. &ldquo;I just wanted to work hard in Nova Scotia and I thought this year, the Canadiens might give me a shot. They are giving me a chance now. Hopefully, I can work hard and stay with the team.&rdquo; &#9632;

Habs’ Paslawski Has Work Ethic

<div class="byline">BY DICK CHUBEY</div>Louisville Hockey<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01922/4810106-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="276" height="209"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02707/4810099-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="548" height="1082"><figcaption class="caption-body">Wayne Gretzky has been given the captaincy for the second time in his career.</figcaption></div>EDMONTON&mdash;The puff of white smoke seen rising from the Coliseum on the eve of the opener needn&rsquo;t be misconstrued as cause for alarm.Deep in the hallowed bowels of the 118th Ave. hockey cathedral, Pope Glen Sather was simply ordaining a new cardinal.A little soft Hammond organ music, please&hellip;To the many portfolios of Wayne Gretzky&mdash;Emmy nominee for most unlikely hitman; tennis and golf celebrity; and, between engagements, National Hockey League scoring ace and recordholder&mdash;add the captaincy of the Edmonton Oilers.The ceremony didn&rsquo;t exactly involve the pomp and pageantry of a corontation, but in these parts, where hockey is a religion, an appointment involving the game&rsquo;s Crown Prince is regarded as front-page news.Following practice, the day before the Oilers&rsquo; 5-4 opening-night win over the Toronto Maple Leafs, reporters were requested to vacate the locker room by Lee Fogolin in what was to be the veteran defenseman&rsquo;s final official act before handing the coveted &lsquo;C&rsquo; to Gretzky. The players were then informed of the decision, followed by summoning the press. Yes, it came as a suprise.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve talked about it with Glen for some time,&rdquo; said Fogolin of his two-year-plus term as team captain. &ldquo;Maybe little changes like this will help us win a Stanley Cup. Not that I&rsquo;m saying it would have made a heck of a lot of difference if we had won the Cup last spring. We probably would have still made the change.&ldquo;I certainly wasn&rsquo;t the captain for my statistics,&rdquo; added Fogolin, half-grinning, then shuddering due to his goalless string in 72 appearances in 1982-83. &ldquo;I was sick at times last year (stomach ailment) and there were probably games I played when I shouldn&rsquo;t have. I worked hard, leading by example and discipline. Wayne does so much on the ice, maybe his play will rub off on the guys. I can&rsquo;t think of a better person for the job.&rdquo;There are probably a few referees around the NHL who would dispute the theory. Gretzky has built a reputation of complaining excessively to officials.&ldquo;I holler enough, I won&rsquo;t have to add any holler to the position, that&rsquo;s for sure,&rdquo; grinned the 22-year-old of his license to beef. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s due to intensity.Now I guess I can even become more involved&hellip;and legally.&rdquo;At least in the eyes of the paying customer. Gretzky has been the Oilers&rsquo; silent alternate captain for most of his NHL career. Because the NHL hasn&rsquo;t permitted the wearing of an &lsquo;A&rsquo; for assistant captain the past few seasons, this fact has been published somewhat less often than his scoring exploits.The ceremonial appointment was simply a switching of roles.&ldquo;Some people may look at this as a demotion on my part, but that&rsquo;s not the case,&rdquo; said Fogolin, who remains as associate captain. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve played 10 years now and the most important thing is to win a Stanley Cup. I&rsquo;ve never felt better physically or emotionally. I know how tied up Wayne can be with other things, which is why I&rsquo;ll give him a hand.&rdquo;Sather described the sitution as &ldquo;like having two co-captains.&rdquo; With the Oilers, the captain&rsquo;s duties also include those of a social convener, a chore the family-oriented Fogolin may have shied away from.&ldquo;A change of direction might do us some good&mdash;give us a different point of view,&rdquo; said Sather, &ldquo;Fogie&rsquo;s a little older (28) and we&rsquo;ve got so many young guys on our team. Wayne&rsquo;s their age and could have a big influence on off-ice situations. Our philosophy is that we have mandatory functions (following home games) in the V.LP. lounge upstairs and we like to have our players together (socially) on the road.&rdquo;Roughly translated: When the captain vacates the speakeasy, the sheep should follow. And there isn&rsquo;t a player on the team who enjoys beauty sleep more than Gretzky. It&rsquo;s a wonder Sealy hasn&rsquo;t approached him to do a commercial.This is not to suggest Fogolin&rsquo;s days were numbered, but the captaincy could not be in more secure hands. For a long while, such was far from the case. Ron Chipperfield, the Oilers&rsquo; original NHL captain, was traded in March of 1980 with his mother on her deathbed in Winnipeg. His successor, Blair MacDonald, coming off a 46-goal season, was dealt away in March, 1981.Immediately following his linemate&rsquo;s exile, Gretzky wore the &lsquo;C&rsquo; for the first time. That night the Oilers were, oops, zapped 5-0 by the Islanders. Fogolin, with the exception of the eight games he missed last season, then took over.Until the holy ordainment, that is.In his inaugural start as captain, Gretzky scored a shorthanded goal and assisted on a power-play marker against the Leafs and was among the league leaders in scoring after the first week of play. &#9632;

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Captaincy Gives Gretzky License To Holler

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK MOODY</div>PITTSBURGH&mdash;When he was 20 years old, Greg Malone was drafted by the Penguins in the second round of the 1976 National Hockey League entry draft from Oshawa of the Ontario Hockey League The Chatham, N.B., native made the club straight from junior and never played a game in the minors.Malone eventually married a Pittsburgh girl and he was one of the few Penguin players who made his year-round home where he earned his living. He was about to begin his eighth season in Pittsburgh when he was traded to Hartford for a third-round draft choice in 1985.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s obvious since the start of training camp that Greg Malone was not going to make our hockey team with the emergence of young centers like Mitch Lamoureux and Dave Hannan,&rdquo; said Penguin general manager Eddie Johnston, who engineered the deal. &ldquo;We would have a difficult time clearing waivers on Greg to send him to Baltimore, and rather than take a chance on losing him, we found a team that needs a center and at the same time we were able to acquire a draft choice that we had given up last year.&rdquo;Pittsburgh traded its third-round pick in 1985 to Montreal to get goalie Denis Herron.Malone was fourth on the team&rsquo;s all-time list for goals (143), sixth in assists (221) and fifth in points (364) in 595 games in a Penguin uniform. He was Pittsburgh&rsquo;s third-leading scorer last season with 61 points on 17 goals and a club-high 44 assists.&ldquo;Greg Malone and his wife Diana have done a lot for this organization, and we thank them for their tireless contributions on and off the ice,&rdquo; Johnston said. &ldquo;But the time comes when a player starts to lose his value on the trade market, and before that happens to Greg we we had to make the deal for the future.&rdquo;Malone, who scored a goal in his first game as a Whaler, expected to be traded.<blockquote class="pullQuote">&lsquo;I knew it was coming&hellip;! could see I wasn&rsquo;t going to be anything more than the fourth or fifth center.&rsquo;</blockquote>&ldquo;I knew it was coming,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I went to Louie (coach Lou Angotti) and asked what his plans for me were. I could see I wasn&rsquo;t going to be anything more than the fourth or fifth center, so I wanted to know what the club really had in mind for me.&ldquo;Louie was honest and up front, and I appreciated it. He told me straight out that a couple of teams were interested in me, and that if a deal could be worked out I would be gone shortly.&rdquo;Malone&rsquo;s best season was 1978-79, when he scored 35 goals and 30 assists. He was having another good season the following year when he suffered a knee injury, one which many people believe still affects his play today.&ldquo;This is difficult for him,&rdquo; Angotti said. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t complain&mdash;he did everything I asked him to do. His attitude was excellent. I talked to him about it, and he said he could understand. We told him we weren&rsquo;t going to give him away for nothing. But he made it clear that if things didn&rsquo;t work out he wanted to stay. He wanted to stay very badly.&rdquo;Malone was a free agent before the season began, but he chose to take his contract dispute with the Penguins to arbitration rather than have his agent attempt to sign with another team.Ironically, Malone talked about being traded when he went to arbittation in September.&ldquo;They made me an offer and just sat on it,&rdquo; he said, referring to Penguin management. &ldquo;They never negotiated it. But I knew my best bet was to stay in Pittsburgh because I&rsquo;ve been here seven years going on eight. It&rsquo;s not only the organization but the city itself and the people. I&rsquo;ve more or less found a home.&ldquo;But I learned a long time ago you have no control over trades. There&rsquo;s no use losing any sleep over it.&rdquo;PENGUIN TRACKS&mdash; Lamoureux is wearing Malone&rsquo;s old No. 12 uniform. Hannan has switched to 19 from No. 32, which he wore last seaon&hellip;The Civic Arena corporation, the parent company of the Penguins, signed a cable television deal with Home Sports Entertainment to televise 40 Penguin games to Pittsburgh area subscribers. Of the telecasts, at least 75 per cent will be home games. Jim Forney will do play-by-play, Paul Steigerwald will provide color commentary and Mike Lange will be the intermission host. &#9632;

Malone Sorry To Be Leaving Penguins

<div class="byline">BY TONY GALLAGHER</div>VANCOUVER&mdash;Glen Sonmor apparently spent much of this summer telling his friend Harry Neale that the Vancouver Canucks wouldn&rsquo;t be able to send Cam Neely back to junior after training camp.Whether Sonmor had actually seen enough junior games to know for sure or he had access to a crystal ball, no one knows for sure. What is evident is that Sonmor certainly had some inside line on the Canucks&rsquo; rookie right winger.Neely has earned a spot on this club despite his tender age of 18. He&rsquo;s got all the tools, of course, just like every first-round draft choice does these days. But few are good enough to step right into the league and perform at anywhere near a high level. Neely certainly hasn&rsquo;t done that yet, but he has raised enough eyebrows to make the team, which is obviously one big hurdle to most of the youngsters at the outset.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to start the season with him and we&rsquo;re going to start him on wing,&rdquo; said Canuck coach Roger Neilson after the club&rsquo;s last exhibition game. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s done a great job in the pre-season. He seems strong enough to handle himself along the boards and often juniors really have trouble in their own zone and Cam still does have some trouble. But overall we&rsquo;re very happy with his play.&rdquo;If there was one incident that earned Neely a spot on the team it happened against Calgary, when he ended up more or less decking Lanny McDonald with a left hand during a brief fight. The victory was sufficiently decisive to bring Ed Beers in as a third man, for which the Calgary forward was ejected.&ldquo;I hit him earlier and I guess he didn&rsquo;t like it too much so he gave me a high stick in the comer,&rdquo; said Neely. &ldquo;He came over to me and said a few choice words. I thought he was going to hit me so I thought it was better to hit him first.&rdquo;Neely, a hometown boy from Maple Ridge, is becoming a favorite of the Vancouver fans. They like his attitude and as Canuck trainer Larry Ashley said about halfway through the exhibition schedule: &ldquo;He (Neely) might as well buy a house.&rdquo;Another surprise member of the club turns out to be Jere Gillis, who wandered into the training-camp looking like a lost soul.While the coaches were probably hoping Moe Lemay would come on enough to avoid a trip to their American League farm team in Fredericton, Gillis kept showing that he was a superior winger, particularly when he was on a line with Pattik Sundstrom and Tony Tanti.As for Tanti, the high-scoring junior sensation with Oshawa Generals whom the Canucks acquired from Chicago last season for Curt Fraser, he&rsquo;s off to an excellent start. Tanti had three goals and five assists after the first week of play, while linemate Sundstrom had three goals and four assists. Gradin had two goals an four assists, while Kevin McCarthy, who&rsquo;s playing worry-free this season after a dispute last season over the team&rsquo;s captaincy, had six assists.The Canucks, meanwhile, sent three other players to the American League along with Lemay. Defensemen Andy Schliebener and Neil Belland were outstanding during training camp, particularly the former, but the Canucks were loaded with rearguards. Right winger Stu Kulak was also sent to Fredericton. Michel Petit, a defenseman who was playing up front, has joined the Canadian Olympic team, along with goalie Wendell Young. Young was already cut once, but general manager-coach Dave King decided he may have made a mistake and brought him back for another try. &#9632;

Canucks Happy With Play Of Rookie Neely

<div class="byline">BY RANDY SMITH</div>HARTFORD&mdash;Of the 18 skaters that the Hartford Whalers dressed in their regular-season opener, 11 had never played for the team before. Just three, including rookie Sylvain Turgeon, who was making his first pro appearance, were drafted by the Hartford organization.Well, why not? With Emile Francis in the bike, the Whalers figured to run their race around the National Hockey League track a bit differently.&ldquo;When I got here, I said that we&rsquo;d bring in some new faces and we have,&rdquo; Francis said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve brought in some honest hockey players.&rdquo;Francis believes in competition for jobs, a sort of never-ending competition with a heavy emphasis on enthusiasm and work and a minimal amount on security.&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t make a million changes,&rdquo; said Francis, the club&rsquo;s president-general manager, &ldquo;but nobody&rsquo;s going to get fat around here. We&rsquo;ll work at it. I can promise you that.&rdquo;Included on the opening-night roster were such new faces as defensemen Richie Dunn, Marty Howe and Joel Quenneville; wingers Turgeon, Steve Stoyanovich, Normand Dupont, Bob Crawford, Torrie Robertson and Mike Crombeen; centers Greg Malone and Mike Zuke.&ldquo;We had to wear name tags at practice,&rdquo; Blaine Stoughton said.Dunn, Howe, Malone and Zuke provide experience, while Robertson is a banger. Crombeen is something of a specialist, a hard-skating penalty killer who previously teamed with Zuke in St. Louis. Dupont, Stoyanovich and Crawford are considered offensive threats, while Quenneville has been called upon to strengthen the blueline, which was porous a year ago.Turgeon, meanwhile, could be any sort. Drafted second overall in the June entry draft, he possesses outstanding speed and appears to have the tools required to become an excellent overall player.&ldquo;The thing we mustn&rsquo;t do is rush young Turgeon,&rdquo; coach Jack Evans said. &ldquo;We must practice patience. It&rsquo;s obvious that he doesn&rsquo;t know all the tricks yet, but he&rsquo;ll learn.&rdquo;The Whalers, who dropped their opener, enjoyed something of a magical night in their home starter, a 4-3 win over the Boston Bruins. Spurred on by a crowd of more than 14,000, the largest opening-night crowd in the team&rsquo;s five-year NHL history, the Whalers rode a two-goal night by Crawford, a 24-year-old right winger who&rsquo;s got some dash, and the down-the-stretch goaltending of Greg Millen.&ldquo;The crowd really got into it,&rdquo; Evans said. &ldquo;All the cheering and the thunderous ovations, they all help. It was a great way to start at home. I loved it.&rdquo;The Whalers dropped a 4-1 verdict the next night in Boston, but didn&rsquo;t disappear after falling behind 3-0 after 10 minutes.&ldquo;We earned some respect this weekend,&rdquo; said defenseman Chris Kotsopoulos who, despite a holdout over contractual differences, was ready when the bell rang. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re going to be all right.&rdquo;The overall attitude of the Whalers is different from previous years and that development is directly attributable to the Francis-Evans connection. If seriousness of purpose was the sole gauge of where a team might finish in the standings, the Whalers would avoid the Adams Division cellar.&ldquo;You&rsquo;ve got to give the guys the credit,&rdquo; Evans said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;ve been enthusiastic since the start of camp and the attitude has been excellent. If we play like we did in the first three, we&rsquo;re going to put some points on the board this year.&rdquo;He then uttered the catch-phrase for the 1983-84 campaign:&ldquo;We&rsquo;ll work at it.&rdquo;WHALER SCUTTLEBUTT&mdash;Winger Doug Sulliman made one of the more memorable one-game comebacks in league history. Sulliman was exposed in the waiver draft and went unclaimed&mdash;a guaranteed four-year contract scared off most teams&mdash;and two days later, didn&rsquo;t dress for the opener. In his first start three days later at home against the Bruins, he scored the game&rsquo;s first goal and was used extensively as a checker against Rick Middleton. &ldquo;I&rsquo;d rather have that goal than a wheelbarrow with a $1,000 in it,&rdquo; he said&hellip;Francis is awaiting word on Fred Arthur, a defenseman who was returned to the Whalers from Philadelphia for a 1984 third-round draft pick. Arthur, who is attending the University of Western Ontario in London as a medical student, is likely to sign with the Whalers and begin his comeback in Binghamton, the team&rsquo;s American Hockey League affiliate. At 22, Arthur still possesses plenty of potential&hellip;Ross Yates, the AHL&rsquo;s leading scorer a year ago, is back again in Binghamton after missing most of training camp because of a mysterious spot that appeared on an X-ray. However, Yates received a clean bill of health after some anxious moments&hellip;Mark Johnson was the surprise choice as captain after Dunn had worn the &lsquo;C&rsquo; in five of eight pre-season games. &ldquo;When they called me in, that was the last thing I expected,&rdquo; Johnson said. Dunn, meanwhile, will serve as assistant captain&hellip;Francis has issued the no-beard rule&hellip;Evans indicated that he would alternate Millen and Mike Veisor in net for a while.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0019-01870/4810185-1-eng-US/f0019-012.jpg" title="f0019-01" width="551" height="736"><figcaption class="caption-body">Mark Johnson was surprised when he was called in and given the team&rsquo;s captaincy.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Whalers To Trim Some Of The Fat

