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November 25, 1983

The Hockey News November 25, 1983

A regular feature of the Chrysler Scoreboard each week will be the Rookie Spotlight. This week&rsquo;s profile is of Philadelphia Flyer Dave Poulin.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0041-0728/4640943-1-eng-US/f0041-072.jpg" title="f0041-07" width="552" height="1028"></div>To say that Flyer rookie Dave Poulin took the indirect route to the NHL would be a classic case of understatment.After finishing a college career at Notre Dame, and with no NHL teams showing interest, he played last season in Sweden. He joined the Flyers&rsquo; farm team late in the season, was promoted and was their top player in the playoffs.This season, in 19 games, the 24-year-old had five goals and 13 assists to challenge for the rookie scoring lead. He has to be considered a candidate for Calder Cup honors, too. &#9632;

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IN THIS ISSUE

Chrysler Rookie Award

<div class="byline">BY DICK DENNY</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-01457/4639681-1-eng-US/f0030-012.jpg" title="f0030-01" width="273" height="197"></div>Louisville HockeyTULSA&mdash;Just when it seemed the U.S. Olympic team was about to bury the Central Hockey League in an avalanche of goals, the Tulsa Oilers came up with a gold-medal performance of their own.Coach Tom Webster&rsquo;s club concluded a glorious 10-game road trip to open the 1983-84 season with a 3-2 triumph over Team USA in Bloomington, MN.Dave Barr&rsquo;s second goal of the game, on a breakaway 1:36 into the final period, snapped Team USA&rsquo;s unbeaten streak against the CHL at five games.After the U.S. Olympic team beat the CHL-champion Indianapolis Checkers 4-3. the Olympians ran off four onesided victories against CHL foes (7-2 over Montana. 7-4 over Colorado, 9-3 over Indianapolis and 8-4 over Salt Lake, with Jim Craig, hero of America&rsquo;s stunning gold-medal victory at the Winter Games in 1980, in goal.&ldquo;The victory over the U.S. team was definitely a morale booster for the team and the league,&rdquo; said Webster, &ldquo;and to be the first team in the CHL to beat the Olympians meant an awful lot to the players.&ldquo;To be able to play three games in three nights and go from a physical kind of game in Billings (where the Oilers split a pair of contests with the Magic before flying to Bloomington) to a disciplined. skating game and win, that&rsquo;s very satisfying.&rdquo;Webster said the victory was a bit of revenge for several of his players who lost to the Olympians in an exhibition game while with the parent New York Rangers in training camp.&ldquo;We had scouting reports from three gentlemen,&rdquo; said Webster. &ldquo;We had reports from Wayne Thomas, our goaltender coach (with the Rangers); Chuck Grillo, a Ranger scout who helps me whenever he can find the time, and Danny Summers, head scout for the Rangers.&ldquo;They filled me in on a lot of things they&rsquo;d (the Olympians) do. They told us to expect a disciplined team that was quick as hell. All of that was true.&ldquo;But our goalie. John Vanbiesbrouck, played extremely well. He made 31 saves and stopped three breakaways. And the rest of the team played extremely well. Steve Richmond set up Barr for his breakaway with a beautiful pass.&ldquo;Barr had missed a breakaway in the second period, but the next time (in the third period) he buried the puck (in the) top shelf.&rdquo;Because their new home at the Fairgrounds Pavilion wasn&rsquo;t ready, the Oilers were forced to play their first 10 games on the road. They won eight and lost two to take first by eight points.The Oilers couldn&rsquo;t seem to get on home ice to show their fans how improved the team is this season. A seal broke on one of the compressors at Tulsa&rsquo;s rink, forcing a postponement of the home opener against Indianapolis Nov. 8.&ldquo;I was in the building &lsquo;til 6 a.m. and everything was perfect when I went home to get a couple of hours sleep.&rdquo; said Webster. &ldquo;When I got back, I found out about the malfunction. We lost all of the ammonia that does the cooling.&rdquo;CHL CHAT&mdash;League president Bud Poile said &ldquo;attendance is up a little bit this season.&rdquo; In the first 31 games, the average crowd was 3,749 for a total of 116,211. &ldquo;The biggest crowd was 10,083 in Salt Lake for the U.S. Olympic team,&rdquo; Poile said. &ldquo;It was paid and I was happy to see that. The lowest crowd was 1,470 in Billings for Tulsa. &ldquo;&hellip;Salt Lake goalie Jim Craig was having his problems. He was 1-3 with the Golden Eagles and his goals-against average was 5.50.Defenseman Jim Pavese was returned by St. Louis to Montana. Three Checker defensemen returned to Indianapolis after brief stints with the parent New York Islanders. They were Darcy Regier, Bruce Affleck and Gord Dineen.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0030-02348/4639674-1-eng-US/f0030-022.jpg" title="f0030-02" width="572" height="903"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tulsa&rsquo;s Dave Barr scored to snap Team USA&rsquo;s unbeaten streak against the CHL.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Tulsa Finally Comes Back Home After Tough 10-Game Road Trip

<h2>NOVEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-06106/4640379-1-eng-US/f0039-062.jpg" title="f0039-06" width="527" height="455"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0790/4640372-1-eng-US/f0039-072.jpg" title="f0039-07" width="542" height="515"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0880/4640365-1-eng-US/f0039-082.jpg" title="f0039-08" width="537" height="508"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-0969/4640358-1-eng-US/f0039-092.jpg" title="f0039-09" width="541" height="512"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-1063/4640351-1-eng-US/f0039-102.jpg" title="f0039-10" width="515" height="217"></div><h2>DECEMBER</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-1155/4640344-1-eng-US/f0039-112.jpg" title="f0039-11" width="515" height="240"></div> &#9632;

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NHL GAMES TO COME

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-03228/4640147-1-eng-US/f0036-032.jpg" title="f0036-03" width="360" height="479"><figcaption class="caption-body">GREG CORAM Ottawa</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-04156/4640140-1-eng-US/f0036-042.jpg" title="f0036-04" width="359" height="475"><figcaption class="caption-body">RUSS COURTNALL Victoria</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-05119/4640133-1-eng-US/f0036-052.jpg" title="f0036-05" width="356" height="479"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE KASPER Shawinigan</figcaption></div><h2>ONTARIO LEAGUE</h2>The Ottawa 67s might not be involved in a three-way dogfight with Peterborough and Toronto for first place in the Leyden Division of the Ontario Hockey League if it wasn&rsquo;t for the brilliant goaltending of Greg Coram.The 19-year-old netminder has won 10 of his 12 starts this season and recorded three shutouts while leading Ottawa to a 13-3-1 record. Coram shut out Sudbury 7-0 to keep the 67s in first place and win the nod as the OHL&rsquo;s Player of the Week.Pro teams have by passed the youngster the past two years at draft time but not because of his size. At 5-foot-11, 180 pounds, Coram is bigger than most pro goalies. His outstanding play and league-leading 2.54 goals-against average may bring the pro scouts back to his doorstep.<h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>The decision by the Toronto Maple Leafs to return Russ Courtnall to junior hockey for another season appears to be working wonders for the Victoria Cougars&rsquo; center.Courtnall is off to an even better start than last year when he racked up 97 scoring points and was ultimately drafted first by the Maple Leafs. After an impressive training camp, Courtnall was returned to Victoria where he&rsquo;s scored 14 goals in his first 15 games. Last season it took him 30 games to produce that total.Courtnall picked up four goals and seven points to win Western Hockey League Player of the Week honors as he personally moved into seventh place in the scoring race with 31 points.<h2>QUEBEC LEAGUE</h2>Following in a big brother&rsquo;s footsteps is often an insurmountable challenge, but Dave Kasper of Shawinigan is doing all right in his own way.Dave&rsquo;s older brother, Steve, is a member of the Boston Bruins and a past Frank J. Selke Trophy winner as the league&rsquo;s top defensive player, giving the younger Kasper a goal to strive for. Kasper turned in an eight-point performance for Shawinigan and was chosen the Quebec Hockey League&rsquo;s Player of the Week.The 19-year-old Dave, who at 5-foot-10 is actually the taller of the two Kaspers, knows that one day he&rsquo;ll get a crack at the NHL, too. He was selected in the fourth round in 1982 entry draft by the New Jersey Devils, who are keeping tabs on his progress. Dave has 20 points in his first 17 QHL games. &#9632;

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Players of the Week

<div class="image-hero"><img title="Cover-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/cover-01753/4641169-1-eng-US/cover-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">TEAM CANADA&rsquo;S PAT FLATLEY (Photo by Don Dixon)</figcaption></div>O CANADA ANY CHANGE OF GETTING AN OLYMPIC MEDAL IN 1984?The 1980 Olympians: Where Are They Now?&mdash;age 20Islanders Already Own Some Olympic Gold&mdash;age 17Fergie Aims To Lift Jets&rsquo; Fortunes&mdash;age 3 &#9632;

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The Hockey News CA

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0002-011144/4638071-1-eng-US/f0002-012.jpg" title="f0002-01" width="315" height="357"></div><h2>Have A Chance?</h2>FROM THE START, they should have known that the marriage would never work and it was more than &ldquo;you say pot-tate-toes&rsquo; and I say &lsquo;pot-tawt-toes&rsquo;&rdquo; that killed it.It would be difficult to find men at more opposite poles in outlook, philosophy of hockey and style than John Ferguson and Tom Watt, who recently concluded their association as general manager and coach, respectively, of the Winnipeg Jets.You don&rsquo;t really have to ask which one got the chop if you don&rsquo;t know already.Ferguson views hockey in straight lines; Watt likes it in circles and patterns.Fergy is an old hardboot who drove himself to become a valuable player, the terrorizing fighter who scored 30 goals. Watt is the academic, the teacher who deals more in reason than emotion, although he can take a stand on what he believes that would make a mule appear cooperative.Thus, two men with firmly rooted approaches and outlooks that had about as much in common as chalk and cheese tried, really tried, to make to it work&mdash;and for a time it did.But there was just too much against it from day one.Jimmy Mann was against it. When the Jets entered the National Hockey League in 1979, Ferguson made Mann a first-round draft pick. Perhaps in the high-quality kid from Sherbrooke, Fergy figured he had found a 1980&rsquo;s version of himself, a player who was tougher than rent and would scorch the hide of any mate who failed to share his devotion to the team&rsquo;s cause.And it wasn&rsquo;t arrogance for Fergy to remember just how much a clone of old No. 22 could mean to a hockey team. Old 22 had five Stanley Cup rings to prove that the original counted for something big.<h2>The Melon Truck</h2>MAYBE, THOUGH, FERGY forgot that he didn&rsquo;t exactly fall off the melon truck at Peel and St. Catherine and bounce into a job with the Canadiens. There was time in Fort Wayne and three American League seasons with Cleveland before he was ready.Mann had none of that apprenticeship to leam the game&rsquo;s skills to accompany his aggressiveness. Watt once said that he liked Mann a great deal as a guy and appreciated his gung-ho approach. But he also said that he wished Mann had some skill that would allow him to fit into the speed and puck control game Watt wanted the Jets to employ.When Ferguson took over from Watt as Jet coach, he said that one change would be much more ice time for Jimmy Mann.Now someone is going to say that Mann is being blamed for Watt&rsquo;s demise as Jet coach. Absolutely not, but he does demonstrate strongly the big differences between Watt and Ferguson, a chasm that eventually became too wide to overcome.Watt joined the Jets in 1981 from the Vancouver Canucks, where he spent one season as an assistant coach. He was a coach of the Canadian Olympic team in &lsquo;79-80 after 14 extraordinary seasons with University of Toronto Blues in which the team won nine Canadian college crowns.Watt also taught in the U of T physical education program, worked as a television analyst on international hockey, operated a hockey school and wrote a couple of splendid hockey instructional books.<h2>Fergie&rsquo;s Splendid Job</h2>WHEN WATT TOOK the reins in &lsquo;81, the Jets were coming off a season in which they had 32 points in 80 games and went through 30 matches in one stretch without a victory.Ferguson did a splendid job of drafting and trading to upgrade the club and the Jets made a 48-point improvement to.500, the largest upgrading in NHL history. That season, Fergy claimed that the most important addition he had made was hiring Watt as coach.There&rsquo;s a pattern in NHL history that in the season after one in which a club makes a dramatic improvement, there often is a treading water or even a backslide. That&rsquo;s what the Jets did, sagging by six points.Coach of the year in &lsquo;81-82, Watt claimed that he had done a better coaching job in &lsquo;82-83 that he had the previous year, even though the results were not as good.Of course, the climb above the.500 mark is much more difficult than the acquisition of that mark. The young Jets, who had upgraded themselves and the team by such a large amount in &lsquo;81-82, had used up a big percentage of their potential and any additional climb would be in small bits.This season, Watt found that additional upheavals had been heaped on the team. A slow start and modest crowds in Winnipeg brought claims from the Jet owners that they might be forced to sell or move the team if crowds didn&rsquo;t improve and some concessions granted on the team&rsquo;s deal for the rink in Winnipeg.Because the Ferguson-Watt relationship was strained, the talk of sale and move added more pressure to the team and its coach.Thus, it all added up and made the differences between John Ferguson and Tom Watt into an impossible situation. It&rsquo;s unfortunate because they are two absolutely first-rate people. &#9632;

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FRANK ORR’S HOCKEY VIEWPOINT

<div class="byline">BY REYN DAVIS</div>WINNIPEG&mdash;The coach who dared the Winnipeg Jets to fire him was fired.On Nov. 7, Tom Watt, a self-acknowledged expert in his profession, became the 65th coach in five years to lose his job in the National Hockey League.He is succeeded by the man who fired him&mdash;John Bowie Ferguson.In assuming the dual role, Ferguson becomes the fifth NHL general manager to go behind the bench.Others who have taken on the added responsibility are Glen Sather of the Edmonton Oilers, Billy MacMillan of the New Jersey Devils, Scotty Bowman of the Buffalo Sabres and Bob McCammon of the Philadelphia Flyers.When he sees fit, Ferguson intends to give the coaching reins to Barry Long, one of his two assistants.&ldquo;They can&rsquo;t afford to fire me,&rdquo; Watt was quoted as saying two weeks ago in New York as speculation of his dismissal grew.As recently as the night before his firing, Watt became irate when he was informed of a story in the Globe and Mail that suggested he could become the first coach to be released this season.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m a great hockey coach,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t have to defend my record. Why should I pay attention to what others think? I know what I can do. I&rsquo;m damn good.&rdquo;And he is. Under Watt, the Jets had an overall record of 70-81-10 for a.464 winning percentage. He took them to the playoffs both seasons under his command.Not surprisingly, he was named the NHL&rsquo;s Coach of the Year in 1982 after the Jets had shown a 48-point improvement, the most dynamic turnabout in the history of the league.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve coached for 25 years,&rdquo; said Watt. &ldquo;My record speaks for itself. I&rsquo;d like to continue, too. Coaching is my profession.&rdquo;This is Ferguson&rsquo;s second turn behind the bench. As general manager of the New York Rangers, he assumed coaching duties in 1976. His record was 43-59-19 for a.434 winning percentage.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t plan on going behind the bench,&rdquo; said Ferguson. &ldquo;Firing coaches is not my bag. I&rsquo;m fond of Tom Watt. But the bottom line was 4-9-2. We are a better club than that.&rdquo;Since his hiring as GM of the Jets in 1978, Ferguson has gone through five coaches&mdash;Larry Hillman, Tom McVie, Bill Sutherland, Mike Smith and, now, Watt.Ferguson becomes the ninth coach in the history of the team.Watt was earning $80,000 in the second year of a four-year contract. According to terms, he would have received $100,000 next season and $120,000 in his final season.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-011160/4638109-1-eng-US/f0003-012.jpg" title="f0003-01" width="986" height="1188"><figcaption class="caption-body">Tom Watt believed that a coach was hired to be fired and that his paranoia was probably his biggest downfall.</figcaption></div>If he elects to settle his contract, Watt will receive a lump sum of $210,000.Watt learned of his dismissal the morning after Wayne Gretzky had almost single-handedly beaten the Jets 8-5. Gretzky had seven points&mdash;four goals and three assists&mdash;as the Oilers overcame a 3-0 deficit.Bravely, he held his own press conference after the dismissal.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s unfortunate,&rdquo; said Watt. &ldquo;But you are hired to be fired. There is no bitterness. If Tom Watt is responsible for the record of the Winnipeg Jets, maybe I should be fired.&rdquo;In fairness to him, he had already conceded some of his coaching responsibilities to Ferguson. It was the GM who decided which players should play, with whom and how often.Privately, Watt felt emasculated as a coach. He stopped standing up for what he felt was right.Certainly, a less than rosy relationship with the team&rsquo;s star did. nothing to help Watt&rsquo;s situation. Compounding the problem was Dale Hawerchuk&rsquo;s lack of production.A year ago, when Hawerchuk complained publicly of the team&rsquo;s four-line system, he returned from practise one day to find Watt&rsquo;s Coach of the Year award hanging in his locker.Watt had his own beliefs about the team. For example, he thought he had a better club two years ago.&ldquo;Where have we improved?&rdquo; he wanted to know. &ldquo;I agree Laurie Boschman is a great acquisition. But I feel we had a better hockey club with Ron Wilson, Larry Hopkins, Dave Christian, Norm Dupont and Serge Savard.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-02973/4638102-1-eng-US/f0003-022.jpg" title="f0003-02" width="982" height="1200"><figcaption class="caption-body">General manager John Ferguson coached when he managed the Rangers.</figcaption></div>What peeved Ferguson most about Watt was his paranoia about coaches being fired and his insistence on using a man-to-man defense.&ldquo;Tom&rsquo;s problem is a certain paranoia every time a coach is fired,&rdquo; said Ferguson. &ldquo;Why should he get excited and upset when Red Berenson or Glen Sonmor is let go? Some of the statements he made were detrimental to our organization and embarrassing to the league.&rdquo;After the firing, Watt jogged home to &ldquo;kiss my wife and kids,&rdquo; then called the Fort Garry Hotel to book a room for a party for him and his friends.A unique and intelligent character who prides himself in being fit, Watt has jogged four miles or more every day for the last four years. Unquestionably, he deserves to be coaching in the NHL but could wind up with the Canadian Olympic team first. His first love is the national hockey program.BENCH BITS&mdash;Defenseman Robert Picard received the season&rsquo;s first standing ovation when he jumped out of the penalty box to score a shorthanded goal against the Oilers. The Jets acquired Picard, 27, from the Montreal Canadiens for a third-round draft choice in 1984&hellip;Under the new arrangement, Barry Long will join John Ferguson behind the bench while Billy Sutherland works from the press box, using a headset&hellip;Two players locked in a slump are Ferguson&rsquo;s first project. Paul MacLean had only three assists in his last 11 games while Brian Mullen was pointless in nine of his first 13. &#9632;

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Hired To Fire Was Watt’s Coach Credo

<div class="byline">BY NEIL MILBERT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0003-03651/4638140-1-eng-US/f0003-032.jpg" title="f0003-03" width="564" height="902"><figcaption class="caption-body">Left winger Curt Fraser is out for 10 weeks after surgery to repair torn knee ligaments.</figcaption></div>CHICAGO&mdash;The Black Hawks&rsquo; faltering fortunes have taken another turn for the worse, leaving the left wing devastated by injuries.The team&rsquo;s top three left wingers&mdash;Al Secord, Darryl Sutter and Curt Fraser&mdash;all are on the disabled list.Fraser is the most seriously hurt. He will be sidelined for at least 10 weeks, following surgery to repair tom liga-ments in his left knee.Secord has severely strained abdominal muscles. The 3-0 loss to Montreal on Nov. 9 was the fourth straight game he missed and his seventh in total because of the injury. His return is uncertain.Sutter suffered two broken ribs in the 6-3 loss in New Jersey. He worked a regular shift wearing a protective flak jacket in the Montreal game, but it was obvious the injury was hindering him.&ldquo;He has trouble breathing, he can&rsquo;t play his normal game around the net and there&rsquo;s no treatment we can give that will help him,&rdquo; said Hawk coach Orval Tessier. &ldquo;This wipes out the left side, but I think it&rsquo;s best for Darryl&rsquo;s health if we give him a little time to recover.&ldquo;It might rain a lot harder before the sun shines.&rdquo;The injury deluge began when Fraser suffered his injury after absorbing a vigorous check from Gordie Roberts in the first period of the Hawks 5-1 loss in Minnesota.From the standpoint of Hawk general manager Bob Pulford and Tessier, losing Fraser is a severe blow, even though his scoring production has been modest. In 14 games, Fraser scored two goals and assisted on five.Fraser was acquired from Vancouver last January in exchange for Tony Tanti, then one of the top-goal producers in junior hockey and the Hawks&rsquo; first-round selection in the 1981 draft.Tanti is now one of the top scorers in the National Hockey League, but, according to Tessier, Pulford made the right move.&ldquo;I honestly don&rsquo;t think we&rsquo;d have gotten by Minnesota last spring in the Stanley Cup semi-finals if we didn&rsquo;t have Fraser,&rdquo; he said.Fraser was acquired for his toughness and scoring ability adjacent to the net and Pulford had hopes that he would develop along the lines of Secord.After being known manily for his aggressive play. Secord developed into a big goal-scorer after he was traded by Boston to Chicago in 1980. Last season, Secord scored 54 goals and he tallied 44 the season before.However, this year, he scored only two goals, one in an empty net, before the abdominal injury forced him to the sidelines for a still undetermined period.&ldquo;Al is an enigma,&rdquo; said trainer Skip Thayer, referring to the injury. &ldquo;Heat doesn&rsquo;t work, ice doesn&rsquo;t work and exercise doesn&rsquo;t work. Now, we&rsquo;re trying complete rest.&rdquo;The Montreal loss was the fourth straight for the Hawks and it also was the first time they had been shut out since Tessier became their coach last autumn.&ldquo;Last year we didn&rsquo;t have any rough periods like this until the final (Campbell Conference championship) series with Edmonton,&rdquo; Tessier said. &ldquo;Maybe it&rsquo;s good to do it now and get it over with.&rdquo;The day before the Montreal game, two disgruntled players, defenseman Greg Fox and right winger Tim Hig-gins, had private meetings with the coach.Tessier was irked that they had decided to go public with their criticism of his methods and peeved because their quotes came out in print.&ldquo;I would think a writer would have sense enough to write sensible things,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;As far as I&rsquo;m concerned the subject is buried.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t even want to discuss it. It&rsquo;s a free country. If players want to say something that&rsquo;s sensational and people want to put that in the paper, it&rsquo;s up to them.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not going to sit somebody down for what he says. I&rsquo;m not one to hold grudges. The subject is closed.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Hawks’ Left Wing Devastated By Injuries

<div class="byline">BY JAY GREENBERG</div>PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Only the Flyers can prevent forest fires in their end of the rink.The three-game losing streak started when they were caught playing with matches, Smokey. They struck the puck on their sticks and held it like they were at a weenie roast. The hot hand they got didn&rsquo;t refer to their scoring stats.Then, once or twice burned, they began dropping the damn things like hot coals, starting brushfires that led to a 6-5 Spectrum loss to Los Angeles. The way these things go, they usually get worse before they get better. And sure enough, two nights later in St. Louis, the Flyers torched themselves 7-6.That made it 19 goals against in three games when they came home to play the Hartford Whalers Subsequently, they didn&rsquo;t have to be told what to do.&ldquo;You can see how teams lose a few and then just keep losing,&rdquo; said coach Bob McCammon. &ldquo;They get tighter and tighter, keep making mistakes and it goes on and on.&rdquo;The Flyers still looked jittery against the Whalers, but they got down to basics and won 4-2.&ldquo;You just don&rsquo;t break into the holes the way you do when you&rsquo;re rolling along,&rdquo; said Brad Marsh. &ldquo;I think everybody thought first of all about their own end.&ldquo;We should have generated more pressure. But the way things were going, nobody wanted to. It wasn&rsquo;t part of any game plan. It&rsquo;s just everybody thinking &lsquo;let&rsquo;s take this one step at a time.&rdquo;&lsquo;&ldquo;We had to struggle to win and still have turnovers that resulted in two goals,&rdquo; McCammon said. &ldquo;We have to be honest, we&rsquo;re not jumping right now. We certainly aren&rsquo;t playing like we did two weeks ago.&ldquo;When our defense plays well, it&rsquo;s aggressive. And it wasn&rsquo;t very aggressive tonight. They&rsquo;ve played some great games, so 1 know they&rsquo;ll come back. 1 just wish they&rsquo;d let me know when.&rdquo;The Flyers, in a word, were cautious. Breaking this slump, one step at a time, they picked up their forechecking two nights later against the Islanders at Uniondale.They outshot the Islanders 41-24. They spent most of the game in the Isles&rsquo; end of the ice. They were awake and aware again in their own end of the ice.They also lost 4-1, making it four losses in five games. Hockey proved again to be a stupid game. Goalies, when they play like Roland Melanson did that night, are not fair. Taken as one game, this did not make much sense, but it was nonetheless part of an almost classic pattern from the ebb and flow of any 80-game season.Just as a team will get away with its excesses for a few games before the first loss of any skid appears, a team concentrating on coming out of one will play a game or two like this and lose before its efforts are finally rewarded.&ldquo;When we play like this, we win most of the time,&rdquo; said McCammon in a sort of girm concilliation. The difference was two goals Pelle Lindbergh could have stopped and all that poise the Stanley Cup champions showed in the finals against Edmonton last May, rising again to an occasion.One of the victims of the slump was Lindbergh. The Flyers were so bad in front of him, that Lindbergh was actually outstanding in the Los Angeles loss, but when his teammates sunk to new lows in St. Louis. Lindbergh cracked a little for the first time all season. He was better in Uniondale, but still not all the way back. As a result. McCammon turned to Bob Froese for the next game and announced a change of policy.&ldquo;From now on the best goalie will play,&rdquo; McCammon said. &ldquo;If a guy&rsquo;s playing well, he&rsquo;ll stay in there. We had Pelle going really well and I wanted to get Froese into some games and I think it hurt Lindbergh.&rdquo;Actually, for the most part, McCammon had already been following that policy. The one exception came after Lindbergh had played five straight games, ending with back-to-back wins over Quebec. The coach then switched back to Froese for a weekend set with Pittsburgh and the Islanders. It worked against the Penguins, when Froese beat them 3-1 at the Civic Arena. It didn&rsquo;t against the Islanders when he allowed two soft goals in a 6-2 loss.Of course, an offshoot of McCammon&rsquo;s game logic was if Lindbergh had once been going great, he should keep him in there until he starts going great again. But over a long season, the coach reasons that the illusion of competition is necessary.ICEBERGS&mdash;Frank Bathe was scheduled to undergo surgery for the removal of a herniated disc in his back. Doctors think Bathe might be able to play again in six to nine weeks&hellip;Michel Larocque, who had a good camp and earned some early-season starts before spraining his back the day before the opener, is practising again. At this point, it would probably take a long trip south by both Froese and Lindbergh to get Larocque a start. St. Louis, in the meantime, is very interested in his services&hellip;Coach Bob McCammon benched slumping right winger Ray Allison for four games. &ldquo;I just think Ray was playing easy,&rdquo; said McCammon. &ldquo;And I don&rsquo;t think he&rsquo;s one of the guys who can get away with that.&rdquo;&hellip;Defenseman Thomas Eriksson is also sitting out a few games&hellip;The Flyers most consistent defenseman lately has been Brad McCrimmon. &#9632;

Slumping Fivers Plagued By Defense Woe

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The Hockey News

<div class="byline">BY JOHN GILBERT</div>BLOOMINGTON&mdash;Defensive hockey requires patience and discipline, while offensive hockey can thrive on impatience and creative instincts that may be totally undisciplined.The North Stars have been impatient about getting things together this season and for good reason. But despite a dismal start, they might as well have been patient because the rest of the Norris Division, sure enough, came back to meet them.The Stars rose from last place in the Norris by winning four out of five with offensive explosions reminiscent of the &ldquo;old&rdquo; North Stars. That hoisted Minnesota to a 7-8-1 record, in contrast from their 3-7-1 ledger.While the Stars were struggling so mightily to climb out of last place in the National Hockey League&rsquo;s weakest division, they scarcely noticed that Chicago, which was soaring at 8-4, was coming to meet them.The Black Hawks lost five straight games to lead the division with a paltry 8-9 record, which meant that on the day the North Stars extricated themselves from last place with a 5-2 victory over St. Louis, they were one point out of last place but also only one point of first place.But that&rsquo;s somebody else&rsquo;s problem and the feeling around the Met Center was that it was nice to have somebody else worrying for a change.The North Stars were again led by the sparkling Neal Broten-Tom McCarthy-Dino Ciccarelli unit, which clicked from the moment it was put together two weeks ago.In five games through the 5-2 victory over St. Louis, Ciccarelli scored 11 goals and added six assists, while McCarthy had five and nine totals. Broten continued to mesmerize defenses and exploit the talent of his two wingers.&ldquo;This club,&rdquo; said North Star coach Bill Mahoney, &ldquo;doesn&rsquo;t fit into the usual mold. It has a definite offensive bias.&rdquo;It was not criticism from the coach, just an explanation of why the early-season plan of implementing a disciplined defense detracted from the offense so much.&ldquo;With most teams, you could just get them to focus a little attention on defense and get it done,&rdquo; Mahoney said. &ldquo;But we concentrated on defense so intensely, we weren&rsquo;t able to focus on offense.&ldquo;Our plan hasn&rsquo;t changed. We&rsquo;re implementing defensive things bit by bit and it&rsquo;s getting better. I was hired because I was committed and management was committed to the belief that just offense won&rsquo;t win in the long run.&rdquo;The offensive fireworks of the Broten line are understandable to those who watched them last season. But the line defies some of the traditional methods. While not lacking in defensive-zone competence, it seems to spend very little time in the defensive zone.When that line hits the ice, the puck is usually headed for the other team&rsquo;s net, causing opponents to react defensively instead of planning an attack of their own.&ldquo;Unless you find yourself facing two-on-ones, three-on-ones or three-on-twos, that&rsquo;s fine,&rdquo; said Mahoney. &ldquo;And that line has had a few of those, but not many. Still, we&rsquo;ve talked about some of the disciplined defensive things and they are doing it better.&ldquo;When they&rsquo;ve got possession of the puck, they have been amazingly successful. And when you look at it, Brian Bellows is going to score. And with Brian Lawton centering him now, they could both score. And Dennis Maruk is definitely an offensive threat.&rdquo;If the defensive play improves by trickle-down effect, the team&rsquo;s defense improved dramatically with the return of injured defensemen Craig Hartsburg, Lars Lindgren and Dan Mandich, plus the renewed confidence of Gilles Meloche, who started five straight games in goal.That, plus the return to the pack by the Black Hawks, could make everything rosy by Thanksgiving. &#9632;

Stars Are Looking Like Old Selves

<div class="byline">BY STAN FISCHLER</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0005-011062/4638243-1-eng-US/f0005-012.jpg" title="f0005-01" width="308" height="360"></div><h2>The Great Buzinski</h2>MY FAVORITE HOCKEY nickname of all time is Steve Buzinski, The Puck Goesinski.I like it for three reasons&mdash;it rhymes, it&rsquo;s funny and it&rsquo;s true.Steve Buzinski, The Puck Goesinski, played nine games for the New York Rangers in 1942-43 and was either the first or second worst goalie of all-time, give or take Claude Evans.Steve Buzinski, The Puck Goesinski, was not meant to be a goalie on account of his legs. They were bowed. They were so bowed, in fact, that his manager, Frank Boucher, said, &ldquo;When you looked at Steve you felt the poor fellow was shot full of holes.&rdquo;And he was. On opening night, Oct. 31, 1942, it was 7-2 for Toronto. Then 12-5 for Detroit. In that game, Steve Buzinski, The Puck Goesinski, authored a hockey legend.He was losing 7-1 when Carl Liscombe of the Red Wings fired a shot from center ice. It was considerably wide of the net but the goalie made a desperate lunge and caught it in the webbing of his mitt. Then, he nonchalantly tossed it into the comer of the rink as teammate Bryan Hextall skated by. &ldquo;Hex,&rdquo; Buzinski said, as if he had invented of art puckstopping, &ldquo;it&rsquo;s like pickin&rsquo; cherries off a tree!&rdquo;A few minutes later he made the same kind of save but, this time, Steve Buzinski, The Puck Goesinski, tossed the rubber into his own net. By the ninth game Boucher got the message. The man had played in nine games and given up 55 goals for a 6.11 average. He not only earned a one-way ticket to Swift Current, Sask., but also his immortal nickname Steve Buzinski, The Puck Goesinski.<h2>Remember Bingo Kampman?</h2>THINKING ABOUT STEVE gets me wondering whether they make nicknames like they used to in the days of The Great Buzinski. They had some dandies back then. Why the Toronto Maple Leafs alone had a bushelful of nicknames you could sink your teeth in and enjoy.How about Rudolph (Bingo) Kampman, whose off-ice hobby was lifting heavy tables by clenching its tops in his teeth. Or his Toronto teammate, Wilfred (Bucko) McDonald, who liked to bodycheck people off his chest. That same club boasted Dave (Sweeney) Schriner, Walter (Turk) Broda and Billy (The Kid) Taylor, among the better nickname brigade.Do they make nicknames like they used to? Well, we don&rsquo;t have a &ldquo;Stratford Streak&rdquo; (Howie Morenz), a &ldquo;Black Cat&rdquo; (Johnny Gagnon), a &ldquo;Chicoutimi Cucumber&rdquo; (George Vezina), a &ldquo;Big Train&rdquo; (Lionel Conacher) or a &ldquo;Sudden Death&rdquo; (Mel Hill) anymore.Nor can we find an &ldquo;Eel&rdquo; (Camille Henry), &ldquo;Gazelle (Leo Cravelle), &ldquo;Spider&rdquo; (Eddie Mazur) or &ldquo;Beast&rdquo; (Bill Juzda).And wouldn&rsquo;t the game be a little more fun if your friendly play-by-play announcer could tell you about the &ldquo;Dipsy-Doodle Dandy From Delisle&rdquo; (Max Bentley), the &ldquo;Haileybury cane&rdquo; (Leo Labine), the &ldquo;Whirlwind&rdquo;, &ldquo;Tornado&rdquo; or &ldquo;Cyc-lone&rdquo; (all Fred Taylor)?Less flamboyant but no less neat were &ldquo;Fido&rdquo; (Cliff Purpur), &ldquo;Taffy&rdquo; (Clarence Abel), &ldquo;Toe&rdquo; (Hector Blake), &ldquo;Mud&rdquo; (Modere Bruneteau), &ldquo;Buzz&rdquo; (Frank Boll), &ldquo;Bep&rdquo; (Armand Guidolin) or &ldquo;Bad&rdquo; (Joe Hall).<h2>Ole Poison Stewart</h2>NOT TO MENTION &ldquo;Ole Poison&rdquo; (Nels Stewart), &ldquo;The Duke of Paducah&rdquo; (Joe Klukay), &ldquo;The Edmonton Express&rdquo; (Eddie Shore), &ldquo;MisterZero&rdquo; (FrankBrimsek), &ldquo;The Rocket&rdquo; (Maurice Richard), or &ldquo;The Pocket Rocket&rdquo; (Henri Richard).In a special category, because no nickname better described the man&rsquo;s shot, is &ldquo;Boom Boom,&rdquo; which belongs to Bernie Geoffrion, the first&mdash;no, not Bobby Hull or Andy Bathgate&mdash;to popularize the slapshot.What I can&rsquo;t figure out is why nobody ever came up with a nickname for Gordie Howe, Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito or Stan Mikita, among those who rated the grand labels.Do they make nicknames like the used to? Well, the current crop is bountiful if not as poetic.Could there be anything more apropos than &ldquo;The Rat&rdquo; (Ken Linseman). Or &ldquo;Tiger&rdquo; (Dave Williams). Or &ldquo;Bammer&rdquo; (Dave Langevin).Can there be a more appropriate monicker than &ldquo;Magician&rdquo; (Merlin Malinowski)?Other newies-but-goodies include &ldquo;Soupy&rdquo; (Colin Campbell), &ldquo;Bubba&rdquo; (Barry Beck), &ldquo;Bone&rdquo; (Wayne Merrick), &ldquo;Nifty&rdquo; (Rick Middleton), &ldquo;Steamer&rdquo; (Stan Smyl), &ldquo;Bunny&rdquo; (Michel Larocque), &ldquo;Eddie Munster&rdquo; (Kevin LaValle) and &ldquo;Muddy&rdquo; (Tim Watters).As for Wayne Gretzky, he&rsquo;s great. It is befitting that he has been dubbed &ldquo;The Great Gretzky&rdquo; But in the nickname department there&rsquo;s no way he can match up to the one, the only Steve Buzinski, The Puck Goesinski.Steve, wherever you are, I love ya!<h2>The Bruin Mystery</h2>YOU FIGURE THIS out because I can&rsquo;t. Every year 1 hear whispers that Gerry Cheevers isn&rsquo;t getting as much out of the Bruins as he might or another coach might. And every year Gerry Cheevers has the Bruins way up there when maybe they should not even be that high. Cheesie ought to get himself a press agent.<h2>Credibility Canyon</h2>MUCKRAKING JOURNALISTS AND the hockey establishment have suffered an uneasy co-existence since the dawn of the blueline, so it is not surprising that the Toronto Maple Leafs got all huffy-miffy over some of the 1983 writings of Bill Houston.A Toronto Globe and Mail reporter, Houston wrote some not-so-nice things about the Maple Leafs and their use of the goon-of-the-year, Paul Higgins. General manager Gerry McNamara, in the finest Gestapo tradition, barred Houston from the Leaf dressing room late last season.While access to the dressing room would not stop his primary bodily functions, Houston like other journalists, believes it&rsquo;s important to question players in their sanctuary.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s hard to write a good game story without going into the room,&rdquo; Houston tells me. And I understand his position.When the 1982-83 curtain came down, Houston presumed that time would heal the wounds and that access would be available in 1983-84 but this has not been the case. Houston charges that the Maple Leafs informed the other Toronto papers, the Starand the Sun, about a press conference for the top draft choice but conspicuously did not inform the Globe and Mail.&ldquo;They (McNamara and company) were trying to shut us down,&rdquo; says Houston. &ldquo;McNamara&rsquo;s philosophy is that if you don&rsquo;t like somebody you don&rsquo;t invite him into your living room.&rdquo;But the Maple Leaf dressing room is not McNamara&rsquo;s living room. His job is to cover it and since the Leafs have extended the anti-Houston ban into 1983-84, Houston has appealed to the NHL public relations people for help. This comes at a time when the league is desperately trying to shore up its image as an enlightened organization. At this moment the league is investigating the case while trying to wipe some more egg off its face.More than anything, the case of Houston vs. McNamara is testing the power and integrity of the NHL&rsquo;s high command and specifically Steve Ryan, the league&rsquo;s accomplished vice president of marketing and public relations.Ever since he move to the NHL office three years ago, Ryan has been relentlessly trying to push the medieval types like McNamara into the 20th century. It ain&rsquo;t easy but he has been pushing. If he wins the battle for Houston it will strike a blow for enlightenment and the credibility of his department. If not, the NHL will be struck with its usual status quo ante&mdash;mostly ante.<h2>Hollywood Wayne</h2>A RUMOR HAS been flitting around that Wayne Gretzky has taken acting lessons from Ed Marinaro. Not quite.&ldquo;As far as sitting down and taking acting lessons for hours, says Gretzky, &ldquo;that&rsquo;s a little unheard of. I did spend some time with Eddie and he helped me out with a few things. He gave me some good help, not as far as lessons are concerned, but in which direction to head, how to plan if I want to go down there (Hollywood) when 1 finish my career.&rdquo;Another rumor has it that Wayne currently endorses 471 products, including 200 still to be invented. Is that true, Wayne?<h2>Watt&rsquo;s Old</h2>IT IS A tribute to Tom Watt&rsquo;s survival quotient that he was able to last as Winnipeg coach through the first week of November when, in fact, he was fired for all intents and purposes in October.In the Oct. 25 edition of the Winnipeg Free Press reporter Reyn Davis queried GM John Ferguson about the Jets&rsquo; coaching. Fergie ranted about the handling of Andrew McBain and Dale Hawerchuk among others. Then, Davis put the question to Ferguson.&ldquo;Are you satisfied with the work of Tom Watt and his assistants Bill Sutherland and Barry Long?&rdquo;&ldquo;No comment,&rdquo; snapped Ferguson.&ldquo;No job&rdquo; is what it meant for Watt, butthen the Jets made the hanging difficult for Fergie. They went out and beat the Islanders in Nassau Coliseum and the Rangers in Madison Square Garden. Watt was still swinging in the wind, but at least he was still alive.So the scenario went into overtime and, finally, the curtair came down on the Watt era in Winnipeg on Nov. 7th. The onus now, is on Ferguson to find an adequate replacement and get what appears to be a shaky franchise back on the track. It will bea formidable challenge on both counts. &#9632;

