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March 23, 1984
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Slumping Rangers Have Surplus Of Players
NEW YORK—For Ranger general manager Craig Patrick, it was a dream; for coach Herb Brooks it may be a nightmare. “I’m extremely happy this day has arrived,” Patrick said at the press conference heralding the arrival of Larry Patey, Bob Brooke, Dave Gagner and James Patrick, just a week after the acquisition of Blaine Stoughton. “We’ve been waiting for a day like this for a long, long time.” Coach Herb Brooks, faced with a surplus of players at all positions, said, “I don’t know what we’re going to do.” Then he added, only partly in jest, “We might just start training camp again.” Considering how dreadfully the Rangers have played since their last-minute loss to the Islanders at Nassau Coliseum on Jan. 18, that might not be a bad idea. Gagner, a 19-year-old center…
MICRON JUNIOR PLAYERS OF THE WEEK
ONTARIO LEAGUE Rick Tocchet of the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds is no shrinking violet on the ice and for that reason he could find himself in the National Hockey League one day with the Philadelphia Flyers. The NHL team drafted Tocchet in 1983 because he fits the Flyer mould—aggressive with the ability to score goals. Tocchet fired five of them in one game for the Greyhounds to win the nod as the OHL player of the week. The third-highest penalized player in the league with 201 minutes, the 19-year-old, 195-pound right winger is also among the OHL’s top 10 scorers with 103 points. WESTERN LEAGUE The New Jersey Devils had AI Stewart of Prince Albert in mind when they looked at their 18th-place standing among the NHL’s-shorthanded goal scoring teams. The Devils drafted Stewart in 1983…
RPI Rolls Along To Its First Championship
BOSTON—It’s hard to believe, but true. When RPI’s hockey team hit Boston for their second trip to the ECAC Division One semi-finals in 23 years, they still had something to prove. At 30-4 and all four losses by a single goal, the Engineers were the runaway best in the league and the most impressive team since the dominant Boston University squads of a decade ago. Yet they didn’t have a single player on the first All-East team. Their excellent freshman goaltender, Darren Puppa, was passed over as rookie of the year. They were hungry. They were up. They didn’t need the eloquence of coach Mike Addesa, who’s brought the club from mediocrity to power in the best five-year plan since Joe Stalin’s. And RPI went out and did it, beating Clarkson University…
Habs’ Ludwig Refuses To Succumb To Pain
MONTREAL—Craig Ludwig was not about to let a little bit of pain in his left shoulder get in his way. Ludwig, the No. 2 defenseman on the Canadiens behind Larry Robinson, showed Hab observers and fans his courage and character when he continued to play and keep his modest iron-man streak alive. Ludwig joined the Habs last season from the University of North Dakota and played in his 150th consecutive game March 10 against the Boston Bruins, despite a badly bruised shoulder suffered in Edmonton six nights earlier. “I just knocked the puck off somebody’s stick and I kept going, hitting my left shoulder in the face of the boards,” said Ludwig, who was injured in the second period of a 6-1 loss to the Oilers. “I hit the bottom, where the boards…
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