<div class="byline">BY RON COBB</div>ST. LOUIS&mdash;Please make the following change in your programs: Now wearing No. 61 for the St. Louis Blues&hellip;Pat Hickey.Hickey says he&rsquo;s not superstitious, but&hellip;maybe just a little.Hickey&rsquo;s favorite number is 16, which he wore for four years with the New York Rangers&mdash;his best season in a 10-year pro career.After he left the Rangers early in the 1979-80 season, he wore No. 16 briefly for the Toronto Maple Leafs, but by that time the number had lost its potency.When Hickey was traded back to the Rangers early in the 1981-82 season, No. 16 was taken, so he wore 26. When he was fraded to the Blues a year later, No. 16 was being worn by defenseman Jack Brownschidle.After spending the 1982-83 season with the Blues&rsquo; Central Hockey League affiliate in Salt Lake City, Hickey reported to training camp in September wearing No. 33. It wasn&rsquo;t until the Blues returned to St. Louis for their first home exhibition game that Hickey skated onto the ice with No. 61.At 30, Hickey figured that turning around his favorite number might help him turn around his career.&ldquo;A lot of guys around the league are doing it,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I was going to ask for 116, but that would be the first triple number in the league and I don&rsquo;t think they&rsquo;d go for it.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t mean to make superstition over it&hellip;I&rsquo;m not that superstitious, but once I get into the locker room I&rsquo;m as superstitious as the next guy. So far it seems to have worked.&rdquo;A betting man wouldn&rsquo;t have wagered a lot on Hickey wearing a Blues&rsquo; uniform this season&mdash;after all, he was 29 and had played in the minors last season&mdash;but a month after training camp, he was still with the Blues and playing a key role as they opened the season with four victories in their first five games. Hickey scored the winning goal in a 4-1 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks, but more than that, he was being lauded for his work on a penalty-killing unit that shut down the power plays of the Hawks and the Vancouver Canucks, whom the Blues beat 3-2. The Canucks entered the game nine for 19, but the Blues held the Canucks goalless in six power-play tries.&ldquo;I think I can still do a job in this league,&rdquo; said Hickey. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think I got an opportunity to do that last year. It wasn&rsquo;t that long ago that I did a pretty good job for some clubs in the NHL.&ldquo;I can still move with the best of them and I think I can help this squad out in several departments. I&rsquo;ve been basically a utility man&mdash;I&rsquo;ve been a goal-scorer and a penalty killer and I&rsquo;ve played on the power play and the checking line.&ldquo;I think another value I have is that I can play all three positions&mdash;left wing, right wing and center.&rdquo;Hickey, who had 40 goals and 73 points in 1977-78 and 34 goals and 75 points the next season, is being counted on mainly to fill voids on the Blues&rsquo; checking line and penalty-killing units. Larry Patey, the Blues&rsquo; best penalty killer, is sidelined because of back surgery and checking forwards Mike Zuke and Mike Crombeen were lost to Hartford in the waiver draft.A season in the minors, Hickey said, turned out to be an incentive.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m glad to be here and I&rsquo;ll do anything I can to contribute,&rdquo; Hickey said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve played in this league a long time and I love my job. I don&rsquo;t want anyone to take it away from me.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to do it a few more years. A lot of older hockey players say, for some reason, that these days 30 is kind of old. I hope I&rsquo;m one of those guys who show them 30 is not old.&rdquo; &#9632;

Hickey Playing Numbers Game

<div class="byline">BY ERIC DUHATSCHEK</div>Some players thought the Olympic Saddledome world add a new dimension in professionalism.Others are sorry to see the end of the 6,492-seat Stampede Corral era.Then there&rsquo;s Don Edwards. He falls into both categories.Edwards, the Calgary Flames&rsquo; goaltender, thought the move from the Corral to the Saddledome would do nothing less than help him get his National Hockey League career back on track. Edwards, acquired by the Flames after six excellent years with the Buffalo Sabres, had a bad first year in Calgary, partly because of his difficulty in adapting to the unorthodox Corral.&ldquo;Its a nice old building and all,&rdquo; said Edwards, &ldquo;but it was dark. I could never see properly, plus the high boards made it difficult to play the angles. I can&rsquo;t wait to get into the Saddledome. It&rsquo;s so bright. I think it will really help my game.&rdquo;Edwards&rsquo; sentiments were partly echoed by his teammates. Only three players on the current roster were with the Flames for the team&rsquo;s original NHL debut in Calgary&mdash;center Jim Peplinskl, defenseman Paul Reinhart and right winger Kent Nilsson.Jamie Hislop was there, too, but as a member of the visiting Quebec Nordiques.The Flames had an extremely successful first year in the tiny building. They used their familiarity with the Corral to good advantage, losing only five home games all season. Goaltender Reggie Lemelin, called up in November, did not lose a game there until the playoffs.Not unexpectedly, the players&rsquo; reactions to the end of the Corral era vary from man to manPAUL REINHART: &ldquo;I think the Sadddledome will play a large factor in our favor this season for two reasons: One, it brings a sense of professionalism to the Flames&rsquo; organization and to us; two, because there&rsquo;ll be 10,000 more people in the stands.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s so much nicer coming down, knowing there&rsquo;s 17,000 people there instead of 7,000. I don&rsquo;t care how loud or how close to the ice, 7,000 people are not going to be as loud as 17,000. So we&rsquo;re going to be excited from that point of view.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s professional, it&rsquo;s bright, it&rsquo;s a beautiful dressing room. You&rsquo;re going to want to come down to the rink. I think it&rsquo;s got to help my record.&rdquo;LANNY MCDONALD, who played in the Corral as a junior with Medicine Hat Tigers and with the Flames since the middle of the 1981-82 season, said it would be necessary for Calgary to start thinking that the building is home quickly: &ldquo;We can use it to our advantage because there&rsquo;s twice as many people cheering you on. On the other hand, the Corral was a tremendous advantage because it gave visiting teams that closed-in feeling.&ldquo;Getting used to the Sadddledome will definitely take a while. Something like that doesn&rsquo;t happen overnight. It will translate into points for us only if we can get the feeling that it&rsquo;s our building right off the bat.&rdquo;DOUG RISEBROUGH: &ldquo;It&rsquo;ll be a good challenge to adapt to it. The team suffered through the first three years without big crowds at crucial games. It&rsquo;ll be up to the players to develop an atmosphere. You do that by playing and working hard. No one will be dissatisfied if we&rsquo;re working hard.&rdquo;JIM PEPLINSKI: &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll be sorry to leave the Corral. It was good to me. The only knock against it was you couldn&rsquo;t get enough people into it. The Saddledome is a new building with new facilities and I guess you welcome the change. But there was no problem here. It&rsquo;s been great.&rdquo; &#9632;

Move To The Dome Gets Mixed Reviews

<div class="byline">BY RON COBB</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0020-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01714/4810240-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg"></div>The words have been used before.Frank King, chairman of the XV Olympic Winter Games organizing committee calls it, &ldquo;magnificent.&rdquo;Barry Graham, the architect, calls it a &ldquo;source of great pride.&rdquo;It has been compared to a finely-tuned and engineered Porsche and, inevitably, someone uses the term, &ldquo;state of the art.&rdquo;The object of such adoration is the new home of the Calgary Flames&mdash;the $99-million Olympic Saddledome.The Saddledome officially opened its doors for the Flames on Oct. 15 with a nationally-televised game against Wayne Gretzky and the Edmonton Oilers. It is a building that was not built without its share of controversies, most of which centered on a cost overrun of more than $16 million, but that can be pushed aside for a day or two while Calgarians admire their newest sports treasure.The facts of the building:&bull; Seating capacity is approximately 16,700, with an additional 2,600 seats to be installed for the 1988 Winter Olympics. &bull; The ice surface will be the standard 200 x 85, but unlike other buildings, it can be expanded to 200 x 100 for international hockey by simply removing the first two rows of seating. &bull; No seat in the Saddledome is more than 200 feet from center ice. &bull; The enormous $1.5-million scoreboard is a rarity in hockey, with full color animation on all four sides and replays readily available. &bull; There is the Olympic Lounge, with capacity of 200; The Penalty Box, a licensed mezzanine area with capacity for 300; The Saddle Room, a formal dining room (capacity 175) where one can enjoy dinner while watching the game. &bull; There is a covered walkway from the Stampede Light Rail Transit system to the main entrance of the Saddledome. &bull; There are 33 private suites for lease, seating six to 18 people at costs of upwards of $430,000 per suite (five-year lease). &bull; It features the world&rsquo;s largest free-span concrete roof. The three-acre saddle-shaped roof reduces the interior of the building by 45 per cent, significantly reducing heating, lighting and maintenance costs.In spite of its appearance and appeal, the Saddledome has not been built without major problems.The controversy began before the building was even named. A contest to determine the name of the building was staged, but before it had been completed, a local columnist wrote the building would be called the Olympic Saddledome. Some time later, his writing proved to render the contest ridiculous.The name came under criticism from many in Calgary, including the Olympic organizers, without whom the building would not have been constructed. The Olympic people were worried, at the time, that most people would drop the Olympic half of the name. That has proven true. Most people now refer to the building as the Saddledome.Others wondered about the word Saddledome. Critics argued that a building cannot be shaped like both a saddle and a dome. But the name will not be changed, however contradictary it may seem.When the ground was originally broken for the building, Bill Pratt, the Saddledome&rsquo;s former project manager, promised there would be hockey in it by December, 1982. The only hockey being played in the building at that time, though, was by construction workers with a sense of humor. Ten months later, the building would eventually open.But the largest cause of alarm has been the cost of the building. Originally budgeted for $83 million, the building cost is $16.5-million more than participated. No one is quite sure why the budgets overrun and if they are, no one is saying so. The provincial government, which was comitted to paying one-third of the total cost, called in cost analysis experts to find out why it was so far over budget. The report was not made public, but even after a copy of it was obtained, no definite conclusions were made.All of which has fostered into a major civic election issue, with incumbent mayor Ralph Klein having to answer for much of what he had little to do with, since a committee oversaw the progress of the building.If there is an irony here, it is how two of the major forces behind the building of the Saddledome have landed on their feet, despite the current controversies. Pratt, the one-time project manager, is now president of the 1988 Winter Olympics. Art Froese, who was the building committee&rsquo;s chairman, has been hired as Calgary&rsquo;s city planner.Unfortunately, all the controversies have accomplished is to anger Calgary citizens at a time when they normally would be overjoyed with a new sporting jewel.In fact, there&rsquo;s an in-joke among the people who were responsible for getting the Saddledome built.&ldquo;They say if we could only leave town for three years, people would want to hold a parade to welcome us back,&rdquo; said Graham, the architect.&ldquo;Still, I feel very good about the building,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m depressed about what has been going on, but there is nothing like the Saddledome anywhere.&ldquo;It is the state of the art building that others will look to when they want to build one. I think we&rsquo;ve addressed more problems than any other building of its kind ever built.&ldquo;I think this building is going to say something to world about the ideas and creativity of Canadians.&rdquo;&ldquo;It is unique in two ways,&rdquo; Froese said. &ldquo;It is unique inside, the way it is organized, so it is very functional and flexible. It is also unique on the outside, with its shape and with the various colours. It&rsquo;s a very striking building.&rdquo;The average person, Froese said, cannot possibly comprehend the technical advances of the building, many of which are aimed at cutting day-to-day operating costs.In building the Saddledome, efforts were made to solve many of the problems that plague other arenas in North America. A system has been set up so people should be able to get in and out of the building and on their way in 30 minutes. The system includes LRT and a complicated method of delivery buses all over the city.Efforts have also been made to ensure that people can easily find their seats&mdash;something that is often taken for granted in other buildings. There are also more concession stands and more washrooms than in most buildings.While the majority of people entering the Saddledome will only see the arena portion of the building, there is much more to it. The Flames, who have lived out of a temporary trailer adjacent to the Corral, have gone from the outhouse to the penthouse, now enjoying the luxury of 6,000 square feet of office space. In addition, there are offices for Hockey Canada (the Canadian Olympic team is based in Calgary), Saddledome officials and a hockey research center.There is even a dressing room for a defunct soccer team named the Calgary Boomers.Out-of-town NHL teams will feel as if they&rsquo;re at home in the plush visitors&rsquo; dressing room.When the Flames moved to Calgary more than three years ago, the original plan was to play two seasons in the tiny 7,000-seat Corral. But original plans are rarely kept.Now, they will move into a palace of ice that they will call home. &#9632;

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DOME, SWEET DOME

<div class="byline">BY ERIC DUHATSCHEK</div>The man who appears on the cover of this publication possesses the kind of face that&rsquo;s vaguely familiar, like a character actor who appears in 100 films but never stars in one.He stands beside Wayne Gretzky in a series of anti-drug commericals.He made the Canada Cup team in 1980 ahead of Doug Wilson, Randy Carlyle and Paul Coffey.He starred for Canada in the last two world championships, better in the minds of the all-star selectors than teammate and more-celebrated defense partner Craig Hartsburg.He was drafted in 1979 behind a who&rsquo;s who of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s defense corps&mdash;Rob Ramage, Hartsburg, Ray Bourque, Mike Ramsey.He is, in the words of Kent Nilsson, &ldquo;The Best.&rdquo;The face belongs to 23-year-old defenseman Paul Reinhart, a player who would like to make the 1983-84 season The Year of the Rhino.Reinhart had the kind of preparatory season last year that&rsquo;s needed to reach for the all-stars. He scored 75 points, second among the league&rsquo;s defensemen. He played defense&mdash;constantly on the team&rsquo;s penalty-killing unit, a result of Calgary&rsquo;s shortage of physical defenseman. He filled in at center when the offense faltered and at left wing when the power-play efficiency fell. He moved the puck out of the Flames&rsquo; end when all other Calgary defensemen were busy giving it away. He received ice time&mdash;up to 40 minutes a game when coach Bob Johnson found it necessary to use just four defensemen.Reinhart is to Calgary what Dan Fouts is to the San Diego Chargers&mdash;the quarterback of the offense and the key man on defense. His only shortcoming&mdash;consistency&mdash;is highlighted by his ice time. Similar to Fouts, who throws the ball constantly, Reinhart handles the puck constantly. Reinhart wants the puck. Most of Calgary&rsquo;s defensemen are smart enough to give it to him.Nilsson, Reinhart&rsquo;s teammate and part-time linemate last season, is a man of few words. Accordingly, when Nilsson talks hockey, people listen.&ldquo;Reinhart&rsquo;s got everything,&rdquo; said Nilsson. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s got speed, he&rsquo;s tough, he&rsquo;s strong, he can stickhandle, he can shoot, he&rsquo;s got good eyes, he can play forward, he can play defense, he can play the power play, he can play two men short, he can play one man short. Reinhart can play in every situation. No one does that better than him.&rdquo;The versatility that Nilsson refers to is perhaps the source of Reinhart&rsquo;s greatest fame to date. Reinhart split his junior career between center and defense. Even in Al MacNeil&rsquo;s days as the team&rsquo;s coach, Reinhart would get the odd shift up front. Then early last season, with the Flames struggling and the team hurting, Johnson typically began a game with Reinhart playing forward, dropped him back to defense two shifts later, moved him up again and then back again depending on the situation and the closeness of the game. By the end of the night, Reinhart played three different positions and 38 minutes.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02488/4810295-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="699" height="1288"></div>&ldquo;One of the advantages you have playing both positions is knowing how you would react in the other person&rsquo;s skates,&rdquo; said Reinhart. &ldquo;When I&rsquo;m playing defense, I kind of know what I&rsquo;d do if I was a centerman or winger.&ldquo;It always seems easier to go up front because you don&rsquo;t have the responsibility you do on defense. That doesn&rsquo;t mean it&rsquo;s easier; but the responsibility is less.&rdquo;&ldquo;He is versatile not only because he can play both up and back,&rdquo; said Dave King, Canada&rsquo;s Olympic hockey coach and Reinhart&rsquo;s coach at the last world championships. &ldquo;He is versatile in his performance during a game. If you need offense, he can get you goals. If you need defense, he can play tough defense, too.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s extremely intelligent on the ice. He&rsquo;s like a surgeon: he doesn&rsquo;t panic. He always make the right play.&rdquo;How going into his fifth year, Reinhart will be locked to play defense exclusively this season, with Steve Tambellini, Doug Risebrough, Jim eplinski, Mike Eaves plus a pair of converted nters&mdash;Nilsson and Kart Jalonen&mdash;playing the innings, the team is deep in the middle. Defense is another matter.When the Flames traded Phil Russell to the new Jersy Devils in the off-season, they traded way part of Reinhart&rsquo;s past. Reinhart broke in as well&rsquo;s defense partner when the team was still uased in Atlanta. Russell was both the team captain and the leader of the defense corps. When ussell left, Reinhart became the Flames&rsquo; senior defenseman in terms of service.That thrust Reinhart into a leadership position&mdash;one he readily accepts.Johnson interviewed him for the captaincy before deciding on Risebrough and Lanny McDonald as the team&rsquo;s co-captains.In the past, Reinhart used to be a target of abuse from the fans&mdash;for trying to do too much offensively or not enough defensively. In the old school of hockey thought that permeates this city, if you&rsquo;re not Moose Vasko, your&rsquo;re not playing defense.Reinhart considers his no-hit reputation a bad rap.&ldquo;No one ever sees Ray Bourque take the man,&rdquo; said Reinhart.Seemingly, the fans have started to come around this season. Reinhart no longer has to endure the boo-birds the way he did in his first years here.&ldquo;Why do they they do it? Maybe they don&rsquo;t like the way he plays,&rdquo; said Nilsson. &ldquo;If you played with him 80 games a year, you would know he is the best. Maybe they can&rsquo;t see it from where they&rsquo;re sitting. Game in and game out, I don&rsquo;t think there&rsquo;s anyone better than him. I mean, there are a lot of skill players in the league, but no one&rsquo;s as strong as Reinhart. He&rsquo;s like (Bryan) Trottier. He&rsquo;s tough to get the puck from.&ldquo;I love playing with that guy.&rdquo;&ldquo;To me, it&rsquo;s strange that he doesn&rsquo;t get more recognition,&rdquo; added King. &ldquo;It may be that the media hasn&rsquo;t covered him as carefully as they could. He&rsquo;s very much a team player. Sometimes, when someone is that consistent, he doesn&rsquo;t get the recognition that a more flamboyant type of player gets.&rdquo;&ldquo;Put it this way,&rdquo; said Reinhart, choosing his words carefully, &ldquo;it doesn&rsquo;t bother me. I feel I&rsquo;ve been rewarded or compensated more than enough by Johnson and by Cliff (Fletcher, the team&rsquo;s general manager). Cliff gave me an adequate contract. I get 40 minutes of ice time. I get the recognition from the two people that are most important. It would be nice to get the rest, but I think that will come with more consistency.&rdquo;Reinhart spent the off-season following Johnson&rsquo;s regimented physical conditioning program. The results paid off. Reinhart reported in the best shape of his life and started to play on Day One of training camp. He was an all-star in the team&rsquo;s mini-training camp tournament and Calgary&rsquo;s leading scorer in the exhibition season.&ldquo;I worked harder in the summer than ever before,&rdquo; said Reinhart. &ldquo;I came in in good shape and I think I&rsquo;ve had a good start. Mentally is the big thing, though. I feel so much more prepared for every game. Whether that&rsquo;s through maturity or a change in lifestyle, I don&rsquo;t know. I just feel that much more confident I&rsquo;ll be up for every game. That was my knock for so many years&mdash;one night he plays great, one game he&rsquo;s not going. This year, I want to be more intense for every game I play.&rdquo; &#9632;

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IS THIS THE YEAR OF THE RHINO?