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ON THE CONTRARY

<div class="byline">BY DICK CHUBEY</div>EDMONTON&mdash;Bad enough Pat Conacher came to training camp as a young man without a contract, without a team to call his own&hellip;and without an employer from whom to draw a twice-monthly wage.But when a dude&rsquo;s existence wasn&rsquo;t recognized by the offical National Hockey League Guide, well, how much lower could he slip? I mean, if a chap&rsquo;s not alphabetically listed in the Guide, chances are he&rsquo;s skidded so far down the ladder, he&rsquo;s in danger of never being found in THE HOCKEY NEWS.Consider&hellip;Udo Kiessling, a product of Crimmitschau, Germany who played one game in 1981-82 with Minnesota North Stars, was listed&mdash;on page 261 in the &lsquo;82-83 Guide.So was Mark Ronald Wells, who was drafted 176th overall in 1977 but never saw the light of day in the NHL. This household name was listed on page 411.Chris John Halyk was on 226. Les Auge could be found on 137 with Joe Augustine following on 138 and Michael Charles Backman on 139. Even goalie Sam St. Laurent&rsquo;s not-so-glittering minor-league resume was located on page 455.But, Pat Conacher? Uh, uh. It was as if he never existed last season.Can you imagine the price-to-pay if the name &ldquo;Conacher&rdquo; was omitted from the NHL Guide a generation or two ago. Heads would have rolled.&ldquo;Except I&rsquo;m no relation,&rdquo; confessed Pat. &ldquo;I spell my name the same as the famous hockey Conachers&hellip;but that&rsquo;s about it.&rdquo;That&rsquo;s sufficient.Two-and-a-quarter inches of blank space on page 177 between Edmonton defenseman Paul Douglas Coffey and Cameron Duncan Connor, an ex-Oiler in the New York Rangers&rsquo; system, perhaps helped explain Conacher&rsquo;s nonexistence. That and a badly broken leg suffered in a 1980 Rangers&rsquo; pre-season game with Washington that required two operations and forced the 24-year-old to miss an entire campaign.&ldquo;Maybe the broken leg is why 1 disappeared,&rdquo; shrugged Conacher, the exRanger chattel who took a fling at the Oilers as a free-agent.&ldquo;What&rsquo;s the big deal if my name was there or not?&rdquo; Conacher asked rhetorically. &ldquo;Stuff like that doesn&rsquo;t bother me. It&rsquo;s what you do on the ice that matters.&rdquo;Which is why on Oct. 25, the night before the Oilers were to face the Maple Leafs in Toronto, general managercoach Glen Sather summoned Conacher from the Moncton Alpines. The low-key Conacher may not find it hard to be humble, but dogged determination and hard work are the reasons he received the call over others who were impressive on the farm.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m not a big scorer,&rdquo; confessed Conacher, who had 65 minor-league goals and a 22-game NHL look-see with the Rangers to his credit before Sather gave him the call. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not a very marketable item. I&rsquo;m a guy who goes out and works hard. Every organization has 100 guys like that.&rdquo;In other words, the type of player who Sather likes to have around, a parallel to his own playing career.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always appreciated his rambunctious style, enthusiasm and desire,&rdquo; said Slats.At first glance, Conacher, 5-foot-8 and 185 pounds, would have seemed to ideally fit in with Ranger coach Herb Brooks&rsquo; Smurfs. But he was a product of the Freddie Shero-regime and was offered only a minor-league employment.&ldquo;I told the Rangers I wanted another shot at the Apple (NHL), so 1 had my agent (Larry Rauch) phone around,&rdquo; explained the Edmonton-born, Calgary-raised product who attracted interest from the New Jersey Devils and the Oilers.&ldquo;I figured if I went to Jersey and didn&rsquo;t make it, I&rsquo;d pretty well be out of hockey. But if I didn&rsquo;t make the Edmonton Oilers, there are probably still 19 teams not as good as they are.&rdquo;But, when Conacher learned he was to start the season in the American League, he flew home to Calgary to contemplate his future. Retirement was heavy on his mind. Fortunately, he had second thoughts and was summoned after only nine games with Moncton.Conacher&rsquo;s first two points as an Oiler came during a triumphant return to New York&rsquo;s Madison Square Garden, earning assists on Pat Hughes&rsquo; two goals, the second at 1:18 of sudden-death overtime for a 5-4 victory. Conacher&rsquo;s first NHL goal came next time out, staking the Oilers to a 2-1 lead in a match in which they whipped Washington 11-3.Will this be a new beginning?Maybe. But the new NHL Guide just came in and there on Page 228 is Patrick John (Pat) Conacher. Yep, right between Kim Collins and Cameron Duncan Connor.Kim Collins? &#9632;

No-Name Conacher Making It As An Oiler

<div class="byline">BY TOM HENSHAW</div>BOSTON&mdash;Here it is some 15 games into the season and Nevin Markwart, 18 years old and the 21st-draft choice overall last June, is still wearing a Boston Bruin uniform.Not only that but, after an unexciting start that saw him go scoreless through the first nine games of his NHL carer, he picked up five goals and three assists in the next five games.And, although it&rsquo;s nothing you&rsquo;d want to write home to Regina about, in his 12th game he was the motivating force in an incident that nearly wiped out the best goalie in hockey, his own teammate. Pete Peeters.Youngsters who are drafted last in the first round are not supposed to make it from junior to the NHL with a Stanley Cup contender, especially if they scored only 27 goals in 43 games in junior and missed most of last season with a shoulder injury.&ldquo;I was pretty skeptical about making it when I was drafted,&rdquo; said Markwart. &ldquo;I hadn&rsquo;t played a whole year of junior in two years. I thought it was probably best if I went back to junior because I didn&rsquo;t have any hope of playing in the NHL so early.&ldquo;But I talked to Harry Sinden a couple of times over the summer and he made me a pretty good contract offer. I started thinking, &lsquo;Hey, maybe I can make it!&rsquo; When they sign you, especially a team like the Bruins, you know you&rsquo;re in their plans for sure.&ldquo;That gave me confidence. I came into camp working hard and trying to do more or less what they wanted me to do, check hard and not really worry about scoring. You have to remember the situation in Boston. They&rsquo;re looking for left wingers. In that respect, too, I had a good chance of making it.&rdquo;Markwart, better known in junior as a good skating checker rather than a scorer, was given the opportunity for which every left winger dreams to start the season, a spot on a line with Rick Middleton and Barry Pederson. He wasn&rsquo;t ready.&ldquo;I know they tried to give me confidence by putting me on with some of the better players,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But at that point in my development I was just not prepared to make plays with them. Things were a little too quick for me.&ldquo;I was trying to play the grinding game and they were trying to play the finesse game and it just didn&rsquo;t work out. For a guy like Brian Lawton or someone like that who plays that way all the time it might not be so tough. But I wasn&rsquo;t ready.&rdquo;Markwart was matched with Tom Fergus at center and Bruce Crowder at right wing when he scored his first NHL goal in Minnesota. It was the eighth and final goal in an 8-1 Bruins&rsquo; rout. His second was the game-winner in a 9-4 victory over St. Louis.He attributes his new NHL scoring touch to coach Jean Ratelle and, of all people, Mike Krushelnyski, a centerman turned left wing who is only three years his senior.&ldquo;Krush is one of the premier left wingers in the league, no doubt about it,&rdquo; said Markwart. &ldquo;He told me that 1 can&rsquo;t skate fast all the time. When I was in junior, I never really controlled my skating. Here you have to be a little smarter and slow down at times and speed up at other times.Fortunately for the Bruins, whose Stanley Cup chances ride heavily on Peeters shoulders, the injury proved to be a mild concussion. He was expected to be back in net against Washington on Nov. 13 after missing four games. &#9632;

Markwart Leads The Bruins In Motivation

<div class="byline">BY DICK JOHNSTON</div>BUFFALO&mdash;What a switch for the Sabres within a few days. And what a switch for Phil Housley in a single game&mdash;from potential goat to hero.The versatile 19-year-old already had made another switch, from center back to defense, during the Sabres&rsquo; lost weekend.The Sabres had one of their worst weekends in recent years when they lost successive games to the New York Islanders and Quebec Nordiques by a combined score of 11-1.Then, however, they bounced back with a victory over the Boston Bruins, holding the high-scoring Bruins to a single goal while winning 3-1.Housley, who had been playing center since the release of Dale McCourt Oct. 18, was back at defense against the Bruins. He scored one goal and assisted on the other, as did veteran center Gil Perreault. The third Buffalo goal was scored by Brent Peterson into an empty net with six seconds to go.Housley also figured in the Bruins&rsquo; goal, scored by Mike Krushelnyski, while Boston was shorthanded. Housley let a bouncing pass from Perreault get away from him and Krushelnyski gained control of the puck to skate in and score.&ldquo;The puck bounced over my stick. I got it back but then Krushelnyski got it again,&rdquo; Housley said. &ldquo;Things like that have been happening to me. But I just have to put it out of my mind and keep playing.&rdquo;That he did. Boston&rsquo;s goal came late in the second period. Midway through the first period, Housley scored the winning goal, with a quick slapshot from the point during a power play.It wasn&rsquo;t the first time something like that happened to the youngster from St. Paul, MN, this season. In a game against Pittsburgh, the night he was shifted to center. Housley put in a goal for the Penguins during a Buffalo power play.He came back to score the winning goal in that game, too, as the Sabres won by an identical 3-1 score.Perreault&rsquo;s goal against the Bruins also came on a power play and that was heartening news for the Buffalo coaching staff. After the Sabres scored a powerplay goal in 10 of 11 games, the power play suddenly short-circuited and their percentage fell to 16th in the league.The goal gave Perreault 1,100 points for his 14 NHL seasons, a level that only 13 other players have reached.Although he had gone without a point through the two weekend games, after getting at least one in 11 straight, Perreault had 14 points in his last eight games.Nobody, it seemed, could put the puck into the net for Buffalo as the Sabres lost to the Islanders 4-0 and to the Nordiques 7-1. Defenseman Mark Renaud scored his first goal of the season in the Quebec game.Housley, who played center for eight straight games, was moved to defense against Quebec, when Hannu Virta, another youthful backliner, couldn&rsquo;t play because of a hand injury suffered against the Islanders.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care where I play, as long as I play andean help the team,&rdquo; said Housley, adding that he didn&rsquo;t find it difficult switching back and forth.What changed the Sabres from the peaceful tabbycats of the lost weekend (and who won one of six games before the Boston contest) into the tigers who beat the Bruins at their own game?Scotty Bowman and his coaching staff had a couple of meetings with the club, letting them know just what was expected of them.&ldquo;We got back to the work ethic,&rdquo; explained defenseman Mike Ramsey. &ldquo;We have a team that to win has to have everybody working and putting their minds to winning.&ldquo;Guys had gotten lackadaisical and forgot about this. We have to have 20 guys going every night. We have to play the game in the other team&rsquo;s end, the way Boston usually does, and that&rsquo;s what we did against the Bruins.&rdquo; &#9632;

Sabre Fortunes Change As Housley Moves Back

<div class="byline">BY RON COBB</div>ST. LOUIS&mdash;What do you say when your team is struggling through a losing streak?If you&rsquo;re Jacques Demers, you say plenty.&ldquo;Last year, maybe the players had an excuse. They don&rsquo;t have an excuse this year, I guarantee you that,&rdquo; said Demers. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not going to find excuses, we&rsquo;re going to find the solution. And I know pretty much what&rsquo;s the solution. Some players are going to have get their butts kicked.&rdquo;The Blues had just lost their fourth straight game, a 3-2 setback to the visiting Detroit Red Wings, when Demers unloaded his barrage.About half a dozen players weren&rsquo;t giving full effort, said Demers, who did not identify anybody by name.&lsquo;The party is over&hellip;if we&rsquo;re going to lose, we&rsquo;re not going to lose with some of these guys here. We&rsquo;ll lose with youngsters.&rsquo;&ldquo;Some guys have been on a party here for the last two years,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The party&rsquo;s over.&ldquo;If you look at some of their goals, it was just a matter of being outhustled. We made a promise to the fans that they wouldn&rsquo;t suffer through a year like they did last year.&ldquo;If we lose hockey games, we&rsquo;re not going to lose with some of these guys here. If we&rsquo;re going to lose, we&rsquo;ll lose with youngsters. We&rsquo;ll bring some guys up from the minors.&rdquo;The day after the loss to Detroit, left winger Perry Anderson was promoted from the Montana Magic of the Central Hockey League to Boston for a game against the Bruins.&ldquo;In our first six games, we worked hard every shift,&rdquo; said Demers, recalling the Blues&rsquo; 5-1 start. &ldquo;Maybe some guys can&rsquo;t cope with success.&ldquo;When you&rsquo;re in the comer one-on-one and don&rsquo;t come out with the puck, that&rsquo;s a lack of intensity. In hockey, you&rsquo;ve got to take a check. Sometimes, we don&rsquo;t go to the net. for a second rebound, because we know we&rsquo;re going to get hit.&ldquo;Maybe some players here&mdash;and I don&rsquo;t say all of them, because I know I have good character here&mdash;maybe some of them can&rsquo;t play on a winning hockey club. Maybe they&rsquo;re not willing to pay the price.&rdquo;On the morning after the loss to Detroit, Demers was still upset.&ldquo;Based on what I see now, I was fooled in a way, because I really thought everybody wanted to win here, but not everybody wants to win,&rdquo; said Demers. &ldquo;A new coach comes in and everybody wants to make the coach feel good about him. Then the coach says, the team is for real, and the coach looks like an idiot now.&rdquo;The Blues scored only 13 goals in six games, but the offense came to life in a 9-5 loss to Boston. The losing streak was extended to five games, but the Blues played a spirited game and showed signs of coming out from the slump.More bad news arrived for the Blues when it was learned that their captain, left winger Brian Sutter, suffered a pelvis injury in the Boston game and would be lost for two weeks.At the end of the stormy week, the Blues rallied from a 4-1 deficit and beat the Philadelphia Flyers 7-6 in St. Louis.However, following the Flyer victory, the Blues went on a three-game road trip, but continued to have their problems, losing two and tying one (5-5 tie in Los Angeles, 6-2 loss to L.A. and 5-2 to Minnesota).The back-to-back games in Los Angeles followed an earlier agreement between the two teams. Harry Omest, the Blues&rsquo; president, opted to have his team play both games now and avoid a stop in L.A. in March, because the Blues end off the season with a gruelling six-game road trip. &#9632;

Demers Informs Blues The Fun Is Over

The International Hockey WeeklyFounded in 1947Published by W.C.C. Publishing Ltd.85 Scarsdale Road, #100, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3B 2R2.<h2>The Parity Problem</h2>IT WAS WITH some interest, not to mention mixed emotions, that we learned the Pittsburgh Penguins, specifically governor Paul Martha, are lobbying the NHL to change entry draft regulations to help out the weak sisters in the loop (see Bluelines, Page 26).Martha says something has to be done to help teams such as his own, the New Jersey Devils, Los Angeles Kings and St. Louis Blues. On what appears to be a two-prong proposal, Martha wants to see the bottom-rung teams, those that finish out of the playoffs, get bonus draft picks, say two of the first 10 players available. He also advocates a more meaningful waiver draft that will only allow the strong teams to protect a dozen or so skaters and not keep their press box and minor-league farm team full of eager prospects who are better than what some of the weak sisters are playing with now.Well, one good idea out of two isn&rsquo;t bad.We&rsquo;re all for anything that will make the waiver draft more helpful to the weaker teams. As it stands now, the chances of a weak team nabbing a solid NHLer in the waiver draft are pretty remote.In an interview with THE HOCKEY NEWS earlier this season, NHL president John Ziegler said maintaining parity&mdash;which translates as making sure no franchise falls too far into disrepair&mdash;is one of the league&rsquo;s big priorities in the years to come.If that is indeed the case, then the NHL should introduce legislation that would prevent NHL powers such as the New York Islanders from assembling a minor-league team that is almost as good as some of the dregs of the NHL.Of course, when talking about these &ldquo;share-the-wealth&rdquo; schemes, you always run the risk of battling the free enterprise system. For example, Islander boss Bill Torrey could well say that he shouldn&rsquo;t be penalized for being smarter than the men who run the stumbling, fumbling NHL franchises.And he would be right, but only to a degree. You have to, at some point, sacrifice something for the good of the league. If the Islanders couldn&rsquo;t protect so many players, then perhaps one of the weak sisters could nab a top prospect such as Kelly Hrudey, Paul Boutilier or Gord Dineen. Or, with those rules in effect, Torrey may decide to move his older players out sooner, which could also help strengthen some of the have-nots.Naturally, there is a point when this charity issue gets a little ridiculous. Enter Martha&rsquo;s other proposal, the one that says the bottom five teams should get two entry-draft picks apiece in the first 10.That&rsquo;s absurd. The NHL entry draft is, in itself, an equalization pool. Finish last and get the first pick. Finish second last and get the second pick. It&rsquo;s a damn fine system when it&rsquo;s carried out properly.The hitch is that for too many years, the NHL have-nots have been their own worst enemies. We can cite a long list of transactions that would no doubt embarrass the offending organizations.There was the one between the North Stars and Penguins, for example. In that one, the late Baz Bastein, then general manager of the Penguins, dealt George Ferguson and his first-round pick to the North Stars for Ron Meighan, Anders Hakansson and the Stars&rsquo; first pick. Thanks to that sweet deal, the Pens missed out on Brian Lawton. The year before, the New Jersey Devils missed out on picking between Brian Bellows and Gord Kluzak because they had traded their top pick as part of the Dwight Foster deal. We won&rsquo;t even bother mentioning how many times the Los Angeles Kings have surrenderd their top picks and gotten very little in return.You get the idea. What we are saying, of course, is that many of the weak sisters are authors of their own misfortune. In certain instances, it&rsquo;s mismangement that has prevented them from rising from the depths.So let&rsquo;s wrap up all this with one summarizing statement: The NHL entry draft is a fine system of equalization, providing the participants don&rsquo;t throw away their opportunity to snag good, young talent, and it should not be changed to suit franchises that have been mismanaged. However, every club in the league has a responsibility to make the game more entertaining and competitive and if that means having to surrender either more veteran talent or promising rookies through a meaningful waiver draft, then they should abide by that.Follow those two steps and our game can only improve. &#9632;

<div class="byline">BY BOB MCKENZIE</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0008-011206/4638394-1-eng-US/f0008-012.jpg" title="f0008-01" width="328" height="366"></div>To tell you the truth, it was one of those good news-bad news sort of weeks at THE HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; office. Well, what actually constituted the good and bad news was hardly earthshattering, but then it&rsquo;s often the small, seemingly insignificant things which tell you a lot about what&rsquo;s happening in the game today.A good indication of how far hockey has progressed came while watching taped television highlights of a game between the New York Islanders and the visiting Philadelphia Flyers. For the record, the Isles won 4-1, although that was not the intriguing aspect of the match.At some point during the game&mdash;the television announcer did not say exactly when&mdash;the Islanders&rsquo; chief agitator, Duane Sutter, barrelled into Flyer netminder Pelle Lindbergh, sending the Swede sprawling in about four different directions. Unless you were wearing orange and blue blinders, it was pretty clear Sutter made no effort to avoid the collision.If you think that&rsquo;s a polite way of saying Sutter meant to bury Lindbergh into the concrete beneath the Nassau Coliseum ice surface, you are very perceptive. It isn&rsquo;t the first time this member of the Sutter clan has stalked opposing goalies.Just as Sutter and Lindbergh were untangling themselves, with a few of the Flyers rushing to the scene of the crime, the film clip jumped to another play, an Islander goal.But the mind didn&rsquo;t jump with it. The mind was still back there, waiting to see what havoc the decking of Lindbergh would spark.Since the announcer made no mention of benchclearing brawls or a suspension to Philadelphia&rsquo;s Glen Cochrane or his cohorts, you had to assume that nothing of any significance happened. But, to be on the safe side, a mental note was made to carefully peruse the game summary the following morning.A careful examination of the summary revealed that there was no big fuss. In fact, only nine minors were called in the entire game and it&rsquo;s obvious that all hell didn&rsquo;t break loose when Sutter buried Lindbergh.The point of all this?It shows just how far NHL hockey has come in the last five or six years. Not so long ago in the NHL, a forward would only have to look at the goalie the wrong way and a brawl&mdash;ignited in the name of protecting the netminder&rsquo;s honor&mdash;would be in full swing.And if it happened to be a Philadelphia Flyer goalie who was bounced around, then it was a good bet that your local 11 p.m. news would be pre-empted because the third period was only starting then. The Sutter-Lindbergh collision didn&rsquo;t start World War Three.That&rsquo;s what you call progress.Then came the bad news. To find it, you needn&rsquo;t have gone any further than a USA Today feature story about Keith Gretzky, a 17-year-old forward for the the Windsor Spitfires of the Ontario Hockey League and, more important, the younger brother of Edmonton Oiler superstar Wayne Gretzky.The story itself was fine. People enjoy reading what it&rsquo;s like being the younger brother of The Great One and playing hockey at a very competitive, high-profile level, where comparisons are inevitable.No, what was bothersome about the Keith Gretzky story was a comment from Washington Capitals&rsquo; director of player personnel Jack Button. Said Button: &ldquo;I have serious doubts whether he (Keith Gretzky) will ever play in the National Hockey League.&rdquo;Button&rsquo;s concern, which is shared by other members of the scouting and pro hockey establishment, is that the younger Gretzky isn&rsquo;t particularly fast and isn&rsquo;t very big (5-foot-9, 160 pounds).So you&rsquo;re wondering, what&rsquo;s wrong with that? Button, who makes his living assessing hockey talent, was asked for his opinion on Keith Gretzky&rsquo;s chances of making it to the NHL and he gave a frank opinion, right?What this little episode demonstrates, though, is how far hockey has regressed in the last few years. Not so long ago, right around the time when everyone was starting fights to protect their goalie, you couldn&rsquo;t dismiss a prospective NHLer until he was 21 or 22 years old.In those days, a player wasn&rsquo;t drafted until he was 20. A year or two in the minors would almost be taken for granted and then, when the player had matured physically and emotionally, you could honestly judge whether he had what it takes to play in the NHL.Now, with the advent of the underage draft, we&rsquo;re suddenly faced with a legion of hockey people&mdash;from scouts to coaches to general managers&mdash;who seem willing to declare 19 and 20-year-olds washed up.The NHL has most certainly become a young man&rsquo;s game, but it&rsquo;s getting a little absurd when a qualified hockey man such as Button tells a national newspaper that a 17-year-old, playing his first full season of junior hockey, doesn&rsquo;t have it what it takes to play in the NHL.If that was the case, then Los Angeles King scoring star Bernie Nicholls, to name just one player, shouldn&rsquo;t be in the NHL today since he was playing tier two hockey when he was Keith Gretzky&rsquo;s age. There are a lot of players in that category, the late bloomers who for one reason or another aren&rsquo;t ready at 18 or 19.This isn&rsquo;t to say that Keith Gretzky will make it to the NHL. Maybe he&rsquo;s too small, maybe he&rsquo;s too slow, but let&rsquo;s at least keep an open mind and judge the kid on his performance over the next three years, not the first two months of one season.And keep one other thing in mind: more than a few scouts predicted the elder Gretzky would never be a force in the NHL, even when he was starring in the World Hockey Association as a 17-year-old.The reasons?He was too skinny and too slow. &#9632;

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EDITOR’S NOTEBOOK

<h2>WHAT ABOUT PLANTE?</h2>Your special feature about the lonely goalies was a masterpiece. Contratulations!For sure, goalkeepers are to hockey what pitchers are to baseball or jockeys to horseracing: a breed of particular phenomena.A tiny oversight, however, in Bob McKenzie&rsquo;s article, The Changing Faces Of NHL Goaltenders. How could you forget to mention a few words about Jacques Plante, one of the greatest stoppers of all time in the NHL? He&rsquo;s the one who perfected the facemask.Plante was 15 years ahead of his time by wearing this device on a permanent basis. He overcame the teasing of opponents and some fans who the thought he was crazy, timid and sissy.By doing so, his heroism helped to make the position of goaltender more popular, more protective and more appealing to all those kids who are in the net today.Daniel G. PietteMontreal, Que.<h2>KING OF DISTRACTIONS</h2>A few comments are in order concerning Larry Murphy&rsquo;s remarks after being traded to the Capitals. In summary, Mr. Murphy said, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a distraction playing out there&hellip;In L. A. nobody knows hockey exists.&rdquo; Well, Mr. Murphy, a professional in any field does not let distractions interfere with his performance. The way you played defense for the Kings, we wondered if you existed.There&rsquo;s a good core of knowledgable hockey fans who follow and support the Kings as well as many other hockey teams in the NHL. I guess Larry Murphy was too distracted to notice.Kevin GearinHermosa Beach, CA &#9632;

FAN FORUM

<div class="byline">BY RICH FRIEDMAN</div>NEW YORK&mdash;For the Rangers, the party&rsquo;s over.When they extended their early-November unbeaten streak to four games by hanging on for a 4-3 win over Calgary at Madison Square Garden, there was little of the euphoria permeating when the Rangers compiled a 9-1 record at the beginning of the season.Instead, there was the realization that the long season, with its peaks and valleys, had begun for real.The second streak&mdash;of sorts&mdash;followed a letdown that had seen them post just two points in a four-game homestand, in which they squandered leads and suffered mid-game letdowns. There had been numerous one-goal victories in that early winning streak and too many &ldquo;character builders&rdquo; for impartial observers to ignore the danger signs and consistency.&ldquo;Now we know you have to play 60 minutes to win,&rdquo; said Don Maloney, as he recalled a 9-1 start and the difficult weeks that followed. &ldquo;It was a lesson to be learned and it was a good time to learn it.&rdquo;Back-to-back ties on the road, in Buffalo and Quebec, were followed by a 90-minute &ldquo;blowout&rdquo; drill at the practise rink in Rye. In that ordeal&mdash;there had been several earlier in the season&mdash;the team does as much skating in one morning as it does in a month of Sundays of home games. There are psychological and conditioning benefits to be gained.&ldquo;After that skate on Sunday we don&rsquo;t want to keep going on like this,&rdquo; said Maloney. &ldquo;When you&rsquo;re winning, practises seem a lot easier than when you&rsquo;re not. It teaches you not to ease off and that you have to work hard.&rdquo;Two days later, the Rangers had their first win in six games (there had been three straight losses at home preceding the two ties on the road) when they easily beat the Devils 5-1 at the Meadowlands. The game was close going into the third period, until Barry Beck gave the Rangers a 3-0 lead at 1:39. Then, in the words of Devil general manager-coach Billy MacMillan, the Rangers &ldquo;just toyed with us.&rdquo;Ranger winger Mark Osbome alluded to that &ldquo;blowout&rdquo; drill when he described the game&rsquo;s final 20 minutes.&ldquo;It helps us in the third period,&rdquo; said Osbome. &ldquo;We started taking the play away from them then because we were first getting our legs. After some of those skates you&rsquo;re kind of &lsquo;zombied&rsquo; out for awhile and it takes two periods to get going.&rdquo;The next night, the Rangers got going quickly and all but ran out of gas at the end, hanging on as the Flames closed within one goal by scoring twice in 69 seconds during the game&rsquo;s final two minutes.The Rangers&rsquo; goal that proved to be the game-winner was scored by Reijo Ruotsalainen, the defenseman whose blazing, increasingly accurate shot eluded Flame goalie Rejean Lemelin. Routsalainen had been sidelined for four games after suffering a hip-pointer injury against the Islanders late in October and the Rangers lost three of them.His return coincided with the beginning of the Rangers&rsquo; four games unbeaten streak. He was on the ice for all five goals against the Devils.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-011220/4638449-1-eng-US/f0010-012.jpg" title="f0010-01" width="572" height="691"><figcaption class="caption-body">Ranger forward Don Maloney says the team has to play 60 minutes to win.</figcaption></div>&ldquo;One thing that people in America don&rsquo;t realize,&rdquo; explained coach Herb Brooks, &ldquo;is that hockey is a world game and players come from Scandinavia and the Soviet Union and other places. Some think that Rexi is the best skater in the National Hockey League (Ruotsalainen is from Finland), but I don&rsquo;t know if there is a better skater in the world.&rdquo;Brooks expects more from Ruotsalainen than he does from most of the Ranger players, but the team is still adapting to the Finn&rsquo;s explosive style. His defensive partner. Beck, has learned how to read him, but Brooks was asked whether the team is utilizing Ruotsa-lainen&rsquo;s skills to their maximum degree and he said, simply, &ldquo;No.&rdquo;There was a sense of the team digging in for the long haul in that first week of November. Certainly, a victory over the Devils and a routine win that turned into a cliffhanger against the Flames was not cause for extreme jubilance.The players were more willing than Brooks to reflect on the crisis in overconfidence that overtook them in those heady days of October.&ldquo;We had a great start and were on a roll there and we got pumped up and excited,&rdquo; said Mike Rogers. &ldquo;Now we&rsquo;re going again and now it is a grind. We&rsquo;ll have to grind it out to win, take one game at a time.&ldquo;You can start thinking that you&rsquo;re better than you really are and we had a good letdown.&rdquo;Once again, the forwards were coming back and helping the defensemen as they had in the early going. &ldquo;Giving the defenseman the extra step,&rdquo; as Rogers put it.Defenseman Tom Laidlaw pointed out that as the Rangers&rsquo; record improved early in the season, their opponents took them more seriously&mdash;erhaps at the same time they began to coast.&ldquo;Teams were getting pumped up to play us, (but) we were letting up as they were coming out harder,&rdquo; said Laidlaw. &ldquo;We found ourselves in a hole.&rdquo;And although they had dug themselves out, it was still there to remind them it&rsquo;s a long season. &#9632;

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The Party’s Over For The Rangers

<div class="byline">BY JOE FALLS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0010-02962/4638480-1-eng-US/f0010-022.jpg" title="f0010-02" width="308" height="351"></div><h2>Summary Fantasies</h2>I LOVE HOCKEY summaries. The names are almost magical to me: Gretzky, Perreault, Dionne, Lafleur, Bossy, P. Stastny. How many mornings I spend in my den with a cup of hot coffee at my side and probe through my newspaper searching for the scoring summaries of the games the night before. It is one of the best times of day, Gretzky never lets me down. He&rsquo;s always got something in there for me. P. Stastny, too. It might only be an assist but Peter, brother of Marian and Anton, always seems to deliver.That&rsquo;s when the images start running.From the tiny type in my newspaper, I can see P. Stastny flying across the blueline, swooping toward the comer, coming around behind the net and flashing the puck in front to one of his brothers. P. Stastny&mdash;similar to W. Gretzky&mdash;has never had a routine assist in all the mornings in my den.Now I have put two more names on my list.Tanti.Ciccarelli.Tony Tanti. Dino Ciccarelli. What marvelous names. They don&rsquo;t let you down either. They&rsquo;ve always got something for you in the scoring summaries&mdash;lately, lots and lots of goals.These are all scored on blinding shots which dazzle the goaltenders. They never bounce in off somebody&rsquo;s rump.Yet, as I follow the exploits of all these young man, I feel a certain sadness because I know so much of it is only in my mind. Not that it&rsquo;s bad to fantasize. When you get to be 55, you have to fantasize about something.<h2>Moore And Lindsay Jousting</h2>WHAT MAKES ME sad is that I know so little about these young men. I see them once, twice or maybe not at all in the course of a hockey season and it is impossible to establish any kind of relationship with them.Take Dickie Moore.He used to come into the Olympia Stadium seven times a year with the Montreal Canadiens. That meant seven jousts with Ted Lindsay, old Scarface of the Detroit Red Wings. They were great moments. You could sit there and watch Ding Dong Dickie put the stick into Terrible Ted&rsquo;s side as they battled in the comer and you knew Terrible Ted would go looking for him. He might not get him that night, but Ding Dong would be back in another two weeks&mdash;maybe next Sunday night&mdash;and you&rsquo;d get yourself all worked up for the next confrontation.Now we see the Dino Ciccarellis of the National Hockey League once in November and then maybe again in February and that&rsquo;s it. How can you work up any feelings about them?Forgive me for this phrase, but in the old days we could even tell the players by the back of their heads. Now we see helmets, helmets and more helmets&mdash;flying around, to be sure&mdash;but all looking alike from front, back and the side. Too bad because I think Dino Ciccarelli can be as exciting as anyone who ever played this game. He plays a slashing style of hockey, always veering in on the net, and he brings you to the edge of your seat everytime he gets the puck anywhere near the goal.<h2>Dino Lit Louis</h2>CICCARELLI CAME INTO Joe Louis Arena recently and lit up the whole arena with a great display of scoring. He got the hat trick&mdash;two on a power play and one into an empty net&mdash;and all three goals were works of art.The problem with us old geezers who like this game of hockey is that we remember all too clearly how it used to be and how it used to be was wonderful. We knew all the players and knew all the teams and we could establish almost a one-to-one rapport with everyone in the league. We could even tell which goalies shaved on what nights and whether they nicked themselves with the razor.Today, there are as many fine young players around as ever before&mdash;youngsters who are worthy of our praise, if not our bucks at the box office&mdash;and the problem is that we don&rsquo;t see them enough to fully appreciate their talents. We get them but a few times a year and must content ourselves with occasional glimpses of them on television and in our precious scoring summaries in the newspapers.This is certainly not the fault of these youngsters. The night Minnesota beat Detroit, we saw three exceptional players&mdash;Ciccarelli, who scored those three goals against the Red Wings; Brian Bellows, the 19-year-old right winger who plays like a 30-year-old pro for the North Stars; and Steve Yzerman, the 18-year-old center for the Red Wings, a kid who excites you with his many moves. Already he plays like a virtuoso and you can&rsquo;t help but wonder what he will be like when he&rsquo;s 22.So what is the answer to this dilemma? With 21 teams in the league, there appears to be no answer. I would welcome six or eight games a season against the Toronto Maple Leafs in Joe Louis Arena so I could follow the exploits of Walt Poddubny and get to know him, instead of two fleeting glimpses of The Great Gretzky.Do it like baseball&mdash;make separate leagues: one you could get to know during the season and the other you&rsquo;d get to see at World Series time. &#9632;

