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April 20, 1984
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Flames Are Readv For Second Uncivil War
CALGARY—In the last few weeks of the regular season, the Flames made it a perfect season. Their 9-2 loss to Edmonton Oilers made certain it ended the way it began—with a loss. Altogether, they played the Oilers eight times and eight times they came away without a win. Now that happened to other teams too, but here, what happened to others didn’t mean a whole lot. Most people think that games between Calgary and 19 other National Hockey League teams provide a footnote to what happens between the Flames and the Oilers. This rivalry is serious business. Even the most popular player in the league, Wayne Gretzky, gets booed here. When Calgary eliminated the Vancouver Canucks—setting up a reprise of last year’s Uncivil War between the two provincial rivals—no one cried. No one panicked. This,…
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BLUELINES
The training camp for this fall’s Canada Cup will be held in Montreal, despite weeks of effort to have it in Toronto. Hockey Canada and Labatt’s, sponsor of the much-anticipated event, have been lobbying with Maple Leaf owner Harold Ballard in an attempt to have the training camp and a couple of games in Toronto. But Ballard, who has had a running feud with Alan Eagleson, who organizes the affair, remained adamant about keeping the Canada Cup out of his building. The tournament is expected to start in the east and move west with the finals likely slated for Edmonton…The Maple Leafs’ impotent exit from the 1983-84 playoff race saved the National Hockey League more potential embarrassment in the playoffs. In addition to harassing reporters from the Globe and Mail,…
Jeers Turn To Cheers For Whalers’ Millen
In between the boos and the cheers, all Millen did was put together a most valuable player season as voted by his teammates. “Winning solves an awful lot of problems, doesn’t it?” Millen said. Millen who was in net for 51 of the Whalers’ 66 points this year had a GAA of 3.71. “The biggest hurdle that we had to overcome was a lack of character in the dressing room,” Millen said. “I can honestly say that this has become a very close hockey team. That closeness is what pulled us through the tough spots.” Nobody suffered more than Millen a year ago. Fans drove his wife, Ann, from her Civic Center seat in tears one night. “That has got to be the worst,” he said. “I’m paid to take the garbage. She isn’t.” When this…
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