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December 16, 1983
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ON THE CONTRARY
Open Letter To Gretzky DEAR WAYNE: For once you couldn’t keep your big mouth shut. Great. I love it. You set aside that Goody Two-Shoes image for a couple of minutes and plunged into the hot water. Yeah, I know it bums, but you feel so good when you get out, don’t you? If I could, I’d give you The Victoria Cross and The Purple Heart just for saying what you said about the New Jersey Devils. No, not the bit about the “Mickey Mouse operation” in East Rutherford. The thin minds in our media jumped on that one. It made a good headline and it made you look bad. So what? They’re small potatoes, you know that. And they missed the point, which really peeves me off. They don’t realize how much you care about the…
Salmon’s Spawning Offense With Canadians
H&B 100 YEARS Louisville Hockey KINGSTON—Six months ago Tim Salmon’s hockey career appeared to be over. Guelph Platers, an expansion franchise which finished up its first season in the Ontario Hockey League with 20 straight losses and only seven wins in 70 games, dropped Salmon from their 25-player protected list heading into the midget draft at Toronto on May 28. The reality was Salmon wasn’t good enough for the worst team in junior., or was he? Kingston Canadian general manager Ken Slater, who remembered Salmon when he was scouting for the National Hockey League Central Scouting’ Bureau, thought otherwise. He offered Salmon one last chance, a tryout at training camp in September. The rest is history. Salmon, a 5-foot-10-inch, 175-pound center, took over the scoring lead in the OHL on his 19th birthday on Nov. 27. He…
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
He was known as the Roadrunner and rightfully so. At 5-foot-7, former Montreal Canadien star Yvan Coumoyer moved with lightning speed on the ice, darting in and out and around opponents. Now in retirement, Coumoyer still leads a fast-paced life. Today the former Canadiens’ captain is owner and operator of Brasserie No. 12, a restaurant in Lachine, Que. He also does promotional work for Molson’s Brewery, attending golf tournaments and other functions. “My business with the Brasserie is something I really like doing,” said Cournoyer, who resides in Baie d’Urfe, Que. “I’ve gotten very involved and I even do some of the cooking. The job really satisfies me.” For Coumoyer, his second career began too soon. After more than 15 seasons in the National Hockey League, he was forced into retirement early in the 1978-79…
Webster Almost Quits Out Of Frustration
Louisville Hockey INDIANAPOLIS—Tulsa coach Tom Webster was seated beside Bill Baker in the bus taking the Oilers from their hotel to a practice session at the Fairgrounds Coliseum. Webster turned to Baker and remarked: “God, it’s good to be on the road.” Baker responded, “I was just thinking the same thing.” That, indeed, is a switch as far as most professional teams are concerned. But for the Oilers, home is not what it’s cracked up to be…not yet in this Central Hockey League anyway. “Disorganized,” is the word Webster used to describe the Tulsa front-office operations which frustrated him so much that he offered his resignation a week ago to the parent New York Rangers. Webster is under contract to the Rangers, not to the Tulsa ownership. Resignation was rather a strong move to make, but…
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