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HOCKEY CORNER

<div class="byline">BY BOB DONNELLY</div>QUEBEC CITY&mdash;Despite many complaints about inconsistent officiating and a 9-7-2 record after 18 starts&mdash;a mark that equals last year&rsquo;s after a similar number of games&mdash;the Nordiques are indeed an improved team.Quebec is better balanced up front, has been more aggressive both at home and on the road, and has generally been more consistent overall than in the last four years.The question is, are the Nordiques struggling? A 4-4 draw at home against the Rangers and a 7-4 loss to the high-scoring Oilers indicate signs of struggling&hellip;but not to coach Michel Bergeron.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t want to even hear that anyone thinks we let up against the Rangers when we blew a 3-1 lead and had to settle for the tie,&rdquo; said Bergeron said. &ldquo;There was a defensive lapse by one player which let New York make it 3-2 and then they tied it up on the power play. We played with intensity all through the game and we never let up as a team.&rdquo;That intensity and determination has been mentioned more and more often by Bergeron this season. The team record has not improved dramatically, but the defense has. Normand Rochefort and Mario Marois led the league in plusminus stats through late October and into the first few weeks of November. The Nordiques were second only to Edmonton in offense through the first week of November. That is not surprising. But what about the fact that Quebec was also in fourth place defensively? That marks a substantial improvement over last year.Sandwiched between the overtime draw against New York and the loss to the Oilers was a convincing 7-1 victory for Quebec in Buffalo against the Sabres. Bergeron said at the start of the season that Quebec would be a better team on the road in 1983-84 and his players are slowly achieving that goal, mainly through hard work and a new attitude. All three lines feel they can contribute, while Marois and Rochefort provide leadership behind the blueline.Marois was named Player of the Month for October in Quebec. His leadership abilities helped him become team captain and he has learned a few lessons as well this year.&ldquo;I know now that I have to play with more discipline and that I can&rsquo;t help by getting thrown out of a game or by spending half the game in the penalty box,&rdquo; said Marois.This is Marois&rsquo;s seventh year in the league and he now seems to have finally gained control of his temper, a temper that is directly related to his great sense of competition.Bergeron would not name his team captain as the culprit responsible for allowing the Rangers to get back in the game, even if Marois himself clearly admitted he simply blew it. That shows what respect Bergeron has for his captain.But the coach did make one thing clear: &ldquo;It was a mistake, I agree, but it was also made by someone who will help us to win many more games than he will cause us to lose before this year is over. That&rsquo;s what is really important.&rdquo;There is clearly a new team spirit on the Nordiques. It is reflected in Marois&rsquo;s competitive spirit and it is seen in the Nords&rsquo; non-stop effort, trying to give 100 per cent for 60 minutes. Those efforts are not always successful&mdash;the Oilers iced a victory with two goals when there was less than four minutes remaining&mdash;but as Bergeron said after the game, &ldquo;We played with discipline and we didn&rsquo;t give up.&rdquo;What this all adds up to is that the Nordiques have made the most of their games close this year. That is a big change.&ldquo;Against Edmonton we kept the score close until the third period when they finally broke it open with a two-goal lead.&rdquo; said Peter Stastny. &ldquo;Our problem is that even when we took the lead three times, we couldn&rsquo;t get ahead by two goals ourselves and we let them come back each time. When you can stay within one goal, then anything is possible in the final minutes.&rdquo; &#9632;

Nords Working, Not Struggling

<div class="byline">BY BOB FACHET</div>LANDOVER&mdash;Ever since the Capitals won a custodial fight with the Edmonton Oilers for Swedish winger Bengt Gustafsson, Washington hockey fans have waited for the stylish Swede to emerge as one of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s top offensive performers. Now, in his fifth season, Gustafsson may finally be ready to assume that mantle.With the NHL campaign one-fifth over, Gustafsson was leading the Capitals in scoring with 18 points and had recorded three two-goal games.It&rsquo;s risky mentioning the positive state of Gustafsson&rsquo;s health, but that undoubtedly is the factor that has made this season different from others. So far&mdash;knock Scandinavian fir&mdash;Gustafsson has avoided the usual jolts that have reduced his effectiveness in the past.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m relaxed and everything seems to be working out,&rdquo; Gustafsson said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s no pressure, because the points are coming in from assists and goals. It makes it easy for me and more easy for the team, too.&rdquo;With Gustafsson on a six-game scoring streak that included four goals and eight assists, the Capitals reversed their sorry early-season start and climbed to within two games of.500 by winning seven of nine.The only losses in that stretch were to Edmonton (11-3 and 7-4 scores). In each of those games, the Oilers received five-point efforts from Wayne Gretzky, who, along with Gustafsson. made up Edmonton&rsquo;s protected list during the 1979 merger draft.Washington obtained Gustafsson anyway, on a technicality, and had high hopes for the young Swede with the fancy moves. But a series of injuries limited his peak statistics over the last four seasons to only 26 goals and 64 points. Although he missed just 31 games in that span, he played about 200 others while less than 100 per cent physically.Gump Embro, the Washington trainer before Dick Young came on the scene, once answered critics of his qualifications by saying, &ldquo;Why should I go to college to study anatomy? Treating Gus I&rsquo;ve learned every bone and muscle in the body.&rdquo;Besides the absence of debilitating injury, Gustafsson has benefitted this year from center Dave Christian, who was acquired from Winnipeg and found himself on the same line as Gustafsson from the first day of training camp. Although various right wingers have joined the pair, they have remained together with pleasing results for coach Bryan Murray.&ldquo;Gus is different,&rdquo; Murray said in classic understatement. &ldquo;He likes to hold the puck, he slows the game down and he likes to think on the ice. He can be difficult for some guys to play with, but he and Dave Christian complement each other pretty well.&ldquo;Christian likes to move down the left-wing side and then cut to the middle. Gus doesn&rsquo;t mind hesitating and he goes to the net well. We&rsquo;ve always felt he could score more and lately he&rsquo;s been doing it.&rdquo;Christian admits it took a while to get used to Gustafsson, who he laughingly says is capable of faking out three defenders without ever moving.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s been an adjustment,&rdquo; Christian said. &ldquo;Gus is so good with the puck that you get him the puck and just try to get in the open. You know they&rsquo;re going to have a tough time getting it away from him. Gus is an excellent hockey player and I like playing with him.&rdquo;Gustafsson produced the first overtime goal in the Capitals&rsquo; history when he converted a Christian setup to beat Vancouver in the opener of a four-game homestand following a lengthy road trip. It was his second of the night, but typically he refused to toot his own horn.&ldquo;On the road trip, I really felt good,&rdquo; Gustafsson said. &ldquo;Now that we&rsquo;re home, I think there&rsquo;s a tendency to relax, to think more about your wife than about hockey. That may be why we weren&rsquo;t so sharp against Vancouver. But it&rsquo;s good when you can be down 2-0 and 4-2 and come back.&rdquo;The Capitals rallied from 4-2 in the third period to tie both the Canucks and Oilers. Against Edmonton, however, the result was less pleasing for Washington. Gretzky set up three goals in the last seven minutes and by game&rsquo;s end many fans who had been ecstatic not long before resorted to boos for the home club.Afterward, Murray said he was &ldquo;proud of our guys&rdquo; and in yet another verbal brush with the Capital center unfaithful, termed the critical fans &ldquo;unfair.&rdquo; &#9632;

Gustafsson Plays Part In Caps’ Turnaround

<div class="byline">BY GLENN COLE</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0011-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0011-011148/4638559-1-eng-US/f0011-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Montreal defenseman Bill Root has emerged as the team&rsquo;s top plus player this season after getting a shot to play.</figcaption></div>MONTREAL&mdash;Bill Root could be excused for wondering about his future with the Canadiens.Well into the pre-season schedule, Root had been used sparingly by the Montreal coaching staff while youngsters such as Jocelyn Gauvreau and Kent Carlson received opportunities to play ahead of him.&ldquo;When I came into camp, I tried to come in pretty good shape,&rdquo; Root said. &ldquo;I was determined not to make it my fault if I was sent down. I was disappointed when I only got three exhibition games in. My agent spoke to (Canadiens&rsquo; managing director) Serge Savard and he told me to hang in there, that the club had plans for me.&rdquo;Savard was aware that Ric Nattress, one of the Canadiens&rsquo; young defensemen, was facing a suspension from the National Hockey League for his involvement in a summer marijuana conviction. When Rick Green suffered a broken wrist in a pre-season game on Sept. 20, it was obvious there was a shortage of qualified defensemen. Root, a former Niagara Falls Flyer, was ready.&ldquo;I imagine they were trying some new kids in training camp,&rdquo; Root recalled. &ldquo;I might have played a little more had I not been hurt (a concussion suffered Sept. 27). I think I would have played the last three exhibition games and that would have brought my games to six.&rdquo;Root, who signed with the Canadiens as a free agent in October, 1979, was called up last December when Green was hurt again. He played 16 games with the Canadiens, although he did not dress for any playoff games as Nattress took over his spot in the series against Buffalo.With the lack of late-season and playoff appearances and the pre-season treatment, it is no wonder there was speculation as to the next stop on Bill Root&rsquo;s hockey journey.For the time being, he is a member in good standing with the Canadiens and has been steady since the beginning of the year. Even when the Canadiens were zapped 10-4 by Boston at the Forum on Nov. 5, Root was even and one of the better Montreal players.Root leads the Canadiens&rsquo; plus-minus statistics with a plus 10, which is excellent considering the number of goals the Canadiens have been giving up this season.&ldquo;Bob Berry says that all he wants from me is a steady game,&rdquo; Root said. &ldquo;He told me to be sure about moving the puck up to the guys who can score. There are so many players who can put the puck away, he wants me to get the puck out of our end and get it up to them, let them do their job. That&rsquo;s what I have been trying to do.&rdquo;Root has been paired with veteran Jean Hamel since the season got underway. Neither is a Bobby Orr nor a Larry Robinson, yet when Hamel and Root are on the ice, the Canadiens are seldom in difficulty in their own end.&ldquo;Jean Hamel is good at getting the puck over to me,&rdquo; Root added. &ldquo;If we can one pass it out, one time it out, the puck is out of our end. It&rsquo;s when you start playing around with it that you get into trouble because there are so many good forecheckers in the league. They can pick the puck right out of your pocket.&rdquo;Root and Hamel are constantly talking on the bench after their shifts, analyzing their game all the time. There are times when both have felt they haven&rsquo;t hit enough in front of the goal.&ldquo;Even in some practises, we found that we were trying to poke the puck rather than take the man,&rdquo; Root added.There have been several nights when coach Berry has gone with four defensemen with Root, Hamel. Larry Robinson and Craig Ludwig doing yeoman service with the once highly-regarded Gilbert Delorme riding the pine. Last spring, Root was behind Delorme and the recently-departed Robert Picard in the pecking order. His play this fall was one of the reasons Picard was dealt to Winnipeg for a third-round draft choice in 1984.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a pleasant surprise to be considered one of the top four,&rdquo; Root admitted. &ldquo;Things are working well for me right now and I guess he (Berry) wants to keep it that way.&ldquo;I was disappointed at the end of last year. It was one of the low points of my career. I went home after the season and figured maybe it was a good thing for me. It smartened me up and made me realize how fast things can change, how fast your career can be on the line again.&ldquo;I thought 1 was playing well and things were sailing along all right. Obviously, somebody else didn&rsquo;t.&rdquo;To this point, it has been smooth sailing for Root as the Canadiens have struggled during the first part of the 1983-84 season. He plans to keep it that way.IN PASSING&mdash;The 10-4 loss to the Bruins was one of the worst suffered by the Canadiens on their home ice since Toronto defeated Montreal 10-3 on March 5, 1935&hellip;The last time the Canadiens had 10 goals scored against them on the road was the last game of the 1969-70 season when they were battling for a playoff spot and Chicago recorded a 10-2 decision at the Chicago Stadium&hellip;Rick Green had another cast put on his broken wrist. He is not expected back until sometime in January&hellip;Chris Nilan scored his first two goals of the season in his 200th career game as the Canadiens shut out Chicago 3-0 Nov. 9 and assigned veteran netminder Mario Lessard. After losing three straight, the &lsquo;Hawks nipped Moncton 4-3 and walloped Binghamton 7-2&hellip;The Saints (610-1) won two of three last week, including a 9-6 barnburner at Binghamton. Bruce Boudreau had a goal and four assists and Ernie Godden notched a hat trick. &#9632;

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Habs’ Defense Solution: Get Down To The Root

<div class="byline">BY PERRY LEFKO</div>TORONTO&mdash;Sometimes the difference between a Leaf victory and a loss can be determined by one player, goalie Mike Palmateer.When mighty Mike is flipping and flopping in conjunction with the puck, the Leafs can be certain they have a good chance of winning. But those other times when Palmateer seems to pull his falling act a tad too soon, it&rsquo;s a shooter&rsquo;s paradise.More often than not this season, Palmateer&rsquo;s play has, ahem, fallen into the latter category. He&rsquo;s been playing with his usual histrionics, but either because he telegraphed his moves too soon or the shooters just became a little more patient, Palmateer became a victim of the red-light syndrome.All along, Palmateer admitted he really was playing well. The fact he had a 5.21 goals-against average after 15 games did little to support that, but in lieu of the overall rising GAA in the league, he could be excused&mdash;at least by Leaf coach Mike Nykoluk.The day before the Leafs played the New Jersey Devils at Maple Leaf the Gardens, Nykoluk gave Palmateer a vote of confidence when he told him he&rsquo;d be the Leafs&rsquo; No. 1 goalie for the next few outings.A little more than 24 hours later, Palmateer rewarded his coach with his finest effort of the season. Palmateer allowed the Devils but one goal and because teammates Dale McCourt and Jim Benning supplied the offense with a couple of goals, the Leafs won 2-1.Afterwards, &ldquo;old-time hockey&rdquo; became the spoken word, but only the score was anachronistic; the game was boring with a capital B.The Devils switched goalies with a minute and a bit to go and then called a timeout less than a minute later. Then, when the game ended, the two teams gathered together for what appeared to be a 38-man square dance. But even that paled on the excitement scale and the result was a belated seventh-inning stretch.Palmateer deservedly received the No. 1 star of the game. He made timely saves and prevented the fans from falling into a peaceful Sominex sleep.For the cigar-smoking Nykoluk, Palmateer&rsquo;s effort gave him something to savor at a time when the Leafs are fighting an injury crisis and a case of inconsistency.&ldquo;You could say that Palmy deserved that game,&rdquo; Nykoluk said. &ldquo;He had the tougher saves and handled them well.&rdquo;After Palmateer emerged from a long and soothing shower, he topped of his performance with quotes straight out of the Palmy past. When asked about the second period, in which he made only a handful of saves, Palmateer insisted the guy counting the shots didn&rsquo;t exactly give an accurate count.&ldquo;The guy upstairs is blind as a bat,&rdquo; Palmateer said. &ldquo;He only counts the shots in the middle of the net.&rdquo;As for the low-scoring affair, Palmateer insisted he could care less about the number of goals he surrendered so long as his team won.&ldquo;I gave up worrying about that (goals-against average) a long time ago,&rdquo; said Palmateer. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t afford to worry about it when it&rsquo;s around 67. Now, I just want some wins.&rdquo;And then there was his recently-settled salary dispute with the club, which an arbitrator ruled in his favor.&ldquo;It was weighing on my mind,&rdquo; said Palmateer. &ldquo;I took a big chance going to arbitration. I spent all my money putting an addition on my house.&rdquo;Ah, yes, the only thing better than a Palmateer victory is a Palmateer one-liner.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-011193/4638590-1-eng-US/f0012-012.jpg" title="f0012-01" width="579" height="919"><figcaption class="caption-body">Goalie Mike Palmateer says he&rsquo;ll sacrifice his goal-against average for wins.</figcaption></div>LEAFLETS&mdash;From the Who Would Believe It file comes a story via the Toronto Star that former Leaf Carl Brewer legally owns the Toronto Maple Leafs&rsquo; Hockey Club Ltd. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve always wanted to own a hockey club and I thought the Toronto Maple Leafs was a catchy name,&rdquo; said Of Baldy. &ldquo;I went to the ministry of consumer and commercial relations at 555 Yonge St. and discovered the name was available so I thought that would be a good start to my plans for a hockey club.&rdquo; Brewer paid $200 plus costs and 10 days after he registered the name, it was approved. The Leaf brass, however, is not amused and insists the Toronto Maple Leafs have been a division of Maple Leaf Gardens since 1931 and that they&rsquo;ve registered the maple leaf trade mark. Brewer, coincidentally, is suing Maple Leaf Gardens for nearly $700,000 for breach of contract, stemming from incidents in his highly-controversial career with the organization&hellip;Full credit must be given to Leaf general manager Gerry McNamara for his acumen in picking up Dale McCourt, who&rsquo;s contract was bought out in Buffalo. McCourt, who&rsquo;s goal against the Devils was the Leafs&rsquo; first shorthanded effort of the season, is blending in well with his new teammates, who&rsquo;ve nicknamed him. Chief. Some of the other Leaf sobriquets are Chubby (Greg Terrion), Squid (Rick Vaive) and The Big Rock (Jim Korn). &#9632;

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Palmateer’s Play Puts The Devils To Sleep

<div class="byline">BY STEVE SIMMONS</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0012-021015/4638621-1-eng-US/f0012-022.jpg" title="f0012-02" width="318" height="361"></div><h2>Tim Coulis Returns</h2>&ldquo;I COULD BE just like Al Secord,&rdquo; the minor leaguer was saying in a major-league building.&ldquo;I played junior with Al Secord and there wasn&rsquo;t much difference between us. We were the same. Anyone who played with us can tell you that.&rdquo;Al Secord, twice a 50-goal scorer, now an established star in the National Hockey League was the 16th player picked in the amateur draft of 1978. The 18th player picked that June will soon score the 50th goal of his professional career, including one in the NHL for the Washington Capitals.His name is Tim Coulis and he is back in professional hockey after a year of exile.Banished because he bopped a blowhard referee named Bob Hall, Coulis is now picking up the pieces of a career left behind, once again living the minor-league life, this time as a Salt Lake City Golden Eagle.Whether the crime fit the punishment is no longer significant to Tim Coulis. He abused an official, the most heinous of hockey crimes. Yet anyone who has ever had the misfortune to watch Hall work, cheered loudly when told of Coulis&rsquo; actions.Tim Coulis did not cheer. Quietly, he went home. To the paper mills of Northern Ontario. To a life outside hockey. To a life he had never known before.Strangely, Coulis has returned to the game, cognizant of his crime and feeling remorse for his actions. Strangely, there is no bitterness in a man who perhaps should or could be bitter. There is little sadness. Just a year missing from a hockey career and a mental peace of mind that a year away can give a journeyman who believes he can play.<h2>Paid For Mistake</h2>&ldquo;I MADE A mistake and I paid for it,&rdquo; said Coulis after the Eagles became the first CHL team to defeat Canada&rsquo;s young and unimpressive Olympic team at the new Olympic Saddledome.&ldquo;The funny thing is, the year off did me good. I became happy with myself as a person. 1 got my priorities in line. I&rsquo;m a better person for it.&rdquo;Coulis&rsquo; return to professional hockey was hidden in the tiny print in the back pages of some summer sports section. He was signed by the Minnesota North Stars as a free agent. His junior coach, Bert Templeton, recommended him to former North Star coach, Glen Sonmor. There was no bidding war for the services of this free agent. Only one of 21 teams was interested in a forgotten man who had broken the chance.Now, he is simply thankful for the opportunity.Now, he looks at what he has done and what he will be best remembered for, and has some suggestions and insights for the future.&ldquo;The whole thing was silly,&rdquo; said Coulis recaljing the incident that led to his suspension, one of the longest in hockey history. &ldquo;I got a penalty, then a 10-minute misconduct, for nothing. Nothing. What can 1 say? I just flipped out. That&rsquo;s all. I lost control.&ldquo;Referees are funny. You have to be able to talk to them. Even if it&rsquo;s just to get a little steam off. If you get a penalty, usually you know you&rsquo;ve done something wrong. You just want to say &ldquo;aw comeon&rdquo; or something like that. You know, there has to be a little give and take between player and referee. That&rsquo;s what the best refs do.&ldquo;When a guy thinks he&rsquo;s God, that&rsquo;s when you run into a problem. He can&rsquo;t be a robot out there. He has to be a human being.&rdquo;In the wake of the Tom Lysiak suspension, it seems strange that Coulis did not go to court to question the legal validity of CHL president Bud Poile&rsquo;s ruling. He said he never considered suing, nor did he even consider appealing his sentence. He pa d his pennance. Time has been served. It&rsquo;s all a matter of one&rsquo;s view of crime and punishment.<h2>More To Lose</h2>HE LOOKS AT himself as a man who has been made an example of. He looks at Lysiak the same way. The difference: Lysiak had a lot more to lose than Tim Coulis.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re just trying to make an example of him. They have to set an example so no one else gets carried away. When I got suspended, he (Bud Poile) told me I could appeal. 1 said no. I don&rsquo;t hold any grudges. Me and Bud get along pretty good. He was in a tough position. He had to do something.&rdquo;On the Olympic-size ice surface in Calgary, Coulis played the wing on a line with someone named Scott MacLeod and someone named Brian Gualazzi. On the large surface, a player&rsquo;s deficiencies are magnified, especially a player&rsquo;s ability to skate. That&rsquo;s a problem for Coulis. He knows it. It&rsquo;s probably what keeps him from playing in the NHL.&ldquo;All I&rsquo;ve ever wanted was someone who believed in me,&rdquo; said the 25-year-old Coulis, who has already played in four organizations in four pro seasons. &ldquo;I need that confidence. Any coach who has ever shown confidence in me, was rewarded for it.&ldquo;At first, it was slow coming back. It&rsquo;s starting to come back now. I have more confidence in myself. I need that. It&rsquo;s the way I am.&rdquo;&ldquo;Right now,&rdquo; said his coach J.P Parise, &ldquo;I have no complaints at all with him. He&rsquo;s starting to play very well.&rdquo;At the end of a long interview and long period of reflection for Tim Coulis, he asked where I was from.&ldquo;I used to work in London,&rdquo; I told him.&ldquo;London, eh,&rdquo; Coulis replied. &ldquo;Did ya see me play junior?&rdquo;&ldquo;A couple of times,&rdquo; 1 said, not remembering if I had seen him or not.&ldquo;I was something then. Just like Secord.&rdquo; &#9632;

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THE WESTERN WORD

<div class="byline">BY ERIC DUHATSCHEK</div><h2>One Thing&rsquo;s Clear With Team Canada: King&rsquo;s In Charge</h2>Sam Pollock made the point. So did Roland Mercier. So did Alan Eagleson.Independently and without hesitation, the three men, part of the movers and shakers behind Canada&rsquo;s Olympic team, wanted to make one thing perfectly clear: Dave King runs the club. He is the head man. All the decisions are his. All the other committee members are on the periphery. All their input is supplemental.King&rsquo;s titles with the Canadian Olympic team are almost a resume in themselves: Senior vice-president of Canada&rsquo;s Olympic Hockey Team Committee. General manager. Head coach. King is the focal point around which the rest of the 10-man committee revolve.Unlike 1980, when the hierarchy of Canada&rsquo;s Olympic team was in disarray right up until Lake Placid, there are definite spheres of responsibility for each member of the current Olympic committee. Pollock, the former Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; managing director, is chairman. King is the senior vice-president. Assistant coach Jean Perron is a vice-president. Murray Costello, the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association president, Mercier, the CAHA chairman, and Justice W.Z. (Bud) Estey, Bill Hay and Chris Lang of Hockey Canada are committee members; Eagleson, Hockey Canada&rsquo;s chief international negotiator, and Jim Gregory, head of the National Hockey League&rsquo;s Central Scouting Bureau, are advisors. Everybody has a job to do.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been getting guidance from the people above,&rdquo; said King, &ldquo;but in a lot of areas, they&rsquo;re letting us do our own thing. I&rsquo;ve been very impressed that they&rsquo;ve respected our opinion from this end. There have been no unilateral decisions made for us from above. We&rsquo;ve always had a chance to voice our opinions. They&rsquo;ve changed our minds on some things because they have more experience and better judgment in some areas, but I&rsquo;ve been encouraged by the autonomy they&rsquo;ve allowed us.&rdquo;The novelty of the 1984 program&mdash;lus the changes in the International Olympic Committee philosophies&mdash;caused a lot of growing pains for King&rsquo;s group. In 1980, after a disappointing sixth-place finish, the program was completely shut down. Coaches Tom Watt, Clare Drake and Lome Davis were released. The players were told the &ldquo;on-going program&rdquo; they were promised was in limbo&mdash;for at least two years. Many who would otherwise have retained their Olympic eligibility&mdash;such as Glenn Anderson, now of the Edmonton Oilers&mdash;chose the only remaining alternative, a professional career.In the interceding four years, many things changed. The word &ldquo;amateur&rdquo; was struck from the Olympic charter and a new eligibility rule introduced. Its ramifications had to be explored. A more consistent schedule had to be negotiated. Relationships between the Olympic team and the NHL had to be negotiated. Relationships between the Olympic team and the NHL had to be established as did relationships with the junior teams.Costello and Estey headed the committee within the committee that hammered out the new definition of an eligible athlete. They met with the NHL&rsquo;s counsel, Gil Stein, to discuss their definition of a non-professional (a player with less than 10 games of NHL experience). They took the league&rsquo;s definition to the Canadian Olympic Association and received the COA&rsquo;s support. Next, they took the definition to the International Ice Hockey Federation and received its support.The new rule changes the composition of the team. Players with signed professional contracts&mdash;indeed players with NHL experience&mdash;were recruited by King. Perron, King&rsquo;s assistant, is currently scouting the AHL for possible players. Gregory&rsquo;s Central Scouting Bureau provided reports for the Olympic team when it was away in Sweden.Eagleson solved the scheduling problem. Canada will play in the Izvestia tournament in December and the Soviet Union will return the favor by touring Canada later in the year. West Ger many will also tour Canada and the Canadians will tune up for the Olympics by playing in West Germany in January.&ldquo;We were fortunate that within our group, we had so many people with specific skills that we could exploit,&rdquo; said King.As for King and his assistant, Perron and George Kingston, they&rsquo;ve played travel secretaries, office manager, public relations persons, general managers as well as coaches since August. They also had to supervise the move from the Stampede Corral to the Olympic Saddledome.&ldquo;There are so many first-time policies that must be set,&rdquo; said King. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got no background. What do you do? It&rsquo;s been very demanding, especially because it&rsquo;s a first-time thing. We&rsquo;re stepping in brand new. Anytime you start something unknown, with no precedent to go on, you have to set your own. That&rsquo;s been very time-consuming.&ldquo;The assistance of George and Jean has been invaluable, George from the business end, Jean by setting up the dry-land program and looking after meals and accommodation. Without them. I&rsquo;d be lost.&rdquo;King, acknowledging that the 1984 program is being used as a stepping stone for 1988 (when the Winter Olympics will be held in Calgary), said he would like to leave behind a &ldquo;blueprint&rdquo; for his successors.&ldquo;First of all, the office will be set up and it will be ongoing,&rdquo; King said. &ldquo;Along with that, there&rsquo;ll be the Institute for Research in Hockey. That will have implications for all of Canada. We would like to leave a good blueprint with suggestions for player identification, summer camps, a list of the things we did wrong, some of the things we did right&mdash;so that the people in 1988 have some good firm facts to work with. If they can eliminate some of our problems, they&rsquo;ll be that much further ahead.&rdquo;But what about 1984? Does Canada have a chance for a medal?Well, it certainly won&rsquo;t be easy. Canada is in the very tough Pool B with Czechoslovakia, Finland, the United States and also-rans Austria and Norway. To collect a medal, Canada would have to finish in the top two of its pool and that won&rsquo;t be easy. But it&rsquo;s not impossible either.On a recent publicity visit to Toronto, King told The Toronto Star that the team is still searching the minor pro leagues for some faster players. King has determined that the team isn&rsquo;t fast enough, although it&rsquo;s getting to the point where personnel changes are getting tougher to make&mdash;if Canada expects to ice a cohesive unit in Sarajevo.Still, in the Olympics anything can happen and the memory of Team USA&rsquo;s shocking gold-medal win in 1980 is never very far away.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m confident that Canada can do very well,&rdquo; says Team Canada defenseman James Patrick. &ldquo;In a long series between all the teams in the Olympics, the Russians would dominate. Of the rest&mdash;the Czechs, the Swedes, Canada and the Americans&mdash;we have as good a chance to come second as anyone else.&ldquo;I can almost promise you the Canadian Olympic hockey team won&rsquo;t be as good as the Soviet Olympic team. But in a single game, anything can happen. If it&rsquo;s that day in February&hellip;&rdquo; &#9632;

Scaling The Heights Of Olympia

<div class="byline">BY MIKE MILO</div>The United States Olympic Hockey Team will have a tough act to follow when it defends its 1980 gold medal at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in February. The man untimately responsible for having the team prepared for that task will be 53-year-old Walter Bush, Jr., chairman of the U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Committee.The 1984 Olympic year marks Bush&rsquo;s 25th year of involvement with the United States international hockey teams. He came on the world scene in 1959 as manager of the national team, a squad stocked with players who went on to capture America&rsquo;s first Olympic gold medal in 1960 at Squaw Valley, CA.Bush, who also managed the 1964 Olympic team, is preparing this year&rsquo;s Team USA with the attitude &ldquo;to be the best, you have to play the best.&rdquo; He and his 12-member committee set up a rigorous 66-game schedule, pitting the young Americans against National, American and Central Hockey League professional clubs as well as the Canadians, Finns, Austrians, West Germans and Soviet.&ldquo;When plans for this year&rsquo;s Olympic program were being made, we looked back at the preparations the successful 1980 team went through,&rdquo; Bush, the Minnesota North Stars&rsquo; vice president, said of the U.S. Hockey Committee, which also includes North Star owner George Gund and general manager Lou Nanne, &ldquo;and decided to expand on it.&ldquo;We knew that our youngsters would need time to expand on it, come together, so we decided to increase the number of games against the world&rsquo;s toughest competition.&rdquo;Back in 1964, Bush was able to line up one professionial team (the AHL Hershey Bears) for his team to play. In 1983-84, the schedule again showed one AHL team but seven NHL games, 10 CHL contests, 12 against Canada&rsquo;s Olympic Team and 10 against Russian teams.&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t want our boys to get to Sarajevo and be overwhelmed with the thought of playing the Finns or Canadians or Russians. We want them to be used to playing this competition,&rdquo; Bush reasoned.But getting the schedule together was only part of the battle; turning it into reality has been another story, one which Bush has become adroit at handling during the past quarter century.The first four Soviet games went on without a problem back in late August. Team USA battled the tough Soviet Wings club to a 1-2-1 record on Alaskan rinks.On Sept. 1, a Russian military pilot shot down a Korean Air Lines commercial plane with 240 passengers (61 Americans) and 29 crew members aboard. Reaction in the United States included the cancellation of several of the USA-USSR games slated for December. The action was taken by the arenas that were to be the sites of the games. A report from the Russian news agency, Tasses announced the series was off. No correspondence between the Russians and Amateur Hockey Associaton of U.S. ever took place.In late September, Bush attended the International Ice Hockey Federation&rsquo;s fall meetings in Switzerland. The meetings, which marked the 75th anniversary of the federation of which Bush is a delegate, brought him face-to-face with his Russian counterparts&ldquo;I approached them with a positive attitude,&rdquo; Bush recalled! &ldquo;assuming the games were still on. They knew some of the buildings had cancelled games but I told them we still expected to hot their team in December.&ldquo;My intentions, as a very proud American, were not to satisfl the Russians but to do what was best for USA&rsquo;s team.&ldquo;I believe President Carter made a mistake when he kept us out of the 1980 Summer Olympics. Our team, like our country, in made up of people of many nationalities, that is why we are such great nation. International sports competition gives us a chance to show what Americans are like,&ldquo;We didn&rsquo;t want to make the same mistake.&rdquo;Team USA will face the select Soviet team, in four different cities than originally planned, because of Bush&rsquo;s long service to international hockey and his ability to negotiate.&ldquo;It takes time to get to know the people you are dealing with,&rdquo; said Bush, the 1972 HOCKEY NEWS Executive of the Year and 1973 NHL Lester Patrick Award Winner (for service to American hockey). &ldquo;You have to develop the trust necessary to deal effectively with the different nations.&rdquo;Bush does not consider himself a political person even though many of his hockey dealings have larger political ramifications. Though trying to confine his attentions to sport, the 25 years since he first brought Russian hockey players to the U.S. (Jan. 1, 1959 at Madison Square Garden) have taught him the delicate art of dealing with the Russians.&ldquo;The Russians have different personalities. They used to stand on protocol more in the past.&rdquo; Bush said. &ldquo;Once, in 1972 in Minnesota, we unknowingly played the Stalin rendition of their national anthem and the team left the ice. When we explained what happened, they returned.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s best to deal with them reasonably but firmly. Sometimes they like to renegotiate what has already been agreed upon, but when you don&rsquo;t back down they are fair and reasonable.&rdquo;Bush has devoted his life to hockey&mdash;his first priority&mdash;and as a result, many people have benefitted from it.&ldquo;Hockey is a great experience that leads to future success in life,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;One year on an Olympic or national team is worth a college education.&rdquo;At ice level, head coach Lou Vairo has been put in charge of molding the players into a cohesive unit. And the question that everyone is asking is whether Team USA can come up with anther &ldquo;miracle,&rdquo; like the one it fashioned in 1980.&ldquo;I can&rsquo;t say we&rsquo;re going to win the gold medal,&rdquo; Vairo says. &ldquo;I can&rsquo;t say we&rsquo;ll win a medal. What I can say is that we&rsquo;ll go over there knowing we are as prepared as we can be, that the effort we put forth will be our best and what else can you ask beyond that?&ldquo;Of course we want to make our country proud of us. And we want to feel pride in ourselves. Being the defending champion, we don&rsquo;t feel pressure. We feel pride.&ldquo;We have a little bit of everything on this team. We have some youth and we have some veterans. We have some scorers and some players who will get the puck in the comers. We have some highly-skilled players and some players with great determination and character. We have a great blend of all the necessary ingredients.&rdquo;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-011137/4638690-1-eng-US/f0013-012.jpg" title="f0013-01" width="966" height="927"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-02868/4638683-1-eng-US/f0013-022.jpg" title="f0013-02" width="960" height="799"></div><h2>1984 OLYMPIC SCHEDULE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0013-03721/4638676-1-eng-US/f0013-032.jpg" title="f0013-03" width="984" height="1328"></div> &#9632;

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Team USA 1984 Has One Tough Act To Follow