<div class="byline">BY ERIC DUHATSCHEK</div>It is costing more people less than ever to watch the Calgary Flames play hockey this season.That&rsquo;s the good news if you&rsquo;re a fan.The new Olympic Saddledome, with its approximately 16,700 seats, also means more revenue for the hockey club.That&rsquo;s the good news if you&rsquo;re part of the six-man ownership group.Finally, despite the heavy odds against it, the new building is also sold out.That&rsquo;s the good news if you&rsquo;re president, governor and general manager Cliff Fletcher, the man responsible for balancing the team&rsquo;s budget.After three years of trying to squeeze 7,243 people into the 6,492-seat Stampede Corral, the Flames moved into their new home Oct. 15thEverybody used to pay $25 to sit and $14 to stand. Now the top price is $19 and there are tickets for $15, $11 and $8. Big-league hockey is something you can again afford to take the kids to.One year later than anticipated and way over budget, the new facility&mdash;built for the 1988 Winter Olympics&mdash;will finally put the Flames&rsquo; franchise on an even financial keel. Until now, Fletcher, the Flames&rsquo; GM for nine years in Atlanta and three in Calgary, has had to walk a financial tightrope.The Flames never caught on in Atlanta. In Calgary, demand for tickets was unprecedented but with so few seats available, that development was understandable. The fact that the demand continued to be high even for the new building came as something of a surprise, even to Fletcher.&ldquo;We conducted an extensive marketing survey which indicated that if the economy recovers, we would probably do pretty well,&rdquo; said Fletcher. &ldquo;Realistically though, we didn&rsquo;t know where we&rsquo;d end up. We thought 12,000 and anything over that would be a bonus. Naturally, we&rsquo;re elated we did go all the way and sell out every seat.&rdquo;Fletcher estimated that the team lost more than $5 million in its first three years in Calgary. He predicts a &ldquo;reasonable&rdquo; profit in 1983-84, but declines to speculate on how much.&ldquo;If we have 90 per cent occupancy or better for the next four or five years, that will enable us to service the debt on the franchise and pay off some of the interest we owe,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If that happens, then four or five years from now, the team will be in excellent financial shape, just relying on gate receipts alone.&rdquo;The fact is, gate receipts alone will have to do for the next four or five years. Aside from what they take in at the box office, the Flames do not have any of the other areas of revenue&mdash;concessions, television, radio or the sale of promotional rights&mdash;that other clubs possess. That is the legacy that the original owner. Nelson Skalbania, left the team. Skalbania sold TV, radio and promotional rights to Molson&rsquo;s Breweries for 10 years for $10 million, then used the money to finance the purchase of the team from the Atlanta owner, Tom Cousins. That money&mdash;and Skalbania&mdash;are both long gone.Moreover, in reaching a lease agreement for the Saddledome, the Flames traded off the lucrative concession dollars for the right to sell and manage the building&rsquo;s 33 private boxes.Only half the boxes were sold, however, by opening night.Add in program sales, novelties and a private club called the Penalty Box (pending a liquor license) and for all of Skalbania&rsquo;s creative financing, the franchise is in decent financial shape.Although Fletcher must operate within a budget, he is out there spending money to improve the team. All of the team&rsquo;s key players&mdash;Kent Nilsson, Lanny McDonald, Paul Reinhart and Don Edwards&mdash;are signed to lucrative, long-term contracts. No one ever complains about being underpaid in the Flames&rsquo; organization.Fletcher has also dabbled extensively in the free-agent market, trying to improve a team whose luck at the draft table would deter even the most ardent gambler. Only one first-round draft choice&mdash;Reinhart in 1979&mdash;is still with the team.The Flames have had better success in the free-agent route. From U.S. colleges, Fletcher has signed Ed Beers, Jamie Macoun, Neil Sheehy and Colin Petterson in the last 12 months. Beers and Macoun are integral parts of the team, Sheehy and Patterson were among the final training-camp cuts. Both have futures in the National Hockey League. From Europe, the Flames signed Pekka Rautakallio and Kari Eloranta, two highly-rated defensemen. Rautakallio is no longer with the team, but Eloranta is a mainstay.The Flames also won the bidding war for Paul Baxter, 4he defenseman inadvertently turned loose by the Pittsburgh Penguins.Fletcher has developed a reputation as something of a high roller in the last little while. The Flames have 58 players under contract, more than any other team in the NHL. However, Fletcher believes his largesse tends to be overstated.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have carte blanche,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not George Allen. Like any corporation, we work within a budget. That&rsquo;s my mandate. I don&rsquo;t have a blank cheque to do things on a whim. Within the budget, however, I have some flexibility to sign free agents.&ldquo;The type of players we&rsquo;ve picked up, the investments in them are not what you&rsquo;d consider big money. I think that like the other franchises in the league that are on solid footing, we have an advantage. We can afford to take a chance on signing three or four free agents and hope that one or two come through. We&rsquo;re happy with the way Beers and Macoun have come in and played for us.&rdquo;To many people, the lure in 1983-84 is not necessarily the Flames, it is the new building. For the Flames to keep their subscribers in their seats through the 1980&rsquo;s, Calgary must put a winning and entertaining team on the ice.&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t relate our sold-out situation to Toronto&rsquo;s,&rdquo; said Fletcher. &ldquo;Toronto is a market five times the size of Calgary&rsquo;s. The one thing that works in our favor is there isn&rsquo;t the same competition for the entertainment dollar. There&rsquo;s less going on here.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think our season tickets have been sold out for life. I do think that if the product on the ice is good, that will ensure a solid base of support. But, it&rsquo;s going to be a franchise that we&rsquo;ll have to work on constantly to keep that base there.&rdquo; &#9632;

MONEY:

<div class="byline">BY STEVE SIMMONS</div>The date was Sept. 30, the year 1981. On that day, Calgary lost its tag as the Stampede city. On that day, it became the Olympic city.Now, more than two years after the fact, Calgary prepares for the 1988 Winter Olympics, attempting to leave the problems of such centers as Montreal and Lake Placid behind, but finding that problems are most difficult to avoid.It was in Baden Baden, West Germany, where Calgary was awarded the Games and at that time its bid was considered the finest ever. Promises were made, many of which have faded away in these past two years, many of which have shed a spotlight onto the Calgary Olympics, a spotlight that has hardly been favorable.While Olympic organizers such as committee chairman Frank King maintain there is no cause for alarm, others are not as optimistic. While using the financial disaster of the Montreal Olympics as a model base for how not to put on the Games, Calgary is caught in a Catch-22 situation. The city is ahead, well ahead, of Montreal, but behind in its original promises.Calgary already has commitments for financing from three levels of government at this time. Montreal did not.The Olympic Saddledome, the major facility for the Olympics, has already been built. Lake Louise, the site of past World Cup downhill ski races, will likely be the site in 1988. At a similar time, Montreal had no facilities built.While Montreal sold the television rights for the 1976 Summer Games at a $25 million loss, Calgary is planning to reap a gigantic profit from its television revenue.Yet, putting aside the positives, there are still negatives. Promises made that ensured Calgary&rsquo;s bid have not been adhered to.A recreational ski area, which was supposed to be built at Mt. Sparrowhawk and would eventually house the alpine ski events, will not be built. A nordic ski area intended for Bragg Creek, just 15 miles outside Calgary, will not be built. A location for a speed skating oval has not yet been chosen. Organizers want the speed skating to be held at University of Calgary, while the university is not interested in the facility unless it can be used for other activities as well.The organizing committee has also run into another problem. When they were awarded the Olympics, Calgary was Canada&rsquo;s boom town. Some might say it has developed into a ghost town. A low-cost housing project intended to house the thousands of journalists covering the Games has since been put on the back burner. At the time of the bid, Calgary had near-negative vacancy rate. The vacancy rate among city apartments now is more than 10 per cent.In addition to problems with the economy, there are problems with the federal government. The government has committed $200 million, but seeing that money is another story in itself. So far, no one from the federal government has signed a name on the dotted line of a contract with Calgary&rsquo;s Olympic committee.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01604/4810350-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg" title="f0022-01" width="559" height="754"><figcaption class="caption-body">Calgary&rsquo;s Olympic committee chairman Frank King maintains there is no cause for alarm.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Calgary Olympic Plans Hit Rough Spots

<div class="byline">BY STEVE SIMMONS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0023-01553/4810381-1-eng-US/f0023-012.jpg" title="f0023-01" width="288" height="337"></div><h2>Corral Memories</h2>A WALK THROUGH the corridors of the Stampede Corral is like a walk through time. One cannot help but nod approvingly while strolling past photos of Lester Patrick and Aurel Joliat and Sweeney Schriner and a young Queen Elizabeth.For the past three seasons, this part bam, part museum has been the home of the Calgary Flames. That cozy living arrangement has now come to an end.Once, this was a building to be marvelled at. Soon, the Flames will move across the road, to a $99-million building. Progress, it is called.The Corral has been kind to the Flames and the Flames have, in turn, reciprocated. But a move from one home to another has never been easy, never without regret or without memories.One remembers Al MacNeil in his first days in Calgary, taking a tape measure onto the ice surface and measuring length, width and anything else. He did not know at the time he was foreshadowing what was to come that season. The Corral was more intimidating than an intimidating Flame team.At that time, he didn&rsquo;t really know what an advantage the building would be.One remembers the expression on Dan Bouchard&rsquo;s face when someone told him this was home.One remembers Jamie Hislop, as a Quebec Nordique, and his reaction to playing at the Corral. &ldquo;This is a depressing place,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;No one is going to want to play here.&rdquo;And no one did.Wayne Gretzky hated it. Denis Savard hated it. Mike Bossy hated it. Even the Soviets hated it.Everyone in the National Hockey League hated the Corral, except for Calgary&rsquo;s Flames.<h2>.661 Winning Percentage</h2>THE FLAMES PLAYED 133 games in the Corral, attracting 100 per cent capacity in a building with less than 7,000 seats. They won 75 of those, lost just 32 and tied 26 giving them the best winning percentage this ordinary franchise has ever had in any building. That&rsquo;s .661 hockey for baseball fans.Away from the Corral, that percentage dropped, to .352.The three years the Flames spent in this withered and weathered building represent only a short time in the life of the Corral. The building will be 34-years-old in December, but no major league team will be there to celebrate.And it will be missed by those players who played there as Flames, even though most look forward to a move across the street.&ldquo;I have nothing but good memories,&rdquo; said Bob Murdoch, who has played and coached in the Corral as a Flame. &ldquo;I enjoyed it thoroughly.&ldquo;The only thing that bothered me was the lighting. I already had bad eyesight and it didn&rsquo;t help, but other than that, I loved it. I loved the intimacy, the fans being so close, making that walk through the corridor.&ldquo;I think it was difficult for other teams to play here. I remember as a player going into Boston where the lighting was bad and the surface was smaller and it was older. You weren&rsquo;t keen on playing. I think it was the same here.&rdquo;There are many memories built up in just three seasons the Flames have played in the Coral.It is difficult to forget the 30th anniversary of the building, when Reggie Lemelin shocked the Philadelphia Flyers with a splendid 2-1 victory and the fans responded with a &ldquo;REGGIE-REGGIE&rdquo; cheer borrowed from the grand old game. The cheer has been a regular since.<h2>Picture Of Randy Holt</h2>IT IS DIFFICULT to forget that 11-2 victory over the Stanley Cup champion New York Islanders, when Guy Chouinard set up six goals.It is difficult to forget a picture you will never see again: Randy Holt on his backside with his arms raised high, celebrating one of his two goals&mdash;the only two he would score that season&mdash;that gave Calgary a playoff victory over the Flyers.It is difficult to forget the standing ovation given Gretzky when he became the first man to score 200 points in a season.It is difficult to forget the best goaltending ever seen in this building, maybe the best seen anywhere: Richard Brodeur in the 1982 Stanley Cup playoffs.It is difficult to forget both the fans and the emotion involved in Calgary&rsquo;s greatest victory&mdash;the victory over a Soviet hockey club that hasn&rsquo;t been beaten since.&ldquo;We will,&rdquo; Bob Murdoch said, &ldquo;miss the Corral. No doubt about that at all.&rdquo; &#9632;

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THE WESTERN WORD

<div class="byline">BY ERIC DUHATSCHEK</div>CALGARY&mdash;The expectations for Jim Peplinski change every year.In his first year in a National Hockey League training camp, Peplinski wasn&rsquo;t expected to make the team.He did, however, edging another rookie named Earl Ingarfield for the only opening at center.In his second year, Peplinski wasn&rsquo;t expected to score goals.He did, however, getting 30 in 74 games and providing leadership for a team that lost Kent Nilsson and Guy Chouinard for large parts of the season.Peplinski&rsquo;s play in his first two years raised great expectations for last season, expectations that the third-year center never realized. Peplinski slumped to 15 goals and did not play with the authority that characterized his game in the years before.That brings us to the new season, 1983-84.In coach Bob Johnson&rsquo;s plans, Peplinski is expected to replace Mel Bridgman as the center on the team&rsquo;s checking line.In four years, his career has come full circle&mdash;from playmaking center to scoring center to defensive center. While newcomers Steve Tambellini and Mike Eaves drew high-scoring wingers Lanny McDonald and Hakan Loob as their linemates, Peplinski started the year on a line with Tim Hunter and Jamie Hislop.&ldquo;I know guys who go to camp with specific instructions to be a defensive player,&rdquo; said Peplinski. &ldquo;Then 15 games into the season, somebody says, &lsquo;Why aren&rsquo;t you scoring?&rsquo; I hope I&rsquo;m not being slotted as a defensive center.&rdquo;Peplinski blamed his mediocre season last year on a &ldquo;bad outlook.&rdquo;&ldquo;In retrospect, last year all I wanted to do was get to the playoffs,&rdquo; said Peplinski. &ldquo;Losing to Vancouver the year before really bothered me. All I wanted to do was get there again and have a shot at them. I didn&rsquo;t prepare myself for 80 games. This year, the playoffs are far from my mind. I was ready for Oct. 5th.&rdquo;&ldquo;Peplinski&rsquo;s like a fullback,&rdquo; said Johnson. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s going to be my power center. What does that mean? Well, he&rsquo;s not a finesse player, is he? He&rsquo;s a power player; he likes to carry the puck into the zone.&ldquo;I want him to work on his passing. We worked on it a little bit last year. I&rsquo;d like to see him pass the puck better, especially to the right side.&rdquo;Peplinski&rsquo;s passing&mdash;his inability to find his wingers during a game&mdash;cost him a chance to play every shift with McDonald, a winger that needs a center who can get him the puck. The two like to play together and Johnson gives them the odd opportunity.<blockquote class="pullQuote">&lsquo;There&rsquo;ll be times during the season when we go to three lines and they won&rsquo;t include me.&rsquo;</blockquote>For example, Peplinski played such a fine first game against Vancouver that Johnson moved him into Tambellini&rsquo;s spot beside McDonald in the third period when the team went to three lines.&ldquo;There&rsquo;ll be times during the season when we go to three lines and they won&rsquo;t include me,&rdquo; said Peplinski. &ldquo;Why did I play so well? Because the game counted. Because I&rsquo;d had a bit of a rest. I worked harder than in the exhibition games. I want to get the feeling of moving the puck better rather than always wearing blinders when I&rsquo;m on the ice. It&rsquo;s starting to come.&rdquo;IN BRIEF&mdash;The Flames opened the season with a lot of new faces but only one surprise&mdash;rookie defenseman Keith Hanson. Hanson, 26, joined the Flames from the Minnesota organization in the Mike Eaves-for-Steve Christoff trade. At 6-foot-5, 210 pounds, Hanson creates a presence in front of the Calgary goal&mdash;a place where there hasn&rsquo;t been much of a presence in the past. Hanson made such an impression on Johnson with his play in the exhibition season that he started the year playing alongside Paul Reinhart on the Calgary blueline&hellip;Dave Hindmarch suffered a freak wrist injury in the Flames&rsquo; penultimate exhibition game and was expected to miss at least the first two weeks of the season. Hindmarch didn&rsquo;t even know he got hurt until the next day when his wrist started to ache&hellip;Greg Meredith is also on the sidelines, courtesy of a collision with Marcel Dionne when the Flames played Los Angeles in an exhibition game at the Tacoma Dome. Meredith suffered a first-degree tear of his knee and had it placed in a soft cast. There&rsquo;s no word as to his possible return. &#9632;

Expectations Change Yearly For Peplinski

In our next issue, we&rsquo;ll take an in-depth look at The Men Behind The Masks&mdash;a special feature devoted to the goalies of the world. What makes these guys tick? How do they dare to challenge the shooters of today? And why do some still sport colorful, painted masks?We&rsquo;ll also have facts and figures on goalies of yesterday and today. It will be a special section you won&rsquo;t want to miss.On top of all that, we&rsquo;ll have our Olympic diaries by Team Canada coach Dave King and Team USA mentor Lou Vairo.All that plus much, much more in next week&rsquo;s HOCKEY NEWS. Don&rsquo;t miss it! &#9632;

NEXT WEEK IN THN

<div class="byline">BY DAVE KING</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01536/4810498-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg" title="f0026-01" width="497" height="473"></div>On Oct. 9, practice went extremely well. The three new players&mdash;goaltender Wendell Young, defenseman Michel Petit and center Mark Morrison&mdash;are fitting in with no problem at all. The addition of the third goalie causes some concern with our other two goalies&mdash;Darren Elliot and Mario Gosselin. Both goalies have played very well and would like to play every other game. However, if one goalie gets hurt, we have no farm system to draw on and Young is a good goaltender, who starred for three seasons with the Kitchener Rangers and was drafted by the Vancouver Canucks. Morrison, a New York Ranger draft pick who played three seasons in Victoria of the WHL, is a very talented hockey player and he&rsquo;ll really help us. Petit, another Canuck draft pick who starred in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, is a big defenseman and he has good mobility. We&rsquo;ve strengthened our club a little bit with these players.<h2>October 10</h2>Thanksgiving becomes a good news-bad news situation. We play our first game in six days and play great to defeat the defending champions of the CHL, Indianapolis, 6-1. The line of Mark Morrison, Dave Tippett and Gord Sherven gets 10 points with Morrison getting two goals and two assists. Wendell Young plays in goal and only gives up one while making many good saves. Everyone plays well&mdash;that&rsquo;s the good news. The bad news is the crowd&mdash;only 1,104 paid. We&rsquo;re heading towards the Winter Olympics (119 days away) and people don&rsquo;t want to see our team. It is very discouraging to us and also to the players.<h2>October 11</h2>Same story as yesterday. The team plays well&mdash;we beat Indy again, 5-2, but only 1,534 people turn out to watch us. Prince Albert&mdash;site of tonight&rsquo;s game&mdash;is one of the best hockey towns in Saskatchewan and we have three players who played here&mdash;yet we only drew 1,534.I sit on the bus with Doug Kelcher.Doug is the sponsor&rsquo;s liaison (working for Labatt&rsquo;s) to the team. Doug and I decide that we&rsquo;ll bombard the people in western Canada and hype our upcoming games. We play Team USA on Friday Oct. 21, in Edmonton, on Sunday the 23rd in Vancouver and on Tuesday the 25th in Calgary.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-02380/4810491-1-eng-US/f0026-022.jpg" title="f0026-02" width="284" height="334"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave King&rsquo;s Coach&rsquo;s Diary</figcaption></div><h2>October 12</h2>Today is a travel day. We leave Saskatoon at 8:15 a.m. and arrive in Billings, Montana, at 7:30 p.m. We did get to spend four hours in Denver waiting for a connection and many of our boys turned western today&mdash;even Jean Perron, my assistant coach. Jean is from Moncton, N.B., where last year he was the CIAU Coach-of-the-Year. I&rsquo;d love to see Jean in Moncton with his new boots. The other assistant coach, George Kingston, is from Calgary so he already had the western outfit. When we do get to Billings, many of the players are &ldquo;walking tall in their new boots.&rdquo;<h2>October 13</h2>Great day for us. We beat the Montana Magic 4-3 in overtime. Dave Tippett (still playing on a line with Morrison and Sherven) scored after only eight seconds of overtime. We fell behind 3-1 but then scored two power-play goals to send the game into overtime.The really good news, however, came from Murray Costello, president of the CAHA. Murray informed us that the IIHF and the COA have approved the eligibility rule that we inquired about and that anyone who has not played 10 games in the NHL is eligible. We will now thoroughly scout all CHL and AHL teams to see if there is somebody who may be able to add to our program.<h2>October 14</h2>We return to Calgary and get some more good news. At practice, Joe Grant informs me that he is 100 per cent healthy and will play in the series against the USA. Joe played on the 1980 Olympic Team and he is really our only veteran. He is a very mature 26-year-old defenseman and it will be a big plus having Joe back in the lineup. We have been very fortunate with injuries&mdash;although Kevin Dineen reinjured his shoulder in Prince Albert. With the type of roster we have&mdash;21 players including three goaltenders, we don&rsquo;t have the depth to survive a string of injuries.On another roster note, there is also a chance that Kirk Muller may join our team. Kirk is a 17-year-old forward from Kingston who is now playing for Guelph of the OHL and he could be the No. 1 pick in the NHL entry draft next summer.<h2>October 15</h2>They opened the Saddledome tonight with the NHL game between Edmonton and Calgary. The building is magnificent and will be the best building that Olympic Hockey and Figure Skating have ever used. (The 1988 Winter Olympics are in Calgary).They included our whole team&mdash;in uniform&mdash;in the pre-game ceremonies. The people in Calgary gave us a standing ovation. That was extremely gratifying to the players because we do play three games in this building: Oct. 25 vs Team USA, Nov. 1 vs Colorado Flames and Nov. 9 vs Salt Lake City.In every NHL building we have been in (Vancouver, Edmonton, Winnipeg and Calgary), the NHL team officials have been extremely helpful to us, especially the Flames&rsquo; management, Cliff Fletcher and Al Coates. We also look forward to playing in two more NHL buildings&mdash;Maple Leaf Gardens and the Montreal Forum. We play Team USA in Toronto on Nov. 24 and in Montreal on Nov. 25. &#9632;

