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January 27, 1984
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Twas A Wild And Crazy Week For Leafs
TORONTO—The week started off critically for the Leafs and ended calmly. In between, however, you had enough bizarre behavior to last a season. And when it was all over, only one thing remained constant: The Leafs were winless in the new year—0-6-1—their last victory, a 5-3 defeat of the Los Angeles Kings on New Year’s Eve. While a TV reporter filed a story on the Leafs and entitled it. As The Leaf Turns, a more appropriate name for the wild and crazy week for Master Harold And The Boys would have been Days Of Our Lives. MONDAY—After back-to-back losses to Quebec and St. Louis, the Leafs are excused from practice. The players go bowling and then toss back a few ales and discuss their woes…Leaf president Harold Ballard is featured in a…
League Rejects Compuware Bid Because Building Not Guaranteed
Louisville Hockey DETROIT—It wasn’t all systems go after all for Detroit Compuware’s bid for an Ontario Hockey League franchise. Despite the earlier withdrawal of a bid by its only challenger from a Niagara Falls group, the Compuware computer software company’s hockey division, headed by former Detroit Red Wing goaltender Jim Rutherford, did not get the expansion franchise it had been seeking the past three months. Their application was turned down at a full governors meeting in Toronto on Jan. 7. More of that later. The other major news around the OHL, as the trade deadline expired on Jan. 12, came out of Sudbury as the Wolves made their fourth coaching change in four years, firing Billy Harris, saying pressure from players, management and fans forced the change. He was replaced by ex-London captain Andy Spruce,…
FAN FORUM
CUP RUNNETH OVER EDMONTON To Liz Craig in Red Deer, Alta. (Fan Forum, Nov. 11), please don’t be disillusioned by speed and goals game after game. By the end of the 1984 Stanley Cup playoffs your coffee will be cold. Which team gave the Oilers their toughest test, short of the Islanders? Most of the good teams in the NHL reside in the Wales Conference, so it is no wonder the Oilers waltzed through the Campbell Conference easily, only to meet their overwhelming match in the finals. Which team gave the Islanders their toughest test? Don’t look now Liz, but it was the Bruins, a team who stresses strong two-way play as opposed to speed and offense. Don’t look at last year’s final standings either. Those same Bruins finished with more points…
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