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-011175/4638910-1-eng-US/f0014-012.jpg" title="f0014-01" width="282" height="446"><figcaption class="caption-body">SAM POLLOCK, CHAIRMAN: One of the most famous names in hockey is Sam Pollock, the 57-year-old native of Montreal who directed the Montreal Canadiens to nine Stanley Cups. A member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, Pollock retired from the Habs in 1978 to pursue his expanding business career. In 1982, he was appointed as chairman of the Canadian Olympic Hockey Team Committee and his is basically a role of overseer, contributing when his expertise is required.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-02950/4638903-1-eng-US/f0014-022.jpg" title="f0014-02" width="280" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">ALAN EAGLESON, ADVISOR: The 50-year-old native of St. Catharines, who now resides in Toronto, is a giant force in the game of hockey at all levels. Aside from being a lawyer, player agent and head of the NHL Players&rsquo; Association, he is also the chief negotiator for Hockey Canada and (he man most responsible for the Olympic team&rsquo;s international schedule. His expertise in dealing with the Soviet Union is a decided asset for Team Canada and its quest to meet and beat the best.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-03684/4638896-1-eng-US/f0014-032.jpg" title="f0014-03" width="274" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE KING, HEAD COACH: The 35-year-old native of North Battleford, Saskatchewan, who makes his home in Saskatoon, is one of the bright young coaches in hockey today. King has turned down numerous pro offers to coach the Olympic team. Before coming to the Olympic team, he led Canada&rsquo;s world junior team to a gold medal in 1982 and Canada&rsquo;s world championship team to a bronze medal in 1983 and before that, coached the University of Saskatchewan, where he achieved an outstanding record.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-04484/4638889-1-eng-US/f0014-042.jpg" title="f0014-04" width="272" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">JEAN PERRON, ASST. COACH: The 37-year-old native of St.-Isidore, Que., who makes his home in Riverview, N.B., holds a number of titles with the Olympic team&mdash;Vice President of the Olympic Committee, Assistant Coach and Director of Player Personnel. He has earned a number of individual and team awards&mdash;including CIAU Coach of the Year and two successive CIAU championships&mdash;while coaching for the past nine years at the University of Moncton.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-05340/4638882-1-eng-US/f0014-052.jpg" title="f0014-05" width="280" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">GEORGE KINGSTON, ASST. COACH: The 44-year-old native of Biggar, Sask., who now resides in Calgary, Alta., holds a dual portfolio with the Canadian Olympic team. He is an assistant coach and also Coordinator of Scouting. He has been the head coach of the University of Calgary Dinosaurs for the past 15 years and taken the team to four CIAU championships while twice earning CIAU Coach-of-the-Year hon-ors. He assisted King at the 1983 World Championships.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-06272/4638875-1-eng-US/f0014-062.jpg" title="f0014-06" width="276" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">CRAIG GATTINGER, HEAD TRAINER: Gattinger holds the dual role of head trainer and physiotherapist, tending to the many needs of an Olympic team that is constantly on the go. ger was the trainer and physiotherapist with Canada&rsquo;s national junior teams in 1982 and 1983, so he is no stranger to head coach Dave King, who directed both those national teams, too.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-07217/4638868-1-eng-US/f0014-072.jpg" title="f0014-07" width="270" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">BILL STEFANIUK, ASST. TRAIN-ER: Stefaniuk rounds out the Team Canada training staff. He is also the Equipment Manager. Like Gattinger, Stefaniuk was with the Team Canada juniors when Dave King was coaching them. Though their efforts are not seen on the ice, they play an important role in keeping the Team Canada player personnel healthy and injury-free.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-08186/4638861-1-eng-US/f0014-082.jpg" title="f0014-08" width="280" height="444"><figcaption class="caption-body">WARREN ANDERSON, DEFENSE: The 5-foot-10, 180-pound defenseman is a returnee from the 1980 Olympic team. He was a late addition to the squad as coach Dave King was looking for some experience and the 31-year-old from Toronto should fill the bill. He didn&rsquo;t play hockey last season, but spent the previous two seasons with Zurich of the Swiss League. Anderson, a teacher, had to get a leave of absence from the Toronto Board of Education to join the team in Calgary.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-09170/4638854-1-eng-US/f0014-092.jpg" title="f0014-09" width="270" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">ROBIN BARTEL, DEFENSE: The six-foot, 195-pound defenseman played last season under Dave King for the CIAU champion University of Saskatchewan. The 22-year-old native of Drake, Sask., played in 24 games and scored four goals and 14 assists. In the two previous seasons, he was a key member of the Prince Albert Raiders, a tier two team that won two successive national championships. He has not been drafted by an NHL team.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-10154/4638847-1-eng-US/f0014-102.jpg" title="f0014-10" width="270" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">JEAN-JACQUES DAIGNEAULT, DEFENSE: The 18-year-old native of Montreal is one of the youngest Team Canada members. He came to the Olympic team after a season with the Lon-gueuil Chevaliers of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, where he was chosen the best defenseman after scoring 30 goals and 69 assists in 85 games. The 5-foot-11, 180-pound defenseman was also a first team all-star. He is expected to be a first-round draft pick in the 1984 NHL entry draft.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-11137/4638840-1-eng-US/f0014-112.jpg" title="f0014-11" width="272" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">KEVIN DINEEN, FORWARD. The 5-foot-10, 176-pound converted forward played the past two seasons with the University of Denver Pioneers. A 20-year-old, who was bom in Quebec City but resides in Toronto, Dineen had 16 goals and 13 assists in 36 games last season and 12 goals and 22 assists in 38 games the season before that. His father, Bill, is head coach of the Adirondack Red Wings and he has several brothers playing pro hockey. The Hartford Whalers made him a third-round pick in 1982.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-12125/4638833-1-eng-US/f0014-122.jpg" title="f0014-12" width="268" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE DONNELLY, FORWARD: The 6-foot-1, 190-pound forward joined Team Canada after two seasons with the University of North Dakota, where he scored 18 goals and 16 assists in 34 games as a sophomore. In his freshman year, the 20-year-old Edmonton native scored 10 goals and 15 assists. He was drafted by the Minnesota North Stars in the second round of the 1981 entry draft, but the Boston Bruins acquired his rights in the trade that let the North Stars select Brian Bellows in 1982.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-13107/4638826-1-eng-US/f0014-132.jpg" title="f0014-13" width="274" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">BRUCE DRIVER, DEFENSE: The six-foot, 185-pound defenseman played the past three seasons with the University of Wisconsin Badgers. Last season, he had 16 goals and 34 assists in 39 games and was selected as a Western Collegiate Hockey Association second-team all-star as Wisconsin won the NCAA title. The 21-year-old native of Toronto has his playing rights owned by the New Jersey Devils, who selected him in the sixth round of the 1981 entry draft.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1488/4638819-1-eng-US/f0014-142.jpg" title="f0014-14" width="274" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">DARREN ELIOT, GOALIE: The 6-foot-1, 175-pound netminder is a native of Hamilton, Ont., and he spent the past four seasons with Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. In 26 games last season, the 22-year-old recorded a 3.66 goals-against average. Honors last season included All-Ivy League, All-ECAC, All American and Cornell&rsquo;s MVP. His National Hockey League playing rights are owned by the Los Angeles Kings, who drafted him in the sixth round of the 1980 entry draft.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1579/4638812-1-eng-US/f0014-152.jpg" title="f0014-15" width="279" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAT FLATLEY, FORWARD: The 6-foot-2, 195-pound forward has played the past two seasons with the University of Wisconsin Badgers, where he scored 25 goals and 44 assists in 43 games en route to the NCAA championship. The 20-year-old native of Toronto played for Canada&rsquo;s world championship team last April and Canada&rsquo;s world junior team last January. He also earned first-team All-American and WCHA. The New York Islanders selected him 21st overall in the 1982 entry draft.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1666/4638805-1-eng-US/f0014-162.jpg" title="f0014-16" width="276" height="433"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE GAGNER, FORWARD: The 5-foot-10, 182-pound forward played the past two seasons with the Brantford Alexanders of the Ontario Hockey League. He had 55 goals and 66 assists in 70 games last season and was awarded the Bobby Smith Trophy, which goes to the OHL player who best combines academics and athletics. The 18-year-old native of Chatham, Ont., was the New York Rangers&rsquo; first-round pick (12th overall) in the 1983 entry draft.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1764/4638798-1-eng-US/f0014-172.jpg" title="f0014-17" width="279" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARIO GOSSELIN, GOALIE: The 20-year-old netminder from Thetford Mines, Que., came to the Olympic team after two outstanding seasons with the Shawinigan Cataractes of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. In 198283, the 5-foot-8, 158-pounder played in 48 games, recording a 3.13 goals-against average. It was the best average in the league and he earned all-star honors because of it. His NHL rights are owned by the Quebec Nordiques, who took him in the third round of the 1982 draft.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1845/4638791-1-eng-US/f0014-182.jpg" title="f0014-18" width="279" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOE GRANT, DEFENSE: The 26-year-old native of Sudbury. Ont., who now resides in Niagara Falls. Ont., is a returnee from Canada&rsquo;s 1980 Olympic team. He completed two years at the University of Toronto prior to the 1980 Games and then played one season in Sweden and another Japan before returning to the U of T last season. The 5-foot-11, 187-pounder was chosen best defenseman at the Pravda tournament last spring. He hasn&rsquo;t been drafted by an NHL team.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-1942/4638784-1-eng-US/f0014-192.jpg" title="f0014-19" width="276" height="439"><figcaption class="caption-body">DOUG LIDSTER, DEFENSE: The 6-foot-1, 195-pound defenseman played the past four seasons with the Colorado College Tigers of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. The 23-year-old native of Kamloops, B.C., scored 15 goals and 41 assists in 34 games to lead his team and tied a school record for most points by a defenseman. He was the team MVP, WCHA all-star and AllAmerican. His NHL playing rights belong to the Vancouver Canucks, who selected him in the seventh round of the 1980 entry draft.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2040/4638777-1-eng-US/f0014-202.jpg" title="f0014-20" width="276" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">DARREN LOWE, FORWARD: The 5-foot-10, 185-pound forward played the past two seasons with the University of Toronto Blues. In 24 games, he scored 23 goals and 32 assists. A year before that, he scored 36 goals and 26 assists in 29 games. The 23-year-old native of Toronto played in last year&rsquo;s Olympic Challenge Series, when Sokol Kiev of the Soviet Union made an eightgame Canadian tour. In 1982-83, he was a first-team Ontario Universities allstar. He has not been drafted by an NHL team.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2136/4638770-1-eng-US/f0014-212.jpg" title="f0014-21" width="279" height="445"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARK MORRISON, FORWARD: The 5-foot-9, 160-pound forward is one of the smallest members of Team Canada. He has played the past four seasons with the Victoria Cougars of the Western Hockey League, where he has been a team MVP and leading scorer. Last season, he scored 55 goals and 75 assists in 58 games. He also played nine games with the New York Rangers, who drafted him in the third round of 1981, and was a member of two Canadian world junior teams, including the gold-medal winning club of 1982.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2233/4638763-1-eng-US/f0014-222.jpg" title="f0014-22" width="278" height="442"><figcaption class="caption-body">JAMES PATRICK, DEFENSE: The 6-foot-1, 190-pound defenseman is a committed Olympian, who spent the past two seasons with the University of North Dakota despite tempting offers to turn pro with the New York Rangers, who drafted him in the first round (ninth overall) of 1981. The 20-year-old native of Winnipeg wanted to retain his eligibility and should be a key player on defense. He played for Canada&rsquo;s world championship team last April and twice played for Canada&rsquo;s world junior team. He has a host of college awards, too.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2327/4638756-1-eng-US/f0014-232.jpg" title="f0014-23" width="272" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">MICHEL PETIT, DEFENSE: The 6-foot-1, 190-pound defenseman came to the Olympic team from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League&rsquo;s St. Jean Beavers, via the Vancouver Canucks. The 19-year-old native of St. Maio. Que., played last season in St. Jean, where he scored 19 goals and 67 assists in 62 games. This season, he played a few games for the Vancouver Canucks, who chose him 11 th overall in the first round of the 1982 draft, before joining the Olympians. He was a first-team allstar the past two seasons in the QMJHL</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2425/4638749-1-eng-US/f0014-242.jpg" title="f0014-24" width="268" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">CRAIG REDMOND, DEFENSE: The 5-foot-10, 190-pound defenseman played last season with the University of Denver Pioneers, scoring 18 goals and 36 assists in 34 games. The 18-year-old native of Dawson Creek, Alta., who calls Langley, B.C., home, was a Western Collegiate Hockey Association Rookie of the Year. Prior to that. he had two outstanding seasons with Abbotsford Flyers, a tier two team in B.C. He is expected to be a first-round pick in the 1984 NHL entry draft.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2521/4638742-1-eng-US/f0014-252.jpg" title="f0014-25" width="272" height="436"><figcaption class="caption-body">GEORGE SERVINIS, FORWARD: The 5-foot-11,180-pound forward played last season with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Engineers of Troy., N.Y., where he scored 35 goals and 27 assists in 28 games. He was voted ECAC Rookie of the Year and led the ECAC in scoring. Two seasons ago, with the Aurora Tigers of the Ontario Provincial Jr. A loop, he scored 62 goals and 55 assists in 55 games. The 21-year-old native of Toronto, who wasn&rsquo;t drafted by an NHL team, is expected to be a sought-after free agent.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2621/4638735-1-eng-US/f0014-262.jpg" title="f0014-26" width="272" height="438"><figcaption class="caption-body">GORD SHERVEN, FORWARD: The six-foot, 185-pound forward spent the past two seasons with the University of North Dakota, scoring 12 goals and 21 assists in 36 games last season and 18 goals and 25 assists in his freshman year. He also played for Canada&rsquo;s bronze-medal entry in the last spring&rsquo;s world championship and the world junior entry that went to Leningrad last Christmas. The 20-year-old Gravelbourg. Sask., native who calls Mankota, Man., home, was the Edmonton Oilers&rsquo; l0th-round selection in the 1981 entry draft.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2720/4638728-1-eng-US/f0014-272.jpg" title="f0014-27" width="272" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVE TIPPETT, FORWARD: The 5-foot-10, 175-pound forward played two seasons with the University of North Dakota before joining the Olympians this season. In 1982-83, he had 15 goals and 31 assists in 36 games and in 198182, he had 13 goals and 28 assists in 43 games. He also participated in the Leningrad Pravda tournament last spring. The 22-year-old native of Moosomin, Sask., who resides in Prince Albert, Sask., has not been drafted by an NHL team.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0014-2820/4638721-1-eng-US/f0014-282.jpg" title="f0014-28" width="274" height="440"><figcaption class="caption-body">CAREY WILSON, FORWARD: The 6-foot-2, 205-pound forward has played the past two seasons with IFK Helsinki in Finland. In 36 games last season, he had 18 goals and 22 assists. Two years ago, he had 15 goals and 17 assists in 29 games. The 21-year-old Winnipeg native played with Team Canada prior to last spring&rsquo;s world championships and was a member of Canada&rsquo;s national junior team that won a gold medal m 1982. He was drafted jn the fourth round of 1980 by Chicago, but his rights were traded to the Calgary Flames.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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A LOOK AT TEAM CANADA

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-01978/4639130-1-eng-US/f0016-012.jpg" title="f0016-01" width="272" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">WALTER BUSH, JR., CHAIRMAN: He has been involved with the amateur hockey program in the United States since 1951 and is now the vice-president of the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States, as well as chairman of the U.S. Olympic Ice Hockey Committee. chairman of the International Council and a delegate to the International Ice Hockey Federation. Bush. 53. was the vice-president of the Minnesota North Stars and THE HOCKEY NEWS Executive of the Year in 1972.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-02799/4639123-1-eng-US/f0016-022.jpg" title="f0016-02" width="270" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">LOU VAIRO, HEAD COACH: The 38-year-old Brooklyn. NY. native says it&rsquo;s a &lsquo;dream come true&rsquo;coaching the &lsquo;84 U.S. Olympic team. He brings with him a plethora of experience, having been the coaching program director for the Amateur Hockey Association of the United States for five years. In addition, he coached the U.S. national junior hockey team in the International Ice Hockey Federation for four straight years Last March. Vairo&rsquo;s Team USA won the IIHF Pool B world championship at Tokyo.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-03637/4639116-1-eng-US/f0016-032.jpg" title="f0016-03" width="272" height="429"><figcaption class="caption-body">LARRY JOHNSON, GENERAL MANAGER: Johnson, the general manager of the 1984 United States hockey team, was a member of the 1965U.S. national team, which finished sixth in the world championships in Finland. The 44-year-old was raised in Edina, MN. and gained all-state hockey honors in high school. He later attended the University of Minnesota, where he played for John Mariucci and was captain of the 1960-61 Gopher team He was also a star on the Gopher football team.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-04498/4639109-1-eng-US/f0016-042.jpg" title="f0016-04" width="272" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">TIM TAYLOR, ASST. COACH: Taylor carries the dual portfolio of assis-tant coach and assistant general manager. Taylor. 41, spent the last seven years as head coach of Yale and before that he was an assistant coach at Harvard for seven years. six as coach of the freshman team. He played three years of college hockey at Harvard (1960-63) and also played on the 1965 and 1967 United States national teams. Taylor was coach Lou Vairo&rsquo;s assistant at the Pool B world championship at Tokyo.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-05389/4639102-1-eng-US/f0016-052.jpg" title="f0016-05" width="274" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARC BEHREND, GOALIE: The 6-foot-1, 185-pound netminder is 22 years old and joined the U.S. Olympic team from the University of Wisconsin, where he was the Badgers&rsquo; MVP last season. With goals-against averages of 2.60 in 1981-82 and 2.23 in 1982-83, he has been the nation&rsquo;s top college netminder for the past two years. Behrend was bom in Madison, Wl. and his National Hockey League rights belong to the Winnipeg Jets, who drafted him in the fifth round of 1981.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-06325/4639095-1-eng-US/f0016-062.jpg" title="f0016-06" width="274" height="441"><figcaption class="caption-body">SCOTT BJUGSTAD, FORWARD: The 6-foot-l, 185-pound forward is 22 years old and joined the Olympic team after four illustrious seasons with the University of Minnesota. The New Brighton. MN, native led Minnesota and the Western Collegiate Hockey Association in scoring last season with 21 goals and 35 assists in league play and had 43 goals and 48 assists to lead the overall season scoring. He was also a WCHA all-star. His NHL rights belong to the Minnesota North Stars, who drafted him in the ninth round of 1980.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-07299/4639088-1-eng-US/f0016-072.jpg" title="f0016-07" width="274" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB BROOKE, FORWARD/DE-FENSE: This 6-foot-2, 207-pound native of Melrose, MA, can play either forward or defense as witnessed by his four star seasons at Yale University. Brooke, 23 years old, was All-American in the East last year, plus All-Ivy League and team MVP the past two seasons. He is Yale&rsquo;s all-time point leader with 42 goals and 113 assists for 155 points. His National Hockey League rights belong to the St. Louis Blues, who drafted him in the fourth round of 1980.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-08279/4639081-1-eng-US/f0016-082.jpg" title="f0016-08" width="272" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">CHRIS CHELIOS, DEFENSE: The 6-foot-l, 190-pound blue chip defenseman is 21 years old and has played in a lot of places to date. The past two seasons, Chelios, bom in Chicago but a resident of San Diego, has starred for the University of Wisconsin. Before that, he played two seasons with the Moose Jaw Canucks of the Saskatchewan Junior League, where he was an MVP and allstar. He also played for the U.S. national junior team in 1982. His NHL rights belong to the Montreal Canadiens, who drafted him in the second round of the 1981 draft.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-09255/4639074-1-eng-US/f0016-092.jpg" title="f0016-09" width="270" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">RICH COSTELLO, FORWARD: The six-foot. 185-pound forward is 20 years old and came to the Olympic team after two seasons at Providence College, where he scored 30 goals and 42 assists in 74 games to help the Friars finish third at the NCAA championships. The Natick. MA. native was the 38th player taken in the 1981 NHL entry draft. But the Philadelphia Flyers, who drafted him, traded his rights to the Toronto Maple Leafs in the Darryl Sittler trade in the middle of the 191-82 season.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-10233/4639067-1-eng-US/f0016-102.jpg" title="f0016-10" width="272" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARK FUSCO, DEFENSE: The 5-foot-9, 180-pound defenseman won the Hobey Baker Memorial Award last season, presented to the top player in U.S. college hockey. The 22-year-old native of Woburn. MA. was a three-time AllAmerican at Harvard and a four-time All-Ivy League and All-ECAC. He holds a plethora of Harvard records and competed on the U.S. national junior team in 1981. He isn&rsquo;t the property of any NHL team since he was never drafted. Joins his brother Scott on the Olympic team.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-11219/4639060-1-eng-US/f0016-112.jpg" title="f0016-11" width="276" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">SCOTT FUSCO, FORWARD: The 5 foot-9, 175-pound forward led Harvard in scoring as a sophomore last season with an overall total of 33 goals and 22 assists for 55 points. The 20-year-old native of Woburn. MA, was named to the 1983 NCAA All-Tournament team and helped the Crimson finish second. He also made All-ECAC. All-New England, All-Ivy League and was a member of the 1982 U.S. national junior team His NHL rights belong to the Hartford Whalers, who acquired them from New Jersey, which drafted him in the 11th round of 1982.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-12201/4639053-1-eng-US/f0016-122.jpg" title="f0016-12" width="270" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">STEVE GRIFFITH, FORWARD. The 5-foot-10. 185-pound forward closed out his four-year college career with the University of Minnesota last season. The 22-year-old native of St. Paul. MN, was the Gophers&rsquo; third leading scorer last season with 12 goals and 43 assists. He also played for the 1981 U.S. national junior team and is best known as a playmaker. Since he wasn&rsquo;t drafted by an NHL team, no one owns his professional rights. He was a business major at Minnesota.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-13186/4639046-1-eng-US/f0016-132.jpg" title="f0016-13" width="274" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAUL GUAY, FORWARD: The six-foot. 193-pound forward was a star at Providence College after only two seasons. In his sophomore season with the Friars, he had 34 goals and 31 assists in 43 games and earned All-New England honors. The 20-year-old native of North Smithfield. RI. was on the Dean&rsquo;s List last season. His National Hockey League rights are owned by the Minnesota North Stars, who drafted him in the sixth round of the 1981 entry draft.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-14178/4639039-1-eng-US/f0016-142.jpg" title="f0016-14" width="274" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY HAIGHT, DEFENSE: The six-foot, 183-pound defenseman played three seasons of college hockey at Michigan State, where he scored 20 goals and 74 assists in 116. He was a Central Collegiate Hockey Association second-team all-star. The 22-year-old native of Seattle, WA, played with the Seattle Breakers of the Western Hockey League before deciding to attend Michigan State. He has not been drafted by a National Hockey League team.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-15168/4639032-1-eng-US/f0016-152.jpg" title="f0016-15" width="276" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">JOHN HARRINGTON, FOR-WARD: The 5-foot-10, 180-pound forward is one of two players back from the 1980 gold-medal winning team. The 26-year-old native of Virginia. MN, has played for every U.S. national team since 1980. In 57 games with Team USA in 1980, he had 14 goals and 24 assists. In the 1980 Games, he had six assists. A graduate of the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Harrington played one season in Switzerland after the 1980 Games.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-16164/4639025-1-eng-US/f0016-162.jpg" title="f0016-16" width="280" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">TOM HIRSCH. DEFENSE: The 6-foot-4, 210-pound defenseman came to the Olympic team after two seasons at the University of Minnesota. He was the Gophers&rsquo; rookie of the year with seven goals and 16 assists and had eight goals and 23 assists in his sophomore season. The 20-year-old native of Minneapolis was chosen to play on the 1983 U.S. national junior team but an injury kept him from going to Leningrad. The Minnesota North Stars drafted him in the second round of 1981 draft and he is considered a top pro prospect.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-17156/4639018-1-eng-US/f0016-172.jpg" title="f0016-17" width="274" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">AL IAFRATE, DEFENSE: The 6-fool-3, 190-pound defenseman played the past two seasons for the Detroit Compuware midgets, which won the national championship in 1983. The 17-year-old from Livonia, MI, is the second youngest member of this year&rsquo;s Olympic team. He was the Belleville Bulls&rsquo; first-round pick in the Ontario Hockey League draft and may join them after the Olympics. He is expected to be a high first-round pick in the 1984 entry draft.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-18149/4639011-1-eng-US/f0016-182.jpg" title="f0016-18" width="276" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVID A. JENSEN, FORWARD: The 6-foot-l, 175-pound forward isn&rsquo;t even a high school graduate yet. He just concluded his junior season at Lawrence Academy, where he led Massachusetts private schools with 41 goals and 48 assists in 21 games. In three high school seasons, he scored 100 goals and 114 assists. The 18-year-old Needham, MA, native was the Hartford Whalers&rsquo; first-round pick in last year&rsquo;s NHL entry draft, becoming the 20th player selected.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-19140/4639004-1-eng-US/f0016-192.jpg" title="f0016-19" width="270" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">DAVID H. JENSEN, DEFENSE: The 6-foot-1, 190-pound defenseman concluded his four-season college career at the University of Minnesota last spring. In 135 games with the Gophers, the 23-year-old native of Minneapolis scored eight goals and 55 assists. He co-captained the Gophers to a Western Collegiate Hockey Association title last season. He was a late addition to this year&rsquo;s Olympic team, but played on two U.S. national junior squads. His NHL rights belong to the Minnesota North Stars, who took him in the fifth round of 1980.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-20120/4638997-1-eng-US/f0016-202.jpg" title="f0016-20" width="274" height="434"><figcaption class="caption-body">KURT KLEINENDORST, FOR-WARD: The 6-foot-2, 190-pound defenseman played four seasons at Providence College, where he was named to the 1983 All-American team as well as All-ECAC and All-New England. His 89 goals and 192 points are career records at Providence. The 23-year-old native of Grand Rapids, MN. played on the 1982 U.S. national junior team. His NHL rights belong to the New York Rangers, who drafted him in the fourth round of the 1980 entry draft.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-21114/4638990-1-eng-US/f0016-212.jpg" title="f0016-21" width="276" height="432"><figcaption class="caption-body">MARK KUMPEL, FORWARD: The six-foot, 190-pound forward played most of last season with Team USA, joining it from the University of Lowell. The 22-year-old Wakefield, MA, native played three seasons at Lowell and was a member of the 1981 and 1982 NCAA Division II national champions there. In 30 games with Team USA last season, he scored 14 goals and 18 assists. His National Hockey League rights belong to the Quebec Nordiques, who selected him in the sixth round of the 1980 entry draft.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-22112/4638983-1-eng-US/f0016-222.jpg" title="f0016-22" width="272" height="424"><figcaption class="caption-body">PAT LAFONTAINE, FORWARD: The 5-foot-9, 180-pound forward is one of the Olympic team&rsquo;s brightest stars. The 18-year-old St. Louis, MO, native, who calls Pontiac. MI, home, played last season with Verdun of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. There, he scored 104 goals and 130 assists to set a number of league scoring records. He played midget hockey for Detroit Compuware. The Stanley Cup-champion New York Islanders made him the third player chosen in the 1983 entry draft and LaFontaine may join them after the Olympics.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-23109/4638976-1-eng-US/f0016-232.jpg" title="f0016-23" width="268" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">BOB MASON, GOALIE: The 6-foot-1, 180-pound goalie played two seasons at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, where he was voted MVP of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association and first-team WCHA all-star. Last season, he posted a 26-16-1 record and a 3.49 goals-against average. The 22-year-old native of International Falls. MN. joined Team USA for the World Group &ldquo;B&rdquo; championships last spring. Mason has not been drafted by an NHL team, but several may now be interested in signing him as a free agent.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-24107/4638969-1-eng-US/f0016-242.jpg" title="f0016-24" width="269" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">COREY MILLEN, FORWARD: The 5-foot-7, 155-pound forward scored 29 points as a freshman at the University of Minnesota last season, despite missing most of it due to knee surgery. The 19-year-old native of Cloquet. MN, was added to the Olympic roster in August. As a high school senior, Millen played for the 1982 U.S. national junior team. He is the smallest player on Team USA&rsquo;s roster. His National Hockey League playing rights are owned by the New York Rangers, who selected him in the third round of the 1982 entry draft.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-25102/4638962-1-eng-US/f0016-252.jpg" title="f0016-25" width="273" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">ED OLCZYK. FORWARD: The 6-foot-1, 195-pound forward is the youngest player on Team USA, bom Aug. 16, 1966. He was bom in Chicago and now resides in Palos Heights, IL Last season, he played for the Stratford Cullitons of the Midwestern Ontario Junior B League, scoring&rsquo;50 goals and 92 assists in 42 games. Toronto Marl-boros of the Ontario Hockey League made him their first-round pick in the midget draft and may he join them after Olympic duty. He will be a high first-round pick in the NHL draft of 1984.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2699/4638955-1-eng-US/f0016-262.jpg" title="f0016-26" width="268" height="427"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY SAMPSON, FORWARD: The six-foot 190-pound forward played last season with Team USA after four seasons with Boston College. The 24-year-old, who was bom in Atikokan, Ont., but now resides in International Falls, MN, captained Boston College in his senior year. His father, the late Ed Sampson, was a member of the 1956 Silver Medal Olympic team. Last season with Team USA, Sampson had 11 goals and 20 assists in 40 games. He has not been drafted by a National Hockey League team.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2790/4638948-1-eng-US/f0016-272.jpg" title="f0016-27" width="272" height="430"><figcaption class="caption-body">TIM THOMAS, DEFENSE: The 5-foot-10. 170-pound defenseman played one-and-a-half seasons at the University of Wisconsin before joining Team USA midway through last season. In 16 preworld championship games, the 20-year-old native of Richfield, MN, had 13 points and picked up two assists in the World Group &ldquo;B&rdquo; finals in Tokyo. He was a member of both the 1983 and 1982 U.S. national junior teams and was the 1983 junior team&rsquo;s leading scorer in Leningrad with four goals and five assists. He hasn&rsquo;t been drafted.</figcaption><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0016-2888/4638941-1-eng-US/f0016-282.jpg" title="f0016-28" width="270" height="428"><figcaption class="caption-body">PHIL VERCOTA, FORWARD: A member of the 1980 Olympic gold-medal-winning U.S. team, this 6-foot-2, 195-pound forward played one season in Finland and sat another out before joining Team USA for the 1982-83 season. The 26-year-old native of Preston, MN, who now lives in Duluth, led Team USA in Tokyo with seven goals. In pre-toumey play, he scored 23 goals and 14 assists. Prior to the 1980 Games, Vercota was a standout with the University of Minnesota.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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A LOOK AT TEAM USA

<div class="byline">BY TIM MORIARTY</div>The date was June 8, 1982 and the New York Islanders, picking 21st and last in the first round of the National Hockey League entry draft at the Montreal Forum, chose Pat Flatley, an 18-year-old right winger from Toronto via the University of Wisconsin. He was promptly dubbed &ldquo;a diamond in the rough&rdquo; by Jim Devellano, then the Islanders&rsquo; assistant general manager and director of scouting.The date was June 7, 1983 and the New York Islanders, picking third in the first round of the National Hockey League entry draft, chose Pat LaFontaine, an 18-year-old center from the Detroit suburbs who had totalled 104 goals and 234 points for the Verdun junior team last season. &lsquo;&lsquo;That kid was the best player in the draft,&rdquo; proclaimed John Ferguson, the Winnipeg Jets&rsquo; GM.Another NHL executive, in a waggish mood, suggested that Bill Torrey, the Isles&rsquo; GM, was &ldquo;holding Pat&rsquo;s hands.&rdquo;Neither of the two Pats has played a game for the Islanders yet, but they could wind up performing on the same line at Nassau Coliseum later this season.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s possible, sure,&rdquo; Torrey said the other day. &ldquo;Anything is possible. But that&rsquo;s a long way off. I have to sign them first.&rdquo;.Torrey will not be able to sign either LaFontaine or Flatley until after they have completed their commitments to their respective national teams, now training for the Winter Olympics at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in February.However, that hasn&rsquo;t prevented Torrey from conducting contract negotiations with representatives of the two young men. In fact, it was reported that Torrey has offered LaFontaine a four-year contract worth about $675,000. The offer supposedly was made during a recent meeting between Torrey and Don Meehan, LaFontaine&rsquo;s agent.Said Torrey: &ldquo;Don and I did spend some time together and, sure, we did talk about Pat. But we didn&rsquo;t get into his contract. Technically, we can&rsquo;t culminate anything until after the Olympics.&rdquo;LaFontaine has been the leading scorer for Team USA during its heavy schedule of pre-Olympic tuneups with 20 goals and 42 points after 28 games. Flatley has been the leading goal-scorer for Team Canada; he had 11 goals and 17 points in 18 games.During a game between Team Canada and Team USA at Calgary last month, LaFontaine had three goals and one assist while Flatley contributed two goals. Team USA won the game 6-4.Torrey has watched LaFontaine play several times in recent weeks and said, &ldquo;He&rsquo;s very intelligent, always seems to be in command of the situation and has great puck instincts. Those are all the things we saw in LaFontaine as a junior and he&rsquo;s continuing to show them, except now he&rsquo;s doing those things at a higher level and a higher rate of speed.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s obviously a key man on Team US A, the player they look to in key situations. That&rsquo;s what we all hoped for when we jointly agreed he should join the Olympic team because it would help his development.&rdquo;Lou Vairo, the head coach of Team USA, offered a similar assessment of LaFontaine, who&rsquo;s 5-foot-10, 175 pounds.&ldquo;Pat reminds me a little of Marcel Dionne and he has those quick hands that Andy Bathgate had,&rdquo; said Vairo, who used to watch Bathgate play for the Rangers at the old Madison Square Garden.As a means of illustration, Vairo recalled a goal LaFontaine scored in and early exhibition against Islanders&rsquo; farm club, Indianapolis Checkers.&ldquo;Pat put a great move on their defenseman (Paul Boutilier), got by him, then made another great move on the goalie (Bob Holland) and beat him,&rdquo; Vairo said. &ldquo;The goalie didn&rsquo;t even realize the puck was in the net. He thought it was still on Pat&rsquo;s stick.&rdquo;LaFontaine, reached at Team USA&rsquo;s training camp at Bloomington, MN, admitted he is going through &ldquo;a big adjustment period&rdquo; these days.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a different style of living,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;All the travelling and sitting around in airports and motels. But 1 don&rsquo;t mind. It&rsquo;s good preparation for playing in the pros.&rdquo;Does he expect to be playing with the Islanders in late February or early March?LaFontaine giggled at the thought.&ldquo;Hopefully, yes,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But I want to take it one step at a time. I always dreamed of playing in the Olympics and now I&rsquo;m on the Olympic team. I&rsquo;ve also dreamed of playing in the pros and I hope that day will come soon.&rdquo;There will be a lot of pressure on LaFontaine in the Olympics. Will he be able to handle it?&ldquo;I think so,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I look at it as a challenge. The 1980 (U.S) team turned in a great feat in winning the gold medal. I hope we can do it, too.&rdquo;Flatley has impressed LaFontaine in their pre-Olympic confrontations.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s very strong in the comers and he works hard,&rdquo; LaFontaine said. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t realize he was so big (6-foot-1, 200 pounds). He knows how to use his body, too. He&rsquo;s pretty tough.&rdquo;Vairo conceded that Torrey and his scouts deserved a lot of credit for drafting LaFontaine and Flatley.&ldquo;They&rsquo;re different types of players,&rdquo; the Team USA coach said. &ldquo;Flatley doesn&rsquo;t have all of LaFontaine&rsquo;s offensive skills or his speed, but he&rsquo;s a harder, stronger checker.&rdquo;Flatley was described by Islander scouts as &ldquo;a combination John Tonelli-Bobby Nystrom&rsquo; type of player when he was drafted. The young winger was named to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division One all-star team at Wisconsin last season. He is expected to interrupt his college education in order to turn pro with the Islanders after the Olympics.Torrey has been following Flatley&rsquo;s progress as closely as LaFontaine&rsquo;s.&ldquo;Flatley&rsquo;s skating has improved a lot,&rdquo; the Isles&rsquo; GM said. &ldquo;That&rsquo;s one of the areas we wanted him to concentrate on. His passing is good and he&rsquo;s got a fine shot. Now he&rsquo;s showing more agility and quickness.&rdquo;Islander coach Al Arbour was enraged when the Islanders&rsquo; seven-game winning streak was snapped by the Penguins by a 4-2 count. He accused the Islanders of having big heads.&ldquo;Their heads get so swelled up that they can&rsquo;t see anything,&rdquo; Arbour said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got an experienced team. If experience doesn&rsquo;t pay off, we&rsquo;ll have to get some (players) with enthusiasm.&rdquo; &bull;<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0017-01865/4639161-1-eng-US/f0017-012.jpg" title="f0017-01" width="592" height="861"><figcaption class="caption-body">Pat LaFontaine dreamed of playing in the Olympics and going on to the pros.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Islanders Standing Pat Until Olympics Over

<div class="byline">BY DAVE KING</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-01883/4639213-1-eng-US/f0018-012.jpg" title="f0018-01" width="609" height="526"></div>Twice-a-day practices with dry-land training really take a lot of effort from the players and the coaching staff knows that our next game efforts might suffer because of it. We start the week with this in mind knowing that we only have to play one game.Pat Flatley escapes the routine for Monday Nov. 7 because he accompanies me to Toronto for a media day. The people at Labatt&rsquo;s bring Pat and I to Toronto to try and hype the coming game at Maple Leaf Gardens (Nov. 24). Even though Pat was a New York Islander first-round draft pick, he is impressed with the number of people who really care about our program. We finish off the day by being on Bill Stephenson&rsquo;s open-line radio show. It is quite an experience and with the amount of interest in the Olympic team in Eastern Canada, I hope that we will have full houses in Toronto, Montreal and Moncton.<h2>November 8</h2>Jean Perron really has the boys working on the Hydra-Gym ment. Jean has worked with Dr. Ray Manz on the off-ice strength program and the players have really responded well to the work-outs. It is really a different experience for many players to expend as much energy off the ice as they do on it. In order for off-ice training to work, the players and coaches and training staff have to really believe in it. Results do not always show right away but we know that during our six-month season, players will really improve if they work at this. Coach Perron has really set up a good program and the players have really accepted it.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-02687/4639206-1-eng-US/f0018-022.jpg" title="f0018-02" width="294" height="354"><figcaption class="caption-body">Dave King&rsquo;s Coach&rsquo;s Diary</figcaption></div><h2>November 9</h2>Salt Lake City Golden Eagles came to Calgary today and beat us 3-1. It was the last game played on the international size ice in the Saddledome and what should have been a tremendous advantage to us proved no advantage at all. Jim Craig played goal for Salt Lake City and played really well. Our team was flat but the coaching staff realized that with the amount of off-ice work we are giving the players, they are not always going to be at their best in games. The only unfortunate thing is that we have now played three games in the Saddledome and have yet to play really well.<h2>November 10</h2>The players seem a little down in the dumps after their last effort. I&rsquo;m sure no athlete ever thinks that he is not trying and I&rsquo;m just as sure many fans and members of the media thought it looked like we were not trying as hard as we should. We have a short meeting before practice and try to get the players to look forward, not backward. After all, we are 10-7-7, which is not a bad record and we have been making many lineup adjustments as we go along. Our roster is still not finalized but we are getting closer. Warren Anderson, a veteran defenseman from our 1980 Olympic team, got a leave of absence from the Toronto Board of Education and has now moved to Calgary to be with us on a full-time basis. With the number of young players we have&mdash;without doubt the youngest team to represent Canada in Olympic hockey&mdash;layers such as Joe Grant and Anderson are very important. Warren appears to be in tremendous shape and I know that he will help us.<h2>November 11</h2>We have a very spirited practice today and the attitude is just great. I just wish that people could see how hard our players work in practice. We also get confirmation today on using the international-size rink in Lake Placid from Nov. 27 to Dec. 1. To be successful in international competition, you have to be a great road club (you have no home&rdquo; games) and finding places to train on the road is sometimes a problem. However, Lake Placid has great facilities and we are all looking forward to going there.<h2>November 12</h2>We get word today that Dan Wood is going to join us for a tryout. Dan is not a great goal scorer (although he did get 25 in his last year of junior with Kingston) but he is a great worker and we are told he is similar in make-up to what Mike Eruzione was on the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team. He has been playing the past three seasons for the St. Louis Blues&rsquo; farm teams.<h2>November 13</h2>Practices! Practices! Practices! We have only played two games since Oct. 25 and the players are getting itchy. As coaches, we can see improvements through practices but there is not a hockey player around who does not want to play games. We play seven times in the next 12 days so we are looking forward to that.<h2>TEAM CANADA</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-03503/4639199-1-eng-US/f0018-032.jpg" title="f0018-03" width="588" height="594"></div><h2>GOALTENDING RECORDS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-04342/4639192-1-eng-US/f0018-042.jpg" title="f0018-04" width="586" height="88"></div> &#9632;