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Olympians Dismayed At Lack Of Fan Support

<div class="byline">BY LOU VAIRO</div>Following our seven NHL games, Team USA got to spend five days at home in Bloomington, MN. We used the time to concentrate on our conditioning program in an atmosphere where we didn&rsquo;t have to worry about catching a bus or a plane.After three games in three nights, we began with a day off, totally away from hockey. Psychologically, it is very important for the players to replenish their mental energy in the same way that the time off replenishes their physical energy.Then we returned to the ice for three tough days, on and off the ice. On the ice, the skating was hard. We had one of our two &ldquo;blowouts&rdquo; for the week, three days before we travelled to Indianapolis for our game against the Central Hockey League champion Checkers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-03324/4810529-1-eng-US/f0026-032.jpg" title="f0026-03" width="284" height="328"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Vairo&rsquo;s Coach&rsquo;s Corner</figcaption></div>A &ldquo;blowout&rdquo; is an anaerobic workout designed to push the players to their physical limits. They are not meant as punishment in any way, but rather are scientifically pre-planned conditioning sessions that were scheduled months in advance by physiologist Jack Blatherwick.Off the ice, after skating, the team went through circuit training drills and worked with weighted vests. The circuit training, a series of stations with exercises specific to hockey, develops the players&rsquo; agility and speed. The weighted vests are used while doing such things as hopping and jumping. These drills increase a player&rsquo;s explosiveness and stamina.Right after our home game against the University of Minnesota ended, we had our second blowout of the week. It was the fifth time this season (we also did it in Alaska and Finland) that we skated immediately following a game. The four players who did not dress for the game suited up for a good 40-minute skate.We did not play well in the 9-5 win over the U of M. Our team lacked intensity and it is very aggravating to see them not play up to their potential. But again, the blowout was not meant to punish them. It was pre-planned and was an excellent way to train the team.All of the players skated hard that night and we could give them the next day off.We will not face any more NHL teams on our schedule. We will now be playing CHL, college and national teams, and the players have to realize that they must give a total effort in every game. We got that against Indianapolis, a hard 4-3 win (their first home loss since last February), but not against the Gophers. We will know better how our players are approaching the games afer we play UM-Duluth in Eveleth.The colleges we play will be fired up against us. They will play with a lot of exuberance and the pace will be very fast. The Gophers, as will many other colleges, have several players who could step onto our team, so we can&rsquo;t underestimate their talent. We are going to find that we are being tested every time we wear the USA jersey.For the first time all season, we have gotten away from alternating our goalies game-for-game. Marc Behrend got the starting assignment in the Indianapolis and U of M games so that Bob Mason, a native of northern Minnesota and a collegian at UM-Duluth, can play in the UMD game at Eveleth (on Minnesota&rsquo;s northern Iron Range) and against Canada in Duluth.Both of our goalies have played very well, and we will return to the one-game rotation after the game in Duluth.Team USA was honored by the Bloomington Chamber of Commerce at a luncheon the day before the Indianapolis game. We have enjoyed the brief time we&rsquo;ve spent in Bloomington and appreciate the hospitality the city has shown us. &#9632;

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‘Blowouts’ Push Team USA To The Limit

<div class="byline">BY BARRY MEISEL</div>Louisville Hockey<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-01507/4810567-1-eng-US/f0027-012.jpg" title="f0027-01" width="300" height="208"></div>HERSHEY&mdash;It is every New England boy&rsquo;s dream to wear the gold and black of &lsquo;the Boston Bruins, to skate under the Stanley Cup pennants that hang majestically from the aging rafters of Boston Garden. For right winger Dave Silk, a native of Scituate, MA, 1980 U.S. Olympic goal medal winner, ex-New York Ranger, the dream became a night&rsquo; mare one year ago.Today he is one step, the big step, away.Silk, 25, was a Ranger in exile this time last year. Demoted by New York, he was loaned to Binghamton instead of being assigned with the rest of New York&rsquo;s farmhands to Tulsa of the Centrel Hockey League.The Boston University alumnus knew it was a no-win situation. The Hartford Whalers weren&rsquo;t about to open doors for him at the expense of their Binghamton farmhands and the Rangers weren&rsquo;t play-king close attention.Word leaked that New York was talking trade with Boston and Silk&rsquo;s heart sank when the deal fell through. Nine ineffective games after he arrived in Binghamton, the Rangers pulled him out and sent him to Tulsa.The right winger didn&rsquo;t find a home, but he rediscovered his game. He scored 57 points in 40 games before a knee injury, which required arthroscopic surgery, ended his 1982-83 campaign.This season, despite having what Silk called &ldquo;a good training camp,&rdquo; the Rangers again designated him for Tulsa. But before Silk ever packed his cowboy boots and rode west to Oklahoma, Boston traded for him, sending center-right winger Dave Barr to New York. Silk was assigned to Boston&rsquo;s affiliate in Hershey and although he still wasn&rsquo;t home, he finally was on the right path.&ldquo;I have no gripes with anybody,&rdquo; Silk said after scoring a team-leading five points in his first four games with the Bears. &ldquo;The Rangers were always up front with me and fair. I&rsquo;m not bitter at all.&rdquo;In fact, he&rsquo;s delighted to have a shot in the organization he always wanted to play for, Make no mistake, though, Silk knows the Bruins are making no promises. There are no illusions.&ldquo;They said nothing much, really,&rdquo;Silk said, &ldquo;just come on down and work hard and see what happens. No guarantees, nothing concrete. After the year they had, the&rsquo;re not going to make any changes. I&rsquo;m just going to play and hopefully I&rsquo;ll get a chance.&rdquo;Silk has impressed coach Gary Inness, whose team jumped to a 3-1-0 start in Week One.&ldquo;Great attitude,&rdquo; said Inness of Silk. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s been working ever since he got here. He&rsquo;s a leader. He makes things happen out there.&rdquo;After losing their opener at Springfield, the Bears reeled off three straight victories. They defeated Binghamton 4-2 in their home opener, when Silk broke a 2-2 tie with a second-period power-play goal.Silk tallied three assists the following night, when the Bears won 5-2 in Binghamton. Brian Erickson then capped Hershey&rsquo;s quick start with a goal and an assist and goalie Mike Moffat was brilliant, stopping 34 shots in a 3-1 win over visiting Maine.Washington Capitals, which are jointly operating the Bears with the Bears, traded Lee Norwood to Toronto for Dave Shand and the veteran defenseman played two games for Hershey before being recalled under emergency conditions. The Caps sent defenseman Greg Theberge, who was previously promoted under emergency conditions, back to Hershey.BALTIMORE&mdash;New coach Gene Ubriaco hadn&lsquo;t had the pictures hanging on the walls of his new office more than a few days when the phone rang from Pittsburgh. Up went rookie Rich Sutter and defenseman Bob Gladney, down came defenseman Randy Boyd. To make matters worse for Ubriaco, the Skipjacks lost left winger Tim Hrynewich. their 1982 second-round draft pick, for at least a week with a sore shoulder.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the business of the minor leagues,&rdquo; Ubriaco said with a sigh, after his team opened the season 0-1-1 and had its home opener postponed due to Game One of the 1983 World Series at nearby Memorial Stadium.Sutter, 20, the last of the Viking, Alta., Sutter brothers to make it to the National Hockey League, was a late preseason cut by the Penguins. The team&rsquo;s 1982 No. 1 draft pick didn&rsquo;t take kindly to his demotion and like many who are frustrated by their first trip to the AHL, he said so&hellip;publicly, Something about how he couldn`&lsquo;t believe not being able to make the starting lineup of the worst team in the NHL.&ldquo;He ran into problems being down here,&rdquo; said Ubriaco. &ldquo;But he handled it fine. He&rsquo;s a Sutter, he works hard.&rdquo;Sutter&rsquo;s emergency recall became necessary when right winger Doug Shedden broke his wrist.The Skipjacks&rsquo; season started with a 6-4 loss at Rochester and continued with a disappointing 5-5 overtime tie at St. Catharines. Baltimore led 5-2 after two periods, but allowed the Saints three goals in the final 14 minutes, including Norm Aubin&rsquo;s tying tally with two seconds left.A bright spot? It had to be Bennett Wolf&rsquo;s unassisted shorthanded goal. The bruising defenseman&rsquo;s eyes swelled to the size of faceoff circles in the second period when, after picking up a loose puck at center ice, he found himself staring down on goalie Nick Ricci, his former teammate.Wolf skated in. put Ricci down and lifted the puck over him. &ldquo;I shocked myself,&rdquo; said Wolf, who scored one goal in 61 AHL games last season.NEW HAVEN&mdash;Coach Nick Beverley, a former NHL defenseman. has perennially molded his Nighthawks into a close-checking unit. After his team allowed 25 goals in a 2-2-1 opening week, changes were made.The Nighthawks sent defensemen Craig Hurley and Paul Lohnes to Fort Wayne of the International League and signed free-agent veterans Jim Walsh and Tom Price to 25-game pro tryout contracts. Walsh. 26. was released earlier this season by Hartford. Price, 29, had an earlier stint in New Haven, in 1981-82.New Haven opened by losing 5-2 at St. Catharines and 8-2 at Rochester. The potent Mike Fidler-Bill O&rsquo;Dwyer-Mark Lofthouse line scored three first-period goals (two by Lofthouse) as the Hawks opened their home season by defeating Adirondack 4-1. Rookie goalie Dave Ross stopped 31 shots.In two shootouts, New Haven tied Springfield 5-5 and nipped Sherbrooke 7-6. Lofthouse scored twice against the Indians, while Daryl Evans and Dean Hopkins each had two goals against the Jets.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0027-02331/4810560-1-eng-US/f0027-022.jpg" title="f0027-02" width="560" height="757"><figcaption class="caption-body">Massachusetts-born Dave Silk is one rung away from playing for the Boston Bruins.</figcaption></div>ST. CATHARINES&mdash;Similar to last season, the Saints will have to score and keeping the other team off the board will be the problem coach Doug Carpenter will have to rectify. A 1-1-1 week included an opening night 5-2 win over New Naven, in which Mike Kaszycki scored twice and Basil McRae added four assists. Next came the come-from-behind 5-5 overtime tie with Baltimore, when Ernie Godden scored three goals and Norm Aubin tied it with two seconds left.Against Binghamton, the Saints blew leads of 4-1 and 5-3, allowing five third-period goals to a team that has won four straight over two years in the Garden City Arena.&mdash; BINGHAMTON&mdash;The 1-3 Whalers scored just five goals in their first three games&mdash;all losses&mdash;before exploding for their 9-6 win at St. Catharines, their home rink away from home. Ross Yates, the defending AHL scoring champ and MVP, returned to the lineup and scored a goal and an assist and 15 others had at least a goal or assist.Yates was hospitalized in Hartford after physicians noted a spot on his chest X-ray during training camp physicals. A biopsy and subsequent minor surgery to remove a lymph node from his lung was 100 per cent successful and Yates was given a clean bill of health.SPRINGFIELD&mdash;The 2-0-1 Indians made room for Philadelphia-owned I rookie forwards Bob Mormina and Todd Bergen by sending wingers Brian Shaw and Marcel Frere to Peoria of the IHL. Defenseman Brian Tutt was assigned to Toledo of the IHL.Coach Doug Sauter won his debut 7-4 over Hershey, before 2,652 spectators in Springfield. Seven different players scored. The Tribe tied New Haven 5-5 the next night and remained unbeaten with a 4-3 win at Moncton.ROCHESTER&mdash;The powerful Amerks opened as expected, sweeping three games and outscoring their opponents 20-8. Veteran right winger Mai Davis scored four goals in the home opener, an 8-2 victory over New Haven and Kai Suikkanen added a goal and two assists in the 6-4 win over Baltimore. Goalie Jacques Cloutier won both games.The Calder Cup champs hit the road the next night and dumped Adirondack 6-2, with Cloutier stopping 30 of 32 shots. Left winger Chris Langevin scored twice and was later promoted to the parent Buffalo Sabres. &#9632;

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Getting Chance To Play For Bruins Would Be Silk’s Dream Come True

<div class="byline">BY MIKE KANE</div>HALIFAX&mdash;The irony of the situation has not been lost on Larry Landon, Mike McPhee and Dave Stoyanovich.While its not unusual that the three former college teammates have graduated to the professional ranks, it is remarkable that all three have been reunited on the same pro team. One by one, they have made their way from the Troy, NY, campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to the roster of the Nova Scotia Voyageurs.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s funny because Stoyanovich was my roommate in college,&rdquo; said Landon, the senior member of the trio. &ldquo;We were talking about that just the other day when we had a college against Junior A game between players on the team and McPhee, Stoyanovich and I played together. We said, Gee, with all the roads we had to go up, it&rsquo;s funny that the three of us did end up in the same spot.&rdquo;Landon and McPhee took more direct routes to Nova Scotia than Stoyanovich. Both were draft picks of the parent Montreal Canadiens and joined the Vees after completing their college careers. Landon was the first to arrive. He moved up to the AHL team in the spring of 1981 for the final few weeks of the season and has been a regular the past two seasons. McPhee followed last season and doubled the size of the Vees&rsquo; RPI alumni contingent.Stoyanovich was not drafted and, after graduating with McPhee in 1982, went looking for a place to continue his career. The Hartford Whalers offered a tryout, then sent him to their AHL farm team in Binghamton. A few weeks later, he was dispatched to Kalamazoo of the International League, where he played the bulk of the season. Late in the year, he was loaned to Flint, even though he was the K-Wings&rsquo; second-leading scorer. In 79 IHL games, he scored 36 goals and 64 points. That performance earned him an invitation to try out with the Canadiens&rsquo; organization. He beat the odds and made the Vees&rsquo; roster with an outstanding training camp showing.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a pretty big coincidence,&rdquo; McPhee said. &ldquo;Larry and I talked about the coincidence of Dave coming to training camp and getting a tryout. The odds were against him when he came to training camp because they had a lot of guys under contract. But he played so great they couldn&rsquo;t refuse him a contract.&rdquo;Although RPI has competed on the Division One hockey level for more than 35 years, the school has not sent many players on to pro hockey. Before this season, goalie Don Cutts was the only RPI player ever to appear in an NHL game, but Steve Stoyanovich, Dave&rsquo;s older brother, made his NHL debut with the Hartford Whalers earlier this season after spending two seasons with the Islanders&rsquo; farm team at Indianapolis. Ironically, all four of the former RPI players now in the pros&mdash;both of the Stoyanovichs, Landon and McPhee&mdash;are natural left wingers.RPI coach Mike Adessa laughed at the connection.&ldquo;The left wings have all done pretty well,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We have another one, George Servinis, who is doing well, too. He&rsquo;s leading the Canadian Olympic team in scoring with eight goals&rsquo; and seven assists. I hope the remaining left wings here do as well.&rdquo;.Adessa and Nova Scotia coach John Brophy agree that Landon, McPhee and Stoyanovich have similar traits.&ldquo;I think all of them have been very faithful, very conscientious and especially hard-working kids,&rdquo; Adessa said. &ldquo;They are the kind of kids who do anything a coach asks them to do. We&rsquo;ve just heard from the Montreal organization, they sent us down a kind of round-about compliment where they were saying &lsquo;As many as you&rsquo;ve got we&rsquo;ll take them.&rsquo; They are all &lsquo;Yes, sir, no sir. Thank-you very much, sir&rsquo; type of guys. They work very, very hard, they&rsquo;re very, very tough and are great guys to have around the club.&rdquo;Brophy doesn&rsquo;t have to search for a comparison, either.&ldquo;First of all, they are all excellent skaters and something else that I see about them is that they all like to work,&rdquo; Brophy said. &ldquo;Landon is a workaholic. Stoyanovich seems to be the same way and McPhee is an excellent player.&rdquo;Although they are now competing for jobs and playing time, the bond developed in college remains strong between the three players. After recovering from their initial surprise of finding Stoyanovich at the Montreal training camp, Landon and McPhee took him aside and gave him some advice.&ldquo;We just told him to work hard, that&rsquo;s all he could do,&rdquo; McPhee said. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s the type of hockey player that when he works hard, things happen for him. That&rsquo;s what he did. He worked hard and played aggressively. We told him not to back away because they were looking for aggressive left wings. He played very aggressively in training camp, that&rsquo;s how he got a contract.&rdquo;Stoyanovich, apparently, listened carefully to his friends.&ldquo;In his first game, Dave got in a fight,&rdquo; Landon said with a laugh as he recalled the incident. &ldquo;Brophy is the kind of guy who likes a player who won&rsquo;t back down. Dave has done well and both Mike and I are pushing for him. We&rsquo;re trying to help him every way we can.&rdquo;Adessa feels that each of the three players will benefit from having the other two around.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve tried to explain to all of them what it&rsquo;s like when you get up there (to pro hockey),&rdquo; Adessa said. &ldquo;There aren&rsquo;t many guys who, when you have a down day, are willing to call you in and put an arm around you. You&rsquo;ve got to be a little tougher and a little more hardened. That&rsquo;s why I think the three of them might have a greater advantage than maybe any of the others on the club, because the three of them are there together.&ldquo;And I know that while everyone is looking out for themselves, those three guys, I&rsquo;m sure, are looking qut for themselves after they&rsquo;ve looked out for the other two. I think that&rsquo;s going to give the three of them great. strength.&rdquo;AROUND THE DIVISION&mdash;Defenseman Carmine Cirella signed an AHL contract with the Maine Mariners. Paul Evans, who missed the Mariners&rsquo; first three games with a leg injury, returned to the lineup. Goalie Shawn MacKenzie made an impressive debut with Maine, allowing just two goals in his first two starts&hellip;Moncton released Phil Drouillard and goaltender Gord Garbutt was assigned to Milwaukee of the International League. Garbutt indicated he would retire&hellip;Fredericton opened the season a bit shorthanded. Tony Currie and Gerry Minor were both forced to move to the left side when injuries left Moe Lemay as the only available left winger. Rookie center Mike Eagles is still sidelined with an injured left wrist&hellip;The Voyageurs&rsquo; team captain Dave Allison was returned to the team by Montreal. Goaltender Gilles Heroux was assigned to Peoria of the IHL&hellip;Defenseman Don Spring was recalled by Winnipeg from Sherbrooke. Adirondack played the first three games of the season without defenseman Ted Huesing, who was sidelined with a knee injury. &#9632;

