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February 24, 1984
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McVie Tooting Horn To Stay With Devils
EAST RUTHERFORD—Hard-working Tommie McVie is especially busy these days. Not only is he putting in long hours as head coach and assistant GM of the New Jersey Devils, he is also doing a terrific job as campaign chairman for the Re-Elect Tom McVie Committee. Quite naturally, McVie is anxious to know where he stands for the future and he seldom misses an on opportunity to sell his qualifications to the media. The Devils’ majority owner, John McMullen, is supportive of McVie but has made it clear that he will not be rushed into making a commitment. “I know everybody is speculating on it (McVie’s status),” McMullen said just before the All-Star game, “but you can see that the relationship between Tommie and I is congenial. There is a proper time to handle it…
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The International Hockey Weekly Founded in 1947 Published by W.C.C. Publishing Ltd 85 Scarsdale Road, #100, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3B 2R2. We’ll Drink To That WHEN CARLING O’KEEFE announced it had secured an agreement with the 14 U.S.-based NHL teams for their television broadcast rights in Canada (see story on Page 7), it was a typical ‘good news-bad news situation. It’s good news if you’re a Canadian hockey fan and you want to see more than the traditional Saturday night telecast of Hockey Night in Canada (HNIC) and the usual mid-week regional game. It’s bad news if you are Molson Breweries, which up until now has had exclusive rights to all games that are televised nationally in Canada, or a hockey widow, who loses a husband or son or even daughter (this is, after all, 1984)…
Big Battles In The WCHA Shape Up At Top, Bottom
MINNEAPOLIS—And then there were two. That’s two races, not two teams, still in the thick of the battle in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association going into the final weekend of the regular season. And the races they’re involved in are at the opposite ends of the rainbow—Minnesota-Duluth and North Dakota are going to the wire for the league championship and Denver University and Colorado College will battle head-on to see who can escape the cellar. The biggest story, naturally, is the race between Duluth and North Dakota for the league title. Duluth, seeking to win its first WCHA championship ever, holds a two-point lead over North Dakota, which has won league titles in recent years in 1979, ‘80 and ‘82. Minnesota-Duluth will be on home ice trying to lock up the championship, but Mike…
Carling O’Keefe Scores Big NHL TV Coup
Hockey fans in Canada will see at least 20 more NHL regular season games on national television next season, thanks to an agreement between Carling O’Keefe Breweries and the 14 U.S.-based NHL teams and the Quebec Nordiques. The controversial deal, which strips Molson Breweries of its exclusive association with nationally-televised NHL games in Canada (something it’s had for more than 50 years), was announced in Toronto on Feb. 8 by Bill Bourne, Carling’s senior vice president of marketing. Bourne said the specifics of the agreement are still being worked out, but the basic concept would be to show a Game of the Week (either Sunday or mid-week) during the NHL regular season, which is 26 weeks long. The games would originate in the U.S. and could feature either two American teams or…
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