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Players Are Eager To Play Some Games Again

<div class="byline">BY LOU VAIRO</div>The night after our Indianapolis game, many members of Team USA attended the Toronto Maple Leaf-Minnesota North Star game at the Met Center. Coach Tim Taylor and I had the most enjoyable experience of watching the game with Harold Ballard, the Maple Leafs&rsquo; owner. Mr. Ballard is a very intelligent, witty and interesting man.Part of the experience our team is going through involves meeting many of our sport&rsquo;s great people. This week another hockey legend, Tommy Ivan, visited with the team. Mr. Ivan has been a great supporter of our program and had encouraging words for the team.It is very nice to meet the great peo-pie we have read about all these years and find out personally what fine and they are.The first of our two games for the week was in Salt Lake City against the Eagles. When we arrived in that beautiful city we found blue skies and 72-degree temperatures, so instead of skating, the team had a 20-minute jog and played soccer for an hour. We took advantage of the great weather, which we will not see much of from now on, to have a good fun workout.Over 10,000 fans attended the game in SLC, nearly a sellout, and they saw a good game. The puck seemed to bounce our way in an 8-4 win, but the Eagles had one of the best power plays we&rsquo;ve seen this season.When we came home from Utah we had a hard, two-hour practice. Our next opponents were the first-place (CHL) Tulsa Oilers.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0018-05241/4639244-1-eng-US/f0018-052.jpg" title="f0018-05" width="304" height="356"><figcaption class="caption-body">Lou Vairo&rsquo;s Coach&rsquo;s Corner</figcaption></div>The Oilers were the fastest, best team we&rsquo;ve played in a while. Our game (a 3-2 Tulsa win) was a good one. They have two 1980 U.S. Olympians, Bill Baker and Rob McClanahan, and their goalie (John Vanbies-brouck from Detroit) played very well, as did Bob Mason in our net. But our team was not prepared for the game and by the time they woke up in the third period, it was too late.We learned from that game, though, and the mistake I made will not happen again. I thought the players needed some time off because they were a little tired from their hard work. So we let them sleep in the morning of the game, stay home and watch the football games and then come to the rink at 6 p.m. for the game. I did the same thing once last year with the national team and it backfired. It backfired again.From now on we will always have either a skate or meeting or both on the day of a game. It is important to get the players&rsquo; minds on hockey and our opponents. We learned a valuable lesson.It will be very interesting to see how we approach our next metting with the Oilers in Tulsa (Jan 13). I wish we could play good, fast teams like the Oilers every night.On Nov. 8, Team USA was in two places at one time. The two played a special exhibition in New Ulm, MN, facing Mankato State U. and Gustavus Adolphus College in half-hour minigames. John Harrington, Mark Fusco and Rich Costello all returned from their injuries to play in the exhibition. The people of New Ulm were very generous, presenting each player with a beer mug with their names on them.At the same time, coach Bob O&rsquo;Connor, Pat LaFontaine, David A. Jensen, Chris Chelios, Scott Fusco, Bob Brooke and 1 attended a coaching clinic in Burnsville, MN. Along with Keith Blase, the AHAUS coaching program director, we ran a midget A team through some of our drills, exercises and training programs. We also answered questions from youth hockey coaches and played a short scrimmage. The midgets and Team USA tied 1-1. Over 500 people showed up despite miserable weather.Phil Verchota, Scott Bjugstad (both of whom have played in all of our games) and Gary Sampson got a well-deserved day off.We are now off on an eastern trip during in which we will play seven games in nine days in seven different cities in two countries. We&rsquo;re especially looking forward to our games in two of the great hockey cities of the world, Toronto and Montreal. We&rsquo;ve never been to Moncton, but we also look forward to visiting that eastern&rsquo; city as well. &#9632;

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It’s A Thrill To Meet Our Sport’s Great People

<div class="byline">BY PERRY LEFKO</div>On a day when Tom Watt, the assistant coach of the 1980 Canadian Olympic team, gets the axe in Winnipeg, Dave King, the head coach of the 1984 Canadian Olympic team, is reclining in a chair in suite in a Toronto hotel, fielding pepers from the press.It is not a time, however, to discuss the plight of his fallen brethren, nor is time to dwell on the tenuous times of Jill Mahoney, the coach of the Minneota North Stars, whom everyone eems to feel will be replaced by King once he&rsquo;s through with his Olympic obligation. On this particular day, king wants to talk Olympic hockey, specifically about the response&mdash;or ack thereof&mdash;of the Canadian public to the team which will represent it at he Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia in February.The Canadian team played games against the U.S. Olympians in Edmonton and Vancouver and attracted crowds of less than 2,000 in each. However, when the Canadian team returned to its home base in Calgary for a game against the U.S. Olympians, a crowd of more than 10,000 flocked to the Olympic Saddledome. About half as many came to the Saddledome to watch the Canadians against Salt Lake City of the Central Hockey League, which is still good considering there really isn&rsquo;t a built-in rivalry between the two teams.In Calgary, which will be the site of the 1988 Winter Olympics, there&rsquo;s no problem selling the team to the public; for the rest of the country, the stock has yet to make an impression on the market.That&rsquo;s why King, accompanied by Pat Flatley, a Toronto-bom right winger who was the first-round pick of the New York Islanders in 1982, has ridden in on the red-eye flight from Calgary to talk hockey in Toronto. In this town, which King admits is a &ldquo;tremendous&rsquo;&rsquo; hockey city, you can do yourself&mdash;and your operation&mdash;a world of good by giving the media a few minutes of your time.&ldquo;Newspaper, radio and TV are really advantageous to you and it really proved itself in Calgary,&rdquo; said King, whose coaching portfolio is preceded by senior vice-president and general manager. &ldquo;The game we had 10,000, about 5,500 were pre-sold and the rest were walk-ins. Obviously, the media did that.&rdquo;While the media can act as the &ldquo;catalyst,&rdquo; as King explains it, the intent is to put people into the building. It is a game, but King stresses that it&rsquo;s important to make money, too. In order to keep the Olympic hockey candle burning, you have to fuel it with gate receipts.&ldquo;If we could put something together in &lsquo;84 that will allow us to be successful in &lsquo;88, that&rsquo;s important,&rdquo; King said. &ldquo;Hockey at this level is a bit of a business, too. You want to make it pay if you can.&rdquo;If there&rsquo;s any question as to what a few hometown folks can do for your morale, the precedent has already been set back in 1980 with the gold medal U.S. Olympians. They were good, but their fans were an extra-large boost of adrenalin.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no question the 1980 Olympics was a credit to the (U.S.) hockey team and the coaching staff, but I&rsquo;m sure they would be the first to admit fan support was a big part of it,&rdquo; King said. &ldquo;It was a catalyst that brought the whole thing together.&ldquo;In 1988, Canada will be the host of the Winter Olympics, so there&rsquo;s no guarantee fan support will be enough, but it certainly will help.&rdquo;King said the reasons for the lack of fan support this year can be attributed to the fact that his team&rsquo;s playing a lot of its games in Europe and in the U.S. For the next while, at least, the Canadians will be stationed primarily in Calgary, although they&rsquo;ll be playing the U.S. Olympians for four consecutive games, two of which the players have circled on their calenders. The venues are Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto (Nov. 24) and the following night in Montreal in the Forum.For the 20-year-old Flatley, who played his high school hockey at Henry Carr in Toronto, the Toronto engagement will be a chance to come home and play before his family and friends.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m really looking forward to it,&rdquo; Flatley said, &ldquo;and 1 say that on behalf of myself and Darren Lowe, George Servinis, Bruce Driver, Warren Anderson and Kevin Dineen (the other Toronto-bom players).&rdquo;Flatley said the absence of fan support has been an issue with which he hasn&rsquo;t been concerned.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s a bonus if you get it,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Emotionally it helps, but you can&rsquo;t let it get to you. In Yugoslavia, we won&rsquo;t have 10,000 people cheering for us. We&rsquo;ll be lucky if we have 10. So, you have to deal with it as best you can.&ldquo;(Fan support) hasn&rsquo;t been a major topic among us, although we&rsquo;d appreciate any fan support we do get. &ldquo; &#9632;

Kina Drums Un Support By Holding Court

<div class="byline">BY ERIC DUHATSCHEK</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-01676/4639306-1-eng-US/f0020-012.jpg" title="f0020-01" width="972" height="1461"></div>In September, when the first verdicts came in on Canada&rsquo;s Olympic hockey team, they were all prefaced the same way:&ldquo;No Glenn Andersons, but&hellip;&rdquo;The implication was clear: The 1984 team had promise, it had no superstars.Four years after the Canadian Olympic team took sixth place in Lake Placid, one player, Glenn Anderson, has become the standard by which today&rsquo;s Olympians are judged.Anderson, the Olympic team&rsquo;s second-leading scorer, had everything&mdash;he could skate, shoot and play physically. The one thing he couldn&rsquo;t do&mdash;or didn&rsquo;t do in the Olympic year&mdash;was convert his many chances around the goal. Anderson averaged a breakaway a game, but came away frustrated as often as he would convert.Scoring is no longer a problem. Since turning pro with the Edmonton Oilers, Anderson is averaging more than a point-a-game. At the start of the season, he had 116 goals and 262 points in 210 National Hockey League games.Now 23, he is one of the league&rsquo;s genuine young stars.Others have not done badly either. In the four years since the U.S. Olympic team performed the miracle on ice, the Canadian players frequently heard themselves labelled &ldquo;failures&rdquo; because they failed to win a medal.What people forget is that in seven head-to-head matches between the two teams, Canada won four games. Many players, including Anderson, thought then and think now that Canada had just as much or more talent as the U.S. team. They just didn&rsquo;t get it together at the right time.The statistics may prove Anderson right. Altogether, eight former Olympians were playing in the NHL at the start of the season and another three were in the minors.Nearly four years after the fact, here&rsquo;s a breakdown of what each Olympian did then and is doing now:<h2>GOALTENDERS</h2>BOB DUPUIS&mdash;Dupuis will be remembered as the man who allowed a 100-foot goal against Finland that cost Canada the game and a chance to advance to the medal round. What many people did not know is that Dupuis played in the Olympics with a broken bone in his right hand, which limited what he could do with his goalstick. Dupuis signed a pro contract with the Oilers immediately after the Olympics, played one game against the Philadelphia Flyers, then finished the season with the Oilers&rsquo; minor-league affiliate in Houston. The next year, Dupuis played for Milwaukee in the IHL. Now living in North Bay, Ont., Dupuis is a student at Canadore College by day and a city police dispatcher by night.Time constraints mean the only hockey he plays is with a city pick-up team.PAUL PAGEAU&mdash;Pageau joined the team six weeks before the Olympics from Shawinigan of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, ostensibly aS its third goaltender. His 1.89 goals against average in 10 starts, however, earned him the No. 2 job behind Dupuis. Pageau played four games in the Olympics and posted a respectable 2.79 GAA. He signed with Los Angeles Kings in May of 1980, but like Dupuis, only played one game at the NHL level. He spent last season with New Haven of the AHL and now plays for Sherbrooke of the same league.RON PATTERSON&mdash;aterson, the friendly, 5-foot-6 goaltender, was the third goaltender in Lake Placid, eligible to play only if either Dupuis or Pageau was injured. He did not stay, at the athletes&rsquo; village. Instead, he lived at the Hockey Canada house and worked as a spotter for ABC television during the games. Paterson returned to the University of British Columbia after the Olympics, completed his degree and now works for Molson&rsquo;s Breweries in Vancouver.<h2>DEFENSEMEN</h2>RANDY GREGG&mdash;The team captain, Gregg was perhaps the best-known of the Olympians prior to the Games. His medical studies made him the subject of numerous human interest stories. Gregg spumed a number of pro offers to play for the Japanese team, Kikudo, in the two years following the Olympics. He signed a tryout contract with Edmonton and played ahead of Paul Coffey in the 1982 playoffs, when Los Angeles Kings dumped the Oilers in a first-round shocker. Currently, Gregg is in his second full season with the Oilers.WARREN ANDERSON&mdash;Gregg&rsquo;s partner on the 1980 team, Anderson went back to school to get his teaching certificate after the Olympics, then played in Switzerland. He spent the next season teaching part-time and landed a full-time teaching job only this season. Dave King, needing defensive defensemen for his 1984 team, lured Anderson back for a tryout this month and Anderson will be one of only two returnees from the 1980 team to compete in Sarajevo.TIM WATTERS&mdash;Watters was the leading scorer among the team&rsquo;s defensemen and the only one drafted by an NHL team, going to the Winnipeg Jets in the sixth round of the 1979 draft. He returned to Michigan Tech after the Olympic year and was named a Western Collegiate Hockey Association first team all-star in 1981. He is now in his third NHL season with the Jets.DON SPRING&mdash;Spring played for the Olympic team the way he now plays for Winnipeg Jets&mdash;the team that signed him as a free agent in May of 1980&mdash;quietly and effectively. Spring scored one goal in 51 games for the Olympic team and had one in his first 238 games as a pro. The Jets sent him to the minors earlier this season, but when their younger players faltered, Spring was back in the lineup.JOE GRANT&mdash;The only other player to return in 1984 from the 1980 team, Grant played a year in Sweden for Modo AIK and a year in Japan for Kokudo before returning to the University of Toronto to study political science and play for the Blues. Grant was an all-Canadian last year and won the best defenseman award at the Pravda Prize tournament in the spring of 1983.TERRY O&rsquo;MALLEY&mdash;O&rsquo;Malley was 39 years old when he joined the Olympic team in November of 1979. A member of the 1968 Olympic team, O&rsquo;Malley was an instructor at Notre Dame College in Wilcox, Sask., when the Rev. David Bauer asked him to return for one last Olympics. O&rsquo;Malley returned to Notre Dame after the Olympics and coached a number of players on the 1984 team, including James Patrick and Gord Sherven.<h2>FORWARDS</h2>GLENN ANDERSON&mdash;Aside from his on-ice contributions, Anderson&rsquo;s sense of humor loosened up the sometimes-tense atmosphere surrounding the 1980 team. He played seven games with Seattle in the Western Hockey League after the Olympic year, then signed with Edmonton. A knee injury in 1981 cost him any chance at the NHL&rsquo;s Rookie of the Year award, although he still managed 30 goals and 23 assists in 58 games. A 1983 newspaper poll called him the most underrated player in the game.KEN BERRY&mdash;Berry, chosen by Vancouver in the fifth round of the 1980 draft, turned down the Canucks&rsquo; contract offer and returned to the University of Denver for his sophomore season after the Olympics. Edmonton acquired his rights from the Canucks in March of 1981 and Berry turned pro With them almost immediately, Scoring Seven goals in nine games for the Oilers&rsquo; minor-league affiliate in Wichita. Berry played 15 games for Edmonton the next season, spent all of last season in Moncton, but made the NHL Oilers in training camp in September.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0020-02465/4639299-1-eng-US/f0020-022.jpg" title="f0020-02" width="972" height="1455"><figcaption class="caption-body">Edmonton Oiler Glenn Anderson, left, and Winnipeg Jet Paul MacLean, right, are two of the top players who graduated from Canada&rsquo;s 1980 Olympic hockey team.</figcaption></div>KEVIN MAXWELL&mdash;Maxwell, the team&rsquo;s leading scorer, its most popular player and its highest NHL draft choice, has bounced around a lot in his professional career. Maxwell had a spinal fusion when he was 15, the result of a lacrosse injury, and this has troubled him ever since. He signed with Minnesota after the Olympics and joined the North Stars for the final six games of the 1980-81 regular season and for 16 playoff games. He was sold to Colorado in December of 1981 and has had minor-league stops in Oklahoma City, Nashville, Wichita and now Maine.JOHN DEVANEY&mdash;Devaney was one-third of the team&rsquo;s University of Alberta line, centering Dave Hindmarch and Kevin Primeau. Devaney played one season for the Davos team in Switzerland before returning home to finish school. Currently, he&rsquo;s working for an accounting firm in Edmonton.DAVE HINDMARCH&mdash;Hindmarch, a sixth-round pick of the Atlanta Flames in 1978, did not get a real shot at the pro game until Bob Johnson took over as coach of the team in 1982. After shuffling between Birmingham, Rochester and Oklahoma City, Hindmarch made the Flames last season as a defensive specialist and is now in his second season with the club.KEVIN PRIMEAU&mdash;Primeau played a year for Davos, then signed with the Vancouver Canucks and spent a season with their Dallas farm club. He returned to Davos last year as a playercoach. This year, he signed an AHL contract with Winnipeg and is with their farm team in Sherbrooke.RON DAVIDSON&mdash;Davidson returned to Queen&rsquo;s University to complete his law studies following the Olympics. He then played a season for the Swedish club team Vastra Frolunda before trying out for the 1984 Olympic team. When Davidson did not make it, he went home to complete his articling year.JIM NILL&mdash;Nill played most of one season with Salt Lake City and most of another with St. Louis Blues before joining the Vancouver Canucks in the trade for goaltender Glen Hanlon. Nill has been with the club ever since.PAUL MACLEAN&mdash;MacLean also turned pro with the Blues and was also traded away. In his case, he went to Winnipeg in the deal for defenseman Scott Campbell. MacLean has scored 21 goals regularly for the Jets ever since, mostly as Dale Hawer-chuk&rsquo;s right winger.DAN D&rsquo;ALVISE&mdash;D&rsquo;Alvise returned to the University of Toronto to finish his economics degree, then played two seasons with the Narano team in Italy. Although D&rsquo;Alvise had a year remaining on his contract, he elected not to go back to Italy this year and instead took a management position with a manufacturing firm in Toronto.STELIO ZUPANCICH&mdash;Zupancich played three years for the University of Toronto following the Games. In his final year, he was all-Canadian. Zupancich returned and almost made the 1984 Olympic team. He did not get cut until after the current Olympic team discovered the new eligibility rules and recruited a number of additional forwards.BRAD PIRIE&mdash;Pirie&rsquo;s versatility secured him the final spot on the Olympic team. He spent the season as Grant&rsquo;s defense partner, but was moved to forward when Terry O&rsquo;Malley joined the team. He edged out Shane Pearsall for the final spot on the team just days before the Olympics began. Pirie now works for his father in North York and plays in a local senior league.SHANE PEARSALL, CARY FARELL1, DOUG BUCHANAN, ROGER LAMOUREUX&mdash;The four lived, trained and played with the team all season long, but were not on the final 20-man roster submitted to the IOC in Lake Placid. Pearsall, a forward in 1980, tried out as a defenseman in 1984, but failed to make the team. Farelli is in his second year with Varese in Italy after spending the previous two years with Merano. Buchanan spent one winter in China, helping to coach that country&rsquo;s national hockey team and now is studying law in Vancouver. Lamoureux is out of hockey and living in his hometown of Calgary. &#9632;

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WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

<div class="byline">BY MIKE MILO</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0021-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0021-01503/4639337-1-eng-US/f0021-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">This trio of 1980 U.S. Olympians exemplifies the different routes the players have taken. Mike Eruzione, left, used the Olympics to launch a successful business career for himself, Jim Craig, center, has struggled in an ill-fated pro career and is now in the minors while Ken Morrow has four Stanley Cup rings to show.</figcaption></div>You were meant to be here,&rdquo; Herb Brooks told a destined group of young American hockey players of varying backgrounds and abilities in February, 1980. After Bill Baker&rsquo;s miraculous last-minute tying goal with his goalie pulled in Game One against Sweden, a rude beating of Czechoslovakia and three more wins, those players beat the Soviets and Finns to meet their destiny.From that point in time, during which their lives were joined together forever, the group split up and its members went their separate ways.Most of those players played the best hockey of their lives during those 12 days at Lake Placid. Some have maintained successful hockey careers; others have gotten far out of the public spotlight.HERB BROOKS, NEAL BROTEN, KEN MORROW, MARK PAVELICH, MARK JOHNSON and MIKE ERUZIONE are still recognized figures, despite recently assembling in New York to film an American Express commercial.Brooks (with 1980 assistant coach CRAIG PATRICK) is in New York, molding a hockey team to his form. Some people in Minnesota dream about Herb coming to coach the North Stars. Brooks&rsquo; family remains in the Twin Cities while Herb lives in a hotel in New York.Brooks has taken his place among the NHL&rsquo;s very best coaches. His directness has led to several interesting, on-going verbal feuds with coaching adversaries. He has already and will probably continue to leave his mark on the sport.Ken Morrow, Pavelich, Broten and Johnson, along with DAVID CHRISTIAN, MIKE RAMSEY and JACK O&rsquo;CAL-LAHAN, are now established players in the NHL.Morrow&rsquo;s next NHL season without a Stanley Cup will be his first. The prototype defensive defenseman has four Stanley Cup rings and a gold medal to show for the last four years. A fifth ring could make him look like Mr. T.Mark Pavelich and Broten continue to amaze with their great skills, three years into their NHL careers. Pavelich played in Switzerland the season after the Olympics (with former UM-Duluth linemate and Olympian JOHN HARRINGTON), before getting a chance in New York in the fall of 1981. Broten returned to the U. of Minnesotain 1980-81 for a college season that earned him the first Hobey Baker Award as best college hockey player in America. He ended that season by helping spark the North Stars to the Cup finals.Mike Ramsey is the overshadowed but not outshone star of the Buffalo defense. Mark Johnson has earned the captaincy of Hart-ford, David Christian is the former Winnipeg captain who became a key off-season acquisition for Washington and O&rsquo;Callahan, after going through waivers last season, earned himself a protected spot on the Chicago blueline this season.Harrington and PHIL VERCHOTA (who played in Finland in 1980-81) are members of Team USA, going for another Olympic go-round. European hockey and their appearances with U.S. National Teams over the years since 1980 have kept their hockey skills at a top level. In fact, both are admittedly better hockey players in 1984 than they were in 1980.BUZZ SCHNEIDER tried for Team USA, but back problems knocked him out. He is now back at the U or M finishing his degree. ERIC STROBEL, who played in Minneapolis the last two years, is also back in the U of M community, bartending and attending classes.STEVE CHRISTOFF blazed onto the North Star scene after the Olympics (eight goals, four assists in 14 playoff games), scored 26 goals each of the next two seasons (eight goals, eight assists in 18 games the next playoff season), then was traded to Calgary for Willi Plett. Lou Nanne brought Steve &ldquo;home&rdquo; this past summer and quickly decided to dispatch him to L.A.Nanne also brought in JIM CRAIG from Salt Lake City of the Central Hockey League to halt his Stars&rsquo; early-season slide, but Dave Christian welcomed Craig back to the NHL by scoring on the game&rsquo;s first shot. The Caps iced him and after two periods the goalie was returned to Salt Lake. For the goalie who doesn&rsquo;t like to travel, Utah is the fifth pro hockey sticker on his suitcase in four years.DAVE SILK never cut it with Brooks&rsquo; Rangers, was moved to his hometown Boston last summer, and has just been promoted to the parent team from their minor-league affiliate in Hershey.Craig&rsquo;s Olympic understudy, Steve Janaszak, has played in three NHL games and 126 minor-league contests for five different teams.ROB McCLANAHAN teamed with Anders Hedberg and Pavelich to spearhead the Rangers&rsquo; Smurf attack in the &lsquo;83 playoffs against the Flyers. Surprisingly, McClanahan was demoted to the Rangers&rsquo; minor-league affiliate in Tulsa at the beginning of the season, but recently he&rsquo;s been been promoted to the parent team.BILL BAKER played for several NHL teams since turning pro four years ago, but he&rsquo;s now playing in Tulsa.Eruzione has been a high-profile personality since scoring the goal that beat the Russians. His chubby cheeks have been seen on New York Ranger cable broadcasts. New Jersey Devils&rsquo; broadcasts and commercials for a huge company&rsquo;s sports vitamin product.BOB SUTER operates Gold Medal Sports in Madison, WI.MARK WELLS tried pro hockey briefly, but has gotten the farthest from the public spotlight of any of the 1980 Olympians. M.W., phone home! &#9632;

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HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE…

<div class="byline">BY RICK SADOWSKI</div>LOS ANGELES&mdash;Ssshhh. Don&rsquo;t repeat this too loudly in Philadelphia, but the Kings are actually beginning to enjoy their infrequent visits to the City of Brotherly Love.Talk about changing times.This is one stop the Kings would have been very happy to pass up in recent seasons, until last Feb. 13 when they ended a 32-game winless streak at the hands of their biggest tormentors, an embarrassing run that lasted eight years, four months and three days.Getting a four-goal, five-point performance from a surprising source&mdash;rookie left winger Brian MacLellan&mdash;in early November, the Kings ran their winning streak against the Flyers to two with a 6-5 victory.Will wonders never cease?Even more important, Don Perry&rsquo;s troops showed signs they may be capable of playing at a respectable level on the road, where they&rsquo;ve been just awful the past two seasons.The victory in Philadelphia&mdash;the Kings&rsquo; first of the year on the road&mdash;gave them a 1-1-2 record through the first four games of a monster six-game, 10-day excursion through the east. It was the longest and most difficult trip they&rsquo;ll experience this season.A.500 record may not seem like much to most folks, but consider this: the Kings managed to scrape up a mere 12 wins in 80 games on the road the previous two years.The victory over the Flyers, in fact, snapped a 17-game winless streak (0-134) on the road dating back to Feb. 17 of last season. For history buffs, the Kings&rsquo; most recent win outside Los Angeles had been a 5-2 decision in Hartford on Feb. 15. Ironically, that came two nights after putting their miserable streak against the Flyers to rest.But back to Maclellan, a 25-year-old native of Guelph, Ont., who is getting his first real taste of the National Hockey League after being signed as a free agent off the Bowling Green (Ohio) University campus in 1982.Perry has always liked his size&mdash;Mac-Lellan is 6-foot-3, 212 pounds&mdash;and is now developing into an offensive threat. MacLellan&rsquo;s five-point night and his first hat trick since his freshman year at Bowling Green gave him seven goals and six assists in only 10 games.Perry is so confident of MacLellan&rsquo;s ability he&rsquo;s been using the big winger on a line with Bernie Nicholls and Jim Fox, the Kings&rsquo; most productive in the early going.&ldquo;I sure didn&rsquo;t expect a night like this,&rdquo; said MacLellan, an 11-goal scorer in 17 games with New Haven a year ago and a fellow who collected only 64 goals&mdash;34 as a freshman&mdash;in 160 games during his college career.&ldquo;I came here in awe of the Spectrum,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Personally, I feel fantastic. Once you get on a roll, you hope things will start going your way.&rdquo;Said Perry: &ldquo;There are very few games in which he hasn&rsquo;t played well. He has a good shot and he&rsquo;s smart. I&rsquo;m sure he&rsquo;ll have nights like this a few more times in his career.&rdquo;In all, Nicholls&rsquo; line&mdash;on this night it was MacLellan&rsquo;s&mdash;accounted for five goals and five assists. Nicholls had three of the assists to give him 11 goals and 25 points through the first 13 games. Fox added one each, giving him eight goals and 17 points.&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got a big comerman in myself,&rdquo; MacLellan said, &ldquo;a shooter in Jimmy and a center who likes to move the puck around a lot in Bernie. It makes for very good chemistry.&rdquo;Speaking of blends, Marcel Dionne&rsquo;s line also was playing splendidly, even without Dave Taylor. Dionne, Charlie Simmer and Ken Houston&mdash;talk about a valuable addition&mdash;collected 17 goals and 28 assists as the Kings climbed out of the Smythe Division cellar and, just maybe, were headed for better things. Things did get better when Taylor, his broken wrist apparently healed, finally returned to the lineup on Nov. 11 and scored two goals to lead a victory over the St. Louis Blues.Not that the club was without its problems. While Mike Blake was putting together a four-game unbeaten streak and giving a very good account of himself in goal, Mario Lessard was experiencing very difficult times.Five weeks into the season, the onetime all-star&mdash;that seems so long ago&mdash;was still searching for his first NHL victory since last Jan. 20.Lessard went the distance in an 8-5 loss to Hartford and then was shelled in his next start, giving up six goals in only one period in Quebec, before being mercifully pulled by Rogie Vachon, a first for the goaltending coach.Shortly after, the Kings dispatched Lessard to New Haven and promoted Gary Laskoski.Meanwhile, Doug Smith, who has asked to be traded because he isn&rsquo;t being used at center, finally notched his first point of the year&hellip;at right wing, naturally. &#9632;

Kinqs Acquire That Brotherly Love Feeling

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0022-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-01566/4639399-1-eng-US/f0022-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">(Photo by Bruce Bennett)</figcaption></div>The Minnesota North Stars, now that they&rsquo;ve decided to do what they do best (scoring), are skating back into contention in the Norris Division and one of their most dangerous weapons is winger Dino Ciccarelli.The Sarnia, Ont., native scored six goals and added an assist to lead the Stars to two victories for the week ending Nov. 13 and that effort earned him HOCKEY NEWS&rsquo; Player-of-the-Week honors. He has scored 11 goals in his last five games and his line (Neal Broten and Tom McCarthy) has lifted the Stars out of the doldrums.Cicarelli&rsquo;s hat trick against the Chicago Blacks was his ninth as a North Star and it broke Bill Goldsworthy&rsquo;s long-standing mark of eight. Ciccarelli took only four seasons to do what Goldsworth did in 10.<h2>Did You Know&hellip;. BY BOB DUFF</h2>that the NHL players with the longest careers spent with only one team were:<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0022-02426/4639392-1-eng-US/f0022-022.jpg" title="f0022-02" width="1202" height="874"></div> &#9632;

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Player Of The Week

<div class="byline">BY ERIC DUHATSCHEK</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0024-01546/4639430-1-eng-US/f0024-012.jpg" title="f0024-01" width="276" height="196"></div>Louisville HockeyCALGARY&mdash;The matter came up at a It me when the hockey club was way own.The Flames, starting the season with light of their first nine games on the road. Imped home from their extended early-leason road trip to face a new building and 16,764 demanding fans.Coach Bob Johnson was worried, low long would it take. Johnson wonered, before the Flames could call the Olympic Saddledome home?The answer? Not long.The Flames came home on a three-Bune losing streak and tied for last place the Smythe Division. Twelve days la-or, they left for the next road trip in seccond place, with a.500 record and on a five-game unbeaten string.None of the victories were classics, but all of them counted in the standings. And Johnson is nothing if not a bottom line coach these days.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re over that growing-into-the-building period,&rsquo;&rsquo; said defenseman Mickey Volcan. &ldquo;The electricity of the new building has settled down. It&rsquo;s our bam now. We&rsquo;ve got to go out and produce.&rdquo;&ldquo;There would be no excuses now,&rdquo; added Dave Hindmarch. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s up to us to go out and work hard. It&rsquo;s not the building that&rsquo;s going to win games for us.&rdquo;Johnson was not as convinced that the team had completed the adjustment from the small Stampede Corral to the new Saddledome, but thought &ldquo;it was starting to come. The last game against Toronto, I felt comfortable down on the bench for the first time. 1 could sense the players were beginning to feel that too.&rdquo;Johnson was the first to admit the Flames took advantage of a comparatively easy schedule (Vancouver, Winnipeg, St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Toronto) to compile the 4-0-1 mark. On the other hand, he also thought the team&rsquo;s luck had to even out. On the road, the Flames played well and came away with almost nothing. At home, they played fair and came away with almost everything. The books, in Johnson&rsquo;s mind, were balanced.What made the homestand particularly satisfying was the way the supporting cast came through. Kent Nilsson, bothered by a lingering back injury, was a spot forward. Lanny McDonald, affected by a litany of injuries the length of his arm, played gamely in the face of adversity. Against the Leafs, McDonald, Nilsson and Steve Tambellini were the fourth line.In addition, Kari Eloranta missed a game because of a groin injury. Mike Eaves played with a cast on his wrist to protect a tendon injury, but could not take faceoffs. Jamie Macoun took a puck in the eye in practice and was expected to spend a week in hospital and two weeks on the sidelines.That brought the team&rsquo;s nominal checking line&mdash;an all-star collection that features Doug Risebrough, Colin Patterson and Dave Hindmarch&mdash;to the fore.&ldquo;If you said Risebrough. Patterson and Hindmarch were the outstanding players on the club, someone would say, &lsquo;No, way,&rdquo;commented Johnson. &ldquo;But they were outstanding against the Leafs and outstanding on the homestand.&ldquo;Patterson plays every shift like it was his last. That&rsquo;s the way he has to play to stay in the league. To me, he&rsquo;s a Risebrough playing the wing and I love him that way.&rdquo;Patterson, a Clarkson college student who signed with the Flames as a free agent last spring, agreed with Johnson.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s right,&rdquo; said Patterson. &ldquo;Every shift could be my last. I&rsquo;m aware there&rsquo;s a lot of guys waiting on sidelines for a chance.&ldquo;When I first signed with Calgary, the thing I asked for was a chance to play in the NHL. If I wasn&rsquo;t good enough, fine, but I wanted a chance.&rdquo; &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been working hard, but nothing was clicking,&rdquo; said Risebrough. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve been designated to watch certain lines, but among ourselves, we said we could also contribute offensively. We should get better if we play together.&rdquo; &#9632;

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Flames Starting To Feel At Home In Dome

<div class="byline">BY TONY GALLAGHER</div>cause the games are more wide open these days and I&rsquo;ve had more opportunity with Vancouver to play in more offensive situations,&rdquo; Rota said. &ldquo;In Chicago, the power play was usually something I watched.&rdquo;Rota plays at the lighter weight to increase his speed but he claims it hasn&rsquo;t hurt his performance in the corners. Working with Gradin is also a huge asset, despite Rota&rsquo;s playing on left wing of a left-handed center. Gradin is so deft on his backhand, it&rsquo;s almost the preferable side.&ldquo;Thomas and Stan are both unselfish players&mdash;great passers and hard workers,&rdquo; Rota said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a pleasure playing with them.&rdquo;Rota&rsquo;s reduction in weight didn&rsquo;t exactly come as brilliant planning or insight into the changing game. It was an accident.&ldquo;Just before I was traded to Atlanta in March of 1979 I had lost about 13 pounds to 182 while recovering from blood poisoning and I got over a point a game for the Flames the rest of the season,&rdquo; Rota said.He was back at 195 the next season and totalled just 29 points in 70 games, having been traded to Vancouver with Ivan Boldirev for Don Lever and Brad Smith in February of &lsquo;80. After the next two seasons in which he was injured and found himself performing well while underweight after recovery periods, he decided to keep his weight down.&ldquo;After the playoff, when we made it to the Cup final, I decided to keep the weight off,&rdquo; Rota said. &ldquo;It was easy. I just passed on second helpings and dessert.&rdquo;Another more recent boon to Rota has been contact lenses.&ldquo;I only found out I needed them in the medicals when (trainer) Larry Ashley was giving me the chart test,&rdquo; Rota said. &ldquo;He figured I was blind. I thought the other end of the rink looked blurry to everybody. I don&rsquo;t get headaches or eye strain anymore and I don&rsquo;t have to squint to read or see things clearly in the distance. It&rsquo;s been a big help.&rdquo;Perhaps Rota, after all these years, may even see clear enough to admit he&rsquo;s a goal scorer. &#9632;