Former College Players Unite On Voyageurs

<div class="byline">BY BILL PICKETT</div>Louisville Hockey<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0029-01437/4810622-1-eng-US/f0029-012.jpg" title="f0029-01" width="280" height="212"></div>TULSA&mdash;Coach Tom Webster was a little apprehensive about starting the season with 10 straight road games, but the Oilers&rsquo; offensive output in their first two outings against Montana has allayed some of those fears.The Oilers scored the fewest goals in the league last year (282) and only 133 on the road, second worst behind Wichita. They picked up 14 goals against Montana and, except for a Magic goal with 15 seconds to play in the opener, could have been 2-0 or a least 1-1 after the first weekend.Dave Bums led the Tulsa effort with three goals, Rob McClanahan picked up two goals and four assists and center Mikko Leinonen contributed a goal and four assists during the Oilers&rsquo; early-season fireworks.Accoring to Hal O&rsquo;Halloran, Tulsa&rsquo;s p.r. director, Webster &ldquo;is delighted with the way the offense got things going. When you give up 11 goals and still get a split of two games you&rsquo;ve got to feel pretty good.&rdquo;Webster had two rookies in goal and plans to use them on an alternating basis, to give each experience. John Vanbies-brouck lost the opener 7-6, while Ron Scott anchored an 8-4 winning effort the next night.The Oilers were set to play their first games on home ice Oct. 14 and 15, but the Oklahoma State Fair was in the Pavilion and the pouring of cement for the new ice rink was pushed back to Oct. 12. As a result, the Oilers will be at Salt Lake while the concrete sets and won&rsquo;t open at home until Nov. 8 against Indianapolis.&ldquo;Our new rink is on county property almost exactly in the population center of Tulsa,&rdquo; explained O&rsquo;Halloran. &ldquo;There is plenty of parking and it&rsquo;s free.&rdquo;At the Assembly Center, where the Oilers have spent several seasons, parking was limited and the rate went up to $2 this year. That was one action which prompted the Oilers&rsquo; move.The Pavilion should be a cozy spot for the Oilers. Seating capacity is 5,200 and there should be fewer empty seats for players to look at.INDIANAPOLIS&mdash;Coach Fred Creighton undoubtedly was happy to swing into action against CHL competition after perhaps the toughest round of opening games in the league.Creighton&rsquo;s two-time defending Adams Cup champs took on Team USA and the Canadian Olympic squad three times in four nights and came up empty. Two of those contests counted in the CHL standings.Team USA edged the Checkers 4-3 in the Indianapolis home opener before 6,713 fans, largest turnout for an opening home game in five years for Indianapolis. Two nights later, Team Canada blitzed the Checkers 6-1 in an exhibition game at Saskatoon, then beat them again 5-2 the next evening at Prince Albert&mdash;and this one counted in the standings.&ldquo;If you gave everyone in the league a couple of months head start on us, they&rsquo;d be tough openers, too,&rdquo; Creighton explained.Things may get a bit easier for the Checkers when they embark on their CHL schedule.MONTANA&mdash;The Magic, playing the first regular-season professional hockey game ever in Montana, got help from NHL veteran Reggie Leach with a game-winning goal to defeat Tulsa 7-6. A night later, however, another veteran&mdash;goalie Paul Skidmdore who was reassigned just a couple of days earlier by St. Louis&mdash;surrendered eight goals and the Oilers retaliated with an 8-4 triumph.SALT LAKE&mdash;Center Richie Hansen picked up a pair of goals and one assist as the Golden Eagles split their opening series with Colorado. He needs only five more points to become the CHL&rsquo;s leading career scorer.Salt Lake&rsquo;s first home game attracted 7,776 fans, more than three times as many spectators as Minnesota&rsquo;s Birmingham franchise averaged last season.Defenseman Craig Levie was recalled by Minnesota.COLORADO&mdash;Salt Lake ruined the home opener for the Flames when veteran Walt McKechnie&rsquo;s second-period goal broke a 2-2 tie and ignited the Golden Eagles to a 6-2 victory. Coach Pierre Page&rsquo;s Flames returned the favor next night, though, scoring three third-period goals to win 4-3 in the Salt Palace.NOTES&mdash;The Oct. 9 and 11 games originally scheduled for Salt Lake at Tulsa were rescheduled to Dec. 19th and Jan. 26th, respectively. Tulsa will play at Salt Lake Oct. 14 and 15 instead of on Nov. 30 and Feb. 13th.The Oct. 25th game between Montana and Colorado at Denver has been set back to March 29th. &#9632;

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Oilers Strike It Rich At Start Of Season

<div class="byline">BY BUD GALLMEIER</div>Louisville Hockey<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-01493/4810660-1-eng-US/f0030-012.jpg" title="f0030-01" width="292" height="220"></div>TOLEDO&mdash;Bill Beagan, former commissioner of the International Hockey League and now the general manager of the Toledo franchise, has an imaginative mind, a persuasive personality, the push of a promoter and endless energy. He&rsquo;s combined all characteristics into making Toledo a winner on the ice and a potential winner off the ice.In the two years Beagan has been in charge of the franchise, the Goaldiggers have won two straight league and playoff championships. The year before Beagan arrived, Toledo was the worst team in the IHL, on and off the ice. In fact, things were so bad it was decided the franchise be put in escrow for at least a year, as was the case with Port Huron. But Beagan decided to gamble and pumped enough life into the franchise to keep it on the ice.The Goaldiggers haven&rsquo;t turned the comer completely financially, but for a franchise that was given up for dead just two years ago, it&rsquo;s pretty lively.Beagan has worked hard to sell his product. He knows success on the ice alone is not enough. Having a winning team is a good sales pitch but survival depends on making the sale as well. He&rsquo;s promoted the Diggers heavily and is confident he&rsquo;ll win the war.He thinks the IHL is a good league and hockey is a great game. But he also believes there is room to make the game more appealing to fans. Not the true hockey fan, but the fan who is more interested in entertainment than the true art.Beagan thinks he knows how the IHL can increase its entertainment potential. He proposed his idea at the recent league meeting, but the reception was less than lukewarm.Beagan suggested the IHL abandon overtime and decide overtime games with a shootout. The idea is not his. The National Hockey League oldtimers use the shootout system in their games and so does the North American Soccer League.&ldquo;And it&rsquo;s been a big hit with the fans,&rdquo; Beagan said.Beagan recognizes his suggestion borders on sacrilege. Hockey is a traditional game.&ldquo;I know that,&rdquo; Beagan said, &ldquo;but I believe tradition should be a rudder, not an anchor. Fans want to see a winner in a contest. Ties, to use the well-known cliche, are like kissing your sister.&rdquo;Tradition kept the National Hockey League from adding an overtime period in regular season play until this season. The IHL has experimented with overtime periods off and on during its long history. Overtimes are currently on with another tradition-breaking innovation. Under IHL rules, each team is guaranteed a point when a game ends in a tie. If the tie is broken during the five-minute overtime, the winning team gets the traditional two points for a victory.While overtime is not a popular choice among most coaches, especially when on the road, there is little doubt overtime is popular with a majority of fans. But an overtime is no guarantee a tie will be broken.&ldquo;I haven&rsquo;t made a study of statistics,&rdquo; Beagan said, &ldquo;but I would bet that most games which are decided in overtime, the winning goal comes in the first two minutes of play. After that, the odds favor the tie holding.&rdquo;Beagan&rsquo;s proposal calls for a five-man shootout, similar to the concept used in the North American Soccer League.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-02367/4810653-1-eng-US/f0030-022.jpg" title="f0030-02" width="557" height="880"><figcaption class="caption-body">Toledo general manager Bill Beagan wants a shootout to replace the traditional overtime.</figcaption></div>&ldquo;The coaches would select five players from their team to participate and shots would be taken on an alternating basis, starting with the visiting team,&rsquo; he said. &ldquo;What you would have is 10 penalty shots, one of the most exciting plays in hockey. But it&rsquo;s a rarity. I think the fans would really enjoy it. They would look forward to tie games, while now they hope it doesn&rsquo;t happen.&rdquo;Beagan doesn&rsquo;t have much hope his proposal will be accepted but he doesn&rsquo;t plan to forget about it.&ldquo;I know it&rsquo;s a big break from tradition,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but other sports have gone against tradition and have found it acceptable as well as profitable.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Beagan Proposes Entertaining Idea

<div class="byline">BY JOHN HERBERT</div>Louisville Hockey<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-01454/4810698-1-eng-US/f0031-012.jpg" title="f0031-01" width="288" height="212"></div>KINGSTON&mdash;Former Sault Ste. Marie Greyhound scoring star Kevin Conway lost his luggage on the flight to join Kingston Canadians, but his new coach Rick Comacchia didn&rsquo;t mind.&ldquo;As long as it wasn&rsquo;t his scoring touch,&rdquo; the former high school teacher and junior B coach at Toronto St. Mike&rsquo;s kidded.&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t lose that so quick.&rdquo;Seriously, though, it appears the Canadians did not pay a great a price to obtain the overage player from Sault St. Marie in what could turn out to be the biggest trade of the Ontario Hockey League season. The Canadians also got a sixth-round draft pick, while giving the Greyhounds left winger Chris Brant, their No. 1 midget draft pick in 1982 from Trenton. Last year Conway produced 57 goals and 122 points to finish ninth in the scoring race. Brant had one goal.Taking a closer look, the deal has several benefits for both clubs.For the Hounds, it solved a minor dilemma for coach Terry Crisp and general manager Sam McMaster. They had been choosing between Gus Greco and Conway to be the club&rsquo;s one designated overage player. They also picked up a winger who is 18 years old with two seasons of eligibility remaining and one who can work the comers. In addition, Brant played defense most of last season.McMaster, whose application for an expansion team in Niagara Falls has been accepted along with one from Detroit, said it was a difficult trade to swing. The first-place Hounds felt they needed a hard-nosed winger such as Brant to give the club a better blend.&ldquo;It took a lot of persuasive effort to swing this one,&rdquo; McMaster said. &ldquo;Kingston wanted a scorer but didn&rsquo;t want to give up Brant. I think they were afraid Cornwall might give us what we wanted (for Conway) and that spurred them (Kingston) into dealing.&ldquo;Hey, this sort of thing is never easy. Kevin is a good kid and a proven scorer but we felt we needed an aggressive winger and right now we got him in Brant.And Brant will be around next season.&rdquo;In his first game with the Hounds, a 7-2 win over the London Knights, Brant matched his entire output of last season with a goal.For the Canadians, Conway should supply some much-needed scoring spark. In his only game with the Hounds since he joined them after a trial with the Hartford Whalers, Conway scored three goals in a 6-2 win over Cornwall Royals. He could hit 60 this season if he gets the kind of quality center he had last year in Wayne Groulx.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re not going to take cabbage for steak,&rdquo; was the way Comacchia described the deal. &ldquo;They couldn&rsquo;t keep two overage players and Chris is very talented. He played defense last year and we moved him to left wing this year. He&rsquo;ll get his share of goals and be a National Hockey League draft choice. He&rsquo;s a good player.&rdquo;The trade was the second major news story out of Kingston in less than a week.Just before the Canadians were set to go on for a practice, the two-day-old $35,000 clock at the Kingston Memorial Center fell 12 metres to the ice while workmen were making adjustments. Reports indicated one of the workmen suffered paraylsis from the waist down while the other suffered a fractured leg. A crane was required to haul the clock out of the building.Comacchia said the workmen told him a few moments before the accident that it would be all right for his club to practise while they worked overhead.&ldquo;I said no way&hellip;forget it,&rdquo; Comacchia said. &ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t let my guys skate when they&rsquo;re working on it. No more than five minutes later and it&rsquo;s on the ice. It&rsquo;s scary.&rdquo;Dave King, coach of the Canadian Olympic team, said OHL commissioner Dave Branch is not giving him support in recruiting junior players. In a story in the Toronto Globe and Mail, King accused Branch of taking &ldquo;shots&rdquo; at the Canadian Olympic team. &ldquo;He (Branch) accuses us of raiding the juniors. But where does he expect us to get the players. The colleges don&rsquo;t accuse us of raiding them.&rdquo; The furor started when Dave Gagner took the advice of the New York Rangers and decided to try out with the nationals rather than go back to his junior club, the Brantford Alexanders. The situation has piqued with the latest news that Kirk Muller, the high-scoring center of the Guelph Platers and considered to be the No. 1 pick in next June&rsquo;s entry draft, will soon join the Olympians. Guelph owner Joe Holody says he will lose $500,000 and his club if Muller opts for the Olympics.Branch, meanwhile, says he hasn&rsquo;t prevented any junior player from joining the Olympians and that he&rsquo;s only looking for some sort of policy on the matter. When the Olympic team was first being put together, Branch was told junior players wouldn&rsquo;t be good enough to make the Olympic team.Now, the policy has changed and it&rsquo;s disrupting the entire major junior scene.The Emms Division is already shaping up as a two-team race between Kitchener and the Greyhounds. The Rangers rolled to six straight wins and the Hounds came off a six-game road trip in first place.The Rangers, who finished second to the Hounds last season, not only have a quality group of scorers such as Dave Bruce, Wayne Presley, Kent Paynter, John Tucker and Greg Puhalski, but rookies who are producing, too, such as Shawn Burr, from Sarnia midgets, and Dave Latta from Orillia junior A&rsquo;s. The defense, led by Dave Shaw and Jim Quinn, is steady.The Greyhounds have just as good a blend up front, although not as offensive.The eventual winner may be the one with the best rookie goaltender.The best news around the Leyden Division was the return of Danny Quinn to the Belleville Bulls by Calgary Flames, who have four experienced centers.&ldquo;Right now, they (the Flames) figured he could develop better in junior,&rdquo; Bulls&rsquo; coach Larry Mavety said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been having problems scoring goals. Hopefully, he&rsquo;ll fix that up. He did get 60 last year, so he should help the wingmen and the power play. You don&rsquo;t have to quote me to know those things.&rdquo;The Bulls also added Ali Butorac as their overage player and traded Mark Hegarty, a 40 goal-scorer, to London for a draft choice.Cornwall Royal coach Jocelyn Guevremont, whose club split three of its first six games, wasn&rsquo;t altogether pleased with a 5-4 win in overtime over Oshawa General on Ray Sheppard&rsquo;s goal.&ldquo;The second period was the worst period I&rsquo;ve seen the team play since I got here,&rdquo; said Guevremont. &ldquo;If I would have had a bag, I would have put it over my head. I think we have to make some changes. Some of them (his players) are playing like they&rsquo;ve never seen hockey before.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-02321/4810691-1-eng-US/f0031-022.jpg" title="f0031-02" width="556" height="881"><figcaption class="caption-body">Kevin Conway could score 60 goals for Kingston this season if he gets a good center.</figcaption></div>WHlSTLESTOPS&mdash;Keith Gretzky is boarding with Detroit goalie Eddie Mio&rsquo;s family in Windsor&hellip;London&rsquo;s controversial trainer, Don Brankley, has been asked to join the world junior club&hellip; Promising Sault rookie Jean Marc MacKenzie will be out six weeks with a broken ankle&hellip;As part of rookie initiations in London, seven naked rookies piled into the washroom on a bus trip. The veterans then tied the rookies clothes in knots and threw them into the darkened washroom. The rookies couldn&rsquo;t come out until fully dressed. The first, Mark Eros, appeared in 22 minutes. &#9632;

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Canadians’ Swap For Soo’s Conway Could Be Big Deal Of The Season

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-03238/4810743-1-eng-US/f0031-032.jpg" title="f0031-03" width="343" height="552"><figcaption class="caption-body">KIRK MULLERGuelph</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-04175/4810736-1-eng-US/f0031-042.jpg" title="f0031-04" width="341" height="553"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAN HODGSONPr. Albert</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0031-05143/4810729-1-eng-US/f0031-052.jpg" title="f0031-05" width="343" height="560"><figcaption class="caption-body">JACQUES GOYETTELaval</figcaption></div><h2>ONTARIO LEAGUE</h2>Despite the controversy that&rsquo;s swirling around him, 17-year-old Kirk Muller of the Guelph Platers is still managing to maintain his concentration and scoring goals.The much-sought after center scored four goals and set up a similar number in two games for Guelph to win the nod as the Ontario Hockey League&rsquo;s Player of the Week. Muller had nine scoring points in his first three starts to lead the Platers.Muller is the center of a tug-of-war between the Canadian Olympic team and the Platers for his services. Team Canada maintains they need Muller and that he wants to play for his country. The Platers insist he is the franchise and must hang on to him to remain competitive.<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>The Prince Albert Raiders are in their second Western Hockey League season and if they expect to become a contender they&rsquo;ll have to get another big offensive performance from Dan Hodgson.The 18-year-old center collected a whopping 130 scoring points last season and already he&rsquo;s making his mark this year. In his first five games, he scored 10 goals and had seven assists for 17 points to become the early league scoring leader and the WHL&rsquo;s Player of the Week.The 5-foot-10,170-pound Hodgson, who was picked in the fifth round of the June entry draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs, score his goals in bunches. He had two hat tricks.<h2>QUEBEC LEAGUE</h2>No one has to convince Jacques Goyette of Laval that he&rsquo;s having a better year than last season. He already knows that.Goyette, who scored only 17 goals in 52 games in 1982-83, has already counted 15 times this season in his first dozen games. The 5-foot-11, 190-pounder has been named the Quebec Hockey League&rsquo;s Player of the Week and playing alongside the Voisins&rsquo; explosive Mario Lemieux has obviously helped Goyette&rsquo;s production this year. While Lemieux leads the league with 51 scoring points, Goyette is second with 38.Goyette scored a hat trick in Laval&rsquo;s 11-3 romp over St. Jean and ended the week with eight scoring points. &#9632;

