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March 9, 1984
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NMU, LSSC Sweep Up Plavoff Positions
ANN ARBOR—Northern Michigan and Lake Superior were the big winners in the final weekend of action in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association’s regular season, gaining playoff advantages with series sweeps. Northern Michigan swept Michigan 42 and 7-6 to finish the season in fourth place and gain the final home-ice playoff site in the first round of the league play-offs. Meanwhile, Lake Superior used its 21, 6-3 sweep of Michigan Tech to vault by Michigan into eighth place. In other CCHA play, Michigan State swept Ferris State 8-4 and 7-4 to move into a second place tie with Ohio State as the Buckeyes split two games in Columbus with Western Michigan. The visiting WMU Broncos took the opener 6-4, while Ohio State won the second game 5-3. Regular-season champion Bowling Green closed out the schedule…


NHL SCORERS THIS WEEK
BOSTON—Markwart 13, Middleton 37, Silk 12, 13, Fergus 21, Pederson 26, Bourque 21, 22, 23, 24, Nili 11, Milbury 2, O’Connell 16. Winning goals-Bourque, Milbury. BUFFALO—Cyr 14, Foligno 23, 24, Andreychuk 30, 31, 32, Housley 23, 24. Winning goals-Housley. CALGARY—Macoun 6, Beers 32, 33, Tam-bellini 9, 10, Risebrough 18, 19, Quinn 13, Patterson 11, Nilsson 23, 24, 25, Eaves 10. Winning goals-Risebrough, Nilsson. CHICAGO—Savard 32, Fraser 3, 4, J. Lärmer 11, Gardner 20, 21, T. Murray 8, O’Callahan 5, B. Wilson 9. Winning goals-J. Larmer. DETROIT—Kisio 17,18, Loiselle 3, Foster 7, 8, Lambert 14, Ogrodnick 42, Boldirev 26, 27, Duguay 25, Yzerman 32, Manno 8, Park 5. Winning goals-Foster, Boldirev, Manno. EDMONTON—Pouzar 12, Gretzky 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71,72, 73, 74, 75, Anderson 36, 37, 38, Lumley 6, Kurri 41, 42, McClelland 7, Hughes…


Future Is Now For Several Penguin Players
PITTSBURGH—The Penguins have used 45 players during this disaster of a season and coach Lou Angotti says those who play the rest of the year will be placing their futures in the organization on the line. “We want to get a look at all our players,” said the first-year coach. “It’s the best chance to do it, to find out that when we go into training camp next year, we’re not going in blind with some players. We at least want to have a better idea. “This 49, 50 players, nobody likes this. It’s very difficult for us. We want to get away from that. We want to have a real good view of our players. And we’ve tried, as much as some of our players might not agree with us. “We look…


GUEST SHOT
After recent events at the XIV Winter Olympics at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, North American hockey fans can be excused for turning to more pleasant thoughts. Such as shovelling snow, paying income tax or inviting the in-laws over for a few months. Clearly, the events of mid-February were grim. The U.S. Olympic team was a disappointment. The Canadian club started well but the medal round proved pointless. Most galling, the Soviet Union waltzed to gold and did so while laughing at the ill-advised sparring conducted by two “friendly” nations. One would like to dismiss the American-Canadian tiff as just another indication of how the Olympics are a sham. That they are, and probably always will be. The International Olympic Committee took decades to recognize China and eons to admit to a divided Germany. For…