Rota’s Eyeing Opposing Net

<div class="byline">BY VARTAN KUPELIAN</div>DETROIT&mdash;Ron Duguay&rsquo;s first month in Detroit ended with a flourish&mdash;a three-goal hat trick for the right winger and a sixth straight victory for the Red Wings.Repeat: six straight victories.It&rsquo;s the first time in 10 years that the Wings have accomplished such a feat and among the catalysts in the surge was Duguay, the former New York Ranger who was acquired in the summer&rsquo;s big trade.Right from the start, Duguay has been a marvelous addition to the Wings but until the 7-4 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks that extended the winning streak to six, the goals had been few.&ldquo;Just keep working and they&rsquo;ll come, that&rsquo;s what I kept telling myself,&rdquo; Duguay said. &ldquo;I really had a good feeling tonight. I thought, &lsquo;Tonight&rsquo;s the night.&rsquo;&rdquo;It was.Duguay notched a hat trick and rookie linemate Steve Yzerman added two more as the Wings romped.&rdquo;This is great, fantastic&hellip;it&rsquo;s a dream being here,&rdquo; Duguay said. &ldquo;The atmosphere is great and the fans are so supportive and encouraging. When Bob Manno scored that goal and they gave us the standing ovation, it sent a chill through me. It sent a chill through everybody on the bench.&rdquo;For his part, Duguay has been sending a chill of anticipation through Red Wing fans every time he steps foot on the Joe Louis Arena ice. He stretched his personal scoring streak to nine games with a three-point night in a 5-3 loss to Minnesota. His 21 points, including six goals, led the Wings through 14 games and he teamed with Yzerman and John Ogrod-nick to give Detroit its most potent offensive unit.&ldquo;Detroit is working extremely hard and getting results,&rdquo; said Chicago coach Orval Tessier. &ldquo;When you play like that, you win. They&rsquo;ve added some class hockey players&hellip;Park, Duguay, Mio. Park steadies &lsquo;em and Duguay is an extra fine hockey player. Last year they had the kids in goal and while they (Greg Stefan and Corrado Micalef) are going to be good goalies some day, Mio is a proven veteran. They have a nucleus of a fine team.&rdquo;The winning streak ended with a pair of 3-2 losses to Vancouver and Washington and a 5-3 setback (including Pino Ciccarelli&rsquo;s third goal of the night into a empty net) to Minnesota.Translation: The Wings were still playing hard but lacked that little bit of extra talent to get the job done on a consistent basis.The North Stars extended their dominance over the Wings to 14 games&mdash;12 victories and two ties&mdash;over three seasons. The Wings have only one victory in 20 tries against Minnesota. The Wings, leading 1-0 on Brad Park&rsquo;s goal, fell behind 4-1 before making it interesting for a little while in the third period when John Ogrodnick and Steve Yzerman scored to cut the deficit to one goal.&ldquo;It was the second period,&rdquo; said coach Nick Polano. &ldquo;We were very tentative&hellip;from the time the puck was dropped in the second period. We had to play catch-up after that.&rdquo;Duguay assisted on all the Detroit goals and Park added two assists to his goal.&ldquo;A team like Minnesota has so much talent that you can&rsquo;t let them off the hook like we did after leading 1-0,&rdquo; Polano said. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t allow them to free wheel and skate.&rdquo;Polano said he&rsquo;s only mildly concerned about the lack of balanced scoring.&ldquo;It always concerns you when you&rsquo;re only getting production from one line,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But I still think the Kelly Kisio line (with Ivan Boldirev and Ed Johnstone) is going to be a good line. They are three good players, all capable of scoring goals.&ldquo;The Dwight Foster line was going good, checking and picking up the odd goal, before Danny Gare got hurt. We don&rsquo;t have the kind of depth where we can afford to have guys out of the lineup with injuries.&rdquo;Gare, the Wings&rsquo; captain, was sidelined with a bruised chest and defenseman Reed Larson sat out with a groin injury. They joined defenseman Colin Campbell (shoulder separation) on the injured list.WING NOTES&mdash;Right winger Jody Gage was called up from Adirondack to replace Danny Gare and Wing coach Nick Polano shifted Bob Manno, who had been playing regularly at left wing alongside Dwight Foster and Gare, back to defense to fill in for Reed Larson. &#9632;

Duguay’s Living ‘Dream’

<div class="byline">BY RANDY SMITH</div>HARTFORD&mdash;Here were the Whalers, those heretofore lowliest of National Hockey League creatures, standing at.500 after 15 games and guess what? No one had even thought about taking a bow.&ldquo;Our goals-against are down and our record is quite respectable,&rdquo; coach Jack Evans said. &ldquo;Winning is very gratifying for the boys.&rdquo;But what of the coach who had his team at 7-7-1 and tied for third place in the Adams Division, a position that in the past had been promised only at corporate luncheons? Isn&rsquo;t winning gratifying for him? Doesn&rsquo;t he get excited?&ldquo;Oh, yes,&rdquo; Evans deadpanned. &ldquo;Didn&rsquo;t you see me dancing behind the bench?&rdquo;This is a curious group of Whalers with a curious coach who together have produced some curious results. They&rsquo;ve begun to act strangely&mdash;as if playing competitive hockey and actually winning is what they get paid for.&ldquo;The whole key is attitude,&rdquo; captain Mark Johnson said. &ldquo;Last year if we got down, say, two goals, everyone would be shaking their heads and pointing fingers. This year we&rsquo;ve been rolling up our sleeves and going to work.&rdquo;Slowly but surely the word has begun to spread: The Whale is not a cupcake anymore.Bob McCammon, the Flyers&rsquo; general manager-coach, became convinced after his troops struggled to post a 4-2 win over the Whalers at the Spectrum, a longtime graveyard for the Hartford entry.&ldquo;I had a vision about a month ago that Hartford would beat out Montreal for the playoffs,&rdquo; McCammon said. &ldquo;You can ask my assistants. I don&rsquo;t know if they will, but they&rsquo;ve changed personnel and the discipline they&rsquo;re showing on the ice is the best I&rsquo;ve seen from a Hartford team. Their defense is improved, they&rsquo;ve got the good goaltending, and if they check like they did against us, they&rsquo;re going to make life miserable for a lot of teams.&rdquo;McCammon then hedged, but only slightly.&ldquo;Whether they can do that all year, I don&rsquo;t know,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But if they continue to play like this, they&rsquo;ll beat plenty of teams.&rdquo;An influx of new players explains in part the Whalers&rsquo; turnaround.Mike Zuke and Mike Crombeen are heady types who excel at penalty-killing. Normand Dupont and Bobby Crawford can find the net, while Greg Malone has provided some much-needed glue at center ice. Durable and feisty, Malone has taken considerable pressure off Ronnie Francis and Johnson, the team&rsquo;s top two centers. Torrie Robertson is a banger.On defense, Joel Quenneville, Richie Dunn and Marty Howe have added the kind of experience that often leads to winning hockey.No. 1 draft pick Sylvain Turgeon is a player, period. Pass it on.But the returnees have helped, too, as in, a lot.&ldquo;People forget that there&rsquo;s a bunch of us&mdash;Ronnie Francis, Neufeld, Dougie Sulliman, myself, even Millen&mdash;who have only played three to five years in this league,&rdquo; defenseman Chris Kotso-poulos said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve learned as we&rsquo;ve gone along. We&rsquo;re getting better.&rdquo;Kotsopoulos has anchored a defense that features the offensive thrusts of Risto Siltanen and some renewed physical work by Ed Hospodar.Greg Millen, of course, remains vital to the Whalers&rsquo; projected rise from the ashes. He was in net for six of the Whalers&rsquo; first seven wins.&ldquo;This is fun,&rdquo; Millen said. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a lot different than last year. We&rsquo;ve been battling and in the end we&rsquo;ve been rewarded for our battling.&rdquo;&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve got different players,&rdquo; Hospodar said. &ldquo;Players who won&rsquo;t throw in the towel.&rdquo;Behind the Whalers&rsquo; fine start remain Evans, the 55-year-old father figure who evokes considerable loyalty from his troops without half-trying, it seems, and Emile (The Cat) Francis, the no-nonsense GM-president, who is never more than a long slapshot away from his boys.They have brought to Hartford a strong sense of professionalism and the kind of credibility that must be earned, not bought. The response of the boys to their lead thus far has been encouraging, to say the least.WHALER SCUTTLEBUTT&mdash;Doug Sulliman (groin), Marty Howe (30 stitches in left elbow) and Mike Crombeen (back) were sidelined, while rookies Mark Paterson, up from Ottawa of the OHL, and Paul MacDermid, up from Binghamton, were summoned to fill in. Paterson is a defenseman, while MacDermid is a right winger&hellip;Of Sylvain Turgeon&rsquo;s first seven goals, six came on the power play&hellip;The Whalers&rsquo; penalty-killling unit has been ranked among the league&rsquo;s top five almost from the start and in one stretch, went six straight games without giving up a power-play goal&hellip;The Whalers are 1-4-1 against Adams Division rivals and 6-3-0 against all others. &#9632;

Winning Whalers Get Humble In Hartford

<div class="byline">BY STAN FISCHLER</div>The Penguins are launching a major lobbying effort to alter the National Hockey League&rsquo;s drafting system so that non-playoff clubs get a better crack at junior talent. Penguin owner Edward J. DeBartolo, Sr. and club veep Paul Martha want an annual extra draft for the five non-playoff clubs. They&rsquo;d pick first and then the low-five would pick immediately again before the other 16 playoff teams began drafting. They&rsquo;re also angling for a more liberal waiver draft with 13 or 15 skaters protected plus two goalies, as opposed to the present system where 17 skaters and two goalies are protected. Martha hinted that failure to obtain competitive parity would jeopardize NHL hockey in Pittsburgh, Hartford, St. Louis and Los Angeles. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve written a memo to the league on the subject,&rsquo;&rsquo; Martha tells BLUELINES, &ldquo;and the league has established a competition committee.&rdquo; He worries, though, that the league will move too slowly on this critical matter. &ldquo;If the league doesn&rsquo;t make changes we&rsquo;ll continue to lose money and it will be difficult to maintain the NHL in the United States.&rdquo; The sense in Pittsburgh is that DeBartolo, whose corporation&rsquo;s assets have been conservatively estimated at three quarters of a billion dollars, is more disenchanted with the NHL hierarchy and its refusal to recognize parity problems, than it is with the city of Pittsburgh or Penguin fans.Vince Abbey&rsquo;s (Seattle Totems) anti-trust suit against the NHL is expected to drag through mid-December. &ldquo;The NHL folks don&rsquo;t want to talk about the ramifications of the case,&rdquo; writes Archie McDonald of The Vancouver Sun, &ldquo;but their hands get sweaty thinking about it.&rdquo; An amicable settlement of the case, it that&rsquo;s possible, could enhance Seattle&rsquo;s future as an NHL site&hellip;The Canadian Olympic team asked New York Islander minor leaguer Kevin Devine to play for Team Canada, but Devine refused. &ldquo;He said he was afraid of going to the Olympics, coming back and finding someone had taken his place in the organization,&rdquo; says Isles&rsquo; boss Bill Torrey&hellip;Pat Quinn&rsquo;s name surfaced in Edmonton, where it&rsquo;s reported that he&rsquo;ll be heading for the Devils as Billy MacMillan&rsquo;s replacement. All sources in New Jersey refute this rumor&hellip;If a move is made on the Kings&rsquo; coaching front, Rogie Vachon is presumed to be the potential successor to Don Perry&hellip;Bill Hunter tells BLUELINES that his &ldquo;realistic&rdquo; guesstimate has Saskatoon in the NHL next season. Hunter adds that prudence demands he not make any details public&hellip;Harry Ornest filed a protest against the Oilers and Flames for cancelling preseason exhibition dates with his Blues. The NHL still has not resolved the matter&hellip;Former Islander Jean Potvin, now a stockbroker, is plunging into the agent business. His first client is goalie Roland Melanson. Asked what it&rsquo;s like to go head-to-head with his ex-boss, Bill Toney, Potvin says, &ldquo;Bill was very classy.&rdquo;&hellip;Derek Sanderson appears to have agreed upon an accomplished ghost-writer (Joe Fitzgerald of the Boston Herald American) to handle his potentially best-selling autobiography (part two). But Sanderson continues telling other reporters he wants to write it himself&hellip;Quebec and Ontario junior leagues have approached Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer Mike Pelletier about counselling teenage stickhandlers on drug abuse. Pelletier has worked with NHLers. Wayne Gretzky (Canada) and Rod Langway (United States) will spearhead new anti-drug campaign shortly&hellip;Insiders report that the Rangers are trying to pry Patrik Sundstrom from the Canucks to team him up with his twin, Peter, on Broadway.Boston agent Steve Freyer challenges NHL players&rsquo; union boss Al Eagleson on his failure to push for revelation of skaters&rsquo; salaries as done in baseball and football. Freyer says Eagleson&rsquo;s claim that many players object to it&mdash;hil Russell of the Devils is one mentioned&mdash;is applesauce. &ldquo;Russell is being selfish,&rdquo; Freyer tells BLUELINES. &ldquo;By not making the salaries public, the third-and fourth-line skaters are hurt. As for Eagleson, I have great respect for his political acumen. If he applies his political skills to the issue he could get the data open to the players.&rdquo; Freyer says release of salary data would hurt the top three agents, including Eagleson, &ldquo;&hellip;and that&rsquo;s why Alan isn&rsquo;t really pushing the issue.&rdquo; Eagleson replies: &ldquo;Mr. Freyer doesn&rsquo;t know what he&rsquo;s talking about. At the NHLPA meetings in June, I recommended that the union should get exact salary figures from the owners, even if it meant going to court. The player rep vote went like this: four in favor and 20 against. My job is to follow the decisions of my employers. To suggest that my motives were improper is hogwash. I am surprised at his comments because we have always co-operated with Mr. Freyer. &ldquo;&hellip;Fans in Los Angeles remain uncertain about Jerry Buss&rsquo; plans for the Kings. This is supposedly the year of decision vis-a-vis his hockey club&hellip;The feeling within the Bruin dressing room is that Randy Hillier belongs on the squad over Gord Kluzak, but Hillier can&rsquo;t crack the lineup. Beantown insiders say the Bruins wouldn&rsquo;t mind dealing for either Mark Napier or Dennis Maruk.The Bruins&rsquo; Terry O&rsquo;Reilly on the Tom Lysiak affair: &ldquo;What I did was wrong (belting referee Andy Van Hellemond) and I deserved a suspension. What Tom did was wrong. He deserves a suspension. I think, though, that intent-to-injure incidents deserve much stiffer penalties than abuse-of-the-officials. The emphasis on penalizing is in the wrong place. &ldquo; &#9632;

BLUELINES

<div class="byline">BY WALT MacPEEK</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0026-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0026-01497/4639557-1-eng-US/f0026-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Glenn (Chico) Resch turned in a 43-save performance against Chicago to end the Devils&rsquo; 10-game losing streak.</figcaption></div>EAST RUTHERFORD&mdash;What a relief! It was as if the parachute had finally sprung open about a foot off the ground.It was Glenn Resch who finally untangled the rip cord. The little goalie prevented a thud that would have been heard all the way to Kansas City.The Devils were falling, falling&hellip;and, eventually, there would have been some casualties if the team had not snapped a 10-game losing streak on Nov. 6.&ldquo;Thank goodness,&rdquo; a relieved Devil GM-coach Billy MacMillan exclaimed after his team landed safely with a 6-3 triumph over the Chicago Black Hawks at the Meadowlands Arena.&ldquo;Sooner or later,&rdquo; MacMillan said, &ldquo;it was bound to happen. It&rsquo;ll get better-&hellip;it really will.&rdquo;Although the Devils were ovetjoyed to win for the first time in seven games at home and for only the second time all season overall, they realized that Resch had virtually &ldquo;stolen&rdquo; two points with a 43-save performance.&ldquo;Chico was just unreal,&rdquo; declared New Jersey defenseman Joe Cirella, who scored his first goal in a Devil uniform early in the third period to short-circuit a Black Hawk rally.Leading by a 4-0 margin, the Devils had yielded three Chicago goals in a span of 51 seconds during the 14th minute of the second period.Chicago&rsquo;s brilliant center, Denis Savard, scored two of them but was still very much impressed with Resch&rsquo;s performance, which included 17 stops of power-play shots by the Black Hawks.&ldquo;That&rsquo;s the best goaltending I&rsquo;ve seen since I&rsquo;ve been in the league,&rdquo; declared Savard, a four-year veteran.The Devils were outshot, 24-6, in that second period and 46-29 for the evening but Resch deflected the praise to his teammates.&lsquo;You&rsquo;ve got to hand it to these guys,&rdquo; Chico insisted. &ldquo;The first 10 minutes of the third period was the whole key to the game. If we get blitzed in the first 10 minutes, we lose the game. But we held them to three shots and got that goal from Cirella.&rdquo;Amazingly, Resch was not selected as one of the first three stars by the New Jersey minor officials who are given that task.There was no doubt in Billy MacMillan&rsquo;s mind that Resch was the star of the evening, however.&ldquo;This was such an important victory for everyone, starting with Chico,&rdquo; MacMillan stressed. &ldquo;He was excellent, really involved and determined.&ldquo;That game was important to him,&rdquo; MacMillan continued, making the point that even an established veteran needs success to boost his confidence. &ldquo;Chico hadn&rsquo;t won this season (0-8) and he has his pride, too.&rdquo;Dave Lewis, Mel Bridgman, Paul Gagne, Aaron Broten, Cirella and Don Lever (into an open net) scored for the Devils, who were aided by a so-so performance in goal by Chicago&rsquo;s Tony Esposito.HOT STUFF&mdash;An after-the-whistle shove by Hartford&rsquo;s Ed Hospodar put the Devils&rsquo; prize rookie defenseman, Ken Daneyko, out for three months with a broken leg, just above the ankle&hellip;A new line of Gary McAdam, Rick Meagher and Mike Antonovich, which had just been called up from Maine, produced two goals against the Whalers (both by McAdam) but it wasn&rsquo;t enough to avoid a 5-4 setback&hellip;In an effort to get the club rolling, Billy MacMillan has benched just about everybody, including his younger brother, Bobby, captain Don Lever and last year&rsquo;s Devil all-star game representative, Hector Marini&hellip;Aaron Broten and Mel Bridgman are beginning to come alive after painfully slow starts&hellip;For the first time in 12games, the Devils didn&rsquo;t allow a power play goal when they defeated Chicago. &#9632;

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Resch’s Goalie Heroics Stops The Devils’ Skid

<div class="byline">BY CHUCK MOODY</div>PITTSBURGH&mdash;Can Flocky Hockey bring fans back to the Civic Arena? The Penguins believe Ron Flockhart, whose colorful, flamboyant style of play coined the term, can.&ldquo;Flockhart is the fastest, most exciting player we&rsquo;ve ever had,&rdquo; said Penguin general manager Eddie Johnston, who constructed the trade which brought Flockhart to Pittsburgh with Mark Taylor and Andy Brickley and sent Rich Sutter to Philadelphia, plus an exchange of draft choices. &ldquo;We need to prove to the people of Pittsburgh that we&rsquo;re serious about building a great team as soon as possible. It takes bringing in exciting and talented players like Flockhart to do that. We&rsquo;re doing all we can to bring the fans back. &ldquo;The Penguins drew 50,091 fans to their first seven home games, an average of 7,156 per game. The fact that the club lost all seven to establish a record for consecutive losses on home ice contributed to the poor attendance.Flockhart, 23, scored 29 goals and added 31 assists last season for the Flyers while missing 15 games with a knee injury. At the time of the trade, he had only three assists in eight games.&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t getting much ice time,&rdquo; Hockhart said. &ldquo;They were a little down on me because I wasn&rsquo;t passing the puck enough and trying to do too much myself. At least that&rsquo;s what 1 kept hearing.&ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t shocked by the trade, but it had nothing to do with coming to Pittsburgh. I&rsquo;d have been shocked no matter where I&rsquo;d have gone because I never thought I was going anywhere. I didn&rsquo;t asked to be traded and I didn&rsquo;t want to be traded.&rdquo;Johnston believed that Flockhart, a native of Smithers, B.C., will benefit from the trade, as much as the Penguins.&ldquo;Outside of Denis Savard, we think Hockhart is the most exciting player in the league,&rdquo; Johnston said. &ldquo;If we can get him to move the puck a little more, we may really have something.<h2>HOCKEY COLLECTORS</h2>Do you want to bring your collection of THE HOCKEY NEWS up to date? Here&rsquo;s your chance. The following back issues are now available for sale. Numbers are limited. Don&rsquo;t wait. First come, first served. The cost is $2.50 each including postage & handling.&ldquo;In Philadelphia, he was playing behind Bobby Clarke, who&rsquo;s like God there, and Darryl Sittler. Here, he&rsquo;s going to get a lot more ice time, and he won&rsquo;t be in anybody&rsquo;s shadow. He may develop more here than he would have in Philadelphia trying to keep up with those guys.&rdquo;Flockhart was placed on a line centering right winger Rick Kehoe and left winger Pat Boutette, who was replaced by Jim Hamilton after he suffered a pulled groin.&ldquo;Coming from Philly, there&rsquo;s a little different atmosphere there,&rdquo; Flockhart said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s a lot of tension, a lot of pressure on you. If you don&rsquo;t win, there&rsquo;s, the panic button pushed all of a sudden. Here, the boys are relaxed, which the game is supposed to be. You&rsquo;re supposed to be relaxed&mdash;you play better.&ldquo;My main objective is to contribute the most I can. I&rsquo;m not here to make decisions. I&rsquo;m here to play hockey and try to give 110 per cent every game. That&rsquo;s all I can do.&rdquo;Hockhart&rsquo;s third game as a Penguin was played against his old Hyer teammates.&ldquo;Hockhart&rsquo;s going at half speed right now,&rdquo; said Philadelphia GM-coach Bob McCammon after the game. &ldquo;He&rsquo;s a sensitive kid and it&rsquo;s going to take him a while to adjust to the trade.&rdquo;Hockhart apparently adjusted quickly, scoring his initial two goals of the season during the next two games.PENGUIN TRACKS&mdash;Doug Shed-den has returned to the lineup after breaking his wrist early in the season-&hellip;Pat Boutette&rsquo;s groin pull broke his consecutive-games-played streak at 611. He was expected to miss three weeks-&hellip;Jim Hamilton was recalled from Baltimore of the AHL. where he scored four goals and three assists in eight games. Pittsburgh also recalled right winger Steve Gatzos from the Skipjacks to replace Rocky Saganiuk. who was out with a sore back&hellip;. The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board fined Froggy&rsquo;s Restaurant $1,000 for serving alcohol to a &ldquo;visibly intoxicated&rdquo; Baz Bastien the night of his death last March 14. Bastien, then the Penguin GM. was killed in auto accident later that night after attending a Pittsburgh chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers&rsquo; Associaton banquet. &#9632;

Penguins Hope Flocky Hockey Draws Fans

<div class="byline">BY BARRY MEISEL</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-01470/4639619-1-eng-US/f0028-012.jpg" title="f0028-01" width="276" height="210"></div>LOUISVILLE HOCKEYBINGHAMTON&mdash;The numbers don&rsquo;t lie. After the first 92 games of the 198283 season. American Hockey League teams scored 675 goals, a gaudy 7.3 per game. The first 92 contests this season produced a more startling 755 tallies, a bloated 8.2 goals per game.Where have all the defensemen gone?Blame it on Bobby Orr, who forever redefined the role of the defenseman. Blame it on the amateur draft, which assures 17- and 18-year-old 100-point scorers of first-round status and relegates defensive-minded youngsters to the &ldquo;who&rsquo;s he?&rdquo; list. Or blame it on Mother Nature, who is making her forwards bigger, stronger, faster and smarter.Whatever the reasons, the 2-1 game is quickly becoming extinct. It already has joined the defensive defenseman, the 2.50 goals-against average and the shutout on hockey&rsquo;s list of endangered spe-cies.&ldquo;There&rsquo;s no glory in being the fourth man on a play,&rdquo; said Baltimore coach Gene Ubriaco, whose Skipjacks own the best defensive record in the South, 46 goals allowed in 13 games. &ldquo;He doesn&rsquo;t get a point, but he&rsquo;s the most important man. He cleaned the zone. He started the play. It takes a special person to fill that role.&rdquo;&ldquo;It takes time with younger defensemen. You don&rsquo;t see them stepping right in,&rdquo; says Binghamton coach John Cunniff. &ldquo;The few who do, like Scott Stevens and Phil Housley, go right to the NHL. There&rsquo;s a shortage of defensive defensemen, especially in the AHL. Maybe it&rsquo;s the European influence. Offense, offense, offense.&ldquo;Nobody&rsquo;s going to draft a kid high who&rsquo;s defensive-minded,&rdquo; says St. Catharines coach Doug Carpenter, whose Saints own the worst defensive record in the South, 89 goals allowed in 17 games. &ldquo;And that&rsquo;s because the feeling is that defensive hockey can be taught.&rdquo;But is it? Carpenter&rsquo;s Saints don&rsquo;t carry their sticks, they tote them in holsters. The Saints can shoot the goal lights out of a building with the best of &lsquo;em. Last season it earned them sixth place. This season they are fifth, with the most losses in the league.&ldquo;I stress defense,&rdquo; Carpenter insists. &ldquo;We know the problem. We try to get people to come back on defense, but unfortunately some players just don&rsquo;t want to do it. In junior hockey, some agents have told their clients, or the players knows, if I can score 50,000 goals I&rsquo;m going to be drafted high.&rdquo;A 6-5 game used to be a wide-open thriller; today, it&rsquo;s a tight-checking contest. Scores of 10-2, 9-6 and 8-5 were rare 10 years ago. Today, they occur with regularity.&ldquo;Goaltenders were way ahead of the shooters 10, 15 years ago,&rdquo; Ubriaco says. &ldquo;The good ones dominated not only because they were talented, but they were smart. Now, the shooter has gone the other way. He&rsquo;s more accurate, he shoots harder and more often. It&rsquo;s not entirely a defensive lapse.&rdquo;Coaches from top to bottom agree that defense wins games. Teaching defense has become tougher, Carpenter says, because coaches have to start virtually from scratch.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s not being stressed in bantam, midget, junior and in the pros,&rdquo; Carpenter said.Ubriaco says that&rsquo;s no excuse for the lofty numbers.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s up to us to teach them,&rdquo; Ubriaco said. &ldquo;The junior leagues teach the player the initiative to go on and upward. It&rsquo;s up to the pro coach to teach a team to work together defensively. That&rsquo;s what we&rsquo;re here for. Are players supposed to come out of junior and have everything?&rdquo;The Rochester Amerks won the Calder Cup last season not only because they scored more goals than any other team, but because they prevented their opponents from doing so. The Fredericton Express reached the finals with the best goals-against average in the league. Two years ago, Binghamton and New Brunswick were the divisional winners, and both owned its division&rsquo;s lowest goals against.The NHL? Sure the New York Islanders score, but who does it better behind the blueline? Remember the Edmonton Oilers in the Stanley Cup finals?Goal scorers these days are baked by the dozen. With the apologies to the U.S. Army&rsquo;s ad campaign, what the AHL is looking for are a few good (defense)men.And, on that point, the defense rests.AROUND THE SOUTH&mdash;High scoring right winger Kai Suikkanen, who tallied 74 goals in two-plus seasons for the Amerks, followed fellow countryman Kari Suoraniemi&rsquo;s lead by walking out on Rochester and returning to Finland. Suikkanen. who scored 35 of his goals on power plays, was entering the option year of his contract like Suoraniemi. He played in only two NHL games for the parent Buffalo Sabres. Suoraniemi left prior to the season when it was apparent he would have a tough time even sticking with the Calder Cup champ Amerks. Goalie-assistant coach Phil Myre made his first start and won at Hershey 5-1. Myre preserved his shutout when Mike Siltala hit the crossbar on a penalty shot early in the third period, but Jim McGeough ruined it with 6:23 left in the game&hellip;In the first &ldquo;big&rdquo; Southern Division contest, as big as one can be in November, the Amerks (9-7) were joined in first place by the Skipjacks after losing in Baltimore. The Skipjacks (7-2-4), winners of three straight, rallied from a 3-0 first-period deficit and used third-period goals by Tim Hymewich, Dean DeFazio and Bobby Simpson to hand Myre his first defeat. Rookie defenseman Tom Thombury missed on a penalty shot against Sam St, Laurent in a 5-4 win at Maine. Baltimore is the only team in the league not to have lost at home (3-0-1). Bennett Wolf leads the league with 73 penalty minutes. Pittsburgh recalled defenseman Greg Tebbutt.When Pete Peeters got hurt in Boston, the Bruins recalled goalie Mike Moffatt from Hershey (6-9). That prompted the Bears to sign Dan Sanscartier, 20, from Ft. Wayne of the IHL, to an amateur tryout. Starting goalie Dave Parro hurt his knee against Rochester, so the Bears planned on calling upon Peter Sidor-kiewicz, playing for Oshawa of the Ontario Hockey League but eligible for the Bears because he&rsquo;s a 20-year-old Washington draft pick, for the next game at St. Catharines. Oshawa wouldn&rsquo;t let Hershey take Sidorkiewicz. Skipjack coach Gary Inness, a former NHL and WHA goalie, had to be thinking that he might have to active himself as the backup. But Inness breathed a huge sigh of relief after Parro agreed to watch from the bench, despite his knee injury. Sanscartier went on to stymie the high-scoring Saints 3-1. Hershey lost leading scorer Dave Silk to Boston, but added forward Bryan Erickson and defenseman Paul MacKinnon from Washington. Eric Calder and Tony Fiore were sent to Fort Wayne of the IHL.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0028-02332/4639612-1-eng-US/f0028-022.jpg" title="f0028-02" width="572" height="774"><figcaption class="caption-body">Baltimore coach Gene Ubriaco says it&rsquo;s the coach&rsquo;s responsibility to teach defense.</figcaption></div>Len Hachbom extended his pointscoring streak to 13 games and Rod Willard notched a hat trick in Springfield&rsquo;s 6-5 victory over visiting Sherbrooke, the Indians&rsquo; fourth straight win. The Philadelphia Flyer-owned Hachbom, a center who is third in the league in scoring with 25 points, has a point in every game for the Tribe. The Chicago Black Hawks have forward Florent Robidoux on emergency recall.Several fans took to wearing paper bags over their heads in Binghamton (39-1) as the Whalers fell to 1-6 at the Broome County Arena. The Whalers have lost five of six overall. Left winger Dan Bourbonnais has scored points in 12 straight games. Right winger Paul MacDermid was recalled by Hartford. Hartford general manager Emile Francis says he will make a decision soon regarding Binghamton&rsquo;s three goalies. Veterans Rollie Boutin (1-2, 5.00 GAA) and Steve Baker (0-4-1, 6.09 GAA) are on 25-game pro tryout agreements, fighting for the spot alongside third-year pro Paul Flicker.&hellip;Los Angeles recalled goalie Gary Laskoski from New Haven (7-9-2) &#9632;

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Defense Nowhere To Be Found In Era Of Bloated Goal Scoring

<div class="byline">BY MIKE KANE</div>SHERBROOKE&mdash;Decisions. Decisions. Decisions. Kirk McKaskill, North America&rsquo;s most recent two-sport professional athlete, has had to make more than he planned to in the past year and each one has alternately made some people happy and brought about the opposite reaction from others.A little more than two months ago, McKaskill was a starting pitcher for the Nashua, NH, Angels of the Eastern League, a Class AA circuit. Now he&rsquo;s a fourth-line winger with the Sherbrooke Jets of the American Hockey League. While the trip from Nashua to Sherbrooke only takes a few hours by car, McKaskill has encountered numerous turns in the road along the way.Actually, the story of McKaskill&rsquo;s trip from sport to sport to sport began a couple of years ago. As a two-sport standout at the University of Vermont, he gained the attention of both the California Angels baseball team and the Winnipeg Jets of National Hockey League. Both teams selected him in the fourth round of their sport&rsquo;s respective draft of amateur players with the intention that one day he would be wearing a major league uniform. It gets a little more complicated after that.&ldquo;I signed after my junior year with the Angels and went and played rookie ball in Oregon (in 1982),&rdquo; McKaskill said. &ldquo;Then 1 went back and played a semester of hockey at Vermont, but then I got invited to the major league spring training camp. If it had just been the minor league camp I could have played the rest of the league at Vermont, but since it was the big league camp 1 had to curtail it. I just went the one semester, went home and worked out and went to the big league camp and that started the full season.&rdquo;In 13 starts with Nashua, McKaskill compiled a 4-8 record with an earned run average of 4.45. He worked in 87 innings, striking out 63 batters and walking 43.As the baseball season reached its final month he began to think about pursuing his opportunity with pro hockey. He talked with the Winnipeg management about his options and contacted the California Angels and told their front-office staff he was considering a move to hockey. While Winnipeg could offer a guaranteed contract, the Angels had less flexibility. The baseball team would have had to move him up to its 40-man roster, something it didn&rsquo;t have to do and said it wouldn&rsquo;t do. McKaskill made the decision to sign with Winnipeg even though the Angels threatened a lawsuit. So far, McKaskill says he hasn&rsquo;t heard of any court action.&ldquo;I had always maintained that I&rsquo;d be happy with either sport that I played,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;My father (Ted McKaskill) played hockey for 20 years. I grew up with hockey. The money was there. Sure, playing was in the back of my mind, but I knew I&rsquo;d be happy either way I went.&ldquo;In terms of money, it was a clear-cut decision. Here I had a guaranteed contract, compared to baseball where they don&rsquo;t have any type of guarantee. You&rsquo;re talking about a minor league salary of $700 a month. So, financially it was clear-cut.&rdquo;Although the decision to move from one sport to another was relatively easy, the transition from the diamond back to the ice hasn&rsquo;t been quite as smooth.&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve really struggled with it,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;In baseball, I was a starting pitcher. Once every five days I&rsquo;d be pitching and I could kind of gear up mentally to be prepared every five days. Now, it&rsquo;s every day here in hockey and I&rsquo;m having a hard time with it.&ldquo;I think right now for me it&rsquo;s all mental. You have to adjust to a lot more free time. The mental part is what I have to work on. That&rsquo;s all it&rsquo;s going to take.&rdquo;Even though the playing time has been limited thus far, McKaskill says he has no regrets.&ldquo;I wouldn&rsquo;t have made this decision if I didn&rsquo;t think I could play in the NHL,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve seen minor league sports, and minor league baseball for the past year and a half. Anyone will tell you that they don&rsquo;t want to be a minor league.&rdquo;McKaskill admits, though, that there are times when he wonders about all the choices he has had to make.&ldquo;The biggest decision was this past August when 1 had to quit baseball,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;The hardest part for me was accepting not knowing what I could have done. I thought I was progressing pretty well, I had moved to Double A in my first full year. It&rsquo;s always going to be in the back of my mind whether or not I could have made the big league and how good I could have been.&rdquo;AROUND THE DIVISION&mdash;Fredericton completed its seven-game road trip with a 2-4-1 record and continues to be the top defensive team in the league. The Express have had a number of player changes. Tony Currie was recalled by Vancouver and Gerry Minor was sent down by the Canucks. J.F. Sauve and Pierre Aubry were sent down by Quebec and joined the Express on the road in Springfield. Aubry suffered a broken rib in his second game and returned to Quebec. Defenseman Claude Julien was recalled from Milwaukee of the IHL and Andre Chartrain was assigned to Erie of the Atlantic Coast League&hellip;Sherbrooke compiled a 4-1-1 record to move near the.500 mark-&hellip;Nova Scotia also had a number of player moves. Right winger Jeff Teal broke his left leg and may be lost for the season. Goalie Greg Moffett remains sidelined with a pulled hamstring and Dave Allison could miss a month with a knee injury. Veteran Dave Orleski was assigned to Flint of the IHL but said he would not report&hellip;Defenseman Mike Hordy is the Maine Mariners&rsquo; top scorer with four goals and 12 points. Adirondack has managed to keep winning despite the recall of Randy Ladouceur and Jody Gage by the Detroit Red Wings and injuries to Wayne Crawford. Brian Johnson and Charlie Skjodt. Don Murdochled the Wings to a 9-1 win over the Sherbrooke Jets with a hat trick. &#9632;

McCaskill Doesn’t Regret His Decision

<div class="byline">BY BUD GALLMEIER</div>FORT WAYNE&mdash;Muskegon took a tumble in International Hockey League, while Fort Wayne&rsquo;s Wally Schreiber took things into his own hands.The Muskegon Mohawks, off to a fast start, were slowed down when they lost 7-6 to the Komets and then blanked Toledo and Milwaukee, 6-0 and 5-0, respectively.But, the week belonged to Schreiber. Schreiber scored four goals and the Komets needed each and every one of them to narrowly beat Muskegon. He notched a hat trick in the Komets&rsquo; 5-3 victory over Flint.Coach Ron Ullyot&rsquo;s squad, after an early-season struggle, continued its winning way with a 3-1 win in Milwaukee. That made it four in a row for the Komets, who were flirting with the basement. Now, the Komets jumped to within a point of the pace-setting Peoria Prancers.Schreiber, the league&rsquo;s leading goal scorer with 10, has been skating on a line with Doug Rigler and Robbie Laird. Schreibner credits his linemates for his sudden hot streak in the goal-scoring department.&ldquo;You have to give Rigler a lot of credit,&rdquo; said Schreiber. &ldquo;He has been doing a lot of digging in the comers and feeding me for the shot. It&rsquo;s then my job to put the puck in the net after he gets it to me.&ldquo;After we got Rigler as our regular center we really started clicking.&rdquo;There were some who thought Schreiber&rsquo;s hockey career was over when he sustained a broken leg last season.&ldquo;After watching the playoffs from the stands last year, I went home and worked hard on the leg for about three weeks,&rdquo; Schreiber said. &ldquo;I worked with light weights and did some running when I could. When permitted, I did some skating and now I&rsquo;m thankful I did because it hasn&rsquo;t bothered me since.&rdquo;The 21-year-old Schreiber began this season in the camp of the Washington Capitals but was cut after four exhibition games. Then it was back to the IHL and if he continues to perform as he has early in the year, the Caps might have second thoughts.While the Komets were winning and Mohawks were losing, Peoria was able to hold its slim grip on first place in the IHL standings by defeating Flint 5-3 and Kalamazoo 5-4, before losing a 7-3 contest to Toledo.The Goaldiggers have also been on something of a hot streak and moved to within two points of Peoria. The Goaldiggers lost just one of four, tying Kalamazoo 4-4, beating Muskegon 6-0, and Milwaukee 3-1, while dropping a 4-2 decision to Flint. &#9632;