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Players of the Week

<div class="byline">BY BEN KUZMA</div>Louisville Hockey<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-01469/4810781-1-eng-US/f0032-012.jpg" title="f0032-01" width="288" height="220"></div>LETHBRIDGE&mdash;For John Chapman it&rsquo;s another chapter in his hockey novel but one that&rsquo;s missing a familiar surname.The coach of the Western Hockey League champion Lethbridge Broncos directed his club from rags to riches last season thanks to a fine blend of veterans and newcomers. Among those veterans were twins Ron and Rich Sutter, two of the now-famous Sutter brothers of Viking, Alta.Chapman knows he has a hard act to follow this season. Sure, there are veterans back such as Ken Wregget. Gerard Diduck, Darcy Kaminski, Bob Rouse, Rick Gal and J.C. McEwan, but the one and off-ice leadership provided by the Sutters will be missed.&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t replace guys like Ron and Rich,&rdquo; said Chapman. &ldquo;You say you&rsquo;re never going to be able to do a job without them but somebody else comes along and does it. You just have to carry on.&rdquo;Striving for perfection is nothing new in the Sutter clan and nobody knows that better than Chapman. The only Sutter that he hasn&rsquo;t coached is Darryl.Chapman had Brent, Ron and Rich on his 1980 Red Deer Rustler Tier Two club that won the Centennial Cup. Next season, Chapman joined the Broncos and brought along the talented trio.Ron has made the grade with Philadelphia Flyers, while Rich has been recalled from Pittsburgh Penguins&rsquo; American Hockey League farm team in Baltimore. Other Sutters to make the grade are Brent and Duane (New York Islanders), Darryl (Chicago Black Hawks) and Brian (St. Louis Blues).Lethbridge got off to a horrendous start last season. The Broncos lost 22 of their first 33 games before getting veterans back from NHL clubs. From there they went on a tear, losing just eight games in second half of the season. After Jan. 9th, they didn&rsquo;t lose another game on home ice.The Broncos finished fifth and continued their steady climb in the playoffs, capping it with the league pennant and berth in the Memorial Cup.&ldquo;When we got off to such a slow start last year and Ron was gone for eight weeks, he was given the &lsquo;C&rsquo; when he came back and showed great leadership both on and off the ice,&rdquo; said Chapman. &ldquo;He did some things in the playoffs that were just phenomenal.&rdquo;Ron led the WHL in playoff scoring with 41 points in 20 games, while Rich had 23 in 17 games. During the regular season, Ron collected 83 points in 58 games, while Rich had 67 in 64 games.But what makes a Sutter so special?&ldquo;You consider it a bonus because you know they come to play every night,&rdquo; said Chapman. &ldquo;Their intensity is what makes them special. There are great players but they don&rsquo;t play with intensity.&ldquo;There was no doubt in their minds when they were 15, 16 or 17 that they would be playing in the NHL and they weren&rsquo;t going to let anything stand in their way. There aren&rsquo;t too many bad points about them&mdash;just the fact they all always like to wear white socks.&rdquo;Chapman said the fact Brian and Darryl Sutter had tough climbs into the NHL helped Ron and Rick strive for perfection.&ldquo;Brian blazed the trail,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;They saw how tough it was for him to make Tier One. Brian was sent down the first year but then came back to lead the club in scoring. It was a great inspiration to all the Sutters.&rdquo;Darryl didn&rsquo;t make an instant impact either. He opted to play in Japan after being the 178th player taken in the entry draft. But Darryl returned only to be sent to the minors in New Brunswick before being recalled by Chicago and blossoming into an NHL regular.When Chapman arrived in Lethbridge he quickly predicted &ldquo;in three years this club will go the the Memorial Cup.That prediction came true. But what about the 1983-84 campaign? Do the Broncos have the horses to win another league championship?&ldquo;We have seven 16-year-olds,&rdquo; said Chapman. &ldquo;Hopefully, our defense will play good and keep us out of trouble until the young kids come along at December and then we&rsquo;ll see. Hopefully, we can build and be entertaining at the same time.&rdquo;That was the story three seasons ago when Ron and Rich Sutter where 16 and brother Brent 17. Chapman could see potential and didn&rsquo;t let an opening-night 13-0 loss to the Medicine Hat Tigers concern him. The Broncos matured and in the playoffs knocked off the Tigers.&ldquo;With the older players by the end of September you know what you&rsquo;re going to have,&rdquo; said Chapman. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve gone with a lot of young kids because we believe they&rsquo;ll develop. In all honesty, if we get good offense we&rsquo;ll be close to taking another run at the championship.&rdquo;Chapman is expecting big things from 16-year-olds Dwight Mullins (center) and Mike Berger (defense) to help the Broncos contend again this season. If the youngsters can jell with the veterans, Lethbridge will be a force to reckon with.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-02340/4810774-1-eng-US/f0032-022.jpg" title="f0032-02" width="564" height="928"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ron Sutter led Lethbridge last season, but now he&rsquo;s playing for Philadelphia Flyers.</figcaption></div>&ldquo;Nobody picks us to be there (first) but we&rsquo;ll scare a few people before it&rsquo;s over,&rdquo; summed up Chapman.WHL WEEK&mdash;Brandon Wheat Kings and New Westminster Bruins are the big surprises in the WHL. The Wheat Kings, who finished seventh in the eight-team Eastern Division last season, started off with four wins in their first five games. The transplanted Bruins (formerly Nanaimo Islanders) won three of their first seven games and are making others open their eyes in the Western Division. &#9632;

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<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>BUFFALO&mdash;Sean McKenna, RW, Mike Moller, RW, and Chris Langevin, LW, recalled from Rochester of AHL. Kari Suoraniemi, D, granted release to return to his home in Finland.CALGARY&mdash;Pat Ribble, D, and Jim-Jackson, RW, assigned to Colorado of CHL. Dave Hindmarch, LW, sidelined with wrist injury. Lanny McDonald, RW, and Doug Risebrough, C, named co-captai ns of team.CHICAGO&mdash;Jerome Dupont, D, recalled from Springfield of AHL.EDMONTON&mdash;Jim Playfair, D, Reg Kerr, C, and Tom Rowe, RW, all assigned to Moncton of AHL.HARTFORD&mdash;Ross Yates, C, sent to Binghamton of AHL after being hospitalized throughout training camp. The Whalers reacquired NHL rights to Fred Arthur, D, from Philadelphia in exchange for a 1984 third-round draft pick.LOS ANGELES&mdash;Mike Murphy, RW, retired as player to become special assistant to general manager. Dan Bonar, C, removed from suspended list after reporting to New Haven of AHL. Peter Helander, D, and Brian MacLellan, LW, recalled from New Haven. Terry Ruskowski, C, named new team captain.MINNESOTA&mdash;Craig Hartsburg, D, sidelined for three weeks after undegoing arthroscopic knee surgery. Craig Levie, D, recalled from Salt Lake of CHL as replacement.MONTREAL&mdash;Greg Moffett, G, and Dave Allison, D, sent to Nova Scotia of AHL. Gilles Heroux, G, recalled from Nova Scotia and reassigned to Peoria of IHL to make room for Moffett. Claude Lemieux, RW, recalled from Nova Scotia.NY ISLANDERS&mdash;Mike Bossy, RW, sidelined indefinitely with hip injury.NY RANGERS&mdash;Mike Allison, C, out of action with stretched knee ligaments. Mike Blaisdell, RW, returned from injury list. Mark Morrison, C, assigned to Canadian Olympic team. Chris Kontos, C, suspended for failing to report to Tulsa of CHL on assignment.PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Paul Holmgren, RW, sidelined for four to five weeks after spraining ligaments in his knee. Michel Larocque, G, out with back injury. Frank Bathe, D, sidelined indefinitely with hurniated disc. Sam St. Laurent, G, Mike Stothers, D, and Paul Evans, LW, all recalled from Springfield of AHL and reassigned to Maine of AHL.PITTSBURGH&mdash;Doug Shedden, RW, sidelined indefinitely with broken wrist. Bob Gladney, D, and Rich Sutter, RW, both recalled from Baltimore of AHL. Randy Boyd, D, sent to Baltimore.QUEBEC&mdash;Andre Savard, C, back from injury list.ST. LOUIS&mdash;Blair Chapman, RW, released on waivers. Richard David, LW, released after tryout and will play in West Germany. Paul Skidmore, G, sent on loan to Montana of the CHL.TORONTO&mdash;Dave Shand, D, recalled from St. Catharines and traded to Washington in exchange for Lee Norwood, D. The Leafs sent Norwood to St. Catharines. Miroslav Frycer, RW, back from injury list.VANCOUVER&mdash;Gerry Minor, C, recalled from Fredericton of AHL. Neil Belland, D, and Moe Lemay, LW, sent to Fredericton. Wendell Young, G, assigned to Canadian Olympic team.WASHINGTON&mdash;Greg Theberge, D, recalled from Hershey of AHL. Timo Blomqvist, D, back from injury list. Bryan Erickson, LW, sent to Hershey. Scott Stevens, D, sidelined with charley horse.WINNIPEG&mdash;Brian Maxwell, D, released on waivers without recall and later assigned to Sherbrooke of AHL after clearing waivers. Don Spring, D, and John Gibson, D, both recalled from Sherbrooke. Bobby Dollas, D, the Jets&rsquo; second pick in the first round of the &lsquo;83 entry draft, returned to Laval of QMJHL. &#9632;

PLAYER TRANSACTIONS

<div class="byline">BY RICK MAYOH</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-01427/4810850-1-eng-US/f0033-012.jpg" title="f0033-01" width="960" height="887"><figcaption class="caption-body">BEAVER TALES</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-02301/4810843-1-eng-US/f0033-022.jpg" title="f0033-02" width="959" height="893"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0033-03211/4810836-1-eng-US/f0033-032.jpg" title="f0033-03" width="1062" height="902"></div>HULL&mdash;The Olympiques haven&rsquo;t exactly bolted from the gate this season.The municipally-owned club stumbled to a 3-9 start with attendance figures among the lowest in the league and goaltender Dave Quigley&mdash;hero of last season&rsquo;s near-successful playoff rally against the pennant-winning Laval Voisins&mdash;is at home waiting to be haded.There appears to be no chance of superb left winger Sylvain Turgeon returning from the Hartford Whalers, who made him their No. 1 draft choice and second overall in the National Hockey League, and the Hull club has only six players back from last year&rsquo;s eighth-place squad that can be considered seasoned veterans.The franchise has undergone a complete administrative overhaul with the in-production of a five-man corporation answerable to city council and new general manager-coach Michel Morin represents the 10th coach in the team&rsquo;s 11-year history.Although the Olympiques are struggling, they lost eight of their first 11 games by one or two goals and finished strongly in most of them.And spearheading the rebuilding effort is No. 1 midget draft pick Luc Robitaille, 17, who leads the league&rsquo;s rookies and his own team in scoring with 12 goals and seven assists in 12 games.Only Laval&rsquo;s runaway scoring leader Mario Lemieux, with 21 goals and 25 assists in 12 games, and Robitaille have picked up a point in every game.Stephane Richer of Granby Bisons is the next leading rookie scorer with seven goals and 12 assists, followed by Drummondville&rsquo;s Jose Charbonneau (seven goals and 11 assists), Laval&rsquo;s Vincent Damphousse (two goals and eight assists) and Trois Rivieres Draveurs&rsquo; Serge Poudrier (four goals and five assists).&ldquo;Luc is the kind of guy I want to build a team around,&rdquo; said Morin, who coached the Chicoutimi Sagueneens for more than two seasons before taking over in Hull. &ldquo;He is one of the best first rounders along with Charbonneau and Richer and I would compare his attitude with Sylvain Turgeon&rsquo;s.&rdquo;Morin is cautious not to put too much pressure on the 6-foot, 180-pound left winger from Montreal, who led Bourassa to the midget Triple A playoff championship last year, scoring almost 100 points in 48 games.&ldquo;I think the way he is playing now is great,&rdquo; Morin said. &ldquo;He is a first choice, everybody has an eye on him and we&rsquo;re not winning. Damphousse can play on Laval&rsquo;s fourth line and nobody cares what he does, but Luc has to take a larger part of the work.&rdquo;Robitaille has always played on the line that has given Hull its best production so far, so Morin has decided to move him to Patrick Emond&rsquo;s line to spark the Pittsburgh Penguins&rsquo; sixth-round choice who scored 44 goals and 113 points last season.&ldquo;Luc doesn&rsquo;t score on fancy plays but by hard work,&rdquo; Morin said. &ldquo;He works for the team and doesn&rsquo;t mind what kind of work has to be done. He has to work on his skating and stickhandling, but he plays with so much desire it doesn&rsquo;t show.&rdquo;&ldquo;He works 100 per cent on every shift and he&rsquo;s a hawk around the net, always in the right place,&rdquo; said Hull center Dave Purcell, a 19-year-old rookie from the University of Prince Edward Island who is providing stability up the middle.By his own assessment, Robitaille likes the comers.&ldquo;This is the first time I&rsquo;ve scored more goals than assists,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not a fast skater, but I&rsquo;m working on it.&rdquo;His newly-acquired English is quite passable and he is already teaching other players on the team. &#9632;

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Struggling Olympiques Haven’t Lost Heart