Komets’ Schreiber Has Goal Rush

BOSTON&mdash;Lou Lamoriello, who coached Providence College for the past 15 years, has been named the commissioner of the newly-formed Super College Hockey League.A 1963 graduate of Providence, Lamoriello will combine his new role with his present position of athletic director at the university. He relinquished his coaching duties this season to former Boston University star, Steve Stirling.Lamoriello sees the select new college league as a positive step. &ldquo;I am really excited about the future of the league,&rdquo; said Lamoriello. &ldquo;From past history, this is going to be a very exciting new league. Five of the last six ECAC champions and nine of the last 11, have been teams that are in our league. With this background and foundation, I feel certain we will continue to go forward.&rdquo;The new super league will consist of Boston University, Boston College, New Hampshire, Providence College, Maine, Northeastern and Lowell.Lamoriello said he&rsquo;s hoping one of the aspects of the new league will be an interchange of games with some of the Western colleges. &ldquo;We have an excellent product, and the timing is perfect or the league,&rdquo; said the new commissioner. &#9632;

Lamoriello Named To Head New Super League

<div class="byline">BY VIRG FOSS</div>GRAND FORKS&mdash;It&rsquo;s not hard to make a case out of why North Dakota is leading the Western Collegiate Hockey Association with a spotless 8-0 record&mdash;just slip a &ldquo;y&rdquo; on the end of case and you have Casey.Senior goaltender Jon Casey is one of the major reasons why the Sioux are off to one of their fastest starts in school history, despite fielding the youngest team coach Gino Gasparini has ever put on ice.Casey has always been one of the premier goaltenders in the WCHA. He was a first team all-league pick as a sophomore, a second-team selection last year and is playing at a level this season which should earn him all-WCHA honors once again, along with possible All-America recognition.Casey, from Grand Rapids, MN, has allowed just 17 goals in eight league starts for a superb 2.12 goals-against average. His save percentage is hovering near the.930 mark, another testimony to the outstanding play from Casey.Casey recorded his second career shutout as North Dakota widened its lead in the WCHA by sweeping Denver 9-0 and 4-3, the latter decision coming in overtime. Casey had to make just 13 saves in recording the shutout as the Sioux poured 47 shots at Denver goalies Pat Tierney and Jim Dalrymple.If it hadn&rsquo;t been for a planned September marriage, Casey might have joined a number of other WCHA stars who are playing Olympic hockey this season, either in Canada or in the United States.Casey did make a bid for the U.S. Olympic hockey team last summer in Colorado Springs, but he&rsquo;s the first to admit he didn&rsquo;t make much of an effort to make the team.&ldquo;I was planning on getting married Sept. 3,&rdquo; Casey said, &ldquo;and I didn&rsquo;t want to be away from my wife so much our first year of marriage.&rdquo;Knowing that, Casey didn&rsquo;t play up to his potential in the tryout camp for the Olympic team.&ldquo;I had heard they had guaranteed two goalies spots on the Olympic team, even before camp opened,&rdquo; Casey said. &ldquo;And because of the marriage coming up, I didn&rsquo;t give it (tryout camp) my best shot. I went to camp mainly to have a good time.&rdquo;It&rsquo;s the Sioux who have been having a good time ever since Casey returned to school. The Sioux, picked to finish third in the WCHA in a pre-season poll of league coaches, have come out of the gate like they want to wrap up the league title by Christmas.North Dakota&rsquo;s sweep over Denver University, coupled with a surprising sweep by Wisconsin over Minnesota, put the Sioux five points up on the Gophers going into the showdown series between the two teams in Minneapolis.Casey has drawn the praise of Gasparini as well as rousing cheers from the Sioux fans.&ldquo;He&rsquo;s made the difference in a couple of our games.&rdquo; Gasparini said. &ldquo;Statistically, there&rsquo;s no question that he ranks with some of the great goaltenders we&rsquo;ve had at UND.&rdquo;It&rsquo;s Casey&rsquo;s goal to play in every WCHA game this season for the Sioux.&ldquo;I&rsquo;d like to do that,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;If I can play well all the time and not hurt the team, I&rsquo;d very much like to do that.&rdquo;Casey would be a prize catch for some pro team once the collegiate season ends.He may be the best player in college hockey in the U.S. who has not been drafted.The solid goaltending by Casey has allowed the Sioux to take a few more chances offensively, knowing Casey remains behind to erase mistakes they make.&ldquo;When you&rsquo;ve got the good goaltending,&rdquo; Gasparini said, &ldquo;it allows the other players to be more aggressive with the puck.&rdquo;The Sioux were certainly aggressive offensively in the sweep over Denver, especially in the 9-0 shellacking, a game in which Denver coach Ralph Backstrom said the Pioneers were &ldquo;totally embarrassed. We stunk up the place.&rdquo;Mark Huglen, Rick Zombo, Brad Berry and Mal Parks were the other Sioux goal scorers. Of the aformentioned list, only Brennan is a senior.The Sioux needed a goal by sophomore center Brian Williams with just six seconds left in the 10-minute suddendeath overtime session to win the second game of the series 4-3.Denver rallied from a 3-1 deficit in the third period to tie the game on goals by a pair of freshmen, John McMillian and Dwight Mathiasan. Earlier, Mickey Krampotich, Jim Archibald and Nakonechny scored for UND and David Berry for Denver.Tiemey was sensational with 59 saves for Denver, but he was helpless on Williams&rsquo; 20-foot wrist shot after a feed from Archibald. The 59 saves is the most any goalie has ever make against North Dakota. Casey, after the easy 13-save shutout, was tested with 36 saves in goal for the Sioux.Wisconsin, meanwhile, continued to rebound from its dismal start by sweeping Minnesota 3-1 and 9-0 to run its winning streak to four games.In the series opener, Wisconsin got second-period goals from Marty Witala and Jan-Ake Danielson to break a goalless tie and get the jump on the Gophers. Tom Parenteau brought the Gophers to within 2-1 in the third period, but John Johannsen scored into an empty net with 46 seconds left to lock it up for Wisconsin.It was all Wisconsin in the rematch before nearly 9,000 fans at Madison&rsquo;s Dane County Coliseum. Ted Pearson&rsquo;s hat trick and the first collegiate shutout by sophomore goaltender Gary Baxter highlighted Wisconsin&rsquo;s whipping of the Gophers. Baxter finished with 33 saves, handing Minnesota its first shutout since the Badgers blanked the Gophers 5-0 on Feb. 13, 1982.Other Wisconsin goals came from Paul Houston (two), Tony Granato, Tim Sager, Jim Johannson and John Johannson.Meanwhile, Minnesota-Duluth and Colorado College stepped out of league play and managed splits.Minnesota-Duluth hosted Boston University and split a pair of one-goal games.In the opening game, Boston University won 3-2 in overtime when Joel Cap-pellano scored just 17 seconds into overtime to win it for Boston University. Bill Watson and Tom Kurvers scored for Duluth with Paul Gerlitz and John Cullen replying for BU, which ran its season record to 4-0.Minnesota-Duluth handed Boston University its first loss of the season in the rematch, however. Senior winger Bob Lakso scored three goals to lead Minnesota-Duluth, which had to hold off a late charge by BU to win.Colorado College played host to Northern Arizona, which opened its season as an NCAA Division One independent, by surprising the Tigers 5-1.Colorado College won the rematch 4-0 as Gord Whitaker, Dan Dolan, Brent Gropp and Scott Schneider scored one goal apiece.NOTES&mdash;Denver, which had been converting 40 per cent of its power-play chances, was blanked in nine tries in the two losses at North Dakota&hellip;Wisconsin&rsquo;s Paul Houck and Minnesota&rsquo;s Jeff Larson were both ejected for fighting in the opening game of the series between the two teams&hellip;UND&rsquo;s eight straight WCHA wins is one shy of the school record in league play to open the season-&hellip;Minnesota has lost defenseman Tony, Kellin for about two weeks with a knee injury. &#9632;

North Dakota Goaltender States His Casey

<div class="byline">BY JIM SCHNEIDER</div>BOWLING GREEN&mdash;Defending league-champion Bowling Green unleashed an awesome shooting attack in sweeping Illinois-Chicago 8-3 and 7-2 to maintain second place in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association, but it wasn&rsquo;t easy as the Flames&rsquo; goalies combined for 114 saves in the weekend series.UIC&rsquo;s John Whelan made 64 saves in the opener, including a record 32 in the third period, as the Falcons had 35 shots on net. Freshman Jim Hickey made 50 saves in the second game for the Flames.BG bounced back with Tim Hack and Dave Ellett scoring a pair of goals each in the second period and Jamie Wans-brough scored two goals in the third period for the win in the opener. Gino Cavallini scored his second straight Saturday night hat trick to pace the Falcons in the second game with Wans-brough adding another pair of goals.Sweeps were in order in other CCHA action, as league-leader Ohio State ran its overall record to 11-0 by beating Miami 4-3 and 7-3. Michigan State topped Northern Michigan 4-2 and 9-4 and Michigan Tech swept Michigan 8-2 and 3-1.Lake Superior split a pair of CCHA games with Ferris State, losing the opener 7-6 and winning the second game 8-5 behind the scoring of CCHA Player of the week Kevin Collar. Collar entered the series with seven points for the season and scored five goals and added three assists for eight points. He scored his first career hat trick in the opener and added two goals, including the game-winner in the second game.Western Michigan split a series with New Hampshire in non-league action with the visiting UNH Wildcats winning the opener 8-4, before the host Broncos took the game after just 20 seconds.Todd Channell opened the scoring for Miami in the series opener at Ohio State, but the Buckeyes scored the next four goals with Andy Browne scoring twice and John Mowat scoring a shorthanded goal that proved to be the winner. John Ciotti and Channell scored third period goals for Miami, but the rally fell short.The Saturday night rematch in Oxford turned into a shootout with Ohio State holding a 46-45 edge in shots on goal with OSU&rsquo;s Bob Krautsak making 42 saves.OSU&rsquo;s Paul Pooley, the leading scorer in the CCHA, collected three goals in the first period of the second game. He tied the game with a shorthanded goal at 3:57 and added two late goals as the two teams combined for four goals in the final 2:30 of the period.The Buckeyes hot line of Paul Pooley, Andy Browne and Dave Kobryn scored seven goals in the series and added 11 assists.Northern Michigan scored the first goal each night at Michigan State, but Dan McFall&rsquo;s goal at 14:52 of the second period snapped a 2-2 tie to provide the win for the Spartans in the opener and MSU notched five power-play goals in the second game for the sweep.Newell Brown and Bill Shibicky each scored two goals for Michigan State in the sweep.Michigan Tech sophomore Chris Cichocki scored three goals in the opener and set up Kurt Pearson&rsquo;s winner in the second game to pace Michigan Tech in the sweep over Michigan.The Huskies grabbed a 5-0 lead in the opener before Michigan reached the scoreboared on back-to-back goals by Ray Dries and Kelly McCrimmon, both set up by John DeMartino. The Huskies closed out the scoring in the second period and the game with Al Radke and Cichocki getting the final three goals.Michigan took a 1-0 lead in the second game on Todd Carlile&rsquo;s power-play blast from the right point, but Steve Murphy scored two goals for MTU, sandwiching Pearson&rsquo;s winner.Paul Couture and Paul Lowden scored goals a minute apart in the third period to pace a Ferris State comeback in the opener against Lake Superior. The Lakers scored four straight goals after Lowden&rsquo;s first goal of the game and led 4-1 during first-period action.Lake Superior led 6-5 in the third period when Couture scored at 14:40 and Lowden at 15:40 for the win.Monty Beacuchamp and Collar scored two goals each in the second game and Randy Merrifield scored two goals and added two assists for Ferris State. Merrifield had seven points in the series for the host Bulldogs.New Hampshire&rsquo;s James Richmond scored two goals to pace the Wildcats in the opener at Western Michigan.In the second game, Bronco netminder Mike Hansen made his first collegiate start and made 27 saves for the win. The WMU power play clicked for three goals in the win with Ron Pesetti&rsquo;s goal at 17:08 of the first period the winner. Dan Potter spoiled Hansen&rsquo;s shutout bid at 3:07 of the third period. &#9632;

Flame Goalies Tested By BGU’s Big Attack

Gary Baxterof the University of Wisconsin emerged as the hero of the WCHA for the week ending Nov. 13 as he turned back the powerful University of Minnesota Gophers twice, making 51 saves in the process.Baxter, filling in for the ailing Terry Kleisinger, who is sidelined due to mononucleosis, sparked Wisconsin to 3-1 and 9-0 victories over the Gophers. The shutout was the first of his college career.A native of Toronto, in his sophomore season, Baxter made 33 saves en route to the shutout victory, earning him the nod as the Bauer College Player of the Week.The Badgers&rsquo; sweep of the Gophers was the first such occasion since 1977.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0032-01434/4639808-1-eng-US/f0032-012.jpg" title="f0032-01" width="558" height="909"><figcaption class="caption-body">GARY BAXTER Wisconsin</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Don’t throw away your gloves!

<div class="byline">BY ROBERT MacLEOD</div>MONCTON&mdash;The Blue Eagles have established themselves as one of the top university teams in the Canadian Interuniversity Athletic Union this season by virtue of their triumph in the International Cup, but don&rsquo;t try telling that to coach Denis Gringas.&ldquo;It definitely helps us out,&rdquo; said Gingras, whose team won the Atlantic Universities Athletic Association last season. &ldquo;It says we have a fair team. But we&rsquo;re not even thinking national. We&rsquo;re more concerned with our own conference right now.&rdquo;Gringas said faraway glances hurt the Blue Eagles last season when they faltered at the national championship tournament, finishing out of the running with a dismal 0-1-1 record.&ldquo;Looking ahead toward the national championship was our problem last year,&rdquo; Gringas said. &ldquo;We had a tremendous team on paper&mdash;robably the best ever&mdash;but we were thinking toward the national tournament right from the start and eventually got burned. We don&rsquo;t want that to happen again.&rdquo;The International Cup was a six-team event held in Verdun, Que., from Nov. 2 to 6. Along with the Blue Eagles, other university teams participating were Toronto Blues, Concordia Stingers, Ottawa Gee-Gees, Trois-Rivieres Pat-riotes and Chicoutimi Inuk.After losing their opening game to Chicoutimi, 7-6 in overtime, Moncton came back with a 10-2 whipping of Trois-Rivieres before getting even with Chicoutimi in a semi-final with a 7-4 win.Moncton&rsquo;s opponent in the final was Toronto, which advanced with a 4-1 win over Concordia, an 11-1 decision over Ottawa, followed by another triumph over the Stingers&mdash;5-1&mdash;in a semi-final.In the final, the Blue Eagles overcame a 4-3 disadvantage early in the third period with four consecutive goals to win the championship 7-4.&ldquo;Toronto has a good team,&rdquo; Gringas said. &ldquo;I think the only thing that hurt them is that they only had three lines. We went with four and that may have given us a little more gas near the end of the game.&rdquo;Gringas said he was surprised by the inept performance of the Stingers, perennial champion of the Quebec Universities Athletic Association, who won only one game in three outings&mdash;a 7-5 win against Chicoutimi.&ldquo;I really thought Concordia had a better team than that,&rdquo; said the coach.<h2>AUAA</h2>St. Francis Xavier X-Men made the best of Moncton&rsquo;s absence from AUAA regular-season play, winning twice in three games in the week ending Nov. 8. The X-Men beat St. Mary&rsquo;s Huskies 6 4 and St. Thomas Tommies 5-2 to move into first place ahead of the Blue Eagles (2-0) with a 3-2 record. The X-Men&rsquo;s only setback was a 4-3 loss to New Brunswick Red Raiders (2-2).<h2>QUAA</h2>The International Cup also limited play in the Quebec Universities Athletic Association as only one game was scheduled. McGill Redmen (3-0-1) defeated Ottawa (3-4-1) 6-3 to move into a second-place tie with the Gee-Gees in the standing. The Stingers still hold down first with a 4-1 record.<h2>OUAA</h2>Defending champion Laurier Golden Hawks bounced back in the Ontario Universities Athletic Association after playing lowly Royal Military College Red-men (2-3-2) to a 4-4 tie. The Hawks trounced Brock Badgers 14-0. Laurier strengthened its hold on first place with the win, raising their record to 4-0-1.Six teams are tied for second, including Toronto (3-0) and McMaster Marauders (3-1), who enjoyed a good week with two victories&mdash;9-5 over Western Mustangs (3-2) and 6-4 over RMC.<h2>CWUAA</h2>Saskatchewan Huskies, defending national champions, began the Canada West Universities Athletic Association on an upbeat note, sweeping two games from British Columbia Thunderbirds. 63 and 8-3.Saskatchewan center Kevin Mac-Naught, who broke his nose in five places in the opening game after getting hit with a stick, responded with three goals in the Huskies&rsquo; 8-3 triumph.Alberta Golden Bears took two from Calgary Dinosaurs by identical scores of 4-1.<h2>GPAC</h2>Manitoba Bisons still lead the Great Plains Athletic Conference standing with a record of 4-1 after splitting a weekend series with Regina Cougars. Lakehead NorWesters have moved into second place, raising their record to 3-2-1 by winning a pair from Winnipeg Wesmen. &#9632;

Moncton Has Its Goal On Conference Play

<h2>CCHA CONFERENCE</h2>(Standings on Fri. Nov. 18)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-01445/4639936-1-eng-US/f0034-012.jpg" title="f0034-01" width="542" height="346"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Lake Superior 6, Laurentian 2Ohio State 5, Laurier 2Mich-Dearborn 4, Waterloo 3Bowling Green 5, Clarkson 2Bowling Green 5, Clarkson 3Mich. Tech 5, N. Michigan 4Mich. Tech 6, N. Michigan 2Mich. State 5, Northeastern 1Mich. State 1, Northeastern 0Minnesota 12, Illinois-Chi 2Minnesota 5, Illinois-Chi 1Ferris State 4, Miami 0Ferris State 6, Miami 4Bowling Green 7, L Superior 2L. Superior 2, Bowling Green 1Ohio State 9, Michigan 1Ohio State 6, Michigan 4Mich State 5, W Michigan 2Mich State 5, W. Michigan 2Mich Tech 3, Saskatchewan 2Mich Tech 5, Saskatchewan 5Michigan 4, Miami 3Michigan 6, Miami 3Mich State 7, Illinois-Chicago 1Mich State 5, Illinois-Chicago 3Bowling Green 6, Mich Tech 5Bowling Green 5, Mich Tech 1Ohio State 5, N. Michigan 4Ohio State 8, N. Michigan 1W. Michigan 5, L Superior 4L. Superior 6, W. Michigan 4Ferris State 4, Mich-Dearborn 3Ferris State 9, Mich-Dearborn 1Ohio State 6, Ferris State 3Ohio State 3, Ferris State 1Bow. Green 7, Mich. State 4Bow. Green 5, Mich. State 3Mich. Tech 3, W. Michigan 2Mich. Tech 8, W. Michigan 2N. Michigan 6, Miami 1N. Michigan 9, Miami 5Illinois-Chi 4, L. Superior 3L. Superior 10, Illinois-Chi 3Michigan 3, New Hampshire 2Michigan 5, New Hampshire 4Michigan Tech 8, Michigan 2Michigan Tech 3, Michigan 1Bow. Green 8, Illinois-Chi 3Bow. Green 7, Illinois-Chi 2Ohio State 4, Miami 3Ohio State 7, Miami 3Ferris State 7, L. Superior 6L. Superior 8, Ferris State 5Mich State 4, N. Michigan 2Mich State 9, N. Michigan 4N. Hampshire 8, W. Michigan 4W. Michigan 4, N. Hampshire 1<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-02362/4639929-1-eng-US/f0034-022.jpg" title="f0034-02" width="540" height="287"></div><h2>WCHA CONFERENCE</h2>(Standings on Fri. Nov. 18)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-03269/4639922-1-eng-US/f0034-032.jpg" title="f0034-03" width="536" height="205"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>North Dakota 5, Colorado Coll. 0North Dakota 4, Colorado Coll. 2Minnesota 5, Minn-Duluth 4Minnesota 3, Minn-Duluth 3Wisconsin 6, Denver 4Wisconsin 7, Denver 4North Dakota 9, Denver 0 North Dakota 4, Denver 3Wisconsin 3, Minnesota 1Wisconsin 9, Minnsota 0Minn-Duluth 2, Boston Univ 1Minn-Duluth 5, Boston Univ. 4No. Arizona 5, Colorado Coll. 1Colorado Coll. 4, No. Arizona 0<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-04182/4639915-1-eng-US/f0034-042.jpg" title="f0034-04" width="541" height="376"></div><h2>ONTARIO CONFERENCE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-05138/4639908-1-eng-US/f0034-052.jpg" title="f0034-05" width="549" height="403"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>McMaster 6, RMC 4Brock 6, Ryerson 1York 10, Waterloo 7RMC 7 at Ryerson 1Western 7, Windsor 5Laurentian 6, Queen&rsquo;s 2Laurentian 7, Queen&rsquo;s 7PEI 4, St. Mary&rsquo;s 1St. F. Xavier 6, St. Mary&rsquo;s 4Acadia 6, Dalhousie 4Alberta 4, Calgary 1Saskatchewan 8, UBC 3UNIVERSITY CUP INVITATIONALToronto 4, Concordia 1Ottawa 6, T-Rivieres 3Toronto 11, Ottawa 1Chicoutimi 7, Moncton 6<h3>SEMI-FINALS</h3>Toronto 5, Concordia 1Moncton 7, Chicoutimi 4FINALSMoncton 7, Toronto 4(Moncton wins tournament)York 5, McMaster 4Toronto 11, Waterloo 1Brock 4, McMaster 4Waterloo 4, Guelph 3Queen&rsquo;s 1, Western 1Queen&rsquo;s 6, Western 5Laurier 6, Laurentian 6Brock 8, RMC 7Toronto 11, RMC 4Waterloo 6, Ryerson 4Laurentian 6, Laurier 4<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-06112/4639901-1-eng-US/f0034-062.jpg" title="f0034-06" width="538" height="199"></div><h2>ONTARIO COLLEGES</h2>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-07103/4639894-1-eng-US/f0034-072.jpg" title="f0034-07" width="537" height="229"></div><h2>GAMES COMPLETED</h2>Humber 9, Conestoga 2Seneca 11, Sheridan 2Seneca 4, Sheridan 3Canadore 6, St. Clair 5Conestoga 5, Centennial 3St. Clair 7, Canadore 6Humber 7, Centennial 1 &#9632;

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<h2>EMPIRE CUP</h2>At Glens Falls, NYFri. Nov. 25Colgate vs RPICornell vs St. LawrenceSat. Nov. 26Consolation & championship games<h2>JENO&rsquo;S HOLIDAY CLASSIC</h2>At Duluth, MNWed-Fri Dec. 28-30Minn-Duluth, Boston College, Ferris Stateand Lake Superior<h2>GREAT LAKES INVITATIONAL</h2>At Detroit, MlThu-Fri Dec. 29-30Michigan, Mich. State, Mich. Tech and No.Michigan<h2>I LOVE NEW YORK</h2>At Lake Placid, NYThu. Dec. 29Bowling Green vs CornellClarkson vs BrownFri. Dec. 30Consolation & championship games<h2>SYRACUSE INVITATIONAL</h2>At Syracuse, NYThu-Fri Dec. 29-30North Dakota, Princeton, St. Lawrence andColgate<h2>SCHOONER CUP</h2>At Halifax, NSThu-Fri Dec. 29-30Colorado College, Dalhousie, Providence.Toronto<h2>AULD LANG SYNE</h2>At Hanover, NHFri. Dec. 30New Hampshire vs VermontDartmouth vs MaineSat. Dec. 31CoIsonation & championshop games<h2>RPI INVITATIONAL</h2>At Troy, NYFri. Dec. 30Lowell vs No. ArizonaRPI vs YaleSat. Dec. 31Consolation & championship games<h2>FIRST INTER-STATE CLASSIC</h2>At Anchorage, AlaskaThu-Sun Jan. 5-8North Dakota, Colorado College, Boston College, Univ. British Columbia, AlaskaAnchorage, Northeastern, Providence<h2>HARTFORD CIVIC</h2>At Hartford, CTFri. Jan. 6Yale vs ColgateVermont vs No. ArizonaSat. Jan. 7Consolation & championship games &#9632;

COLLEGE TOURNAMENTS

<h2>ECAC</h2><h3>NOVEMBER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0896/4640026-1-eng-US/f0034-082.jpg" title="f0034-08" width="564" height="1034"></div><h3>DECEMBER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-0986/4640019-1-eng-US/f0034-092.jpg" title="f0034-09" width="570" height="124"></div><h2>CCHA</h2><h3>NOVEMBER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1083/4640012-1-eng-US/f0034-102.jpg" title="f0034-10" width="580" height="720"></div><h3>DECEMBER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1176/4640005-1-eng-US/f0034-112.jpg" title="f0034-11" width="568" height="470"></div><h2>WCHA</h2><h3>NOVEMBER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1273/4639998-1-eng-US/f0034-122.jpg" title="f0034-12" width="560" height="494"></div><h3>DECEMBER</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0034-1364/4639991-1-eng-US/f0034-132.jpg" title="f0034-13" width="558" height="692"></div> &#9632;

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<div class="byline">BY JOHN HERBERT</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-01421/4640064-1-eng-US/f0035-012.jpg" title="f0035-01" width="267" height="198"></div>Louisville HockeyTORONTO&mdash;The biggest difference between Toronto Marlboros this season and Toronto Marlboros in recent seasons isn&rsquo;t on the bench.He&rsquo;s right behind it.Tom Martin, who played for the Marlboros in the mid-60s and finished up his career as a player-coach for four years with three Swedish teams, has taken charge of all the talent and rejuvenated what used to be the most successful and strongest franchises in the Ontario Hockey League.What&rsquo;s on the bench doesn&rsquo;t hurt either with snipers and speedsters such as Peter Zezel, Jerry Peach, Gary Lacey, Greg Johnson, Steve Thomas and second-round midget draft pick Vito Cramarosa and goalie Dave Meszaros and defensemen such as Lou Kiriakou, George Spezza, Mike Rowe and Jim Hunter.The Marlies last won the Memorial Cup in 1975 at Kitchener and this season they&rsquo;re the hottest ticket around OHL rinks.Off to a surprising start with 13 wins through 15 games and their No. 1 draft pick, Ed Olczyk, playing with the U.S. Olympic team, the Marlies are winning because of a good blend of talent, togetherness off the ice and most importantly, an experienced coach. There was a feeling around the league that in several recent seasons the club&rsquo;s general manager, Frank Bonello, was supplying talent, but getting no results.Martin is a part-time coach, similar to his two predecessors, Jim Jones last year and Wayne Ego before that, but he has a more extensive background than the others. Martin moved from the Marlie organization as a player to the Canadian national team, played a few seasons in the Toronto Maple Leaf organization, moved on to the Toronto Toros of the World Hockey Association for three seasons and wound up his &ldquo;pro&rdquo; career as a player-coach for three Swedish teams.Later, he coached Bramalea and Milton junior B clubs and still works in Milton at the family glass business.Martin describes the brand of hockey his club is playing as &ldquo;Swanadian.&rdquo; He says it is a blend of Swedish puck-control techniques and Canadian styles. He does not advocate &ldquo;goon&rdquo; hockey and spelled that out to one of his defensemen.&ldquo;If you want to play hockey, this is the way you&rsquo;ll play or you won&rsquo;t play,&rdquo; Martin recalled of a conversation he had with one of his players.Martin didn&rsquo;t expect results so soon.&ldquo;The system is being executed very well, we&rsquo;re getting down to what I would call a good game of hockey,&rdquo; he said.One thing he insisted on when he took the job was to bring some togetherness back to the club. Unlike in the smaller centers where the players chummed together and were perhaps more high-profile individuals, the Marlie players in the past split into different groups.&ldquo;Togetherness, that&rsquo;s what I&rsquo;m really stressing plus a few new ideas,&rdquo; Martin said. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re an excellent team. The biggest thing they&rsquo;ve never had is the unity. Toronto&rsquo;s so big, kids are living all over the city. We try to get the boys together for pizza parties, meetings and 1 don&rsquo;t talk to them as though some are rookies and some are veterans.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t put a line between them. I try to get them to think as a team.&rdquo;Martin cautions it might be premature to suggest the club has turned the comer and restored the Marlies&rsquo; fortunes but, &ldquo;hopefully, we&rsquo;re on the road to it.&rdquo;He also thinks his experience is an asset.&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t care who you are, if you haven&rsquo;t coached before you&rsquo;re going to run into trouble, especially if you are doing it part time,&rdquo; he said.One problem he&rsquo;s run into is some of his players are pressing him to set some firm line combinations.&ldquo;The players are getting itchy about that, but they can&rsquo;t complain because we&rsquo;re winning,&rdquo; he said.Tragedy struck the family of Cornwall Royals defenseman-right winger Tony Vial as his mother was killed in an automobile accident west of Renfrew.The 19-year-old from Sault St. Marie, unhappy with his situation in Cornwall asked to traded, and was on his way home to wait for a development. Vial suffered a double fracture of a leg, a concussion and was listed in satisfactory condition in Ottawa Civic Hospital. His older brother, Walter, was also injured in the crash and is listed in satisfactory condition.Neither the Royals nor Ottawa 67s were aware of the accident when they completed the trade for Vial several hours later. When they learned of the tragedy, the deal was called off.Best of the rookies&mdash;According to North Bay coach Bert Templeton (and many support his view), Kevin Hatcher, via Detroit Compuware midgets, and Mark LaVarre, a Chicago native from Stratford juniors B Cullitons, are the two best rookies in the league. They&rsquo;re also Centennial players. Templeton says the top five are: Hatcher, LaVarre, Dave Latta of Kitchener, Shawn Burr of Kitchener and Craig Billington of Belleville. He gives honorable mention to Brantford&rsquo;s Jason Lafreniere and says he can&rsquo;t rate Guelph&rsquo;s Trevor Stien-burg, because he hasn&rsquo;t seen him play.&ldquo;Hatcher&rsquo;s the best. Who&rsquo;s better?&rdquo; Templeton said.Change of scenery helps&mdash;ExLondon center Roger Belanger, dealt to Kingston a few weeks back, picked up 10 points in back-to-back games, four goals and six assists.Strongest right side&mdash;Kitchener&rsquo;s with Wayne Presley, Garnet McKechney and Dave Bruce.Best line&mdash;Sault&rsquo;s Wayne Groulx, Rick Tocchet and Steve Graves.World junior possibles&mdash;Leading candidates for the team to be selected on Dec. 5 and which reports to Ottawa on Dec.17 for a mini-camp before departing for Sweden on Dec. 19 include Brantford goalie Alan Bester, Canadian Olympic forward Dave Gagner (formerly of Brantford), Guelph&rsquo;s Kirk Muller, Windsor&rsquo;s Paul Lawless, Ottawa&rsquo;s Bruce Cassidy and Kitchener&rsquo;s John Tucker and Dave Bruce.Punitive measures&mdash;London Knights were playing so poorly that coach Don Boyd removed soap and shampoo from the shower. &ldquo;You guys are stinking the joint out, so you&rsquo;re going to smell like it,&rdquo; said Boyd.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0035-02332/4640057-1-eng-US/f0035-022.jpg" title="f0035-02" width="584" height="847"><figcaption class="caption-body">Rookie Marlie coach Tom Martin has implemented a unique system that&rsquo;s working well.</figcaption></div>On the move&mdash;Kingston sent Al Raymond to Windsor for future considerations and acquired defenseman Allan Bishop from North Bay&hellip;London sent right winger Mark Hegarty, who has 10 goals in 11 games, to Cornwall for future considerations to make room for Dan Ryder as their overage player&hellip;Ottawa&rsquo;s Phil Patterson, who might have produced 50-60 goals, is shelved until January with a shoulder injury. Gary Roberts is also out with a broken thumb&hellip;Buffalo Sabres recalled John Tucker from Kitchener and Ottawa&rsquo;s Adam Creighton, while Hartford brought up defenseman Marc Paterson of Ottawa. Calgary signed Brian Bradley, their third-round pick in the &lsquo;83 entry draft via London Knights, to a multi-year contract&hellip;Belleville dealt Grant Sanders, Larry Stevens and Greg Royce to Guelph for Brian Martin and Mario Martini-&hellip;Sault Greyhounds recalled goalie Steve Tattersall from Newmarket.Who&rsquo;s hot&mdash;Led by John Tucker&rsquo;s two goals and four assists, Kitchener Rangers rolled to their 25th home ice win, 7-6 over Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds before 4,487 fans. After losing their season opener to Brantford, the Rangers won their next 14 games, prompting several coaches to wonder if first-year coach Tom Barrett&rsquo;s club was beatable.&ldquo;The thing I like,&rdquo; one coach said, &ldquo;he didn&rsquo;t come in and make a whole bunch of changes. He&rsquo;s letting them play the way they always played and learning from them.&rdquo;Who&rsquo;s getting hot&mdash;Oshawa Generals, after a slow start with 12 new players, are pulling themselves together and overage goaltender Peter Sidorkiewicz is one of the reasons. &ldquo;We feel we have the best goaltending in the league and we&rsquo;re talented, if inexperienced, on defense,&rdquo; coach Paul Theriault said.Top midget pick for 1984&mdash;It might be Joe Ranger with Stratford Cullitons. It would be Craig Simpson, 16, but he&rsquo;s at Michigan State. &#9632;

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Marlies Are League’s No. 1 Draw With A Unique ‘Swanadian’ System

<div class="byline">BY BEN KUZMA</div><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-01401/4640102-1-eng-US/f0036-012.jpg" title="f0036-01" width="272" height="201"></div>KELOWNA&mdash;It sticks out like a sore thumb, something that gamers instant attention and is hard to hide.When the 1982-83 Western Hockey League statistics were compiled, the Kelowna Wings made their presence felt. The Wings established a new WHL mark for most goals allowed, giving up 531 to surpass the 512 New Westminster Bruins allowed in 1980-81.If that wasn&rsquo;t bad enough, the Wings came within four losses of equalling another record for futility. To say the least, Kelowna&rsquo;s 12-57-3 record in the club&rsquo;s inaugural season left a lot to be desired.It took the Wings 13 games to hit the win column last season and they only had two victories after 25 starts. This year Kelowna went winless in its first seven games. But that was it.After 15 outings. Wings had a 4-10-1 mark. Not good enough for first place but certainly a step in the right direction.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t think it would be as bad as it was last season,&rdquo; said Kelowna general manager Joe Arling. &ldquo;It turned out we didn&rsquo;t have the quality needed in our athletes and we couldn&rsquo;t keep up.&rdquo;Arling has suffered enough growing pains in the WHL. After considerable success for two seasons with the defunct Billings Bighorns, Arling spent a miserable season with the Kamloops Oilers who struggled to an 18-53-1 inaugural season in 1981-82. Next year he was in Kelowna.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m going to see this one through because the good times are around the comer,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We have 17 players back next year and another 12 after that. Our scouts are doing a good job and that&rsquo;s the only way we can build this club.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re now in a position where we can send kids to other teams because we don&rsquo;t want them. Last year we had to take those people.&rdquo;Committed to a youth movement and not willing to deal away promising players, the Wings went after some glue to solidify a leaky defense.Kelowna obtained overage netminder Bruno Campese in a pre-season deal with the Portland Winter Hawks and then made another trade early in the season to get rearguard Stu Wennas from the Win-nipeg Warriors.&ldquo;We knew we had to overhaul the whole hockey club,&rdquo; said Kelowna coach Marc Pezzin. &ldquo;Last year we had a lack of talent and you can&rsquo;t replace that. In this league you don&rsquo;t win without talent.&lsquo;I wanted to get kids who played for me before and then go strictly on what our scouts told us. We knew someday the kids would come around but they&rsquo;re doing it earlier than we expected.&rdquo;Campese, who struggled last season to post a 5.47 goals-against average, played tier two for Pezzin with the British Columbia Junior Hockey League Penticton Knights. The reunion seems to be a happy one.And what about the 19-year-old Wennas?&ldquo;He&rsquo;s playing as important a role as you could imagine,&rdquo; said Pezzin. &ldquo;He brought a great attitude with him and it&rsquo;s rubbing off on the kids. He&rsquo;s been the leader on our hockey club.&rdquo;Although there appears a glimmer of hope, the Wings are wary they don&rsquo;t have a game-breaker. Their victories will come through hard work instead of finesse.&ldquo;Last year teams could play 15 or 20 minutes of hockey and beat us,&rdquo; said Arling. &ldquo;This year we&rsquo;re capable of playing for 60 minutes but what we lack are the two or three guys who make a difference in the tight games. We need a player like Dean Evason (Kamloops).&rdquo;The Wings had game-breakers such as Doug Kyle and Dwaine Hutton but dealt them away to get the youngsters who will make a difference down the road.&ldquo;The one thing I&rsquo;ve always believed as a coach is I&rsquo;d rather have talent than experience,&rdquo; said Pezzin. &ldquo;We need a Gregg Wilson (72 points as an overage last year) and I wish I could find one. But if there&rsquo;s somebody out there who&rsquo;s that good nobody will let him go. I don&rsquo;t want any bandage players.&rdquo;What the Wings have on their roster is potential.Seventeen-year-old center Terry Zaporzan and 16-year-old defenseman Jeff Sharpies are getting a lot of attention. Zaporzan is showing the consistency to be an offensive force every game while Sharpies, with time, could blossom into one of the league&rsquo;s best rearguards.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s coming,&rdquo; said Pezzin. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not the laughing stock anymore.&rdquo;Attracting a better fan following and securing the fourth and final playoff spot in the Western Division are obvious goals for the Wings. But at least now they look a little more attainable.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s realistic as far as we&rsquo;re concerned,&rdquo; said Arling. &ldquo;The division is pretty well split up with Portland, Kamloops and Victoria being in the top three. We look at every game with Seattle and New Westminster as being a four-point game.&rdquo;And what about those crowd counts? Fans haven&rsquo;t exactly been breaking down the doors to watch the Wings.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re in no different situation than Brandon was in last year,&rdquo; said Arling. &ldquo;They really struggled last year and now they don&rsquo;t get a crowd under 2,000. We knew we had a problem but our crowds are slowly getting better. If we keep winning we&rsquo;ll consistently put 1,500-1.800 people in the building.&rdquo;WHL WEEK&mdash;Dan Hodgson of Prince Albert and Cliff Ronning of New Westminster Bruins were named WHL Players of the Month for October in the Eastern and Western Division, respectively. Hodgson averaged three points a game while Ronning was the leading rookie scorer&hellip;The trade market was active in the first week of November with three deals. Kamloops dealt forwards Jim Camazzola and Derrick Ruppel plus two affiliated players to Seattle for goaltender Rex Grant, rights to college defenseman Mike McGrath and a listed player. Winnipeg traded goaltender Gary Johnson to Medicine Hat for forward Fred Ledlin. the third club this season for Ledlin. Medicine dealt forward Shawn Nagurny to New Westminster for a list player.<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0036-02299/4640095-1-eng-US/f0036-022.jpg" title="f0036-02" width="570" height="715"><figcaption class="caption-body">Kelowna general manager Joe Arling is prepared to weather the team&rsquo;s stormy times.</figcaption></div> &#9632;

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Wings Making Step In The Right Direction

<div class="byline">BY RICK MAYOH</div><div class="image-hero"><img title="f0037-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-01351/4640185-1-eng-US/f0037-012.jpg"></div><div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-02244/4640178-1-eng-US/f0037-022.jpg" title="f0037-02" width="1787" height="894"></div>TROIS-RIVIERES&mdash;Nobody noticed Andre (Moose) Dupont taking notes when former Philadelphia Flyers&rsquo; coach Fred Shero introduced a new strategy in a game or a different drill in practice.The 6-foot, 215-pound defenseman, who backed the Broad Street Bullies with considerable muscle through eight seasons and two Stanley Cups, has those notes out now and is shufflng through them to guide the Draveurs as a rookie coach.&ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know it at the time, but Moose took notes down of everything Shero did,&rdquo; said Flyer executive vicepresident and former general manager Keith Allen. &ldquo;He was a great team man, a rugged guy who gave us a lot of aggressiveness.&ldquo;He was a quiet guy, but a stand-up guy. He&rsquo;d be an asset to any organization.&rdquo;&ldquo;I was expecting to coach and was working toward it,&rdquo; said Dupont, 34, who is extremely popular in Trois-Rivieres. &ldquo;It was one aspect of the game I really wanted to try.&rdquo;Dupont set league and playoff penalty records in the Central league with Omaha, where Shero was coaching, and spent more than 1,500 minutes in the Spectrum&rsquo;s box. But he disdains the Bullies&rsquo; tag.&ldquo;We just had a team that worked hard and had guts,&rdquo; he said. Dupont&rsquo;s junior career began in Trois-Rivieres and ended with the 1968-69 Memorial Cup champion Montreal Junior Canadians, powered by the line of Marc Tardif, Rejean Houle and Gil Perrault.&ldquo;Some of the players in Trois-Rivieres thought I moved like (Chicago&rsquo;s Elmer) Moose Vasko and started calling me that,&rdquo; Dupont said. &ldquo;It kind of stuck.&rdquo;His 14-year NHL tenure also included parts of two seasons with New York Rangers, two years with St. Louis Blues and his final three with the Quebec Nordiques.&ldquo;I&rsquo;m sure he&rsquo;s going to be a good coach, he knows the game and he&rsquo;s a winner.&rdquo; said Nordique coach Michel Bergeron, who also directed the Draveurs for seven seasons, taking them to the Memorial Cup in 1977-78 and 1978-79.&ldquo;He was our captain last year and he a was good player for us for three years. We had a young defense and we were looking for experience. He worked with them during practice.&ldquo;For a hockey player like Moose, the biggest thing in coaching junior is to be patient.&rdquo;Trois-Rivieres&rsquo; fans can expect to see the Draveurs play Dupont&rsquo;s physical style.&ldquo;We have to work with the rink we have,&rdquo; Dupontsaid. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s about 20 or 25 feet shorter and five feet narrower than usual. We&rsquo;ll play Boston&rsquo;s and Philadelphia&rsquo;s systems and take the power play from the Nordiques and Oilers, they are the best.&rdquo;The Draveurs are in last place with a 7-16 record and gates are hovering around 1,000 at the 2,700-seat arena, but the team has 16 new players.&ldquo;We&rsquo;re rebuilding and we need somebody who can score some goals,&rdquo; Dupont said. &ldquo;We showed pretty well against Laval (19-4) last weekend (in back-to-back 7-4 and 8-5 losses) but we need to finish a little stronger.&ldquo;The biggest problem is not knowing the players in the league, but everything is coming into place.&rdquo;Dupont has gone for youth in a big way, trading Montreal Canadiens&rsquo; second-rounder Claude Lemieux to Verdun in a three-way deal that brought Longueuil Chevaliers&rsquo; top midget pick Der-rick Ivall, a 17-year-old center and right winger, and a fourth-round choice to Trois-Rivieres.Lemieux was the club&rsquo;s fourth-leading scorer last season with 28 goals and 38 assists for 66 points and 187 minutes in penalties.The Draveurs&rsquo; first and second selections were defenseman, Serge Poudrier, 17, and Donald Defresne, 16, and they are performing well along with seventhround wingers Benoit Gosselin and Luc Duval. &#9632;

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Dupont Takes Note Of Draveur Situation

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-03180/4640223-1-eng-US/f0037-032.jpg" title="f0037-03" width="338" height="434"></div><h2>PUBLICATIONS</h2>COLLEGE HOCKEY REPORT: Comprehensive NCAA coverage. One year $22.95 (U.S.) Send check, name, address, to: P.O. Box 115-Z, LeRoy, NY, 14482.<h2>MISCELLANEOUS</h2>YOUR OWN PAPER hockey league. Manage a team, draft favorite players, compete with friends, use NHL stats, offense, defense, PM&rsquo;S. Full instructions $10. PHL Box 1196, Buffalo, NY, 14221.<h2>DEFUNCT SPORTS PRICELISTS</h2>35 pages of media guides, yearbooks, photos, programs, pennants, decals, cards, game jerseys and more includes WHA (world Hockey Association), WFL (world Football League), ABA (American Basketball), NL (National Lacrosse) and more. Send cheque or m/o for $4.99 to: EMPIRE SPORTS, 1947 Avenue Road, Suite 201, Toronto, Ont. M5M 4A2. NCCA DealerFree gift and $2.50 credit on first order.<h2>WHA NHL-AHL IML-MINOR HOCKIY</h2>65 page pricelist of photos, media guides, cards, yearbooks, programs, pennants, pucks, game used Jerseys, equipment and much more. Send cheque or m/o for $5.50 with this ad to: CANADA U.S. SPORTS ENTERPRISEES 99 Katharine Rd. Downtvlew, Ont. Canada M3K 1J5&#9733; Free gift valued at $3.00 with this ad.<h2>NOVELTIES</h2>MAD BANNERS BUTTONS-Hockey, sports personalized buttons, free catalogue. 753B, N. Morgan, Orange, CA, 92667.ENAMEL TRADING PINS-Baseball caps, banners, buttons, and many other products customized for teams-tournaments, momentos, etc. Catalogue available. Promotional Marketing Services, Box 1124, Fort Erie, Ontario, L2A 5N9. In USA, 81 Mill St., Buffalo, NY 14221.<h2>EQUIPMENT</h2>TORONTO HOCKEY REPAIR; Specializing in the repairs of goalie pads, extend goalie pads 1&rdquo; to 6&rdquo;, shorten pads, add rolls, repalm gloves, blockers, catchers and more. We assess team repairs. Free brochure on request. 15 Perth, Toronto, Ont., M6R 2C1. Phone (416) 533-1791.<h2>MERCHANDISE</h2><h2>SPORTS JERSEYS UNLIMITED</h2>Complete 18 page pricelist of game worn jerseys. Leagues include Baseball, CFL-NFL-WFL-NHL-WHA-NASL-NBA and more. Over 1500 satisfied customers. For complete list send cheque or m/o for $3.00 payable to:EMPIRE SPORTS, 1947 Avenue Road,Suite 201, Toronto, Ont. M5M 4A2. NCCA Dealer&#9733; Free gift and $2.50 credit on first order.<div class="figure-block image-bleed"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0037-04146/4640216-1-eng-US/f0037-042.jpg" title="f0037-04" width="1737" height="1039"></div> &#9632;

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The Classified

<div class="image-hero"><img title="f0038-01" src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0038-01411/4640282-1-eng-US/f0038-012.jpg"><figcaption class="caption-body">Buffalo&rsquo;s Gilbert Perreault scored seven points for the week ending Nov. 14</figcaption></div><h2>GOALTENDING STATISTICS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-01386/4640275-1-eng-US/f0039-012.jpg" title="f0039-01" width="598" height="2159"></div><h2>GOALTENDING LEADERS GOALS AGAINST AVERAGE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-02274/4640268-1-eng-US/f0039-022.jpg" title="f0039-02" width="568" height="274"></div><h2>MOST WINS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-03190/4640261-1-eng-US/f0039-032.jpg" title="f0039-03" width="568" height="184"></div><h2>SAVE PERCENTAGE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0039-04159/4640254-1-eng-US/f0039-042.jpg" title="f0039-04" width="570" height="214"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE SCORING

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NHL TEAM ROSTERS

<h2>LEADING SCORERS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-156/4640798-1-eng-US/f0040-152.jpg" title="f0040-15" width="514" height="495"></div><h2>LEADING ROOKIES</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-165/4640791-1-eng-US/f0040-162.jpg" title="f0040-16" width="515" height="495"></div> &#9632;

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Top Scorers In The NHL

Standings on Tue. Nov. 15)<h2>(CAMPBELL CONFERENCE</h2><h3>NORRIS DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-174/4640850-1-eng-US/f0040-172.jpg" title="f0040-17" width="551" height="175"></div><h3>SMYTHE DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-183/4640843-1-eng-US/f0040-182.jpg" title="f0040-18" width="545" height="178"></div><h3>WALES CONFERENCE</h3>ADAMS DIVISION<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-192/4640836-1-eng-US/f0040-192.jpg" title="f0040-19" width="545" height="177"></div><h3>PATRICK DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-202/4640829-1-eng-US/f0040-202.jpg" title="f0040-20" width="541" height="176"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Nov. 8Minnesota 4 at Hartford 6St. Louis 5 at Los Angeles 5 (OT)NY Rangers 5 at New Jersey 1Philadelphia 1 at NY Islanders 4Calgary 4 at Pittsburgh 4 (OT)Edmonton 7 at Quebec 4Wed. Nov. 9Boston 1 at Buffalo 3Montreal 3 at Chicago 0Minnesota 5 at Detroit 3Calgary 3 at NY Rangers 4New Jersey 1 at Toronto 2Edmonton 7 at Washington 4Vancouver 2 at Winnipeg 7Thu. Nov. 10St. Louis 2 at Los Angeles 6Fri. Nov. 11Toronto 1 at Buffalo 3NY Islanders 6 at Pittsburgh 5Vancouver 4 at Winnipeg 2Sat. Nov. 12Edmonton 7 at Detroit 4Chicago 1 at Hartford 6Montreal 4 at Los Angeles 6St. Louis 2 at Minnesota 5Calgary 4 at New Jersey 3 (OT)Pittsburgh 4 at NY Islanders 2Boston 6 at Quebec 4Philadelphia 5 at Toronto 3NY Rangers 4 at Washington 7Sun. Nov. 13Washington 2 at Boston 4Calgary 2 at Buffalo 11Edmonton 3 at Chicago 5Detroit 3 at NY Rangers 6Montreal 3 at Vancouver 4Philadelphia 2 at Winnipeg 3 &#9632;

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THE NHL SCOREBOARD

<h2>AT HOME ON THE ROAD</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-212/4640888-1-eng-US/f0040-212.jpg" title="f0040-21" width="550" height="634"></div><h2>POINTS RACE</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-222/4640881-1-eng-US/f0040-222.jpg" title="f0040-22" width="543" height="630"></div> &#9632;

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HOW NHL TEAMS RATE

BOSTON&mdash;Krushelnyski 8, 9, Bourque 8, 9, K. Crowder 3,4, Middleton 9.10, Silk 1, Markwart 6, Kluzak 1. Winning goals-Silk, Kluzak.BUFFALO&mdash;Perreault 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, Housley 8, Peterson 1, Foligno 5, 6, 7, 8, Hamel 7, Cloutier 9, Ruff 2, Seiling 3, Cyr 3, Wiemer 2. Winning goals-Perreault, Housley, Cloutier.CALGARY&mdash;Eaves 4, Baxter 1, Loob 6, 7, 8, McDonald 9, 10, 11, Risebrough 4, Beers 10, Nilsson 3, 4, Bozek 2. Winning goals-Nilsson.CHICAGO&mdash;Gardner 5, 6, Savard 13, Paterson 1, Larmer 11, D. Wilson 4. Winning goals-Larmer.DETROIT&mdash;Park 1, Ogrodnick 7,8, Yzerman 9,10,11, Johnstone 6, Kisio 6, Woods 2. Winning goals-none.EDMONTON&mdash;Kurri 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, Gretzky 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, Lindstrom 2, 3, 4, Hunter 5, 6, 7, Messier 5, 6, Lumley 2, Roulston 4, Anderson 12, Coffey 8, Gregg 4, Hughes 6. Winning goals-Lindstrom, Hunter, Gregg.HARTFORD&mdash;Malone 5, Quenneville 1, Stoughton 8,9, Neufeld 7,8,9, Stoyanovich 1, Turgeon 7, Crawford 6, Francis 5, Johnson 6. Winning goals-Stoyanovich, Francis.LOS ANGELES&mdash;Christoff 3, 4, 5, Houston 6, Nicholls 13, 14, 15, Smith 1, Fox 9, 10, Hakansson 3, Taylor 1,2, 3, Jarvis 3, MacLellan 8, Dionne 5. Winning goals-Christoff, Nicholls.MINNESOTA&mdash;Maxwell 1, Ciccarelli 10,11, 12,13, 14, 15, Lawton 4, Bellows 7, Napier 4, Payne 5, McCarthy 5,6, MacAdam 3. Winning goals-Napier, McCarthy.MONTREAL^&mdash;Nilan 1, 2, 3, Carbonneau 4, 5, Smith 8,9,10, Gainey 3, Ludwig 2. Winning goals-Nilan.NEW JERSEY&mdash;Cirella 2, 3, Verbeek 5, 6. MacMillan 1. Winning goals-none.NY ISLANDERS&mdash;Persson 5, Gillies 4, 5, Morrow 2, B. Sutter 12, Trottier 4, 5, 6, 7, Jonsson 2, Bossy 11, Tonelli 4. Winning goals-Gillies 2.NY RANGERS&mdash;Larouche 13, 14, 15, Hed-berg 5, 6, 7, Beck 1, 2, Sundstrom 7, 8, 9, Blaisdell 3, Osborne 6, 7, Ruotsalainen 2, Rogers 6,7, McClanahan 1, Don Maloney 8. Winning goals-Hedberg, Ruotsalainen, Rogers.PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Ron Sutter 5, Howe 3, Kerr 10, 11, 12, Crossman 4, Rich Sutter 6, Barber 7. Winning goals-Crossman.PITTSBURGH&mdash;Brickley 2,3,4, Hamilton 2, Flockhart 4, Kehoe 7,8, Hotham 2, Boutette 3, 4, Taylor 5,6, Bulley 2. Winning goals-Bulley.QUEBEC&mdash;A. Stastny 11, Hunter 10, 11, Paiement9,10,11, Berglund 7, Savard 9. Winning goals-none.ST. LOUIS&mdash;Reeds 5, 6, Gilmour 2, Babych 5, 6, Turnbull 7, Federko 7, Ramage 5, Schofield 2. Winning goals-none.TORONTO&mdash;McCourt 5, Benning 3, 4, Salming 2, Derlago 7, Daoust 5. Winning goals-Benning.VANCOUVER&mdash;Williams 4, Rota 14, Nill 4, Tanti 17, 18, 19, Lupul 6, Halward 2, Bubla 3, Sundstrom 9. Winning goals-Lupul, Sundstrom.WASHINGTON&mdash;Gartner 9,10, Valentine 2, Laughlin 4, Murphy 3,4, Currie 1, Jarvis 2, 3, Gustafsson 8, Christian 5,6, Gould 4. Winning goals-Gustafsson.WINNIPEG&mdash;DeBlois 7, Steen 6, Hawer-chuk 3, Smail 5, MacLean 4, 5,6, Lukowich 3, Babych 7, Mantha 4, Boschman 11, Arniel 6. Winning goals-Hawerchuk, Arniel.Hat tricks&mdash;Ciccarelli (Min), Trottier (NYI), Gretzky (Edm), Foligno (Buf) and Perreault (Buf), 1 each. &#9632;

NHL SCORERS THIS WEEK

<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-02110/4640753-1-eng-US/f0040-022.jpg" title="f0040-02" width="563" height="858"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-01181/4640760-1-eng-US/f0040-012.jpg" title="f0040-01" width="189" height="181"></div><h2>Tue. Nov. 8 MINNESOTA 4, HARTFORD 6</h2><h2>RANGERS 5, NEW JERSEY 1</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-0369/4640746-1-eng-US/f0040-032.jpg" title="f0040-03" width="563" height="727"></div><h2>PHILADELPHIA 1, ISLANDERS 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-0447/4640739-1-eng-US/f0040-042.jpg" title="f0040-04" width="570" height="64"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-0532/4640732-1-eng-US/f0040-052.jpg" title="f0040-05" width="599" height="574"></div><h2>CALGARY 4, PITTSBURGH 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-0626/4640725-1-eng-US/f0040-062.jpg" title="f0040-06" width="594" height="576"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-0722/4640718-1-eng-US/f0040-072.jpg" title="f0040-07" width="600" height="290"></div><h2>EDMONTON 7, QUEBEC 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-0818/4640711-1-eng-US/f0040-082.jpg" title="f0040-08" width="600" height="1056"></div><h2>ST. LOUIS 5 at LOS ANGELES 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-0915/4640704-1-eng-US/f0040-092.jpg" title="f0040-09" width="589" height="975"></div><h2>Wed. Nov. 9 BOSTON 1. BUFFALO 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-1015/4640697-1-eng-US/f0040-102.jpg" title="f0040-10" width="587" height="90"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-1114/4640690-1-eng-US/f0040-112.jpg" title="f0040-11" width="593" height="745"></div><h2>MONTREAL 3, CHICAGO 0</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-1212/4640683-1-eng-US/f0040-122.jpg" title="f0040-12" width="588" height="518"></div><h2>MINNESOTA 5, DETROIT 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-1310/4640676-1-eng-US/f0040-132.jpg" title="f0040-13" width="583" height="800"></div><h2>CALGARY 3, RANGERS 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0040-146/4640669-1-eng-US/f0040-142.jpg" title="f0040-14" width="593" height="97"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0041-01147/4640662-1-eng-US/f0041-012.jpg" title="f0041-01" width="534" height="757"></div><h2>NEW JERSEY 1, TORONTO 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0041-0286/4640655-1-eng-US/f0041-022.jpg" title="f0041-02" width="531" height="128"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0041-0361/4640648-1-eng-US/f0041-032.jpg" title="f0041-03" width="596" height="93"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0041-0447/4640641-1-eng-US/f0041-042.jpg" title="f0041-04" width="596" height="88"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0041-0537/4640634-1-eng-US/f0041-052.jpg" title="f0041-05" width="596" height="90"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0041-0631/4640627-1-eng-US/f0041-062.jpg" title="f0041-06" width="555" height="60"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-167/4640620-1-eng-US/f0042-162.jpg" title="f0042-16" width="548" height="262"></div><h2>EDMONTON 7, WASHINGTON 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-176/4640613-1-eng-US/f0042-172.jpg" title="f0042-17" width="554" height="980"></div><h2>WINNIPEG 7, VANCOUVER 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-185/4640606-1-eng-US/f0042-182.jpg" title="f0042-18" width="560" height="344"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-194/4640599-1-eng-US/f0042-192.jpg" title="f0042-19" width="580" height="516"></div><h2>Thu. Nov. 10 ST. LOUIS 2, LOS ANGELES 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-204/4640592-1-eng-US/f0042-202.jpg" title="f0042-20" width="590" height="854"></div><h2>Fri. Nov. 11 TORONTO 1, BUFFALO 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-212/4640585-1-eng-US/f0042-212.jpg" title="f0042-21" width="580" height="206"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-22/4640578-1-eng-US/f0042-222.jpg" title="f0042-22" width="562" height="522"></div><h2>ISLANDERS 6, PITTSBURGH 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-23/4640571-1-eng-US/f0042-232.jpg" title="f0042-23" width="574" height="918"></div><h2>VANCOUVER 4, WINNIPEG 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-24/4640564-1-eng-US/f0042-242.jpg" title="f0042-24" width="582" height="204"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-25/4640557-1-eng-US/f0042-252.jpg" title="f0042-25" width="588" height="632"></div><h2>Sat. Nov. 12 EDMONTON 7, DETROIT 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-26/4640550-1-eng-US/f0042-262.jpg" title="f0042-26" width="580" height="798"></div><h2>CHICAGO 1, HARTFORD 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-27/4640543-1-eng-US/f0042-272.jpg" title="f0042-27" width="584" height="154"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-28/4640536-1-eng-US/f0042-282.jpg" title="f0042-28" width="542" height="598"></div><h2>MONTREAL 4, LOS ANGELES 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-29/4640529-1-eng-US/f0042-292.jpg" title="f0042-29" width="538" height="724"></div><h2>ST. LOUIS 2, MINNESOTA 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-30/4640522-1-eng-US/f0042-302.jpg" title="f0042-30" width="538" height="292"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-01148/4640515-1-eng-US/f0043-012.jpg" title="f0043-01" width="554" height="530"></div><h2>CALGARY 4, NEW JERSEY 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-02107/4640508-1-eng-US/f0043-022.jpg" title="f0043-02" width="554" height="760"></div><h2>PITTSBURGH 4, ISLANDERS 2</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-0385/4640501-1-eng-US/f0043-032.jpg" title="f0043-03" width="564" height="294"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-0465/4640494-1-eng-US/f0043-042.jpg" title="f0043-04" width="580" height="526"></div><h2>BOSTON 6, QUEBEC 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-0555/4640487-1-eng-US/f0043-052.jpg" title="f0043-05" width="580" height="988"></div><h2>PHILADELPHIA 5, TORONTO 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-0644/4640480-1-eng-US/f0043-062.jpg" title="f0043-06" width="584" height="126"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-0742/4640473-1-eng-US/f0043-072.jpg" title="f0043-07" width="598" height="810"></div><h2>RANGERS 4, WASHINGTON 7</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-0834/4640466-1-eng-US/f0043-082.jpg" title="f0043-08" width="582" height="980"></div><h2>Sun. Nov. 13 WASHINGTON 2, BOSTON 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-0932/4640459-1-eng-US/f0043-092.jpg" title="f0043-09" width="595" height="413"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-1027/4640452-1-eng-US/f0043-102.jpg" title="f0043-10" width="598" height="262"></div><h2>CALGARY 2, BUFFALO 11</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-1122/4640445-1-eng-US/f0043-112.jpg" title="f0043-11" width="584" height="813"></div><h2>EDMONTON 3, CHICAGO 5</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-1219/4640438-1-eng-US/f0043-122.jpg" title="f0043-12" width="587" height="815"></div><h2>DETROIT 3 RANGERS 6</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-1316/4640431-1-eng-US/f0043-132.jpg" title="f0043-13" width="590" height="300"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-1416/4640424-1-eng-US/f0043-142.jpg" title="f0043-14" width="570" height="640"></div><h2>MONTREAL 3, VANCOUVER 4</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-1514/4640417-1-eng-US/f0043-152.jpg" title="f0043-15" width="562" height="812"></div><h2>PHILADELPHIA 2, WINNIPEG 3</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-1612/4640410-1-eng-US/f0043-162.jpg" title="f0043-16" width="558" height="761"></div> &#9632;

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NATIONAL LEAGUE SUMMARIES

<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE (Standings on Tue. Nov. 15)</h2><h3>NORTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-01147/4641114-1-eng-US/f0042-012.jpg" title="f0042-01" width="551" height="199"></div><h3>SOUTHERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0296/4641107-1-eng-US/f0042-022.jpg" title="f0042-02" width="552" height="235"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Nov. 8Hershey 3 at St. Catharines 1Wed. Nov. 9Fredericton 3 at Adirondack 4Rochester 3 at Baltimore 5Maine 1 at Moncton 4Binghamton 2 at New Haven 7Springfield 6 at Sherbrooke 5Thu. Nov. 10Sherbrooke 4 at Binghamton 8Maine 4 at Fredericton 3St. Catharines 2 at Nova Scotia 4Fri. Nov. 11Now Haven 3 at Baltimore 4Hershey 4 at Rochester 1Adirondack 3 at Springfield 6Sat. Nov. 12Baltimore 6 at Adirondack 6St Catharines 1 at Fredericton 7New Haven 4 at Hershey 7Binghamton 4 at Maine 5Sherbrooke 2 at Moncton 3Rochester 5 at Springfield 3Sun. Nov. 13Hershey 4 at Baltimore 6St. Catherines 3 at Moncton 4Binghamton 3 at Nova Scotia 5Adirondack 2 at Rochester 7<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0367/4641100-1-eng-US/f0042-032.jpg" title="f0042-03" width="545" height="314"></div><h2>CENTRAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0449/4641093-1-eng-US/f0042-042.jpg" title="f0042-04" width="545" height="170"></div><h2>OLYMPIC TEAMS</h2><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0540/4641086-1-eng-US/f0042-052.jpg" title="f0042-05" width="539" height="116"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Nov. 8Montana 3 at Salt Lake 6Indianapolis at Tulsa (ppd)Wed. Nov. 9Montana 3 at Colorado 5Salt Lake 3 at Team Canada 1Indianapolis at Tulsa (ppd)Fri. Nov. 11Salt Lake 4 at Montana 5Indianapolis 5 at Colorado 6Sat. Nov. 12Indianapolis 2 at Colorado 7<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0634/4641079-1-eng-US/f0042-062.jpg" title="f0042-06" width="539" height="292"></div><h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 14)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0730/4641072-1-eng-US/f0042-072.jpg" title="f0042-07" width="540" height="262"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Wed. Nov. 9Flint 4 at Toledo 5Fort Wayne 4 at Peoria 5Thu. Nov. 10Flint 0 at Kalamazoo 7Fri. Nov. 11Toledo 1 at Fort Wayne 6Kalamazoo 5 at Muskegon 3Peoria 3 at Milwaukee 9Sat. Nov. 12Flint 4 at Fort Wayne 4Milwaukee 6 at Muskegon 2Peoria 5 at Toledo 3Sun. Nov. 13Muskegon 2 at Toledo 7Kalamazoo 4 at Peoria 1<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0823/4641065-1-eng-US/f0042-082.jpg" title="f0042-08" width="538" height="258"></div><h2>ATLANTIC COAST LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Sun. Nov. 13)<div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-0920/4641058-1-eng-US/f0042-092.jpg" title="f0042-09" width="541" height="257"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Sun. Nov. 6Pine Bridge 7 at Mohawk Valley 9Tue. Nov. 8Carolina 4 at Nashville 6Wed. Nov. 9Erie 4 at Mohawk Valley 3Thu. Nov. 10Erie 5 at Pine Bridge 5Sat. Nov. 12Erie 7 at Pine Bridge 5<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-1017/4641051-1-eng-US/f0042-102.jpg" title="f0042-10" width="548" height="320"></div><h2>ONTARIO LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Nov. 15)<h3>LEYDEN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-1116/4641044-1-eng-US/f0042-112.jpg" title="f0042-11" width="539" height="229"></div><h3>EMMS DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-1212/4641037-1-eng-US/f0042-122.jpg" title="f0042-12" width="548" height="255"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Nov. 8Ottawa 7 at Kingston 2Oshawa 5 at Windsor 2Wed. Nov. 9Brantford 3 at S.S. Marie 7Toronto 6 at Belleville 3Thu. Nov. 10Brantford 3 at North Bay 3Kitchener 5 at Peterborough 6Ottawa 7 at Cornwall 5Kingston 6 at Guelph 4Fri. Nov. 11Brantford 7 at Sudbury 4Windsor 1 at Ottawa 5Oshawa 4 at London 3Kingston 2 at Kitchener 3Peterborough 3 at Toronto 5Sat. Nov. 12Toronto 6 at S.S. Marie 5Windsor 2 at Belleville 8Sun. Nov. 13Toronto 8 at Sudbury 2Windsor 2 at Cornwall 11Kingston 3 at Brantford 9Peterborough 5 at Oshawa 8London 2 at Kitchener 5Guelph 2 at North Bay 7<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-139/4641030-1-eng-US/f0042-132.jpg" title="f0042-13" width="538" height="258"></div><h2>QUEBEC LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Mon. Nov. 14)<h3>LEBEL DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-147/4641023-1-eng-US/f0042-142.jpg" title="f0042-14" width="536" height="197"></div><h3>DIUO DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0042-157/4641016-1-eng-US/f0042-152.jpg" title="f0042-15" width="537" height="170"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>T-Rivieres 5 at Laval 3Drummondville 3 at Shawinigan 10Tue. Nov. 8Hull 6 at Chicoutimi 9Granby 5 at Longueuii 3Wed. Nov. 9Hull 3 at Quebec 10Thu. Nov. 10Verdun 7 at Longueuii 3Frl. Nov. 11T-Rivieres 6 at Drummondville 5Laval 3 at Granby 4Longueuii 6 at Quebec 3Chicoutimi 1 at Shawinigan 6Verdun 5 at St. Jean 4Sun. Nov. 13Drummondville 5 at Chicoutimi 4Shawinigan 3 at Granby 4Laval 5 at Hull 3St. Jean 5 at T-Rivieres 6Quebec 5 at Verdun 3<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-179/4641009-1-eng-US/f0043-172.jpg" title="f0043-17" width="563" height="292"></div><h2>WESTERN LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Tue. Nov. 15)<h3>EASTERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-187/4641002-1-eng-US/f0043-182.jpg" title="f0043-18" width="566" height="265"></div><h3>WESTERN DIVISION</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-197/4640995-1-eng-US/f0043-192.jpg" title="f0043-19" width="560" height="205"></div><h3>GAMES COMPLETED</h3>Tue. Nov. 8Winnipeg 4 at Saskatoon 6Victoria 8 at Kelowna 4Seattle 2 at Kamloops 8Wed. Nov. 9Lethbridge 2 at Medicine Hat 3Seattle 4 at Kelowna 2Winnipeg 3 at Prince Albert 8Fri. Nov. 11Seattle 6 at New Westminster 1Medicine Hat 1 at Lethbridge 2Portland 5 at Victoria 7Prince Albert 2 at Saskatoon 6Regina 6 at Winnipeg 3Calgary 6 at Kamloops 5Sat. Nov. 12Victoria 6 at Portland 4Calgary 6 at Kelowna 4New Westminster 5 at Seattle 7Brandon 4 at Prince Albert 8Sun. Nov. 13Lethbridge 3 at Medicine Hat 2Brandon 4 at Saskatoon 3Winnipeg 4 at Regina 6Calgary 5 at New Westminster 2<h3>LEADING SCORERS</h3><div class="figure-block image-block"><img src="/var/site_2854/storage/images/media2/images/f0043-205/4640988-1-eng-US/f0043-202.jpg" title="f0043-20" width="593" height="289"></div><h2>UNITED STATES LEAGUE</h2>(Standings on Fri. 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<h2>NATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>BOSTON&mdash;Mike Moffat, G, and Dave Silk, RW, recalled from Hershey of AHL. Jim Schoenfeld, D, sidelined for six weeks with shoulder separation. Randy Hillier, D, returned to active roster as replacement.BUFFALO&mdash;Adam Creighton, C, recalled from Ottawa of OHL. John Tucker, C, recalled from Kitchener of OHL. Chris Langevin, LW, returned to Rochester of AHL. Steve Patrick, RW, placed on injury list. Kai Suikkanen, RW, quit Rochester team of AHL to return to his native Finland.CALGARY&mdash;aul Reinhart, D, out of action for two weeks with hip injury. Jamie Macoun, D, also sidelined for two weeks with eye injury. Jamie Hislop, RW, back from injury list. Tim Bernhardt, G, returned to Calgary after refusing to report to Salt Lake of CHL on assignment. Bruce Eakin, C, returned to Colorado of CHL. Brian Bradley, C, signed to multi-year pact. Bradley was the Flames&rsquo; third-round pick from London in the &lsquo;83 entry draft.CHICAGO&mdash;Dave Feamster, D. and Rick Paterson, C, back from injury list. Al Secord, LW, sidelined with pulled abdominal muscles. Curt Fraser, LW, out for next 10 weeks after surgery for strained knee ligaments. Darryl Sutter, LW, sidelined indefinitely with broken ribs. Don Dietrich, D, Darrel Anholt, D, Dan Frawley, RW, Florent Robidoux, LW, and Tom McMurchy, RW, recalled from Springfield of AHL. All except Robidoux later returned to Springfield.DETROIT&mdash;Danny Gare, RW, sidelined with bruised chest. Reed Larson, D, and Colin Campbell, D, returned from injury list. Jody Gage, D, recalled from Adirondack of AHL as replacement for Larson but later returned.EDMONTON&mdash;Ken Linseman, C, placed on injury list. Steve Smith, D, assigned to Moncton of AHL.HARTFORD&mdash;Doug Sulliman, RW, sidelined with groin injury. Mike Crombeen, RW, out of action with back injury. Marty Howe, D, out with elbow injury. Paul MacDermid, RW, recalled from Binghamton of AHL. Mark Paterson, D, recalled from Ottawa of OHL as replacement for Howe. Michel Galarneau, C, recalled from Fredericton of AHL and reas-signed to Montana of CHL on loan.LOS ANGELES&mdash;Gary Laskoski, G, recalled from New Haven of AHL. Mario Lessard, G, sent to New Haven as replacement. Dave Taylor, RW, and Steve Christoff, RW, both back from injury list.MINNESOTA&mdash;Craig Hartsburg, D, and Mark Napier, RW, back from injury list. Randy Velischek, D, and Craig Levie, D, assigned to Salt Lake of CHL.NEW JERSEY&mdash;Bob Hoffmeyer, D, recalled from Maine of AHL. Murray Brumwell, D, returned to Maine. Grant Mulvey, RW, sidelined with strained knee ligaments.NY ISLANDERS&mdash;Bob Bourne, LW, out of action with Charley horse.NY RANGERS&mdash;Rob McClannahan, RW, recalled from Tulsa of CHL. Barry Beck, D, erroneously reported as injured last week, remained in lineup without missing a game.PHILADELPHIA&mdash;Frank Bathe, D, sidelined for another 6-9 weeks after surgery to remove back disc.PITTSBURGH&mdash;Greg Tebbutt, D, recalled from Baltimore of AHL. Doug Shedden, RW, and Pat Boutette, LW, both back from injury list. Rocky Saganiuk, RW, sidelined with back injury.QUEBEC&mdash;Michel Goulet, LW, sidelined with foot injury.ST. LOUIS&mdash;Brian Sutter, LW, out of action indefinitely with broken wrist.TORONTO&mdash;Mike Palmateer, G, sidelined with back injury. Bruce Dowie, G, recalled from Muskegon of IHL as standby replacement. Jim Korn, D, sidelined for 2 weeks with shoulder separation. Greg Bretz, RW, and Basil McRae, RW, both recalled from St. Catharines of AHL. McRae later returned to AHL team.VANCOUVER&mdash;Tony Currie, RW, recalled from Fredericton of AHL. Gerry Minor, C, returned to Fredericton. Dave Morrison, RW, signed as free agent, assigned to Fredericton. Mark Kirton, C, back from injury list.WASHINGTON&mdash;Timo Blomqvist, D, recalled from Hershey of AHL. Paul MacKinnon, D, and Bryan Erickson, RW, sent to Hershey.WINNIPEG&mdash;Ed Staniowski, G, traded to Hartford for Mike Veisor, G, reassign Veisor to Sherbrooke of AHL.<h2>AMERICAN LEAGUE</h2>FREDERICTON&mdash;Kevin Cameron, C, released outright.HERSHEY&mdash;Dan Sanscartier, G, recalled from Fort Wayne of IHL as replacement for Dave Parro, G, who is out with knee injury. Bears recalled Peter Sidorkiewicz, G, from Oshawa of OHL but junior team blocked the recall. Eric Calder, D, and Tony Fiore, C, assigned to Fort Wayne.MONTON&mdash;Serge Boisvert, RW, dropped from active roster.<h2>INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE</h2>KALAMAZOO&mdash;Brian McDavid, D, through for balance of season after surgery to repair torn rotator cuff muscle in his shoulder. Dan Poliziani, C, signed as free agent from Muskegon of IHL. &#9632;

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