<h2>BOSTON</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>31 &mdash; KEANS, Doug1 &mdash; PEETERS, Pete<h3>Defensemen</h3>7 &mdash; BOURQUE, Ray23 &mdash; HILLIER, Randy6 &mdash; KLUZAK, Gord5 &mdash; LAPOINTE, Guy26 &mdash; MILBURY, Mike20 &mdash; O&rsquo;CONNELL, Mike13 &mdash; SCHOENFELD, Jim<h3>Centers</h3>28 &mdash; FERGUS, Tom11 &mdash; KASPER, Steve8 &mdash; McNAB, Peter10 &mdash; PEDERSON, Barry<h3>R. Wings</h3>32 &mdash; CROWDER, Bruce18 &mdash; CROWDER, Keith16 &mdash; MIDDLETON, Rick24 &mdash; O&rsquo;REILLY, Terry - Cpt.<h3>L. Wings</h3>29 &mdash; DUFOUR, Luc &mdash; GILLIS, Mike25 &mdash; KRUSHELNYSKI, M14 &mdash; MacTAVISH, Craig22 &mdash; MARKWART, Nevin<h2>BUFFALO</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>30 &mdash; BARRASSO,Tom 28 &mdash; SAUVE, Bob<h3>Defensemen</h3>24 &mdash; HAJT, Bill6 &mdash; HOUSLEY, Phil27 &mdash; PLAYFAIR, Larry5 &mdash; RAMSEY, Mike3 &mdash; VIRTA, Hannu19 &mdash; WIEMER, Jim<h3>Centers</h3>25 &mdash; ANDREYCHUK, Dave7 &mdash; McCOURT, Dale11 &mdash; PERREAULT, Gil - Cpt.20 &mdash; PETERSON, Brent<h3>R. Wings</h3>8 &mdash; CLOUTIER, Real17 &mdash; FOLIGNO, Mike12 &mdash; McKENNA, Sean14 &mdash; MOLLER, Mike16 &mdash; SEILING, Ric<h3>L. Wings</h3>18 &mdash; CYR, Paul9 &mdash; HAMEL, Gilles10 &mdash; RAMSAY, Craig15 &mdash; LANGEVIN, Chris22 &mdash; RUFF, Lindy<h2>CALGARY</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>1 &mdash; EDWARDS, Don31 &mdash; LEMELIN, Rejean<h3>Defensemen</h3>4 &mdash; BAXTER, Paul20 &mdash; ELORANTA, Kari6 &mdash; HANSON, Keith3 &mdash; KONROYD, Steve34 &mdash; MACOUN, Jamie23 &mdash; REINHART, Paul5 &mdash; VOLCAN, Mickey<h3>Centers</h3>7 &mdash; EAVES, Mike21 &mdash; JALONEN, Kari14 &mdash; NILSSON, Kent24 &mdash; PEPLINSKI, Jim8 &mdash; RISEBROUGH, D. - Cpt.15 &mdash; TAMBELLINI, Steve<h3>R. Wings</h3>19 &mdash; HUNTER, Tim17 &mdash; HISLOP, Jamie9 &mdash; McDonald, L. - Cpt.<h3>L. Wings</h3>27 &mdash; BEERS, Ed26 &mdash; BOZEK, Steve29 &mdash; BRUBAKER, Jeff18 &mdash; HINDMARCH, Dave12 &mdash; LOOB, Haken25 &mdash; MEREDITH, Gregg<h2>CHICAGO</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>30 &mdash; BANNERMAN, M.35 &mdash; ESPOSITO, Tony36 &mdash; JANECYK, Bob<h3>Defensemen</h3>4 &mdash; BROWN, Keith25 &mdash; DUPONT, Jerome3 &mdash; FEAMSTER, Dave2 &mdash; FOX, Greg6 &mdash; MURRAY, Bob5 &mdash; O&rsquo;CALLAHAN, Jack23 &mdash; WILSON, Behn24 &mdash; WILSON, Doug<h3>Centers</h3>29 &mdash; LUDZIK, Steve12 &mdash; LYSIAK, Tom19 &mdash; MURRAY, Troy26 &mdash; PATERSON, Rick18 &mdash; SAVARD, Denis7 &mdash; YAREMCHUK, Ken<h3>R. Wings</h3>11 &mdash; CYR, Denis15 &mdash; HIGGINS, Tim28 &mdash; LARMER, Steve16 &mdash; PRESTON, Rich<h3>L. Wings</h3>8 &mdash; FRASER, Curt14 &mdash; GARDNER, Bill17 &mdash; MARSH, Peter20 &mdash; SECORD, Al27 &mdash; SUTTER, Daryl - Cpt.<h2>DETROIT</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>41 &mdash; MIO, Eddie30 &mdash; STEFAN, Greg<h3>Defensemen</h3>3 &mdash; BARRETT, John4 &mdash; CAMPBELL, Colin28 &mdash; LARSON, Reed23 &mdash; MANNO, Bob26 &mdash; MELROSE, Barry22 &mdash; PARK, Brad5 &mdash; SMITH, Greg<h3>Centers</h3>12 &mdash; BOLDIREV, Ivan20 &mdash; FOSTER, Dwight16 &mdash; KISIO, Kelly19 &mdash; YZERMAN, Steve<h3>R. Wings</h3>10 &mdash; DUGUAY, Ron18 &mdash; GARE, Danny - Cpt.24 &mdash; JOHNSON, Brian17 &mdash; JOHNSTONE, Ed14 &mdash; LAMBERT, Lane<h3>L. Wings</h3>11 &mdash; CRAVEN, Murray8 &mdash; NOLAN, Ted25 &mdash; OGRODNICK, John15 &mdash; WOODS, Paul<h2>EDMONTON</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>31 &mdash; FUHR, Grant35 &mdash; MOOG, Andy<h3>Defensemen</h3>28 &mdash; BLUM, John7 &mdash; COFFEY, Paul2 &mdash; FOGOLIN, Lee21 &mdash; GREGG, Randy22 &mdash; HUDDY, Charlie29 &mdash; JACKSON, Don4 &mdash; LOWE, Kevin<h3>Centers</h3>99 &mdash; GRETZKY, W. - Cpt.23 &mdash; HABSCHEID, Marc13 &mdash; LINSEMAN, Ken<h3>R. Wings</h3>9 &mdash; ANDERSON, Glenn16 &mdash; HUGHES, Pat17 &mdash; KURRI, Jari20 &mdash; LUMLEY, Dave24 &mdash; ROULSTON, Tom<h3>L. Wings</h3>18 &mdash; BERRY, Ken12 &mdash; HUNTER, Dave19 &mdash; LINDSTROM, Willy11 &mdash; MESSIER, Mark10 &mdash; POUZAR, Jaroslav27 &mdash; SEMENKO, Dave<h2>HARTFORD</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>30 &mdash; MILLEN, Greg31 &mdash; VEISOR, Mike<h3>Defensemen</h3>23 &mdash; HOSPODAR, Ed24 &mdash; KOTSOPOULOS, C.5 &mdash; LACROIX, Pierre8 &mdash; SILTANEN, Risto4 &mdash; DUNN, Richie27 &mdash; HOWE. Marty3 &mdash; QUENNEVILLE, Joel<h3>Centers</h3>10 &mdash; FRANCIS, Ron12 &mdash; JOHNSON, M. - Cpt.14 &mdash; MALONE, Greg34 &mdash; ZUKE, Mike<h3>R. Wings</h3>25 &mdash; CRAWFORD, Bob18 &mdash; CROMBEEN, Mike17 &mdash; NEUFELD, Ray21 &mdash; STOUGHTON, Blaine22 &mdash; SULLIMAN, Doug<h3>L. Wings</h3>15 &mdash; DUPONT, Normand32 &mdash; ROBERTSON, T.7 &mdash; STOYANOVICH, S.16 &mdash; TURGEON, SylvainINJURED: Lindy Ruff (Buff), Allan Maclnnis, Gregg Meredith (Cal), Dave Feamster (Chi), Willy Lindstrom (Edm), Pierre Lacroix, (Har).<h2>LOS ANGELES</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>30 &mdash; BLAKE, Mike1 &mdash; LESSARD, Mario<h3>Defensemen</h3>4 &mdash; ANDERSON, Russ &mdash; CHORNEY, Marc28 &mdash; HE IDT, Mike20 &mdash; HARDY, Mark3 &mdash; HELANDER, Peter6 &mdash; KENNEDY, Dean5 &mdash; MURPHY, Larry24 &mdash; WELLS, Jay<h3>Centers</h3>16 &mdash; DIONNE, Marcel26 &mdash; JARVIS, Wes9 &mdash; NICHOLLS, Bernie8 &mdash; RUSKOWSKI, T. - Cpt.23 &mdash; SMITH, Doug<h3>R. Wings</h3>12 &mdash; CHRISTOFF, Steve19 &mdash; FOX, Jim10 &mdash; LAFOREST, Bob21 &mdash; HAKANSSON, Anders22 &mdash; JENKINS, Dean18 &mdash; TAYLOR, Dave<h3>L. Wings</h3>17 &mdash; KELLY, John-Paul14 &mdash; LAV ALLEE, Kevin27 &mdash; MacLELLAN, Brian11 &mdash; SIMMER, Charlie<h2>MINNESOTA</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>33 &mdash; BEAUPRE, Don27 &mdash; MELOCHE, Gilles<h3>Defensemen</h3>2 &mdash; GILES, Curt4 &mdash; HARTSBURG, C. - Cpt. &mdash; LEVIE, Craig32 &mdash; MANDICH, Dan5 &mdash; MAXWELL, Brad10 &mdash; ROBERTS, Gord6 &mdash; VELISCHEK, Randy<h3>Centers</h3>7 &mdash; BROTEN, Neal98 &mdash; LAWTON, Brian9 &mdash; MARUK, Dennis15 &mdash; SMITH, Bobby<h3>R. Wings</h3>23 &mdash; BELLOWS, Brian20 &mdash; CICCARELLI, Dino21 &mdash; FERGUSON, George25 &mdash; MacADAM, Al<h3>L. Wings</h3>22 &mdash; ASHTON, Brent14 &mdash; DOUGLAS, Jordy11 &mdash; McCARTHY, Tom26 &mdash; PAYNE, Steve24 &mdash; PLETT, Willi<h2>MONTREAL</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>33 &mdash; SEVIGNY, Richard1 &mdash; WAMSLEY, Rick<h3>Defensemen</h3>2 &mdash; CARLSON, Kent27 &mdash; DELORME, Gilbert23 &mdash; GAINEY, Bob - Cpt.5 &mdash; GREEN, Rick28 &mdash; HAMEL, Jean17 &mdash; LUDWIG, Craig24 &mdash; PICARD, Robert19 &mdash; ROBINSON, Larry18 &mdash; ROOT, Bill<h3>Centers</h3>12 &mdash; ACTON, Keith21 &mdash; CARBONNEAU, Guy29 &mdash; CHABOT, John6 &mdash; MONDOU, Pierre25 &mdash; WICKENHEISER, Doug<h3>R. Wings</h3>20 &mdash; HUNTER, Mark10 &mdash; LAFLEUR, Guy&mdash; LEMIEUX, Claude31 &mdash; NAPIER, Mark26 &mdash; NASLUND, Mats30 &mdash; NILAN, Chris14 &mdash; TREMBLAY, Mario<h3>L. Wings</h3>8 &mdash; PASLAWSKI, Greg22 &mdash; SHUTT, Steve11 &mdash; WALTER, Ryan<h2>NEW JERSEY</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>30 &mdash; LOW, Ron.1 &mdash; RESCH, Chico<h3>Defense</h3>2 &mdash; CIRELLA, Joe3 &mdash; DANNEYKO, Ken6 &mdash; HEPPLE, Alan26 &mdash; KITCHEN, Mike25 &mdash; LEWIS, Dave4 &mdash; LORIMER, Bob5 &mdash; RUSSELL, Phil<h3>Centers</h3>24 &mdash; BROTEN, Aaron10 &mdash; CAMERON, Dave27 &mdash; FLOYD, Larry12 &mdash; VERBEEK, Pat<h3>R. Wings</h3>14 &mdash; CHERNOMAZ, Rich29 &mdash; LUDVIG, Jan11 &mdash; MacMILLAN, Bob15 &mdash; MacLEAN, John20 &mdash; MARINI, Hector &mdash; MULVEY, Grant88 &mdash; TROTTIER, Rocky<h3>L. Wings</h3>17 &mdash; GAGNE, Paul7 &mdash; LARMER, Jeff9 &mdash; LEVER, Don - Cpt.18 &mdash; BRIDGMAN, Mel<h2>NY ISLANDERS</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>30 &mdash; HRUDEY, Kelly1 &mdash; MELANSON, Rolland31 &mdash; SMITH, Billy<h3>Defensemen</h3>3 &mdash; JONSSON, Tomas24 &mdash; LANE, Gord26 &mdash; LANGEVIN, Dave2 &mdash; McEWEN, Mike6 &mdash; MORROW, Ken7 &mdash; PERSSON, Stefan5 &mdash; POTVIN, D. - Cpt.<h3>Centers</h3>25 &mdash; CARROLL, Bill91 &mdash; GORING, Butch11 &mdash; MERRICK, Wayne21 &mdash; SUTTER, Brent19 &mdash; TROTTIER, Bryan<h3>R. Wings</h3>22 &mdash; BOSSY, Mike9 &mdash; GILLIES, Clark23 &mdash; NYSTROM, Bob12 &mdash; SUTTER, Duane<h3>L. Wings</h3>14 &mdash; BOURNE, Bob17 &mdash; GILBERT, Greg20 &mdash; HALLIN, Mats28 &mdash; KALLUR, Anders27 &mdash; TONELLI, John<h2>NY RANGERS</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>1 &mdash; HANLON, Glen31 &mdash; WEEKS, Steve<h3>Defensemen</h3>5 &mdash; BECK, Barry - Cpt.11 &mdash; CHARTRAW, Rick4 &mdash; GRESCHNER, Ron27 &mdash; HUBER, Willie2 &mdash; LAIDLAW, Tom26 &mdash; MALONEY, Dave27 29 &mdash; RUOTSALAINEN, R.<h3>Centers</h3>14 &mdash; ALLISON, Mike8 &mdash; FTOREK, Robbie10 &mdash; LAROUCHE, Pierre40 &mdash; PAVELICH, Mark17 &mdash; ROGERS, Mike<h3>R. Wings</h3>24 &mdash; ANDERSSON, K.E.21 &mdash; BACKMAN, Mike18 &mdash; BLAISDELL, Mike36 &mdash; ERIXON, Jan15 &mdash; HEDBERG, Anders<h3>L. Wings</h3>22 &mdash; FOTIU, Nick12 &mdash; MALONEY, Don37 &mdash; McPHEE, George19 &mdash; OSBORNE, Mark38 &mdash; SUNDSTROM, Pet.<h2>PHILADELPHIA</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>35 &mdash; FROESE, Bob32 &mdash; LAROCQUE, Michel33 31 &mdash; LINDBERGH, Pelle<h3>Defensemen</h3>5 &mdash; BATHE, Frank29 &mdash; COCHRANE, Glen3 &mdash; CROSSMAN, Doug9 &mdash; DVORAK, Miro6 &mdash; ERIKSSON, Tom24 &mdash; HOLT, Randy2 &mdash; HOWE, Mark10 &mdash; McCRIMMON, Brad8 &mdash; MARSH, Brad<h3>Centers</h3>19 &mdash; ALLISON, Ray16 &mdash; CLARKE, Bobby11 &mdash; FLOCKHART, Ron27 &mdash; SUTLER, Darryl15 &mdash; TAYLOR, Mark<h3>R. Wings</h3>18 &mdash; CARSON, Lindsay17 &mdash; HOLMGREN, Paul12 &mdash; KERR, Tim21 &mdash; MacLEISH, Rick14 &mdash; SUTTER, Ronnie<h3>L. Wings</h3>7 &mdash; BARBER, Bill - Cpt.20 &mdash; POULIN, Dave26 &mdash; PROPP, Brian23 &mdash; SINISALO, IlkaINJURED: Peter Helander, Dave Taylor (LA), Craig Hartsburg (Min), Rick Green, (Mtl), Mike Bossy, Billy Carroll, Mats Hallin, Tomas Jonsson (NYI), Mike Allison (NYR), Frank Bathe, Lindsay Carson, Paul Holmgren, Michel Larocque (Pha).<h2>PITTSBURGH</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>29 &mdash; DION, Michel1 &mdash; HERRON, Denis<h3>Defensemen</h3>2 &mdash; BOURQUE, Phil7 &mdash; BUSKAS, Rod25 &mdash; CARLYLE, R. Cpt. &mdash; GLADNEY, Bob6 &mdash; HOTHAM, Greg4 &mdash; McSORLEY, Marty3 &mdash; SCHMIDT, Norm<h3>Centers</h3>22 &mdash; BULLARD, Mike20 &mdash; GARDNER, Paul32 &mdash; HANNAN, Dave13 &mdash; LAMOUREUX, Mitch14 34 &mdash; ST. LAURENT, Andre<h3>R. Wings</h3>18 &mdash; McCLELLAND, Kevin11 &mdash; SAGANIUK, Rocky17 &mdash; KEHOE, Rick14 &mdash; SHEDDEN, Doug &mdash; SUTTER, Rich<h3>L. Wings</h3>15 &mdash; BOUTETTE, Pat24 &mdash; BULLEY, Ted10 &mdash; ERREY, Bob27 &mdash; SCHUTT, Rod<h2>QUEBEC</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>35 &mdash; BOUCHARD, Dan30 &mdash; MALARCHUK, C.<h3>Defensemen</h3>28 &mdash; DONNELLY, Gord22 &mdash; MAROIS, M. - Cpt.23 21 &mdash; MOLLER, Randy29 &mdash; PICHETTE, Dave7 &mdash; PRICE, Pat5 &mdash; ROCHEFORT, N.4 &mdash; VAN BOXMEER, J.2 &mdash; WEIR, Wally25 &mdash; WESLEY, Blake<h3>Centers</h3>14 &mdash; AUBRY, Pierre32 &mdash; HUNTER, Dale9 &mdash; McKEGNEY, Tony11 &mdash; SAVARD, Andre26 &mdash; STASTNY, P.<h3>R. Wings</h3>17 &mdash; BERGLUND, Bo27 &mdash; PAIEMENT, Wilf12 &mdash; SLEIGHER, Louis18 &mdash; STASTNY, Marian<h3>L. Wings</h3>19 &mdash; COTE, Alain24 &mdash; GILLIS, Paul16 &mdash; GOULET, Michel20 &mdash; STASTNY, Anton<h2>ST. LOUIS</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>31 &mdash; HEINZ, Rick1 &mdash; LIUT, Mike<h3>Defensemen</h3>25 &mdash; BOTHWELL, Tim16 &mdash; BROWNSCHILDE, J.2 &mdash; DORE, Andre26 &mdash; JOHNSON, Terry35 &mdash; PAVESE, Jim5 &mdash; RAMAGE, Rob21 &mdash; SCHOFIELD, Dwight34 &mdash; WILSON, Rik<h3>Centers</h3>17 &mdash; CHOUINARD, Guy24 &mdash; FEDERKO, Bernie18 &mdash; GILMOUR, Doug6 &mdash; PATEY, Larry9 &mdash; TURNBULL, Perry<h3>R. Wings</h3>10 &mdash; BABYCH, Wayne19 &mdash; DUNLOP, Blake7 &mdash; MULLEN, Joe15 &mdash; REEDS, Mark<h3>L. Wings</h3>20 &mdash; CARLSON, Jacky36 &mdash; HICKEY, Pat28 &mdash; KLASSEN, Ralph22 &mdash; PETTERSSON, Jorgen11 &mdash; SUTTER, Brian - Cpt.<h2>TORONTO</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>29 &mdash; PALMATEER, Mike1 &mdash; ST. CROIX, Rick<h3>Defensemen</h3>3 &mdash; BENNING, Jim28 &mdash; FARRISH, Dave11 &mdash; GINGRAS, Gaston20 &mdash; KORN, Jim21 &mdash; SALMING, Borje4 &mdash; LEEMAN, Gary2 &mdash; NYLUND, Gary17 &mdash; STEWART, Bill<h3>Centers</h3>24 &mdash; DAOUST, Dan19 &mdash; DERLAGO, Bill18 &mdash; IHNACAK, Peter7 &mdash; TERRION, Greg<h3>R. Wings</h3>14 &mdash; FRYCER, Miroslav9 &mdash; GAVIN, Stewart15 &mdash; HARRIS, Billy32 &mdash; NIGRO, Frank22 &mdash; VAIVE, Rick - Cpt.<h3>L. Wings</h3>10 &mdash; ANDERSON, John23 &mdash; GRAHAM, Pat25 &mdash; MARTIN, Terry8 &mdash; PODDUBNY, Walt<h2>VANCOUVER</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>34 &mdash; BRODEUR, Richard35 31 &mdash; GARRETT, John<h3>Defensemen</h3>29 &mdash; BUBLA, Jiri5 &mdash; BUTCHER, Garth2 &mdash; HALWARD, Doug4 &mdash; LANZ, Rick13 &mdash; LINDGREN, Lars25 &mdash; MCCARTHY, Kevin27 &mdash; SNEPSTS, Harold<h3>Centers</h3>23 &mdash; GRADIN, Thomas16 &mdash; KIRTON, Mark21 &mdash; NEELY, Cam17 &mdash; SUNDSTROM, Pat.<h3>R. Wings</h3>19 &mdash; DELORME, Ron26 &mdash; MOLIN, Lars8 &mdash; NILL, Jim12 &mdash; SMYL, Stan - Cpt.9 &mdash; TANTI, Tony<h3>L. Wings</h3>28 &mdash; CRAWFORD, Mark14 &mdash; GILLIS, Jere7 &mdash; LUPUL, Gary18 &mdash; ROTA, Darcy22 &mdash; WILLIAMS, Dave<h2>WASHINGTON</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>35 &mdash; JENSEN, Al1 &mdash; RIGGIN, Pat<h3>Defensemen</h3>2 &mdash; ANDERSSON, Peter17 &mdash; BLOMQVIST, Timo9 &mdash; ENGBLOM, Brian5 &mdash; LANGWAY, R. - Cpt.4 &mdash; MACKINNON, Paul &mdash; SHAND, Dave3 &mdash; STEVENS, Scott6 &mdash; VEITCH, Darren<h3>Centers</h3>10 &mdash; CARPENTER, Bobby27 &mdash; CHRISTIAN, Dave12 &mdash; CURRIE, Tony15 &mdash; HAWORTH, Alan25 &mdash; JARVIS, Doug28 &mdash; VALENTINE, Chris<h3>R. Wings</h3>11 &mdash; GARTNER, Mike23 &mdash; GOULD, Bobby19 &mdash; HOUSTON, Ken<h3>L. Wings</h3>22 &mdash; ADAMS, Greg14 &mdash; DUCHESNE, Gaetan16 &mdash; GUSTAFSSON, B.18 &mdash; LAUGHLIN, Craig<h2>WINNIPEG</h2><h3>Goaltenders</h3>1 &mdash; HAYWARD, Brian30 &mdash; SOETAERT, Doug31 &mdash; STANIOWSKI, Ed<h3>Defensemen</h3>44 &mdash; BABYCH, Dave4 &mdash; CAMPBELL, Wade6 &mdash; KYTE, Jim27 &mdash; SPRING, Don7 &mdash; WATTERS, Tim<h3>Centers</h3>16 &mdash; BOSCHMAN, Laurie10 &mdash; HAWERCHUK, Dale11 25 &mdash; STEEN, Thomas17 &mdash; YOUNG, Tim<h3>R. Wings</h3>23 &mdash; DEBLOIS, L. - Cpt.23 &mdash; LUNDHOLM, Bengt15 &mdash; MacLEAN, Paul8 &mdash; MANN, Jimmy20 &mdash; McBAIN, Andrew<h3>L. Wings</h3>12 &mdash; ARNIEL, Scott13 &mdash; LUKOWICH, Morris19 &mdash; MULLEN, Brian9 &mdash; SMAIL DougINJURED: Paul Gardner, Doug Shedden (Pit), Dave Pichette, J.F. Sauve, (Que), Larry Patey (StL), Gary Nylund (Tor), Lars Molin (Van), Peter Andersson, Scott Stevens, Darren Veitch, (Was). &#9632;

NHL TEAM ROSTERS

<h2>OCTOBER</h2>Tue. 18 Calgary at NY IslandersBuffalo at PittsburghBoston at QuebecWed. 19 New Jersey at ChicagoSt. Louis at DetroitWashington at HartfordCalgary at NY RangersQuebec at TorontoEdmonton at VancouverMontreal at WinnipegThu. 20 Edmonton at Los AngelesMontreal at MinnesotaBoston at PhiladelphiaFri. 21 New Jersey at VancouverSat. 22 Calgary at DetroitVancouver at EdmontonBuffalo at HartfordNew Jersey at Los AngelesNY Rangers at NY IslandersBoston at PittsburghMinnesota at QuebecChicago at St. LouisMontreal at TorontoPhiladelphia at Washington*Sun. 23 Winnipeg at BuffaloCalgary at ChicagoNY Islanders at NY RangersToronto at PhiladelphiaTue. 25 Boston at ChicagoHartford at Los AngelesMinnesota at MontrealWinnipeg at NY IslandersWashington at PittsburghPhiladelphia at QuebecSt. Louis at VancouverWed. 26 St. Louis at CalgaryBuffalo at DetroitWashington at New JerseyWinnipeg at NY RangersEdmonton at TorontoThu. 27 Pittsburgh at ChicagoBoston at MinnesotaQuebec at PhiladelphiaFri. 28 Los Angeles at BuffaloWinnipeg at CalgaryToronto at NY RangersHartford at VancouverSat. 29 Quebec at DetroitWashington at MinnesotaEdmonton at MontrealNew Jersey at NY IslandersPhiladelphia at PittsburghBoston at St. LouisLos Angeles at TorontoSun. 30 Montreal at BuffaloVancouver at CalgaryHartford at ChicagoPittsburgh at New JerseyEdmonton at NY RangersNY Islanders at PhiladelphiaWashington at Winnipeg<h2>NOVEMBER</h2>Tue. 1 Hartford at MontrealVancouver at NY IslandersLos Angeles at QuebecDetroit at St. LouisWed. 2 NY Rangers at BuffaloWashington at EdmontonNew Jersey at HartfordToronto at MinnesotaPittsburgh at WinnipegThu. 3 St. Louis at BostonPittsburgh at CalgaryChicago at DetroitQuebec at MontrealLos Angeles at Philadelphia &#9632;

NHL GAMES TO COME

<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-1385/4811621-1-eng-US/f0036-132.jpg" title="f0036-13" width="498" height="498"></div><h2>LEADING ROOKIES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-1479/4811614-1-eng-US/f0036-142.jpg" title="f0036-14" width="498" height="501"></div> &#9632;

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Top Scorers In The NHL

(Standings on Tue. Oct. 18)<h2>CAMPBELL CONFERENCE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-1579/4811683-1-eng-US/f0036-152.jpg" title="f0036-15" width="537" height="414"></div><h2>WALES CONFERENCE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-1676/4811676-1-eng-US/f0036-162.jpg" title="f0036-16" width="534" height="441"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Mon. Oct. 10Los Angeles 1 at NY Rangers 2Montreal 6 at Quebec 4Tue. Oct. 11Los Angeles 2 at NY islanders 5Vancouver 2 at St. Louis 3Wed. Oct. 12Vancouver 1 at Chicago 2Detroit 3 at Edmonton 8Calgary 5 at Minnesota 7Winnipeg 4 at Pittsburgh 3 (OT)Buffalo 4 at Hartford 4 (OT)Thu. Oct. 13Montreal 2 at Boston 4Quebec 4 at Hartford 4 (OT)Washington 3 at NY Rangers 4Winnipeg 3 at Philadelphia 4Los Angeles 4 at St. Louis 7Fri. Oct. 14Quebec 6 at New Jersey 4Pittsburgh 4 at Washington 0Sat. Oct. 15Buffalo 3 at Boston 5Edmonton 4 at Calgary 3Detroit 3 at Los Angeles 3 (OT)Winnipeg 1 at Minnesota 2Vancouver 4 at Montreal 5Philadelphia 5 at NY Islanders 1Hartford 6 at Pittsburgh 4NY Rangers 5 at St. Louis 6Chicago 8 at Toronto 10Sun. Oct. 16NY Islanders 3 at Buffalo 2Minnesota 3 at Chicago 4Calgary 1 at Edmonton 5Toronto 4 at New Jersey 1Philadelphia 4 at NY Rangers 5Quebec 4 at Washington 2 &#9632;

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THE NHL SCOREBOARD

<h2>AT HOME</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-1770/4811728-1-eng-US/f0036-172.jpg" title="f0036-17" width="267" height="645"></div><h2>ON THE ROAD</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-1866/4811721-1-eng-US/f0036-182.jpg" title="f0036-18" width="255" height="639"></div><h2>POINTS RACE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-1965/4811714-1-eng-US/f0036-192.jpg" title="f0036-19" width="531" height="642"></div> &#9632;

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HOW NHL TEAMS RATE

<h2>Mon. Oct. 10</h2>LOS ANGELES 1, RANGERS 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-01433/4811583-1-eng-US/f0036-012.jpg" title="f0036-01" width="531" height="603"></div>MONTREAL 6, QUEBEC 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-02324/4811576-1-eng-US/f0036-022.jpg" title="f0036-02" width="528" height="984"></div><h2>Tue. Oct. 11</h2>LOS ANGELES 2, ISLANDERS 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-03252/4811569-1-eng-US/f0036-032.jpg" title="f0036-03" width="537" height="120"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-04177/4811562-1-eng-US/f0036-042.jpg" title="f0036-04" width="528" height="582"></div>VANCOUVER 2, ST. LOUIS 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-05138/4811555-1-eng-US/f0036-052.jpg" title="f0036-05" width="529" height="641"></div><h2>Wed. Oct. 12</h2>VANCOUVER 1, CHICAGO 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-06117/4811548-1-eng-US/f0036-062.jpg" title="f0036-06" width="540" height="615"></div>DETROIT 3, EDMONTON 8<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-07109/4811541-1-eng-US/f0036-072.jpg" title="f0036-07" width="534" height="837"></div>CALGARY 5, MINNESOTA 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-08104/4811534-1-eng-US/f0036-082.jpg" title="f0036-08" width="534" height="956"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-0998/4811527-1-eng-US/f0036-092.jpg" title="f0036-09" width="532" height="87"></div>WINNIPEG 4, PITTSBURGH 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-1095/4811520-1-eng-US/f0036-102.jpg" title="f0036-10" width="537" height="1074"></div>BUFFALO 4, TORONTO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-1192/4811513-1-eng-US/f0036-112.jpg" title="f0036-11" width="529" height="780"></div><h2>Thu. Oct. 13</h2>MONTREAL 2, BOSTON 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-1288/4811506-1-eng-US/f0036-122.jpg" title="f0036-12" width="540" height="207"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-01382/4811499-1-eng-US/f0037-012.jpg" title="f0037-01" width="537" height="531"></div>QUEBEC 4, HARTFORD 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-02269/4811492-1-eng-US/f0037-022.jpg" title="f0037-02" width="525" height="375"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-03201/4811485-1-eng-US/f0037-032.jpg" title="f0037-03" width="549" height="99"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-04163/4811478-1-eng-US/f0037-042.jpg" title="f0037-04" width="420" height="96"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-05139/4811471-1-eng-US/f0037-052.jpg" title="f0037-05" width="540" height="99"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-06116/4811464-1-eng-US/f0037-062.jpg" title="f0037-06" width="495" height="33"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1726/4811457-1-eng-US/f0038-172.jpg" title="f0038-17" width="540" height="240"></div>WASHINGTON 3, RANGERS 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1823/4811450-1-eng-US/f0038-182.jpg" title="f0038-18" width="543" height="786"></div>WINNIPEG 3, PHILADELPHIA 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1922/4811443-1-eng-US/f0038-192.jpg" title="f0038-19" width="537" height="243"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-2019/4811436-1-eng-US/f0038-202.jpg" title="f0038-20" width="534" height="492"></div>LOS ANGELES 4, ST. LOUIS 7<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-2117/4811429-1-eng-US/f0038-212.jpg" title="f0038-21" width="537" height="889"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-2215/4811422-1-eng-US/f0038-222.jpg" title="f0038-22" width="540" height="96"></div><h2>Fri. Oct. 14</h2>QUEBEC 6, NEW JERSEY 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-2312/4811415-1-eng-US/f0038-232.jpg" title="f0038-23" width="534" height="819"></div>PITTSBURGH 4, WASH. 0<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-2410/4811408-1-eng-US/f0038-242.jpg" title="f0038-24" width="528" height="390"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-259/4811401-1-eng-US/f0038-252.jpg" title="f0038-25" width="525" height="261"></div><h2>Sat. Oct. 15</h2>BUFFALO 3, BOSTON 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-267/4811394-1-eng-US/f0038-262.jpg" title="f0038-26" width="529" height="806"></div>EDMONTON 4, CALGARY 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-277/4811387-1-eng-US/f0038-272.jpg" title="f0038-27" width="527" height="234"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-284/4811380-1-eng-US/f0038-282.jpg" title="f0038-28" width="531" height="755"></div>DETROIT 3, LOS ANGELES 3<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-293/4811373-1-eng-US/f0038-292.jpg" title="f0038-29" width="531" height="588"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-01418/4811366-1-eng-US/f0039-012.jpg" title="f0039-01" width="527" height="326"></div>WINNIPEG 1, MINNESOTA 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-02286/4811359-1-eng-US/f0039-022.jpg" title="f0039-02" width="535" height="642"></div>VANCOUVER 4, MONTREAL 5First PeriodMontreal 1 &mdash; Lafleur 5 (Walter, Robinson) 1:10.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-03198/4811352-1-eng-US/f0039-032.jpg" title="f0039-03" width="536" height="844"></div>PHILADELPHIA 5, ISLANDERS 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-04164/4811345-1-eng-US/f0039-042.jpg" title="f0039-04" width="532" height="607"></div>HARTFORD 6, PITTSBURGH 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-05130/4811338-1-eng-US/f0039-052.jpg" title="f0039-05" width="536" height="864"></div>RANGERS 5, ST. LOUIS 6<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-06109/4811331-1-eng-US/f0039-062.jpg" title="f0039-06" width="532" height="780"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0793/4811324-1-eng-US/f0039-072.jpg" title="f0039-07" width="531" height="148"></div>CHICAGO 8, TORONTO 10<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0883/4811317-1-eng-US/f0039-082.jpg" title="f0039-08" width="542" height="1308"></div><h2>Sun. Oct. 16</h2>ISLANDERS 3, BUFFALO 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0972/4811310-1-eng-US/f0039-092.jpg" title="f0039-09" width="534" height="612"></div>MINNESOTA 3, CHICAGO 4<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-1065/4811303-1-eng-US/f0039-102.jpg" title="f0039-10" width="532" height="665"></div>CALGARY 1, EDMONTON 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-1157/4811296-1-eng-US/f0039-112.jpg" title="f0039-11" width="532" height="412"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-1249/4811289-1-eng-US/f0039-122.jpg" title="f0039-12" width="535" height="412"></div>TORONTO 4, NEW JERSEY 1<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-1343/4811282-1-eng-US/f0039-132.jpg" title="f0039-13" width="538" height="902"></div>PHILADELPHIA 4, RANGERS 5<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-1439/4811275-1-eng-US/f0039-142.jpg" title="f0039-14" width="538" height="259"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-1534/4811268-1-eng-US/f0039-152.jpg" title="f0039-15" width="532" height="753"></div>QUEBEC 4, WASHINGTON 2<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-1630/4811261-1-eng-US/f0039-162.jpg" title="f0039-16" width="536" height="817"></div><h2>GOALTENDING STATISTICS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-1725/4811254-1-eng-US/f0039-172.jpg" title="f0039-17" width="560" height="1963"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE SUMMARIES

A regular feature of the Chrysler Scoreboard each week will be the Rookie Spotlight, which will lead to a Chrysler Rookie of the Year award at the end of the regular season. The rookie award will be announced with other HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; awards, including NHL Player and Coach of the Year.This week&rsquo;s profile is of New Jersey Devil center Pat Verbeek.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-0798/4811759-1-eng-US/f0037-072.jpg" title="f0037-07" width="515" height="763"></div>The New Jersey Devils are sporting seven rookie faces in their lineup this season and one of the most promising is center Pat Verbeek, a native of Petrolia, Ont., who played his junior hockey with the Sudbury Wolves.Verbeek, who was called up to the Devils for a few games last season and played well, is a key man in their plans this season. As well as playing the power play, he also kills penalties.In five games so far this season, Verbeek, who likes to play aggressively, has two goals and two assists, including one game-winner in the Devils&rsquo; only victory after five starts.The 19-year-old is one of many promising rookies to keep an eye on this season. &#9632;

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Chrysler Rookie Award

<h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Fri. Oct. 21)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-01446/4811895-1-eng-US/f0038-012.jpg" title="f0038-01" width="531" height="182"></div><h2>OLYMPIC TEAMS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-02354/4811888-1-eng-US/f0038-022.jpg" title="f0038-02" width="537" height="96"></div>(Olympic teams each play 10 games)<h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Mon. Oct. 10Indianapolis 3 at Team Canada 4 (Exh.)Tue. Oct. 11Indianapolis 2 at Team Canada 5Thu. Oct. 13Team Canada 4 at Montana 3Fri. Oct. 14Indianapolis 2 at Colorado 4Tulsa 5 at Salt Lake 4Sat. Oct. 15Indianapolis 3 at Colorado 5Tulsa 5 at Salt Lake 4<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-03278/4811881-1-eng-US/f0038-032.jpg" title="f0038-03" width="528" height="353"></div><h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Wed. Oct. 19)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-04210/4811874-1-eng-US/f0038-042.jpg" title="f0038-04" width="528" height="231"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Fri. Oct. 14Fort Wayne 0 at Flint 3Kalamazoo 4 at Toledo 3Muskegon 6 at Milwaukee 5Sat. Oct. 15Milwaukee 3 at Fort Wayne 5Kalamazoo 4 at Flint 2Muskegon 4 at Peoria 6Sun. Oct. 16Flint 3 at Kalamazoo 1Fort Wayne 4 at Milwaukee 1Toledo 2 at Peoria 6<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-05143/4811867-1-eng-US/f0038-052.jpg" title="f0038-05" width="540" height="237"></div><h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Oct. 18)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-06105/4811860-1-eng-US/f0038-062.jpg" title="f0038-06" width="540" height="492"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Oct. 11Binghamton 9 at St. Catharines 6New Haven 7 at Sherbrooke 6Maine at Baltimore (ppd. later date)Wed. Oct. 12Maine 1 at Hershey 3Springfield 4 at Moncton 3Thu. Oct. 13Adirondack 9 at St. Catharines 5Fri. Oct. 14Baltimore 4 at New Haven 4Rochester 1 at Nova Scotia 3St. Catharines 7 at Adirondack 8Sat. Oct. 15Baltimore 6 at Binghamton 3Springfield 1 at Fredericton 5Sherbrooke 3 at Hershey 4New Haven 3 at Maine 5Sun. Oct. 15Rochester 6 at Moncton 5Sherbrooke 6 at New Haven 4Springfield 4 at Nova Scotia 7Maine 4 at St. Catharines 5<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0791/4811853-1-eng-US/f0038-072.jpg" title="f0038-07" width="531" height="174"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0874/4811846-1-eng-US/f0038-082.jpg" title="f0038-08" width="534" height="141"></div><h2>ONTARIO LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Oct. 18)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-0964/4811839-1-eng-US/f0038-092.jpg" title="f0038-09" width="537" height="549"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Oct. 11London 8 at Sudbury 4Oshawa 4 at Cornwall 5Wed. Oct. 12London 2 at S.S. Marie 7Thu. Oct. 13Belleville 3 at North Bay 4Kitchener 9 at Windsor 5Cornwall 4 at Brantford 3Guelph 0 at Peterborough 4Fri. Oct. 14Kitchener 7 at S.S. Marie 4Belleville 2 at Sudbury 3Cornwall 3 at London 2Peterborough 5 at Ottawa 6Windsor 4 at Guelph 1Oshawa 7 at Kingston 3Sat. Oct. 15Cornwall 3 at Toronto 6Ottawa 4 at Peterborough 7Sun. Oct. 16Kitchener 8 at Sudbury 3Belleville 5 at S.S. Marie 6North Bay 2 at Oshawa 4Windsor 0 at Brantford 4London 2 at Guelph 5<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1060/4811832-1-eng-US/f0038-102.jpg" title="f0038-10" width="528" height="174"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1154/4811825-1-eng-US/f0038-112.jpg" title="f0038-11" width="534" height="114"></div><h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Oct. 18)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1249/4811818-1-eng-US/f0038-122.jpg" title="f0038-12" width="534" height="522"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Mon. Oct. 10Saskatoon 4 at Brandon 3Regina 12 at Winnipeg 5New West 3 at Prince Albert 6Tue. Oct. 11Lethbridge 4 at Victoria 3Kelowna 1 at Seattle 5Wed. Oct. 12Brandon 6 at Regina 7Winnipeg 6 at Calgary 11Thu. Oct. 13Winnipeg 3 at Medicine Hat 9Kamloops 7 at Kelowna 5Fri. Oct. 14Lethbridge 4 at Seattle 6Regina 4 at Brandon 6New West 5 at Kelowna 4Calgary 8 at Medicine Hat 4Sat. Oct. 15Lethbridge 4 at Portland 8Prince Albert 6 at Saskatoon 3Seattle 3 at Victoria 11New West 10 at Kamloops 9Medicine Hat 1 at Calgary 1Sun. Oct. 16Lethbridge 3 at New West 5Saskatoon 3 at Prince Albert 4Brandon 3 at Regina 4<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1340/4811811-1-eng-US/f0038-132.jpg" title="f0038-13" width="531" height="177"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1435/4811804-1-eng-US/f0038-142.jpg" title="f0038-14" width="531" height="303"></div><h2>QUEBEC LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Oct. 17)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1533/4811797-1-eng-US/f0038-152.jpg" title="f0038-15" width="533" height="435"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Mon. Oct. 10Hull 2 at Laval 7Quebec 8 at Shawinigan 6Tue. Oct. 11T-Rivieres 4 at Longueuil 3Wed. Oct. 12Granby 4 at Drummondville 3St. Jean 3 at Laval 11Thu. Oct. 13Chicoutimi 3 at Longueuil 10Fri. Oct. 14Quebec 8 at Drummondville 7T-Rivieres 5 at Granby 4Chicoutimi 2 at Shawinigan 6Laval 5 at St. Jean 8Hull 5 at Verdun 2Sun. Oct. 16St. Jean 4 at Chicoutimi 5Longueuil 7 at Granby 2Shawinigan 8 at Hull 2Quebec 2 at T-Rivieres 6Drummondville 4 at Verdun 5<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-1629/4811790-1-eng-US/f0038-162.jpg" title="f0038-16" width="534" height="264"></div> &#9632;

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